Date | Speaker | Instituition | Title |
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May 16 | Cori Richards-Zawacki | University of Pittsburgh | A fungus among us: Insights into the ecology and evolution of chytridiomycosis in a changing world |
May 23 | Cassie Olmsted | University of Pittsburgh | Exploring cryptic biodiversity in forests |
May 30 | Erin Eberhard | Kent State University | Nitrogen cycling and redox potential in Great Lakes coastal ecosystems |
June 6 | Chris Tracey | NatureServe | Stemming the tide of extinctions: Biodiversity data for conservation decisions |
June 13 | Alexa Wagner | Case Western Reserve University | Management of a secondary, temperate forest impacts population and community dynamics in understory woody plants |
June 20 | Trapper Hobble | University of Pittsburgh | Characterizing the role of functional traits and phenotypic plasticity in explaining variation in coexistence parameters |
June 27 | Amber Stanley | University of Pittsburgh | Trait changes and adaptation of Orange Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) to climate change and urbanization |
July 4 | NO TALK | ||
July 11 | Luci Anaya | University of Mississippi | Understanding the complex interactions between antimicrobial peptides and thermal physiology in amphibians |
July 18 | Taylor Zallek | University of Pittsburgh | Using experimental evolutionary ecology to understand biological invasions |
July 25 | Patrick Shirey | University of Pittsburgh | |
August 1 | Brandon Hoenig | University of Pittsburgh | “More than gene editing: Using CRISPR for rapid, inexpensive, and field-deployable organism detection” |