Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. EEB dissertation defense: Frog trophic and morphological diversity: phylogenetic and spatial patterns (August 10, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/74419 74419-18690319@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, August 10, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Joanna defends her dissertation

Joanna's favorite frog, Sphaenorhynchus lacteus. Image credit: Consuelo Alarcon Rodriguez.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:48:30 -0400 2020-08-10T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-10T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Joanna's favorite frog: Sphaenorhynchus lacteus. Photo credit: Consuelo Alarcon Rodriguez
EEB dissertation defense: The diversity of mycoviruses in early-diverging fungi, and their evolutionary implications (August 13, 2020 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/75206 75206-19332297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 13, 2020 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Jill presents her dissertation

watercolor image inspired by one of Jill's study organisms, Allomyces, painted by her Mom

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:42:52 -0400 2020-08-13T10:00:00-04:00 2020-08-13T11:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual watercolor image inspired by one of Jill's study organisms, Allomyces, painted by her Mom
EEB dissertation defense: Ecological and evolutionary dynamics of complex host-parasite communities (August 13, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75352 75352-19442256@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Camden presents his dissertation

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 11 Aug 2020 10:43:08 -0400 2020-08-13T13:00:00-04:00 2020-08-13T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual infected Daphnia
EEB thesis defense: Carnivore trophic and spatial ecology in the urban ecosystem (August 27, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/75453 75453-19495323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 27, 2020 3:00pm
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Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Siria defends her thesis

Image credit: Nyeema Harris, Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:28:22 -0400 2020-08-27T15:00:00-04:00 2020-08-27T16:00:00-04:00 Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual camera trap image of a coyote in the snow, closeup
POSTPONED: EEB Virtual Seminar: Community ecology as a collection of coupled oscillators (September 10, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76152 76152-19669622@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 10, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor Vandermeer will present on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2020.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 10 Sep 2020 14:18:48 -0400 2020-09-10T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-10T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual graph of coupled oscillators
EEB dissertation defense: Past, present, and future: fungal community responses to disturbances in north temperate forests (September 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76106 76106-19663520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Buck defends his dissertation

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 04 Sep 2020 10:57:34 -0400 2020-09-11T16:00:00-04:00 2020-09-11T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Forest control burn
EEB Virtual Seminar: Belowground uptake strategies: how fine-root traits determine tree growth (September 24, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76951 76951-19780539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 24, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Monique presents this week's seminar

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 17 Sep 2020 10:32:36 -0400 2020-09-24T15:00:00-04:00 2020-09-24T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Forest study site
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2020 (September 29, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72207 72207-19655364@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 29, 2020 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

The 2020 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium will explore innovative and creative research already taking place using unique model systems, and consider all we have yet to learn from the innumerable unexplored model systems — many of which are disappearing at alarming rates as a result of global climate change.

Schedule: Tuesday, September 29

2:00 p.m. | Welcome

Talk Session 1: Human Adaptation and Evolution
2:10 p.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture — Genomic evolution and adaptation in Africa: Implications for health and disease
Sarah A. Tishkoff, Ph.D.
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Departments of Genetics and Biology; Director, Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Talk Session 2: Social Biomimicry
3:10 p.m. | Towards living robots: Using biology to make better machines (full lecture)
Barry A. Trimmer, Ph.D.
Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences; Director, Neuromechanics and Biomimetic Devices Laboratory, Tufts University

4:05 p.m. | How the physics of slithering can teach multilegged robots to walk (short talk)
Shai Revzen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

4:25 p.m. | What wasps can teach us about the evolution of animal minds (full lecture)
Elizabeth Tibbetts, Ph.D.
Professor, Associate Chair for Research Facilities, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

5:20 p.m. | Day 1 Closing Remarks


Schedule: Wednesday, September 30

9:00 a.m. | Welcome

Talk Session 3: Biological Control of Disease Vectors
9:05 a.m. | Breaking up Anopheles-Plasmodium interactions for malaria control (full lecture)
Flaminia Catteruccia, Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard University

10:00 a.m. | Cryopreservation of multicellular animals: Lessons from extreme insects (short talk)
Nicholas Teets, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky

