Past Seminars
DATE | SPEAKER(S) |
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August 26 | Welcome Lunch |
September 2 | Student Town Hall / New Student Orientation |
September 9 | Discussion: Case Studies in Research Ethics |
September 16 | Gerardo Chowell |
September 23 | Luis-Miguel Chevin |
September 30 | Zakee Sabree |
October 7 | Matthew Bonds |
October 14 | Student Seminar: Jason Chen and KM Barnett |
October 21 | Student Seminar: Ashley Alexander and Michelle McCauley |
October 28 | Katie Gostic |
November 4 | Jitendra Kumar |
November 11 | NO SEMINAR SCHEDULED |
November 18 | Claudia Solis-Lemus |
November 25 | NO SEMINAR - THANKSGIVING |
December 2 | Ashley Shade (virtual) |
DATE | SPEAKER(S) | |
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September 3 | Graduate Student Info Seminar | |
September 10 | Micaela Martinez | |
September 17 | Student Seminar: Mike Martin and Sandra Mendiola | |
September 24 | Ethics Seminar | |
October 1 | Graham Coop | |
October 8 | TBA | |
October 15 | Alecia Septer | |
October 22 | Student Seminar: Jason Chen and Jordan Lewis | |
October 29 | Ben Martin | |
November 5 | Britt Koskella | |
November 12 | Martin Ackermann | |
November 19 | Student Seminar: KM Barnett and Kelsey Shaw | |
December 3 | Lee Cohnstaedt |
Spring 2019 Seminar Schedule
DATE | SPEAKER(S) |
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Fri, Jan 11 | PBEE Student Talks: |
Fri, Jan 18 | PBEE Student Recruitment Review Meeting |
Fri, Jan 25 | NO SEMINAR - |
Fri, Feb 1 | PBEE Student Talks: |
Fri, Feb 8 | Rebekah Rogers, PhD |
Fri, Feb 15 | PBEE Ethics Seminar |
Fri, Feb 22 | Nina Wurzburger, PhD |
Fri, Mar 1 | André de Roos, PhD |
Fri, Mar 8 | PBEE Student Talks: Connor Morozumi & Nick Johnson |
Fri, Mar 15 | SPRING BREAK |
Fri, Mar 22 | Sam Diaz-Munoz, PhD |
Fri, Mar 29 | TBA |
Fri, Apr 5 | Marc Lipsitch, D. Phil. |
Fri, Apr 12 | NO SEMINAR |
Mon, Apr 15 | Dr. Ken Cheng |
Fri, Apr 19 | Marta Wayne, PhD |
Fri, Apr 26 | Jo Handelsman, PhD University of Wisconsin, Madison |
DATE | SPEAKER(S) | STUDENT HOST | FACULTY HOST |
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Fri, Aug 31 | PBEE Welcome Lunch | ||
Fri, Sept 7 | Michael Martin, PhD | Berry Brosi | |
Fri, Sept 14 | PBEE Ethics | ||
Fri, Sept 21 | Chris Beck, PhD | Levi Morran | |
Fri, Sept 28 | Kelly Dyer, PhD | Levi Morran | |
Fri, Oct 5 | Iris Levin, PhD | Karen Conneely | |
Fri, Oct 12 | Sara Bowden, PhD | Dave Civitello | |
Fri, Oct 19 | PBEE Student Talks: Nate Jacobs & Signe White | ||
Fri, Oct 26 | PBEE Student Talks: Mari Peterson & Kathryn Schaber | ||
Fri, Nov 2 | PBEE Student Talks: Kim Hoang & Wen-Hao Tan | ||
Fri, Nov 9 | Scott Villa, PhD | ||
Fri, Nov 16 | Fernanda Valdovinos, PhD | Connor Morozumi | Berry Brosi |
Fri, Nov 23 | Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
Fri, Nov 30 | Clay Cressler, PhD | Dave Civitello | |
Fri, Dec 7 | Cameron Currie, PhD | Dan Desautels Signe White | Nicole Gerardo |
Date | Speaker | Title | Student Host | Faculty Host |
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Jan 19 | Janis Antonovics, PhD Research Professor of Biology University of Virginia | The ecology and evolution of transmission mode: field studies and models with a floral pathogen | ||
Jan 26 | PBEE Recruitment 2018 | |||
Feb 2 | Nicole Vega, PhD **MMG & PBEE Faculty Candidate** Assistant Professor, Biology Emory University | |||
Feb 9 | PBEE Student Talks: | |||
Feb 16 | PBEE Student Talks: | |||
Feb 23 | Fred Gould, PhD | PBEE Ethics Discussion: | Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, PhD | |
Mar 2 | PBEE Student Talks: | |||
