Older Seminars
Title: TBA
Oct 31, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Shannon Speir, Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
Molecular and evolutionary determinants for the assembly of a conserved mitotic spindle positioning complex (Promotion Seminar)
Oct 24, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Christopher Johnston, Associate Professor, UNM Biology
Title: TBA
Oct 17, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Joshua Schraiber, Research Scientist, University of Southern California
Towards an understanding of insects in the Anthropocene through the lens of butterflies in western North America
Oct 03, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Matthew L. Forister, Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
The importance of evolutionary history for ecological restoration: evidence from the Great Basin
Oct 02, 2024 - 12:00pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Elizabeth Leger, Director of the Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, Reno
A community framework for ecological thresholds to novel disturbance and climate regimes in North American Deserts
Sep 26, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Sam St. Clair, Professor, Brigham Young University
Reviving the evolutionary engine: speciation and extinction via hybridization in the genus Boechera (Brassicaceae)
Sep 19, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Michael Windham, Curator of Vascular Plants, Duke University
Wiring up the brain during development: Coordination and propagation of cell fate choice in neural circuit assembly
Sep 12, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Yu-Chieh David Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, New York University
A Natural Heritage Journey Tracking New Mexico’s At-risk Species and Ecosystems in a Rapidly Changing World
Sep 05, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Esteban Muldavin, Research Associate Professor, UNM Biology
Climate adaptation across space and time in the annual plant Plantago patagonica
Aug 29, 2024 - 03:30pm
Fitness: What to Replace It With
Aug 22, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Joanna Masel, Professor, University of Arizona
What We Can Learn from Dead Mollusks: Paleobiological Approaches to Historical Ecology and Conservation
Apr 18, 2024 - 03:30pm
BGSA DEI Invited Speaker: Using the Microbes and Social Equity framework to empower students in upper level microbiology courses
Apr 11, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Carla Bonilla, Associate Professor, University of San Diego
Avian phylogenomics: What we have learned... and why we have not learned more
Mar 28, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Rebecca Kimball, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Florida
Incomplete lineage sorting: an underappreciated source of conflict in evolutionary analyses
Mar 27, 2024 - 12:00pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Edward Braun, Professor, Department of Biology, University of Florida
Mechanistic and functional insights into the assembly and plasticity of the fly neuromuscular circuit
Mar 21, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Robert Carillo, Associate Professor, University of Chicago
Cultural landscapes, natural disturbances: What can we learn from the paleo record?
Mar 07, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Damien Rius, Researcher, Université de Franche-Comté
Preserving the future: Conservation genetics of Southwestern fishes
Feb 29, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Megan Osborne, Research Assistant Professor, UNM Biology
Why evolutionary theory needs to incorporate more ecology
Feb 22, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Jeremy Draghi, Assistant Professor, Virginia Tech
Bioelectric regulation of neural stem cell development
Feb 15, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Beverly Piggott, Assistant Professor, University of Montana
How disturbance shapes aquatic ecosystems: From forested headwaters to the turbid Rio Grande
Feb 08, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Becky Bixby, Research Assistant Professor, UNM Biology
Streams as sensors: Using river water chemistry to detect landscape change
Feb 01, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Arial Shogren, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama
Olympic swimmer or couch potato? Survival strategies for marine microbes
Jan 25, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Andrew Babbin, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Drylands in the context of global change
Jan 18, 2024 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Sasha Reed, Research Ecologist, USGS Southwest Biological Science Center
The ecology and evolutionary biology of gall-forming insects
Dec 07, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Glen Hood, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
Exercise, Diet and MC4R
Nov 30, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Ana Inés Vázquez, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Leveraging the cultural and biological legacies of museum collection
Nov 16, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Courtney Hofman, Professor, University of Oklahoma
From species to food webs: how plant traits shape the evolution and ecology of insects
Nov 09, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Moria Robinson, Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Patterns and processes of duplicate gene retention over different timescales and with different selective pressures
