EBIO Seminar Series Schedule 2023/24
Seminars are on Fridays from 3:30pm - 4:30pm in Ramaley N1B23.
All talks will also be shown on Zoom. The link will be emailed out to department members each week.
Wednesday exit talks that are 3:30pm - 4:30pm in RAMY N1B23.
If you would like to attend a seminar and are not a departmental affiliate, please contact ebio-colloquium@colorado.edu to be added to the supplementary Colloquium emailing list.
Fall 2023
| Date | Day | Speaker | Title | Host Lab |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/01/2023 | Friday | Irfanul Alam |
Assessing Undergraduates' Predictors of Scientific Civic Engagement: A Multimethod Approach |
Corwin Lab |
| 09/08/2023 | Friday | Jake Goheen | A game of thorns: how plant defenses shape predator-prey interactions in African rangelands | Doak Lab |
| 09/15/2023 | Friday | Ty Tuff | Big Data, Local Roots: ESIIL, the NSF’s Newest Synthesis Center, is Changing the Landscape of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology on the CU Boulder Campus | NA |
| 09/22/2023 | Friday | Lauren Porensky | Ecosystem resilience to prairie dog disturbance reveals opportunities and tradeoffs for rangeland management | Suding Lab |
| 09/29/2023 | Friday | Gregory Semenov | Genetics of adaptation and population divergence in chickadees | Taylor Lab |
| 10/06/2023 | Friday | Matt Wallenstein | What lies beneath? My journey in applying ecological principles for climate solutions | Barger Lab |
| 10/13/2023 | Friday | Tina Melie | An Exploration of Fungal Diversity with Comparative Genomics and Machine Learning | Smith Lab |
| 10/20/2023 | Friday | Lauren Shoemaker | Communities in transition: Testing theory in global change and restoration contexts | Gil Lab |
| 10/27/2023 | Friday | Caitlin White | Drought, invasion, and fire—oh my! Anticipating plant response and identifying restoration opportunities in systems facing change | Suding Lab |
| 11/03/2023 | Friday | Colin Khoury | If we are what we eat, then where are we from? | Kane Lab |
| 11/10/2023 | Friday | Stephanie Polutchko | Leveraging expertise in functional plant biology for innovative education | Demmig-Adams Lab |
| 11/15/2023 | Wednesday | Ruiqi Li | Phylogenomics, Transcriptomics, and Genomics: What do they teach us about Bivalve Photosymbiosis | Li Lab |
| 11/17/2023 | Friday | Zach Laubach | Developmental plasticity and life-history trade-offs involving early-life effects | Safran Lab |
| 11/24/2023 | Friday | NA | Fall Break | |
| 12/01/2023 | Friday | Carl Simpson | From the origin of multicellularity to the Cambrian Explosion | Li Lab |
| 12/08/2023 | Friday | Marek Borowiec | Using deep learning to study biodiversity | Resasco Lab |
| 12/15/2023 | Friday | NA | Reading Day |
Spring 2024
| Date | Day | Speaker | Title | Host Lab |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/19/2024 | Friday | Josep Ramoneda | A naturalist perspective on microbes: exploring the phenotypic traits and environmental preferences of bacteria | Fierer Lab |
| 01/26/2023 | Friday | Ezra Kottler | Seeds of Change: climate resilience strategies in wetland plants and moving towards inclusive field science | Emery Lab |
| 02/02/2023 | Friday | Mike Gil | How collective behavior can shape ecosystems | Safran Lab |
| 02/09/2024 | Friday | Cam Aldridge | Conservation and Management of Sagebrush Birds: Developing Quantitative Tools Across the Ecosystem | McKenzie Lab |
| 02/16/2024 | Friday | Aramati Casper | Biology is Queer: Teaching to unique current norms and norm diversity | REACH & Emery Lab |
| 02/23/2024 | Friday | Gavin Jones | Ecology, evolution, and conservation of wildlife in the Pyrocene | McKenzie Lab |
| 03/01/2024 | Friday | NA | NO SEMINAR | |
| 03/08/2024 | Friday | Alan Brelsford | Hybrid zones and the genomics of reproductive isolation in birds | Taylor Lab |
| 03/15/2024 | Friday | Sierra Jech | Biocrust Inoculation for Dryland Restoration | Barger Lab |
| 03/22/2024 | Friday | Amy Angert | Range stasis despite climate change: time lags or rapid adaptation? | Emery & Doak Labs |
| 03/29/2024 | Friday | NA | Spring Break | |
| 04/05/2024 | Friday | Cibele Amaral | Advancing Plant Ecology and Evolution with Cutting-edge Remote Sensing and Big Data Analytics | Dee Lab |
| 04/12/2024 | Friday | Stephen Mondo | Fungal genomics research at JGI: Using big data mining and scale to address unknown aspects of fungal biology |
Smith Lab |
| 04/19/2024 | Friday | Brendan Hobart | From snails to sagebrush: Leveraging field data to better understand the causes and consequences of infection and invasion in diverse systems | McKenzie Lab |
| 04/26/2024 | Friday | Peter Innes | Evolution, diversity, and domestication of North American blue flax | Kane Lab |
| 05/03/2024 | Friday | NA | Reading Day |