Mar 9 | NO SEMINAR | |||
Mar 16 | NO SEMINAR Spring Break | |||
Mar 23 | Alva Curtsdotter, PhD Postdoc Brosi Lab | |||
Mar 30 | M & I's Stojiljkocvic Lecture Marvin Whitely, PhD | The Department of Microbiology and Immunology | ||
Apr 6 | Menno Schilthuizen, PhD | |||
Apr 13 | Frank Stewart, PhD | |||
Apr 20 | Adam Lauring, PhD | |||
Apr 27 | PBEE Student Talks: Kim Hoang Signe White |
DATE | SPEAKER(S) | HOSTS |
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Fri, Aug 25 | Katia Koelle, PhD | N/A |
Fri, Sept 1 | Hassan Salem, PhD | N/A |
Fri, Sept 8 | Gerardo Chowell-Puente, PhD |
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Fri, Sept 15 | Chloe Robins / JR McMillan | N/A |
Fri, Sept 22 | Joe LaChance, PhD | Brent Allman |
Tues, Oct 3 (in lieu of Sept 29 seminar) | Maurine Neiman, PhD |
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Fri, Oct 6 | Esther Ngumbi, PhD |
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Fri, Oct 13 | Janna Fierst, PhD | Signe White |
Fri, Oct 20 | Tessa Andrews, PhD | Donna McDermott |
Fri, Oct 27 | Erica Harris / Travis Dynes | N/A |
Fri, Nov 3 | Ethics Seminar | N/A |
Fri, Nov 10 | Nate Jacobs / Robert Petit | N/A |
Fri, Nov 17 | Phil Gerrish, PhD | Brent Allman |
Fri, Nov 24 | Thanksgiving Holiday | N/A |
Fri, Dec 1 | Heidi Goodrich-Blair, PhD | Kim Hoang |
Date | Speaker | Title | Student Host | Faculty Host |
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Jan 13 | Dave Civitell, PhD Emory University | Host energetics and the ecological dynamics of infectious disease (CNR, Room 1051, 12-1 pm) | N/A | Levi Morran |
Jan 19 | Ethics Seminar | Peer Review | N/A | N/A |
Jan 27 | Frank Rosenzweig, PhD Georgia Institute of Technology | Emergence of Complexity in Clonal Populations Evolving in a Simple Constant Environment | TBD | Daniel Weissman |
Feb 3 | Milton Tan, PhD Emory University | Evolution of Fishes Great and Small: Phylogenomics, Body Size Evolution, and Genomics | N/A | Tim Read |
Feb 10 | No Seminar PBEE PG/DGS Student Meeting | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Feb 17 | No Seminar | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Feb 24 | Eric Harvill, PhD University of Georgia | Environmental Origin and Natural History of a Respiratory Pathogen | Nate Jacobs | Bruce Levin |
Mar 3 | PBEE Student Talk - Robert Petit | An overview of published Staphylococcus aureus genomic data | N/A | N/A |
Mar 10 | No Seminar Spring Break | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Mar 17 | Nichole Broderick, PhD University of Connecticut | Emergent and dependent properties of the fly gut microbiome | Erica Harris | Nicole Gerardo |
Mar 24 | Courtney Murdock, PhD University of Georgia | Estimating vector-borne disease transmission in an environmentally variable world | Marissa Grossman | Uriel Kitron & Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec |
Mar 31 | PBEE Student Talks - Wen-Hao Tan & Mari Peterson | TBD | N/A | N/A |
Apr 7 | PBEE Student Talks - Kim Hoang, Kathyrn Schaber & Signe White | TBD (CNR, Room 1051, 12-1 pm) | N/A | N/A |
Apr 14 | Bistra Dilkina Georgia Institute of Technology | Network Design Approaches to Biodiversity Conservation | TBD | TBD |
Apr 21 | Lin Chao, PhD | The unicellular origin of biological aging: The evolution of fitness variance | Brent Allman | Bruce Levin |
Apr 28 | Jenny McGuire, PhD Georgia Institute of Technology | Spatial and climatic drivers of species variation and distributions through time | Connor Morozumi | Berry Brosi |
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar Title | Hosts |