Nov 02, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. David A. Liberles, Professor, Temple University
Life on the edge: population ecology & conservation in a changing world
Oct 26, 2023 - 03:30pm
Trophic ecology of large herbivores
Oct 19, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Tyler Kartzinel, Assistant Professor, Brown University
Deciphering Dissolved Organic Nitrogen: Completing the TDN ternary diagram
Oct 05, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Adam Wymore, Assistant Research Professor, University of New Hampshire
Controls over nitrogen emissions from dry soils
Sep 21, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Alex Krichels, Research Ecologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Floristic diversity at the altitudinal limits of plant life
Sep 14, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Hannah Marx, Assistant Professor, UNM Biology, Mid-probation Seminar
Studying the neural basis of locomotion in Drosophila larvae using optogenetics, biomechanics, and connectomics
Sep 07, 2023 - 03:30pm
Predictors of amphibian and reptile genomic diversity: Integrating traits, phylogeny, and geography
Aug 31, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Lisa Barrow, Assistant Professor, UNM Biology, Mid-probation Seminar
Eco-evo of culture: dynamics and diversity
Aug 24, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Mitchell Newberry, Research Assistant Professor, UNM Biology
Title: TBA
May 11, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Mitchell Newberry, Research Assistant Professor, UNM Biology
BGSA DEI Speaker: Title - TBA
Apr 20, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Banu Subramaniam, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hidden biodiversity: Genome duplication shapes pollinator visitation, herbivore specialization, and plant community structure
Apr 13, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Rob Laport, Assistant Professor, College of Idaho
Research Days 2023: Ecology, evolution, and conservation in a fiery world
Apr 06, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Gavin Jones, US Forest Service
Representativeness of environmental networks: a reality of an intangible goal
Mar 30, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Rodrigo Vargas, Professor, University of Delaware
Topological puzzles in biology: how shape and structure shape a system's evolution
Mar 23, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Oana Carja, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
The Origin and Emergence of SARS-CoV-2
Mar 09, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Joel Wertheim, Associate Adjunct Professor, UC San Diego
"It's almost midnight. Do you know where your data are?"
Mar 02, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Mark Servilla, Research Assistant Professor, Environmental Data Initiative, UNM
Building community with research, education and conservation programs at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
Feb 23, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Jorge Ramos, Executive Director, Stanford University Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve
BGSA Invited Speaker: Title - TBA
Feb 09, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. David Fox, Professor, University of Minnesota
Speciation of the Spotted Saxifrages around the North Pacific Rim
Feb 02, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Eric DeChaine, Professor, Western Washington University
Novel insights into host-bacterial interactions from studying nematodes and their natural microbiota
Jan 26, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Robert Luallen, Assistant Professor, San Diego State University
Title: TBA
Jan 19, 2023 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Kelly Ramirez, Assistant Professor, University of Texas - El Paso
Adding Animals to the Equation: Rodent impacts on carbon and nutrient cycling in the Arctic
Dec 08, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Jennie McLaren, Associate Professor, UT at El Paso
Homeostatic Control of Deep Sleep in Drosophila: Implications for Discovering Correlates of Sleep Pressure
Dec 01, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Budhaditya Chowdhury, Research Associate, City University of New York
Long-term stability in the circumpolar foraging range of a Southern Ocean predator between the eras of whaling and rapid climate change
Nov 17, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Seth Newsome, Professor, UNM
It's all about that base, 'bout that food base
Nov 10, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Jane Marks, Professor, Northern Arizona University
Using specimens and next-gen tools to study novelty in birds
Nov 03, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Chad Eliason, Research Scientist, Field Museum
Evolution of sleeping behavior in diurnally active lizards
Oct 27, 2022 - 03:30pm
Mining the Mechanisms of Rapid Evolution
Oct 20, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Davorka Gulisija, Assistant Professor, UNM Biology
Bloom and bust ecology of harmful algal blooms in shallow eutrophying lakes
Oct 06, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Zachary T. Aanderud, Professor, Brigham Young University
Fine-tuning active gene transcription by enriching low levels of repressive histone marks
Sep 29, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Cheng-Yu Lee, Professor, University of Michigan
Reviving a forgotten model system: A beetle-fungus mutualism (Retention Review seminar)
