Seminars (Fall 2019)

Aug. 29: UConn EEB Postdoc Minisymposium
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Simona Augyte (Yarish Lab)
   Ecosystem services, population genetics and lab techniques of sugar kelp cultivation
Nikisha Patel (Goffinet Lab)
   Polyploid evolution in ferns and insights from spores

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: Fisher)

Sep. 5: Robin Chazdon (UConn)
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Mapping the best opportunities for tropical forest restoration at landscape, regional, and global scales

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: EEB & Schlichting)

Sep. 12: Rob Colwell (UConn)
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Modeling the ecology and evolution of biodiversity: Biogeographical cradles, museums, and graves

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: EEB & Elphick)

Sep. 19: Emily Broad-Lieb (Harvard Law School)
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Food Waste Policy: Using Systems Change to Stop Squandering One of our Greatest Resources

4:00pm Konover Auditorium
This is a Teale Lecture in the Dodd Center

Sep. 26: W. John Kress (Smithsonian Institution)
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Coevolution in the Anthropocene: the complexity of nature in a rapidly changing world

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: Garcia-Robledo)

Oct. 3: Anny Chung (Utah State University)
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The role of soil microbes in plant population and community dynamics

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: Bagchi)

Oct. 10: Sandra B. Correa (Mississippi State University)
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Evolution, ecology and conservation of fish-forest interactions

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: Kuprewicz)

Oct. 17: Brian Sedio (UT Austin)
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Can metabolomics reveal the chemical niches thought to generate and maintain diversity in forest tree communities?

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: Wagner)

Oct. 24: Paul Ferraro (John Hopkins University)
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Ending Extreme Poverty Without Endangering Ecosystems

4:00pm Konover Auditorium
This is a Teale Lecture in the Dodd Center

Oct. 31: Brandon Ogbunu (Brown University)
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Evolution ab epistulus (“from letters”): lexical landscapes, protein space, and adaptive dynamics

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: Knutie)

Nov. 7: Jessica Gurevitch (Stony Brook University)
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A cornucopia of ideas: landscape demography, ecological implications of SRM geoengineering, and open science

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: EEB grads)

Nov. 14: Karen Seto (Yale University)
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Hotter, Wetter, Drier: Contemporary Urbanization and Challenges for Sustainability

4:00pm Konover Auditorium
This is a Teale Lecture in the Dodd Center

Nov. 21: Mathew Leibold (University of Florida)
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Rethinking metacommunity ecology

3:30pm BPB 131 (host: Urban)