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Aug 26 | PBEE Welcome Lunch | N/A | N/A |
Sept 2 | Santiago Elena, PhD | Evolutionary and Systems Biology of Viral Emergence | Berry Brosi/Josh Weitz |
Sept 9 | Richard Lenski, PhD | Time Travel in Experimental Evolution: Phentypic and Genomic Dynamics in E.coli over 65,000 Generations | Bruce Levin |
Sept 16 | Ethics Seminar | ||
Sept 23 | Astrid Groot, PhD | Does sexual selection drive speciation in moths? | Jaap de Roode |
Sept 30 | Jenny Tung, PhD | Social Interactions in Primate Genomics, Life History, and Evolution | Meleah Hickman |
Oct 7 | Student Presentations: | TBA | N/A |
Oct 14 | Sadie Ryan, PhD | The usual suspects: Issues of space, place, and model intent for climate and water driven diseases | Karen Levy |
Oct 21 | Student Presentations: | TBA | N/A |
Oct 28 | Adrian Jaeggi, PhD | Cooperation in Humans and other Primates: Ecology, Evolution, and Mechanisms | Paul Hooper |
Nov 7 (instead of Nov 4) | John Vandermeer, PhD – 12:00 PM
| Understanding coffee rust disease: the ecology of a socioecological disaster | Uriel Kitron |
Nov 11 | Janna Fierst, PhD | TBA | Levi Morran |
Nov 18 | Mandy Gibson, PhD | Is coevolution going anywhere? Sex, virulence and reciprocal adaptation | Jaap de Roode |
Nov 25 | Thanksgiving Break! | N/A | N/A |
Dec 9 | Ben Lopman, PhD | The global epidemiology and ecology of enteric viruses | Karen Levy |
Date | Speaker | Title | Faculty Host | Student Host |
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Sep 4 | Joshua Weitz, PhD Georgia Institute of Technology | Theoretical Principles of Virus-Microbe Dynamics | Bruce Levin | Brooke Bozick |
Sep 11 | Zakee Sabree, PhD Ohio State University | Insect-microbe symbioses and some consequences of intimacy | Nicole Gerardo | Kim Hoang |
Sep 18 | Daniel Weissman, PhD PBEE Faculty Candidate | From genomes to dynamics and back | Ilya Nemenman | N/A |
Sep 25 | Bob Paine, PhD University of Washington | Communicating ecological dynamics: are food webs misleading cartoons or instructive simplifications? | Berry Brosi | Carolyn Ayers |
Oct 2 | Alexandra Harmon-Threatt, PhD University of Illinois | Fire, Nesting and Isolation: Tracking wild bee community responses to variability in resources | Berry Brosi | Erica Harris |
Oct 9 | PBEE Students: |
| N/A | N/A |
Oct 16 | Robin Hopkins, PhD Harvard University | The causes and consequences of natural selection for speciation | Meleah Hickman | Travis Dynes |
Oct 23 | Elizabeth Borer, PhD University of Minnesota | The community ecology of (grass) disease: co-infection, invasion, and metagenomics | Berry Brosi | TBD |
Oct 30 | PBEE Students: Mary Bushman |
| N/A | N/A |
Nov 6 | No Seminar | N/A The Microbiome and Human Health | N/A | N/A |
Nov 13 | Sam Brown, PhD Georgia Institute of Technology | After antibiotics, can we make evolution-proof drugs? | Tim Read | Robert Petit |
Nov 20 | PBEE Ethics Seminar | TBD | N/A | N/A |
Nov 27 | No Seminar Thanksgiving Break | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Dec 4 | Rich Lenski, PhD Michigan State University | Time Travel in Experimental Evolution: Dynamics of Phenotypic and Genomic Evolution in a 60,000-Generation Experiment | Bruce Levin | Tim O'Sullivan |
Date | Speaker | Title | Faculty Host | Student Host |
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Jan 6 | PBEE Students: Alaine Broadaway, Matthew Ezewudo | Broadaway: Novel kernel methods for detecting gene-environment interaction Ezewudo: Genomics of recombination in antibiotic-resistant Neisseria | N/A | N/A |
