Events Archive
Shweta Agarwal thesis defense: The Evolution of Regulatory Architectures Underlying Phenotypic Plasticity
May 07, 2026 - 01:30pm
Jonathan Keller defense: Large changes for small mammals: Using multiple proxies to reconstruct ecological responses to late Quaternary climate change and biodiversity loss
May 01, 2026 - 12:00pm
Patrick Baca's thesis defense - Finding Fish Families: Evaluating Dispersal in a Small-Bodied Minnow using GTseq-enabled Close-Kin Mark-Recapture Analysis
May 01, 2026 - 12:00pm
Erika Dunn thesis defense: Using temporal genomic data to uncover patterns of genetic variation and selection in isolated populations of the federally threatened Little Colorado River Spinedace
Apr 29, 2026 - 10:00am
Emily Reynebeau dissertation defense: Persistent Diversity in an Isolated Ecosystem
Apr 16, 2026 - 12:30pm
Research Days 2026
Apr 10, 2026 - 09:00pm
Noelle Mason thesis defense: Characterizing genomic, morphological, and environmental variation in desert spadefoots
Apr 10, 2026 - 10:00am
Sarah Shrum Davis dissertation defense: From Cranes to Clinics: Genomic Epidemiology at the Human-Animal Interface
Apr 07, 2026 - 10:00am
Shayne Halter dissertation defense: Energy management and water balance in migrating hummingbirds
Apr 07, 2026 - 10:00am
Katey Driscoll dissertation defense: Reassembling Riparian Ecosystems: Stream Restoration Effects on Vegetation, Arthropods, and Aquatic-Terrestrial Connectivity
Apr 07, 2026 - 09:00am
Esther Burton's thesis defense: Ultraviolet Pan Traps in the Valles Caldera and the Concept "Pollinator"
Mar 11, 2026 - 10:00am
Ben Garcia Ph.D. defense: Organization and development of nasal immunity in teleosts
Dec 11, 2025 - 09:00am
Mariah Patton's Ph.D. defense - Biological soil crusts: effects of environmental change on dryland soil microbes
Nov 05, 2025 - 01:30pm
Nicholas Vinciguerra's Ph.D. defense: Geographic patterns and evolutionary processes of avian diversification
Nov 04, 2025 - 11:00am
Liota Gongora Weinbaum Ph.D. defense - Mechanistic models of transmission dynamics in livestock: Quantifying commercially relevant outcomes of infectious disease prevention
Oct 31, 2025 - 10:30am
Eve Rowland dissertation defense - From Computer Simulations to Channel Island Foxes: Life in the Face of Environmental Change
Oct 13, 2025 - 01:00pm
Marina Casiano Ruiz thesis defense: How to measure a carnivore: Understanding the scaling of cranial and postcranial elements with body mass
Sep 04, 2025 - 11:00am
Biology Graduation Ceremony - 2025
May 16, 2025 - 05:30pm
Maya Shamsid-Deen dissertation defense: The Dynamics of Plant Colonization and Persistence: Roles of Phenotypic Plasticity and Fungal Symbiosis
May 08, 2025 - 09:00am
Laurel Martinez thesis defense: Plant reproductive strategies shift in response to restoration using beaver dam analogs
Apr 30, 2025 - 10:00am
Eliza Gilbert dissertation defense: The nature of anthropogenic river drying: spatiotemporal dynamics and ecological relationships
Apr 29, 2025 - 10:00am
Chauncey Gadek dissertation defense: Hidden Forces in Bird Evolution
Apr 28, 2025 - 10:00am
Jordan Sampson dissertation defense: Genetic Gain and Loss in the Evolution of Amniote T Cell Receptor and Immunoglobulin Genes
Apr 24, 2025 - 11:30am
Cloe Knutson thesis defense: Using triple oxygen isotopes to investigate water usage in desert ecosystems
Apr 10, 2025 - 08:00am
Research Days 2025
Apr 04, 2025 - 09:00pm
Kevin McQuirk dissertation defense: Ecoimmunology of dirty Physella acuta snails
Apr 04, 2025 - 09:00am
Missy Bacigalupa thesis defense: Nitrogen addition additively boosts climate-driven invasion of Russian thistle (Salsola tragus) in Southwest USA grasslands
Mar 27, 2025 - 01:00pm
Carson Hedberg dissertation defense: Human impacts on mammal diversity from the Pleistocene to the present
Nov 15, 2024 - 10:00am
Kevin Willson dissertation defense: Forest response to increasingly frequent fire and drought disturbances
Sep 30, 2024 - 09:00am
Kyle Gonterman thesis defense: Patterns of Stand Structure and Species Composition Through Time and Space in a Piñon-Juniper Woodland in the Southwestern US
Jul 03, 2024 - 11:00am
David Camak's dissertation defense: Conservation Genomic Investigation of a Threatened Trout Species Endemic to the Gila River
Jun 24, 2024 - 10:00am
Toni Androski dissertation defense: Connecting climate and geography with diversification and conservation of a western North American endemic mammal, Sorex monticola
Jun 24, 2024 - 08:00am
David Robinson Ph.D. defense: Viral and Bacterial Roles in Antarctic Lake Nutrient Cycling
May 24, 2024 - 02:00pm
Biology Graduation Ceremony - 2024
May 10, 2024 - 05:30pm
Kyana Montoya thesis defense: Climate shapes the mitochondrial DNA contact zone in the Audubon’s Warbler
May 08, 2024 - 09:00am
Ethan Gyllenhaal Ph.D. defense: Crossing the ocean: the importance of gene flow in island evolution
May 03, 2024 - 11:00am
Jenna McCullough dissertation defense: The Evolutionary Dynamics of a Rapid Radiation of Island Kingfishers
Apr 29, 2024 - 10:00am
Amir Mani Ph.D. defense: Host-microbial interactions in the teleost brain
Apr 26, 2024 - 08:30am