Sep 22, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Vincent Martinson, Assistant Professor, UNM Biology
Intra-specific variation in an extended phenotype: Insect-induced galls from genes to ecology (Retention Review seminar)
Sep 15, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Ellen Martinson, Assistant Professor, UNM Biology
The role of interbacterial interactions in microbiome assembly
Sep 08, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Justine Garcia, Assistant Professor, New Mexico Highlands University
Studies at the interface between the environment and organism using an in vitro model of the fish intestine
Sep 01, 2022 - 03:30pm
Snail 3G: Genomics · Genetics · Gene-editing (promotion seminar)
Aug 25, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Si-Ming Zhang, Research Associate Professor, UNM Biology
Inferring the structure of large empirical fitness landscapes
Apr 28, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. David McCandlish, Assistant Professor, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Decoding the molecular clock controlling neural diversity generation in the visual center of Drosophila (Zoom only)
Apr 21, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Xin Li, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Circadian Timekeeping in an Insect Brain
Apr 14, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Orie T. Shafer, Professor, City University of New York
Studies at the interface between the environment and organism using an in vitro model of the fish intestine
Apr 07, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Matteo Minghetti, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
Biology Research Day 2022: Ancient conservation and evolutionary plasticity in cells of the immune system
Mar 31, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Rob Miller, Professor and CETI Director, University of New Mexico
Microbial reordering in biological soil crusts (Zoom only)
Mar 24, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Vanessa Fernandes, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of New Mexico
Canceled: Moved to Sept 8th
Mar 10, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Justine Garcia, Assistant Professor, New Mexico Highlands University
Mechanisms that drive parallel polygenic adaptation during global climate change
Mar 03, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Carol Lee, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alternative splicing choices for synaptic function
Feb 24, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Andrea Gomez, Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley
New roles for ‘old’ cells: Maturation and repair of the touch system in zebrafish (Zoom only)
Feb 17, 2022 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Dr. Jeff Rassmussen, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
The evolution of elevational specialization (and why studying it is hard)
Feb 10, 2022 - 03:30pm
Exploring adaptive evolution through the lens of modern genomics.
Nov 18, 2021 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Sangeet Lamichhaney
Species Formation Through the Lens of Functional Hologenomics.
Oct 28, 2021 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Seth Bordenstein
Mid-Probationary Review: Assistant Professor Mubarak Syed
Sep 30, 2021 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Mubarak Syed
Choanoflagellates, STING, and the Origin of Animal Innate Immunity.
Sep 23, 2021 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Arielle Woznica
The Global Emergence of Hotter-Drought Drivers of Forest Disturbance Tipping Points
Sep 09, 2021 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Craig Allen
Quantifying forest resilience in an era of change.
Sep 02, 2021 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Camille Stevens-Rumann
Tales of Three Rivers: Communicating ecological change on the Central Platte River in Nebraska, the Middle Rio Grande, and Upper Gila River.
Aug 26, 2021 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Mary Harner
Activity Patterns of Sympatric Ocelots and Bobcats in South Texas
Oct 17, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: John Leonard, Ph.D.
Perspectives on Shrub Population Dynamics in Semi-arid Ecosystems
Sep 26, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Niall Hanan, Ph.D.
Within-species Heterogeneity in Microbes and Implications for Disease Epidemiology and Public Health
Sep 19, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Cheryl Andam, Ph.D.
Rapid Evolutionary Response to a Transmissible Cancer
Sep 12, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Andrew Storfer, Ph.D.
Linking Evolutionary & Ecological Theory to Illuminate Non-equilibrium Biodiversity
Aug 29, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Andy Rominger, Ph.D.
Impacts of Soil Microbial Communities on Plant Physiological Response to Drought
May 02, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Danielle Marias Ulrich
Land Snails as Paleoclimate Proxies: From Local to Global Scales
Apr 25, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Yurea Yanes, Ph.D.
Understanding the Origins and Future of Biodiversity Patterns.
Apr 18, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: John Wiens, Ph.D.
Genomic Perspectives on Ice Age Mammal Diversity in Southeast Alaska
Apr 04, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Charlotte Lindqvist, Ph.D.
The World's Schistosomes and Their Snail Hosts: My Personal Story, with a Tribute to CETI and the Comparative Approach
Mar 28, 2019 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Eric. S. Loker, Ph.D.