Jan 23 | Angela Douglas, PhD Cornell University | The multi-organismal animal: insights from Drosophila and its gut microbiota | Nicole Gerardo | Erica Harris |
Jan 30 | Corrie Moreau, PhD Field Museum of Natural History | Ants, Plants, and Bacteria: Symbiosis and Evolutionary Diversification | Meleah Hickman | Amanda Pierce |
Feb 6 | Gaelen Burke, PhD University of Georgia | Domestication of Bracoviruses for use as gene delivery vehicles by parasitoid wasps | Nicole Gerardo | Zachary Lynch |
Feb 13 | No Seminar PBEE PG/DGS Student Meeting | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Feb 20 | No Seminar | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Feb 27 | PBEE Ethics Forum: | Research Misconduct | N/A | N/A |
Mar 6 | Mark Moffett, PhD National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution | Thinking about social complexity in ants and humans | Jaap de Roode | JR McMillan |
Mar 13 | No Seminar Spring Break | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Mar 20 | PBEE Students: Carolyn Ayers, Mary Bushman, Zach Lynch | Ayers: The effect of sub-lethal Neonicotinoid pesticide exposure on pollination-relevant bee foraging behaviors Bushman: Modeling effects of transmission intensity and within-host competition on the evolution of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum Lynch: Use of ethanol for defense against parasitoid wasps in Drosophila melanogaster adults and larvae | N/A | N/A |
Mar 27 | Jennifer Dunne, Ph.D. Santa Fe Institute | Parasites and paleowebs: The importance of scale dependence for understanding trophic organization | ||
Mar 30 | Sarah Anne Guagliardo’s Defense Advisor: Uriel Kitron, PhD | Patterns and Mechanisms of the Geographic Expansion of Aedes aegypti in the Peruvian Amazon | N/A | N/A |
Apr 2 | Justine Garcia's Defense Advisor: Nicole Gerardo, PhD | Acquisition and maintenance of specific bacterial symbionts in vertical and horizontal symbioses | N/A | N/A |
Apr 3 | Amanda Jo Williams-Newkirk's Defense Advisors: Gregory Dasch, PhD & Thomas Gillespie, PhD Advisors" Thomas Gillespie, PhD & Robert Tauxe, PhD | Bacterial Community Ecology of the Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americium)
| N/A | N/A |
Apr 10 | Pieter Johnson, PhD University of Colorado, Boulder | The ‘parasite paradox’: Using community ecology to resolve the diversity-disease debates | Jaap de Roode | Travis Dynes |
Apr 17 | Curt Lively, PhD Indiana University, Bloomington | Through the looking glass: host-parasite coevolution and sex | Levi Morran | Tim O'Sullivan |
Apr 24 | PBEE Students: Trieste Musial, Chloe Robins, Marissa Grossman | Musial: The effects of landscape on evolutionary patterns of raccoon rabies virus Robins: Using DNA methylation data to understand the evolutionay basis of human aging Grossman: Fine-scale patterns of insecticide resistance in Aedes aegypti populations in Yucatan, Mexico | N/A | N/A |
May 1 | Paul Hooper, PhD Emory University | Inclusive fitness, life history and intergenerational transfers: Theory and empirical tests among Amazonian forager-horticulturalists |
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Hosts |
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Aug 29 | William Black, Ph.D. | Understanding the forces that shape the FST beta distribution between natural Aedes aegypti populations | Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec, Ph.D. & Marissa Grossman |
Sept 5 | No Seminar PBEE Welcome Lunch | N/A | N/A |
Sept 12 | Santiago Castillo-Ramirez, Ph.D. | Using genome sequencing to understand phylogeography and recombination in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus | Tim Read, Ph.D. & Robert Petit |
