Living Earth Collaborative/Evolution, Ecology & Population Biology Seminar featuring Christy Edwards
Christy Edwards, MO Botanical Garden
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Biodiversity and community assembly in a changing world
Jonathan Myers, Associate Professor, Washington University
Harnessing the power of the people for conservation science: A Shutterbee Story
Nicole Miller-Struttmann, Webster University
Biological stoichiometry of nutrient limitation in ecology and evolution
Jim Elser, Bierman Professor of Ecology, University of Montana
Mechanisms of Demographic Variability in Aquatic Ecosystems
Tom Anderson, Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville
Rethinking Objectivity in Psychiatry: Unmuting Patients in Epistemic Practices
Şerife Tekin, University of Texas at San Antonio
Phylogenetic Ecology and Plant Disease
Ingrid Parker, Professor, University of California-Santa Cruz
Does ecological niche modeling look good on paper? Applying methods in global change biology to an ethnobotanical system
Justin Baldwin, Washington University and James Lucas, Washington University
Bioforum: Sam Funderburk, Kyusik Kim, and Mariana Braga
Threatened plant translocation: patterns and determinants of success in the United States
Matthew Albrecht, MO Botanical Garden
Untangling the Cryptic Biology of the World's Largest Flowers
Charles Davis, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Vascular Plants in the Harvard University Herbaria
Quantitative approaches to understanding biological and cultural diversity
Angela Chira, Washington University
Pronouns as Cornerstone to Gender Inclusion
Jaimie Hileman, Instructor in the Brown School and Executive Director of Trans Education Service LLC of St. Louis
Turtle Conservation as a Vehicle for One Health
Sharon Deem, Saint Louis Zoo
Plant & Microbial Biosciences Seminar-Jenna Eschbach, Michelle Cho
Jenna Eschbach (Kutluay lab) and Michelle Cho (Topp lab)
Causes, Conditions, and Comparative Trials: Agricultural Experimentation around 1800
Jutta Schickore from Indiana University Bloomington's department of History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
Coordinating whole-body regeneration: growth-dependent behavior and injury-induced cell states
Dr. Blair Benham-Pyle, Stowers Institute for Medical Research
Undertaking conservation: The Saint Louis Zoo’s Effort to Recover a Carrion Beetle Species
Bob Merz, Saint Louis Zoo
Plant & Microbial Biosciences Seminar-Sarah Rommelfanger, Ryan Valdez
Sarah Rommelfanger (Umen lab) and Ryan Valdez (Levin lab)
Environmental Racism and Biodiversity Conservation in St. Louis
Join the Living Earth Collaborative (LEC) and Washington University in St. Louis at 2 PM CST for a virtual panel and discussion
Plant & Microbial Biosciences Seminar-Ryan Calcutt, Vivian Kitainda
Ryan Calcutt (Dixit lab) and Vivian Kitainda (Jez lab)
Unraveling repressive three-dimensional chromatin structure in quiescence
Sarah Swygert, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Symbiont Interactions Across Scales
Charles Mitchell, Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tracing the Cellular Origins of Germline Formation and Regeneration in the Annelid Platynereis dumerilii
B. Duygu Ozoplat, Marine Biological Laboratory
The ecology and evolution of species diversity
James Stroud, Washington University, Department of Biology
Plant & Microbial Biosciences Seminar-Jessie Bullock, Rachel Jouni
Jessie Bullock (Levin lab) and Rachel Jouni (Meyers lab)
St Louis Area Brain Bee
The St. Louis Area Brain Bee (SLABB) is an annual competition for high school students that tests knowledge in neuroscience. Questions come from Brain Facts, a book produced by the Society for Neuroscience. The winner will complete in the 2021 virtual US national Brain Bee.
The MttB superfamily of methyltransferases: combatting agents of heart disease with, or without, the 22nd amino acid
Joseph Krzycki, Professor, Ohio State University, Biochemistry and molecular biology of methanogenic archaea
Astrocytes close a motor circuit critical period
Sarah Ackerman, University of Oregon
Decentralizing & Democratizing Wildlife Biosurveillance
Gideon Erkenswick, Washington University in St. Louis
Plant & Microbial Biosciences Seminar-Emily Davenport, Patricia Walker
Emily Davenport (Bose lab) and Patricia Walker (Pakrasi lab)
I Don’t Like Bananas: Epistemic Injustice and Iatrogenic Harm
Megan Delehanty, University of Calgary
Fitting the Pieces Together: How Cells Assemble Centrosomes and Cilia
Jennifer Wang, Stanford University
Cell behavior as cellular robotics: understanding and engineering cellular diversity
Scott Coyle, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bacterial sensing, elimination, and manipulation of host-generated reactive oxygen species
Arden Perkins, University of Oregon
Project Biodiversify
A Living Earth Collaborative seminar
Plant & Microbial Biosciences Seminar-Chia-Yun Lee, Josh Johnson
Chia-Yun Lee (Kunkel lab) and Josh Johnson (Kunkel lab)
Epigenetic Regulation of Plant Traits and Environmental Adaptation
Xuehua Zhong, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Intrinsically disordered proteins as thermosensors in plants
Heather Meyer, Carnegie Institution for Science
From Island Trees to Mountain Forests: Exploring patterns and drivers of diversity within biodiversity hotspots
Alex Linan, Missouri Botanical Garden
Plant & Microbial Biosciences Seminar-Edward Lopatto, Lily O'Connor
Edward Lopatto and Lily O'Connor
Fingerprinting changes in the global water cycle over the past millennium
Bronwen Konecky, Washington University in St. Louis
Plant & Microbial Biosciences Seminar-Olivia Gomez, Kristen Edgeworth
Olivia Gomez and Kristen Edgeworth
Experimental organisms, neuron regeneration, and the curious case of the lamprey in the history of the neurosciences, 1870s-present
Kathryn Maxson Jones, Princeton University
Ancient Anthropogenic Landscapes in the Amazon
Yoshi Maezumi, University of Amsterdam
Plant & Microbial Biosciences Seminar-Adrienne Brauer, Alex Liu, and Cooper Hostetler
Adrienne Brauer, Alex Liu, and Cooper Hostetler
Wings, Feathers, Flight: The PhyloG2P Approach to Bird Evolution
Scott Edwards, Museum of Comparative Zoology
Bioforum
Environmental Justice in the Greater St. Louis Area
Tyson Summer Seminar
What can we learn from the tropical dry forest — rain forest transition zone?
