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Evo-devo beyond the embryo: regeneration and asexual reproduction in annelids![]() Speaker: Alexa Bely, Ph.D., University of Maryland Department of Biology |
Causes and Consequences of Recombination Rate Variation![]() Speaker: Nadia D. Singh, Ph.D., North Carolina State University Department of Biological Sciences |
Fire in the Evolutionary Environment of Florida and the Southeastern Coastal Plain![]() Speaker: Dr. Reed Noss Ph.D., Provost’s Distinguished Professor, Pegasus Professor, and Davis-Shine Endowed Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Central Florida Dr. Noss is an elected Fellow of the AAAS and has served on many boards and advisory panels, including the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology, the Board of Trustees of the Florida Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, and Florida’s Acquisition and Restoration Council. He recently served as Vice-Chair of a Federal Advisory Committee for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Dr. Noss directs the SPICE (Science and Planning in Conservation Science) laboratory at the University of Central Florida. He is President and Chief Scientist for the Florida Institute for Conservation Science. Professor Noss has more than 300 publications and is recognized as one of the 500 most highly cited authors in all fields worldwide. He has published 7 books, the most recent being Forgotten Grasslands of the South: Natural History and Conservation (2013, Island Press). His research interests include vertebrate ecology, vegetation science, disturbance ecology, climate change, adaptive management and conservation planning. |
The microbial ecology of indoor and outdoor air![]() Speaker: Noah Fierer, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Plant responses to below ground competition with siblings and strangers: tests for kin recognition in plants![]() Speaker: Susan Dudley, Ph.D., McMaster University | Ontario, Canada Department of Biology |
Cryptic genetic variation and the evolution of complex traits![]() Speaker: Annalise Paaby, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, Georgia Department of Integrative Biology |
Statistical Inference for Mechanistic Models: Case Studies in Ecology![]() Speaker: Leah Johnson, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Department of Integrative Biology |
Resolving the dual paradoxes of nitrogen limitation and nitrogen richness![]() Speaker: Duncan Menge, Ph.D., Columbia University, Ecology Evolution and Environmental Biology Jeremy Lichstein, has provided some information below on Dr. Menge’s research: Duncan is a broad-thinking and creative scientist (he is both an ecologist and a biogeochemist), and an all-around great guy! His research focuses on unraveling the mysteries of nutrient limitation in terrestrial ecosystems. For example: Why are nitrogen-fixing trees common in tropical forests (which are NOT thought to be N-limited), but rare in temperate forests (which appear to be strongly N-limited)? The paradoxes abound, and Duncan has done some great empirical and theoretical work trying to solve them. But his interests go way beyond his own research program, and he enjoys learning and talking about science in general. |
Towards a Theory of Species’ Distributions and Their Dynamics![]() Speaker: Jorge Soberon, Ph.D., University of Kansas Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Predicting the ecological consequences of temperature![]() Speaker: Owen Petchey, University of Zurich Institute of Evolutionary Biology & Environmental Studies |
Is Modern Agriculture Sustainable? An Ecologist’s View of Agricultural Science![]() Speaker: Charles J. Krebs, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology |
2015 Seminars
Using Museum Specimens to Investigate Genome Size Evolution in Crustaceans![]() Speaker: Kristin Hultgren, Ph.D. Seattle University Kristin has done some cool work on the evolution and ecology of snapping shrimp, the most diverse shrimp family, and the only marine organisms that have evolved eusociality. You can find out more about her work here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kristin_Hultgren/publications. |
Genomics of Hydractinia: A Cnidarian Model for Regeneration, Allorecognition, and Developmental Biology![]() Speaker: Christine Schnitzler, Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
The roles of individual physiology and behavior in disease competence![]() Speaker: Lynn Bloxom (Marty) Martin, II, Ph.D., USF-Department of Biology |
Critical transition at range limits slows down the response of forest trees to climate warming![]() Speaker: Dominique Gravel, Ph.D., University of Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada) |
Darwin: Books, Beetles, and Blasphemy![]() Speaker: David Wooten, Ph.D., Washtenaw Community College of Life Sciences, Biology |
Networks of cell death and differentiation![]() Speaker: Andrea Doseff, Ph.D., The Ohio State University/Dept. of Molecular Genetics |