Seminars (Spring 2021)

 

Jan. 28: Heather Kittredge (UConn EEB)
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Environmental drivers and evolutionary consequences of horizontal gene transfer in soil bacteria

3:30pm Online (host: Mark Urban)

 

Feb. 4: UConn BRC Seminar
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Erin Kuprewicz (UConn BRC)
   Using the past to predict the future: the pivotal role of vertebrate collections in transformative research, experiential education, and public engagement
Matt Opel (UConn BRC)
   UConn’s living library of plants: the EEB Plant Biodiversity Conservatory and Research Core

3:30pm Online (host: Garcia-Robledo)

 

Feb. 11: David Lindenmayer (Australian National University, Canberra)
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A Multi-decadal landscape experiment leads to new perspectives on the effects of multiple landscape transformations

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

 

Feb. 18: UConn BRC Seminar
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Bikash Shrestha (UConn EEB)
   Plastid genome evolution and inheritance in Passiflora
Irene Cobo Simon (UConn EEB)
   From CartograTree to CartograPlant: Cyberinfrastructure to improve plant health and productivity in the context of a changing climate

3:30pm Online (host: Wegrzyn)

 

Feb. 25: Ricardo Betancur-R (University of Oklahoma)
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Studying fish evolution at multiple time scales

3:30pm Online (host: Schultz, Colby)

 

Mar. 4: Pablo A. Marquet (Instituto de EcologĂ­a y Biodiversidad, Chile)
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From genes to species richness: steps towards the integration of theories in ecology

3:30pm Online (host: Merow)

 

Mar. 11: Robert Bullard (Texas Southern University)
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The quest for environmental and climate justice

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

 

Mar. 18: Project Biodiversify (UConn EEB)
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Project Biodiversify: methods for diverse, inclusive, and effective teaching in biology

3:30pm Online (host: Departmental Climate Study Committee)

 

Mar. 25: Ya Min (MinYa) (Harvard University)
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When stem cells are no longer needed in plant development? Investigation in floral meristem termination in Aquilegia

3:30pm Online (host: Yuan)

 

Apr. 1: Namrata Sengupta (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard)
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What it means to be a science communicator: From part- time volunteering to a full-time career

3:30pm Online (host: Rodgers)

 

Apr. 8: Deepa Agashe (National Centre for Biological Sciences, India)
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Adapt or bust? Predicting adaptive dynamics under new challenges

3:30pm Online (host: Bolnick)

 

Apr. 22: Amitav Ghosh (University of Oxford)
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The Great Derangement: climate change and the unthinkable

12:00pm Online
Note: Earth day seminarThis is a Teale Lecture in the Dodd Center