Sept 19 | PBEE Faculty Candidate:Meleah Hickman, Ph.D. | Non-meiotic ploidy reduction drives population heterogeneity through random and transient aneuploidy | N/A |
Sept 26 | Andrea Sweigart, Ph.D. | Genetics of speciation in Mimulus | Levi Morran, Ph.D. & Tim O’Sullivan |
Oct 3 | PBEE Dissertation Defense:Michael Sauria | Three-dimensional chromatin structure and its role in cellular function | N/A |
Oct 10 | Sohini Ramachandran, Ph.D. | Signatures of the great human expansion | Berry Brosi, Ph.D. & Carolyn Ayers |
Oct 17 | No Seminar | N/A | N/A |
Oct 24 | Kevin Vogel, Ph.D. | Evolutionary and ecological insights into mosquito development and reproduction | Nicole Gerardo, Ph.D. & Justine Garcia |
Oct 31 | PBEE Faculty Candidate:David Cutler, Ph.D. | Using basic quantitative genetics to inform our understanding of Autism | N/A |
Nov 7 | PBEE Ethics Forum | Ethics of Environmental Research | N/A |
Nov 14 *Whitehead Auditorium* | Vaughn Cooper, Ph.D. | Experimental evolution in biofilms to understand bacteria adaptation during chronic infection | Joanna Goldberg, Ph.D. & Nate Jacobs |
Nov 21 | PBEE Faculty CandidateAudrey Lenhart, Ph.D. | Insecticide resistance in dengue and malaria vectors: How molecular biology can be used to optimize vector control interventions | N/A |
Nov 28 | No Seminar | N/A | N/A |
Dec 5 | Soojin Yi, Ph.D. | Genome Evolution and DNA Methylation - Duplication, Divergence, and Differentiation | Donna Maney, Ph.D. & Chloe Robins |
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Hosts |
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January 17 | Lingchong You Duke University | Programming bacteria to cooperate, sacrifice, and organize | Ilya Nemenman & Nick Braykov |
January 24 | Betsy Foxman University of Michigan | Streptococcal pneumonia and Acute Respiratory Infection | Karen Levy & Nick Braykov |
January 31 | Daniel Streicker University of Glasgow | Know thy host: ecological and evolutionary insights for the control of vampire bat rabies | Les Real & Brooke Bozick |
February 7 | Molly Cummings University of Texas-Austin | The mate choice mind: studying mate preference with swordtail brains and skin | Donna Maney & Amanda Pierce |
February 14 | No Seminar PBEE Student Meeting | N/A | N/A |
February 21 | No Seminar PBEE Recruitment Event | N/A | N/A |
February 28 | PBEE Students: Michele Parsons, Justine Garcia, Mary Bushman | Michele Parsons: Molecular Epidemiology of Cryptosporidium spp. in Humans, Wild Primates, and Domesticated Animals in Gombe, Tanzania Justine Garcia: Horizontal acquisition leads to partner promiscuity in insect-bacteria mutualisms Mary Bushman: Within-host competition of malaria parasites in humans and the fitness cost of drug resistance | N/A |
March 7 | Sonia Altizer University of Georgia | Animal migrations and infectious disease dynamics | Jaap de Roode & Amanda Pierce |
March 14 | No Seminar Spring Break | N/A | N/A |
March 21 *CNR 2001* | PBEE Students: Alaine Broadaway & Brooke Bozick | Alaine Broadaway: Kernel machine approach to gene-environment interaction analyses Brooke Bozick: The role of human transportation networks in mediating the genetic structure of seasonal influenza | N/A |
March 28 | PBEE Dissertation Defense: Rebecca Levine | Urban Eco-Epidemiology of West Nile Virus in Atlanta, Georgia | Advisor: Uriel Kitron |
April 4 | Jeb Byers University of Georgia | Retention, range limits, and invasions in advective environments: Implications for species and genetic diversity | Berry Brosi & Dave Gruenewald |
