Seminar Series

Dr. Lucas Silva Associate Professor College of Arts & Sciences Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Research Laboratory University of Oregon WHEN: Nov. 6, 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Interactions: Structure, Function, and Predictive Scaling for Climate Change Mitigation In this...

Dr. Rachel Vannette Assistant Professor, Dept. of Entomology & Nematology University of California Davis WHEN: Oct. 30, 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Ecology and evolution of flower microbes Flowers are essential to plant reproduction and pollinator health. Yet little is known about...

Dr. Jessie Uehling Assistant Professor of Fungal Biology Oregon State University WHEN: Oct. 23, 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 , Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Fungal endosymbiont evolution: insights into mechanisms, diversity, and ubiquity from the Mucoromycota fungi The generation of thousands...

Dr. Katie Ferris Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University WHEN: Oct. 16th, 2020 at Noon WHERE : Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Natural selection on sympatric Monkeyflower species: variation over space and time Divergent natural selection can...

Dr. Anya Brown Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Postdoctoral Fellow WHEN: Oct. 9th, 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Microbially-mediated species interactions and the extended phenotype Ecologists have begun to appreciate the wide-reaching associations between organisms and microbes, such...

Dr. V. Bala Chaudhary Asst. Professor, Environmental Science and Studies DePaul University, College of Science and Health WHEN: Oct. 2nd, 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Trait-based aerial dispersal of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi Dispersal is a fundamental process...

Dr. Benjamin Wolfe Associate Professor Department of Biology, Tufts University WHEN: Sept. 25 th , 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Zoom Meeting: https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Delicious rot: ecology and evolution of fermented food microbiomes Advances in DNA sequencing technologies have allowed us...

Dr. Jason G. Vogel Assistant Professor, ProForest – Proactive Forest Health and Resilience Team Member University of Florida School of Forest Resources & Conservation WHEN: Sept. 18 th , 2020 at Noon WHERE: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Join Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Carbon Cycling...

Dr. Simon P. Lailvaux Virginia Kock/Audubon Nature Institute Chair in Species Preservation University of New Orleans When: Sept. 11th, 2020 at Noon Where: Seminar will be presented via Zoom Join Zoom Meeting https://ucdenver.zoom.us/j/91048440693 Meeting ID: 910 4844 0693 Symmorphosis in a multivariate world: trade-offs and constraints on lizard whole-organism performance...

Dr. Gavin Jones Research Ecologist USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM When: Sept. 4 th, at Noon Where: Seminar will be presented via Zoom. Title: “It depends”: emphasizing ecological nuance to make science more meaningful for conservation. There is a tendency in applied conservation science to identify simple, parsimonious explanations for...