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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Enhancing biological datasets using artificial intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Seminar summary - Biological data have expanded in breadth and depth over the last decade\, leading to larger datasets that hold the potential to answer questions at greater resolution. Despite this growth\, some datasets remain inherently limited\; including many derived from specimens from natural history collections. In this talk\, Bryan Carstens will discuss the potential of Artificial Intelligence approaches to improve biological datasets. One example describes the application of transfer learning to improve the genomic data collected from specimens where the sampling is inherently limited\, such as from extinct species. A second describes the use of neutral networks to automate pseudo-landmarks in three dimensional geometric morphometrics. Taken together\, this work suggests that AI has the potential to enhance biological data\, leading to increased inferential capabilities.
UID:151542-21911709@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151542
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:eeb,Environment,Lecture,Research,seminar,Workshop,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260908T113443
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261008T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Solving conservation puzzles with integrated community models
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - This talk highlights the emerging ‘integrated community modeling’ framework that combines  data integration and community modeling to generate inferences on both individual species and whole communities. Evaluating the dynamics of whole communities\, not just common or charismatic species\, is critical to understanding the responses of biodiversity to ongoing environmental pressures. A recent surge in both public science and government-funded data collection efforts has led to a wealth of biodiversity data. However\, these data collection programs use a wide range of sampling protocols and record information at a variety of spatiotemporal scales. As a result\, available biodiversity data vary substantially in quantity and information content\, which must be carefully reconciled for meaningful ecological analysis. Through a series of worked examples\, I will discuss how integrated community models can be used evaluate species distributions and community-level richness patterns\, discern population and community trends over time\, and estimate demographic rates and population growth for communities of sympatric species.
UID:151703-21912003@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151703
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:evolutionary biology,Workshop,Talk,symposium,seminar,Science,Research,evolution,environmental,Environment
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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DTSTAMP:20260908T114922
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Understanding adaptation to anthropogenic disturbance at a global scale
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - Anthropogenic disturbance is a dominant force driving evolutionary change on Earth today. From global land use change\, to resource extraction and consumption\, to rapid and ongoing climate change\, humans are fundamentally changing our planet. While the geochemical\, ecosystem and ecological consequences of anthropogenic caused environmental change are well studied and increasingly understood\, the impacts on evolution are less understood. In this talk I will address this problem by seeking to answer a single general question: How does anthropogenic disturbance influence the evolution of life? As a case example\, I will describe our work on the the cosmopolitan plant white clover\, where we are examining how various anthropogenic disturbances affect all major mechanisms of evolution. I will describe our global studies examining whether urbanization affects phenotypic and genomic evolution. I will then explore whether invasive populations can adapt to novel environments in their invaded range\, including the role of functional traits and structural variants across the genome in these adaptations. Finally\, I will explore whether populations can adapt to rapid climate change through time in introduced and native ranges. The results from the white clover system provide insight into when species are likely to be able to adapt to anthropogenic disturbance\, and when they may be unable to adapt. When combined with studies of other systems\, it is becoming clear that anthropogenic disturbance is becoming one of the most important drivers of evolution.
UID:151705-21912004@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151705
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Talk,symposium,Research,evolutionary biology,Science
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260908T120339
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261022T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - The old field rules: the quest to develop generalizable principles about how ecosystems function
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - The presentation will chronicle a journey of long-term research devoted to discovering fundamental principles—rules of life—that explain how animal species’ adaptive evolutionary ecological interactions determine how they control ecosystem functioning. I will discuss how this research journey led to systematic resolution of generalizable principles that explain how ecosystems function. The fundamental lesson is that dedication to long-term theory-informed field research can lead to a coherent predictive understanding of how ecosystems function.
UID:151708-21912005@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/151708
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Talk,Workshop,seminar,evolutionary biology,environmental,Environment,eeb,Ecosystems
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20260922T115050
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261029T170000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:EEB Thursday Seminar Series - Variation in life history strategies shapes evolution across the tree of fishes
DESCRIPTION:Seminar Summary - My research explores how ecology and life history strategies drive evolutionary processes and patterns in fishes. Life history strategies have direct links to fitness and vary dramatically among lineages\, and this variation can drive rates and patterns of trait evolution. In this talk I will highlight recent work demonstrating how a migratory life history strategy can influence trait evolution among populations and across clades spanning the fish tree of life. I will also present new research on macroevolution and diversification of lampreys\, an ancient lineage of jawless fishes with remarkably different life history strategies long thought to be linked to a novel speciation process.
UID:152638-21914326@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/152638
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Talk,seminar,Research,Lecture,evolutionary biology,environmental,Environment,eeb,Ecosystems,ecosystem,Ecology And Evolutionary Biology,Ecology & Biology,Ecology
LOCATION:Biological Sciences Building - 1060
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