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Fall 2022 BISC Seminar Series

Thursdays at 3:30 PM in SCEN 604

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter	Host
09/01/2022	How cnidarian biology informs our understanding of neural evolution	Nagayasu Nakanishi, UA	McNabb
09/08/2022	Ecology and emergence of wildlife zoonoses	Kristian Forbes, UA	McNabb
09/22/2022	Bridges and barriers to the evolutionary success of diatoms	Andrew Alverson, UA	Evans-White
10/06/2022	Butterfly wing pattern diversity:  The genes that make the wings!	Robert Reed, Cornell University	BGSA
10/13/2022	Matters of scale in the ecology and evolution of coexisting species	Rachel Germain, University of British Columbia	Siepielski
10/20/2022	Optimizing predictive models to prioritize viral discovery and uncover infection dynamics in zoonotic reservoirs	Daniel Becker, University of Oklahoma	Forbes
10/27/2022	* * NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK * *
11/03/2022	Process-based restoration ecology for fire-dependent ecosystems	Carissa Wonkka, USDA Agricultural Research Service	Roberts
11/10/2022	Postdoc Symposium:
	Preventing spillover of bat pathogens in global hotspots	• Tameka Lunn, UA	Forbes
	Genome size evolution in diatoms	• Wade Roberts,  UA	Alverson
11/17/2022	Postdoc Symposium:
	Using spatially-explicit occupancy models to understand occurrence and biodiversity patterns across macroscales	• Jeff Doser, Michigan State	Roberts
	Ecological stability from bird communities to biomes	• Samantha Cady, University of Nebraska	Roberts
11/24/2022	No Seminar	THANKSGIVING
12/01/2022		Reserved Faculty Search
12/08/2022		Reserved Faculty Search