OEB Seminars

Kim Calders Associate Professor Ghent University Multi-scale lidar for monitoring forests Abstract: Quantifying forest structure and its temporal dynamics is fundamental for understanding ecosystem processes and their role in the global carbon and water...

Liam Revell Professor of Biology University of Massachusetts, Boston Unlocking a flexible set of new models for discrete & continuous trait evolution in phylogenetic comparative biology Abstract: The practical utility of many modern phylogenetic...

Fuwen Wei Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Biology Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science Conservation Evolutionary Biology of Flagship Species in China Abstract: Dramatic global changes to the environment have wrought...

Leke Hutchins Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow School of Life Sciences Arizona State University Let’s Consider a World Shaped by Indigenous and Western Science Abstract: In recent years, Indigenous science has gained considerable attention for its...

Benton Taylor Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Faculty Fellow of the Arnold Arboretum Harvard University Root-microbe interactions and the future of terrestrial carbon capture Abstract: Plants engage in a variety of interactions...

Moisés Expósito-Alonso Assistant Professor of Global Change Biology University of California Berkeley Rapid adaptation across climates in a synchronozied long-term plant evolution experiment; and why this matters for global species conservation targets...

Josefina del Mármol Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology Harvard Medical School Harvard University A structural perspective on the evolution of insect odorant receptors Abstract: To sense the chemical world, animals...

Fay-Wei Li Assistant Professor Boyce Thompson Institute Sex, symbiosis, and CO2-concentrating mechanism: the secret life of hornworts Abstract: Hornworts are one of the three lineages of bryophytes and are distinct in many aspects. They diverged from...

Prashant Sharma Associate Professor University of Wisconsin, Madison Reciprocal illumination between genomes, phylogeny, and development in the evolutionary biology of the arachnids Abstract: Arachnids comprise a species-rich group of predatory arthropods...

Lindsay Zanno Head of Paleontology in the Museum of Natural Sciences Associate Research Professor North Carolina State University Heroes & Kings: modeling the life history of tyrant dinosaurs Abstract: Tyrannosaurs were among the largest terrestrial...