OEB Seminars

All seminars take place at 4:00 p.m. on Fridays in MOR2 222 unless otherwise noted. 

Refreshments precede seminars at 3:45 p.m.

Each seminar is followed by an opportunity for further refreshments and continued conversation.

To find more seminars in the Life Sciences, visit the Graduate Programs in Life Sciences Calendar.

For a listing of seminars offered through the College of Natural Sciences, go to CNS Department and Program Seminars

Spring 2019 Seminar Schedule

Feb 1

Convergent regulatory evolution in the origin of flightlessness in birds

Scott V. Edwards

Harvard University

Host: Mario Roberto Ceron Romero
Feb 8

Darwin Fellow Candidate Talk
The past is key to the present: deep time perspectives on mammalian diversity

John Rowan

Post Doctoral Research Associate, Anthropology

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Host: Jason Kamilar
Feb 15

Darwin Fellow Candidate Talk
Evolution of complex sensory systems

Andrew Swafford

UC Santa Barbara

Lillian Fritz-Laylin
Feb 22

Darwin Fellow Candidate Talk
Adaptation in a changing world: Evolutionary mechanisms of salt tolerance in a coastal amphibian

Molly Albecker

East Carolina University

Brian Cheng
Lisa Komoroske
Mar 1

Darwin Fellow Candidate Talk
The evolution and genetics of mating preferences

Mingzi Xu

Cornell University

Jeffrey Podos
Mar 22

Inflating front, spring-loaded back: Modularity and function in crocodilian copulatory anatomy

Diane Kelly

Research Assistant Professor, Biology Department

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Host: Patricia Brennan
Mar 29

The new normal? What we know and don't know about wildfires under global change: A California perspective

Alexandra Syphard

Senior Research Scientist
Conservation Biology Institute

 

Host: Emily Fusco
Apr 5

Sinauer Associates/OUP Distinguished Scientist Lecture

How to tame a fox and build a dog

Lee Dugatkin

Department of Biology

University of Louisville

Host: Norman Johnson

NOTE: This lecture will be held in the Integrated Learning Center, Room S331.
Apr 12

A co-evolutionary phyrric victory

Dan Bolnick

Ecology and Evollutionary Biology
University of Connecticut

Host: Ana Caicedo
Apr 19

Fishes did it first: Morphological mechanisms and bioinspiration

Brooke Flammang

Department of Biology
New Jersey  Institute of Technology

 

Host: Diane Kelly
Apr 26

Game of thorns: ants, acacias, and the landscape consequences of mutualism breakdown in an African savanna

Corinna Riginos

The Nature Conservancy

Host: Kadambari Devarajan