Tyson Summer Seminar
Urban Evolution from Phenotype to Genotype
Tyson Summer Seminar by Kristen Winchell, Living Earth Collaborative
Janzen-Connell effects in tropical dry forests: unravelling the interactive effects of drought and soil microbial communities on seedling survival and growth
Tyson Summer Seminar
Living in the ever-changing litter: a discussion of ant spatial and temporal dynamics
Tyson Summer Seminar
Silver gulls and scary (bits of) bugs: investigating antimicrobial resistance at the human-wildlife interface
Tyson Summer Seminar
How do we understand a Hurricane like Maria? Insect responses to a large disturbance event in Puerto Rico
Tyson Summer Seminar
Coloring the Conservation Conversation
Tyson Summer Seminar
Fall Classes Begin
Processes determining plant species diversity in restored tallgrass prairies
Andrew Kaul, Postdoctoral Fellow – Restoration Ecology, Center for Conservation and Sustainable Development, Missouri Botanical Garden
Ecological effects on brain form in adaptively diverging sunfish
Caleb Axelrod, Postdoc, Gordon Lab, WashU
Eco-evolutionary dynamics, fluctuating selection, and climate change
Carlos Botero, Assistant Professor of Biology
Lifestyle Variation and Parasitic Disease Patterns: Environmental Exposures and Associated Health Inequities
Theresa Gildner, WashU
The Origin and Future of a Tropical Biodiversity Hostpot
Carlos Daniel Cadena Ordoñez, Los Andes University
New Angles on Gene Function Discovery
Sean Crosson, Rudolph Hugh Endowed Professor, Michigan State University
Integrating physiology and behavior to evaluate adaptive and plastic responses to a changing climate
Don Miles, Professor, Ohio University
What’s the best way to attach a scientific name to a biological entity, and do we need new Codes?
Susanne Renner, Honorary Professor of Biology, WashU
21st century changes to agriculture permanently alter the weedy rice genome in the United States; The evolution and ecology of key innovations
Marshall Wedger and Ari Miller, WashU
Mechanisms of antibiotic resistance and sensitivity in Staphylococcus aureus
Justin Nodwell, Vice Dean, Research and Health Science Education, University of Toronto
The Evolution, Domestication, and Improvement of Diverse Crops
Emily Warschefsky, Missouri Botanical Garden
Scale-free body movements directly linked to scale-free brain dynamics
Woodrow Shew, Associate Professor, University of Arkansas
Global and local dispersal of ecologically dominant grasses
Toby Kellogg, Danforth Plant Science Center
Plant and Microbial Biosciences Seminar
Natasha Bilkey (Dixit lab) and Kari Miller (Haswell lab)
Limitations and Cautions for the Interpretation of Genome Wide Association Studies and Polygenic Scores: Lessons from Lewontin
Jonathan Kaplan, Oregon State University
The Initiation of Epigenetic Silencing in Plants
Keith Slotkin, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
From the ground up: urban evolution in squirrels and pigeons
Elizabeth Carlen, Washington University/Living Earth Collaborative
Plant and Microbial Biosciences Seminar
Dennis Zhu (Stallings lab) and Taylor Harris (Bart lab)
Seeing the Light—Lessons about and from Plants
Beronda Montgomery, MSU Foundation Professor, Michigan State University
Veterinary science at the forefront of carnivore conservation
Fernando David Nájera Muñoz, St Louis Zoo/Living Earth Collaborative
Plant and Microbial Biosciences Seminar
Chris Harper (Blodgett lab) and Sarah Rommelfanger (Umen lab)
Health and diseases at the human, domestic animal and wildlife interface in Madagascar
Fidisoa Rasambainarivo, Saint Louis Zoo/Mahaliana
Plant and Microbial Biosciences Seminar
Nastya Onyshchenko (Bart lab) and Kevin Blake (Dantas lab)
Bioforum
Bioforum
Centering Equity in Urban Biodiversity, Climate Justice and Eco-Literacy
Catherine Werner, St. Louis City
Plant and Microbial Biosciences Seminar
Jenna Eschbach (Kutluay lab) and Jenny Codjoe (Haswell lab)
Towards an Ameliorative Account of Psychiatric Disorder
History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine Seminar-Miriam Solomon, Temple University
Bioforum
Life at its Limits: The Extreme Overwintering Biology of Painted Turtles
Daniel Warren, Saint Louis University
Plant and Microbial Biosciences Seminar
Kiona Elliott (Bart lab) and Eric Conners (Bose lab)