10:20 a.m. | Break

10:35 a.m. | Transgenic fungi for mosquito control (full lecture)
Raymond St. Leger, Ph.D.
Professor, Entomology, University of Maryland

11:30 a.m. | Recombination versus mutation as the fuel for rapid evolution across the fungal tree of life (short talk)
Timothy James, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Lewis E. Wehmeyer and Elaine Prince Wehmeyer Professor in the Taxonomy of Fungi, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

11:50 a.m. | Building a moving wall: Maintaining cell wall polarity during tip growth (short talk)
Cora MacAlister, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

12:10 p.m. | Closing remarks

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:23:00 -0400 2020-09-29T14:00:00-04:00 2020-09-29T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Conference / Symposium Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium: Biodiversity in Biological Research
Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium 2020 (September 30, 2020 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/72207 72207-17957294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 30, 2020 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Life Sciences Institute (LSI)

The 2020 Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium will explore innovative and creative research already taking place using unique model systems, and consider all we have yet to learn from the innumerable unexplored model systems — many of which are disappearing at alarming rates as a result of global climate change.

Schedule: Tuesday, September 29

2:00 p.m. | Welcome

Talk Session 1: Human Adaptation and Evolution
2:10 p.m. | Mary Sue and Kenneth Coleman Life Sciences Lecture — Genomic evolution and adaptation in Africa: Implications for health and disease
Sarah A. Tishkoff, Ph.D.
David and Lyn Silfen University Professor, Departments of Genetics and Biology; Director, Center for Global Genomics & Health Equity, Department of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Talk Session 2: Social Biomimicry
3:10 p.m. | Towards living robots: Using biology to make better machines (full lecture)
Barry A. Trimmer, Ph.D.
Henry Bromfield Pearson Professor of Natural Sciences; Director, Neuromechanics and Biomimetic Devices Laboratory, Tufts University

4:05 p.m. | How the physics of slithering can teach multilegged robots to walk (short talk)
Shai Revzen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan

4:25 p.m. | What wasps can teach us about the evolution of animal minds (full lecture)
Elizabeth Tibbetts, Ph.D.
Professor, Associate Chair for Research Facilities, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

5:20 p.m. | Day 1 Closing Remarks


Schedule: Wednesday, September 30

9:00 a.m. | Welcome

Talk Session 3: Biological Control of Disease Vectors
9:05 a.m. | Breaking up Anopheles-Plasmodium interactions for malaria control (full lecture)
Flaminia Catteruccia, Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology and Infectious Disease, Harvard University

10:00 a.m. | Cryopreservation of multicellular animals: Lessons from extreme insects (short talk)
Nicholas Teets, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Kentucky

10:20 a.m. | Break

10:35 a.m. | Transgenic fungi for mosquito control (full lecture)
Raymond St. Leger, Ph.D.
Professor, Entomology, University of Maryland

11:30 a.m. | Recombination versus mutation as the fuel for rapid evolution across the fungal tree of life (short talk)
Timothy James, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Lewis E. Wehmeyer and Elaine Prince Wehmeyer Professor in the Taxonomy of Fungi, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan

11:50 a.m. | Building a moving wall: Maintaining cell wall polarity during tip growth (short talk)
Cora MacAlister, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

12:10 p.m. | Closing remarks

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 09 Sep 2020 16:23:00 -0400 2020-09-30T09:00:00-04:00 2020-09-30T12:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Life Sciences Institute (LSI) Conference / Symposium Saltiel Life Sciences Symposium: Biodiversity in Biological Research
EEB Virtual Seminar: Global inequity in species names and who they honor (October 8, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76574 76574-19727085@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 8, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Shane presents this week's virtual seminar.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 06 Oct 2020 09:34:38 -0400 2020-10-08T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual World map showing number of bird species descriptions since 1950
EEB Virtual Seminar: Community ecology as a collection of coupled oscillators (October 22, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77050 77050-19790558@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 22, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

John Vandermeer presents this week's seminar

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:20:44 -0400 2020-10-22T15:00:00-04:00 2020-10-22T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual graph of coupled oscillators
Brave Blue World (October 23, 2020 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/78497 78497-20052316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 23, 2020 4:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Civil and Environmental Engineering

Narrated by Liam Neeson, the documentary Brave Blue World challenges some of the commonly held myths and assumptions about water, and introduces the pioneers and innovators at the front-line addressing global water and sanitation challenges in new and creative ways. The film includes interviews with leading water activists and researchers, including Matt Damon and Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Glen Daigger.