Interactions among Geologic, Climatic, and Biotic Mechanisms Determine Fish Species Persistence in Western United States
Mar 28, 2019 - 12:30pm
Speaker/s: Gerald R. Smith, Ph.D.
Tracking Animal Origins and Migration Using Stable Isotopes
Dec 06, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Keith Hobson, Ph.D.
What Is Behavioral Flexibility and Is it a Mechanism for Surviving in New Environments?
Nov 15, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Corina Logan, Ph.D.
Isotopes, Ancient DNA, and Marine Mammals: Using the Past to Plan for the Future
Nov 08, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Paul Koch, Ph.D.
Genetic Drivers of the Success of Founder Populations: Field Experiments in Plants
Nov 01, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Kenneth Whitney, Ph.D.
3D Phenotype Data for All Living Vertebrates: The openVertebrate (oVert) Project
Oct 18, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: David Blackburn, Ph.D.
Precipitation Variability Effect on Ecosystem Functioning: Experimentation, Modelling and Data Synthesis from Local to Global Scale
Sep 20, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Laureano Gherardi Arbizu, Ph.D.
Interactions Between Cambial Phenology and Seasonal Climate: Insights from Tree-ring Stable Isotopes in the North American Monsoon System.
Sep 06, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Soumaya Belmecheri, Ph.D.
Phenomics of Stomata and Water Use Efficiency in C4 Plants
Aug 30, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Andrew Leakey, Ph.D.
Redesigning the Bio Annex as the Natural History Science Center: Presentation and Discussion of Plans
Aug 23, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Laura Crossey, Ph.D., & The NHSC Planning Team
Phenology, Ecosystem Processes, and Global Change: What We Are Learning from the Phenocam Network
May 03, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Andrew Richardson, Ph.D.
Landscape Genetics and Epigenetics in Trunk-ground Anoles
Apr 26, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Ian Wang, Ph.D.
Genes, Physiology, and Fertility of Tibetan Women at High Altitudes
Apr 05, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Cynthia Beall, Ph.D.
Bayesian Phylogenetic Methods for Synthesizing Paleontological and Neontological Data
Mar 29, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Tracy Heath, Ph.D.
Of Mosquitoes and Men: Modeling the Ecology of Dengue and Zika Viruses
Mar 22, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Helen Wearing, Ph.D.
Clarifying Mammalian Responses to Climate Change and Megafaunal Extinctions during the Pleistocene
Mar 01, 2018 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Larisa DeSantis, Ph.D.
Functional Traits in an Evolutionary Radiation: The Role of the Environment in the Diversification of Protea
Dec 07, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Nora Mitchell, Ph.D.
Consequences of Rapid Evolution for Plant–Insect Communities in the California Chaparral
Nov 30, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Tim Farkas, Ph.D.
Soil Fungi: Immense Complexity, But Is There Structure?
Nov 16, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Lee Taylor, Ph.D.
Toxoplasma gondii: Harnessing Immunity for a Successful Host–Parasite Relationship
Nov 09, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Eric Denkers, Ph.D.
From Community to Microbial Ecology, Tracing the Exchange of Resources Across Multiple Levels of Ecological Organization
Oct 26, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Seth Newsome, Ph.D.
Ecosystem Responses to Altered Precipitation Amount and Pattern Across the Great Plains: A Data-model Integration Approach
Oct 19, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Kevin Wilcox, Ph.D.
Divide and Conquer: Molecular Basis for Oriented Cell Division in Drosophila
Oct 05, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Christopher Johnston, Ph.D.
Island Biogeography and the Diversification of Birds
Sep 28, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Michael Andersen, Ph.D.
Linking Stomata and Hydraulics to Predict Plant Drought Responses in a Changing Climate
Sep 21, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: William Anderegg, Ph.D.
Effects of Climate Change on Ecosystems Through Directional Changes in Amount and Variability of Precipitation
Sep 14, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Osvaldo Sala, Ph.D.
Drivers of Plant and Ecosystem Functioning and their Time-scales of Influence
Aug 24, 2017 - 03:30pm
Speaker/s: Kiona Ogle, Ph.D.