April 11 | PBEE Students: Carolyn Ayers, Zach Lynch, Matthew Ezewudo | Carloyn Ayers: Bees can’t teleport! A null model of traplining behavior in foragers with underlying spatial structure and limitations on forager movements Zach Lynch: Evolution of defenses against parasitoid wasps in the Drosophila melanogaster group Matthew Ezewudo: Genomics approach to studying Neisseria gonorrhoeae population | N/A |
April 18 | Robert Brucker Vanderbilt University | The not-so-silent majority: how microbiota can redefine their host species | Nicole Gerardo & Justine Garcia |
April 25 | Joanna Goldberg, Berry Brosi, Machelle Pardue, and Dona Yarbrough Emory University | PBEE Ethics Forum: Women in Science | N/A |
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Host(s) |
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September 13 | Kostas Konstantinidis GA Tech | Bacterial species exist, metagenomics reveal | Karen Levy & Mary Bushman |
September 20 *CNR 4001* | *PBEE Faculty Candidate* Levi Morran Emory University | Experimental evolution in pursuit of coevolution's royal family, the Red Queen and the Red King | Jaap de Roode |
September 27 | *PBEE Faculty Candidate* Donna Maney Emory University | Connecting Genes and Social Behavior in a Unique Avian Model | Mike Zwick |
September 30 *ENVS Seminar* 4-5pm, Math & Science Bldg, Room N306 | Jeff Brawn University of Illinois | Population Biology of Tropical Birds in a Changing World | Environmental Studies Department |
October 4 | Tony Long UC Irvine | Learning to Love the Heterogeneity Theory for the Genetics of Complex Traits | Mike Zwick & Alaine Broadaway |
October 11 | PBEE Students Michael Mina, Jo Williams-Newkirk | Michael Mina: Jo Williams-Newkirk: | N/A |
October 25
| Katia Koelle Duke | Examining the interplay between viral evolution and disease dynamics | Les Real & Brooke Bozick |
November 1 | Jenny Boughman Michigan State | Speciation by divergent (not strong) sexual selection | Jaap de Roode & Amanda Pierce |
November 7 | Eugene Koonin National Center for Biotechnology Information | Evolution of the virus world: the giants and the dwarfs | John Lucchesi |
November 15 | Stephanie Sherman & Irwin Waldman Emory University | PBEE Ethics Forum: Data Sharing and Open Science | N/A |
November 18 *ENVS Seminar* 4-5pm, Math & Science Bldg, Room N306 | Karen Levy Emory University | Climate Drivers of Diarrheal Disease | Environmental Studies Department |
November 22 | David Hughes Penn State | Zombie ants: the precise manipulation of social insect | Nicole Gerardo & Erica Harris |
December 6
| Will Ratcliff GA Tech | Experimental Evolution of Multicellularity | Nicole Gerardo & Tim O’Sullivan |
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Host(s) |
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January 18 | Cori Richards-Zawacki Tulane University | Selection and the rapid evolution of color polymorphism in Panamanian poison frogs | Les Real & Brooke Bozick |
January 25 | Andrea Graham Princeton University | The dynamics of optimal defense against parasites | Jaap de Roode & Mary Bushman |
February 1 *CNR 4001* | *PBEE Faculty Candidate* Minsu Kim Emory University | To grow or not to grow: Survival strategies of bacteria to cope with hardship | N/A |
February 8 | PBEE students: Pierre Ankomah & Alaine Broadaway | Pierre Ankomah: Treatment of Bacterial Infections: Pharmacodynamics meets Population Dynamics meets Immunology & Alaine Broadaway: Novel kernel method for detecting gene-environment interactions in human traits | N/A |
February 15 | Sylvain Moineau University Laval | CRISPR-CAS, the immune system of streptococcus thermophilus | Bruce Levin & Mary Bushman |