After the screening, a panel of experts on water and policy will answer questions and discuss their vision for the future of water in Michigan and beyond.

PANEL
-Eleanor Allen: CEO, Water For People
-Glen Daigger: Professor, University of Michigan Civil and Environmental Engineering
-Debbie Dingell: U.S. Congresswoman (MI-12)
-Rebecca Esselman: Executive Director, Huron River Watershed Council
-Paul O’Callaghan: CEO, BlueTech Research; Producer, Brave Blue World
-Jen Read (Moderator): Water Center Director, Graham Sustainability Institute

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Film Screening Tue, 13 Oct 2020 13:49:23 -0400 2020-10-23T16:30:00-04:00 2020-10-23T18:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Civil and Environmental Engineering Film Screening Lighthouse
EEB Virtual Seminar: How walking is a lot like slithering (November 5, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76575 76575-19727086@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 5, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Professor Revzen presents this week's seminar

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 26 Oct 2020 12:38:27 -0400 2020-11-05T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual drawing of a red ant on a blue background with yellow, blue and white dots on tips of legs and thorax
EEB Virtual Seminar: Bridging the gap between statics and dynamics in community ecology (November 19, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/77309 77309-19838058@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 19, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Understanding the processes that shape ecological communities is one of the main goals of ecology. Multiple dynamic models of ecological communities have been developed, but they are typically tested by examining static patterns such as Species Abundance Distributions. Much less is known about the ability of these theories to explain the actual dynamics that are observed in ecological communities.

I focused on the two most minimalistic models of community dynamics, the Neutral Theory of Biodiversity (NTB) and Dynamic Equilibrium theory (DE). For both theories, I asked: 1) can the model explain observed patterns of community dynamics? 2) if not, what processes need to be added to explain community dynamics?

I have found that the magnitude of changes in abundances and species composition in the Barro Colorado Island forest community is considerably larger than expected under NTB. However, incorporating environmental fluctuations into the theory allows explaining patterns of richness, commonness and rarity, and dynamics in that forest. In my work on DE, I have used a novel methodology to show that both the assumptions and the predictions of the theory are violated in thousands of communities worldwide. I have found that there are larger temporal changes in species richness than expected, which are associated with a positive covariance between species, representing the shared response to environmental changes.

Overall, while most previous work in community ecology has emphasized the role of competition in shaping ecological communities, my results demonstrate the crucial role of environmental changes as a driver of community assembly.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 11 Nov 2020 09:39:34 -0500 2020-11-19T15:00:00-05:00 2020-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual small purple, white and yellow flowers
EEB Virtual Seminar: Using a community assembly framework to decrease vulnerability to biological invasions in temperate forests & Phenology and flowering overlap drive specialization in pollinator networks (December 3, 2020 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/76577 76577-19727088@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 3, 2020 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Laís and Paul present this week's virtual seminar.

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 23 Nov 2020 09:12:05 -0500 2020-12-03T15:00:00-05:00 2020-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual Bee overlaid on graphs and trees
EEB student evaluation seminar: To the plastisphere and beyond: exploring the microbial ecotoxicology of plastics in aquatic environments (July 2, 2021 11:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/84336 84336-21623367@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, July 2, 2021 11:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Rachel presents her preliminary seminar.

Closer to the event, please see your email or contact eeb.gradcoord@umich.edu for the passcode at least two hours prior to the seminar.

Image: Scott Higgins

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 22 Jun 2021 10:31:45 -0400 2021-07-02T11:00:00-04:00 2021-07-02T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Livestream / Virtual an overhead drone picture of collaborators dosing a mesocosm with colored microplastics, photo credit Scott Higgins