March 1 | Mary Power University of California, Berkeley | Food webs in river networks | Bruce Levin & Pierre Ankomah |
March 8 | Andrea Swei San Francisco State University | Scaling from genomes to ecological communities: understanding emerging tick-borne pathogens | Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec & Melo-Jean Yap |
March 22 | Lisa McGraw North Carolina State University | Uncovering the neurogenomic architecture of social and reproductive behaviors | Larry Young & Amanda Pierce |
March 29 | PBEE student: Rebecca Levine | Limited Spillover to Humans from West Nile Virus Viremic Birds in Atlanta, GA | N/A |
April 3 *Extra Seminar*
| Frans de Waal Emory University | Nature of Knowledge Seminar Series The Bonobo and the Atheist: Morality, Religion and Prosocial Primates (6:30 PM in White Hall 208, followed by book signing and reception) | Nature of Knowledge Seminar Series |
April 5 | Peter Hudson Penn State University | Just when you thought it was safe………Invasion processes in infection disease | Les Real & Brook Bozick |
April 12 | Vijay Panjeti Emory University (PBEE Post-Doc) | Integrating genetic and epidemiological data to determine the disease transmission rates (β) of rabies virus in a wildlife host | N/A |
April 19 | Karin Pfennig University of North Carolina | Trade-offs in mate recognition ecological and evolutionary implications | Nicole Gerardo & Amanda Pierce |
April 26 | Erin Lipp University of Georgia | Examining the Ecology of Salmonella: Environmental Routes of Exposure & Transmission | Karen Levy & Marissa Grossman |
May 3 | Stephanie Sherman Emory University | PBEE Ethics Forum: The intersection of ethics in the mentee-mentor relationship | N/A |
May 10 | PBEE students: Brooke Bozick, Michele Parsons, & Amanda Pierce | Brooke Bozick: The role of the humanconstructed environment in mediating the genetic structure of seasonal influenza Michele Parsons: Fine Scale Mobility of Domestic Animals and Potential for Zoonotic Transmission in Gombe National Park Amanda Pierce: Determining the effects of range expansion on population structure in a migrating animal | N/A |
May 24 | *PBEE Faculty Candidate* Joanna Goldberg Emory University | Evolution During Chronic Lung Infections | N/A |
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Host(s) |
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September 14 | Paul Armsworth University of Tennessee | The design of incentive payment programs | Berry Brosi & Carolyn Ayers |
September21 | PBEE students: Justine Garcia, Michael Mina, Jo Williams-Newkirk, | Justine Garcia: Partner Specificity in an Michael Mina: Live Attenuated Influenza Jo Williams-Newkirk: Presence and Diversity of | N/A |
*Extra seminar* September 21 Physics Colloquium | Herbert Levine Rice University | The Statistical Mechanisms of Darwinian Evolution | Ilya Nemenman |
September 28 | Shozo Yokoyama Emory University | Molecular basis of phenotypic adaptation: An example from the world of vision | Mike Zwick |
*Extra seminar* October 2 Harland Cinema | Joel Martin Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | God or Darwin? A Marine Biologist’s Take on the Compatibility of Faith and Evolution | Jaap de Roode & Amanda Pierce |
October 5 | PBEE students: Nelle Couret, Michael Gehring, Ben Parker, | Nelle Couret: Symbiont acquisition and Michael Gehring: High-resolution chromatin Ben Parker: Polyphenism influences | N/A |
October 12 | Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec Emory University | Linking fine scale mobility and dynamic | Berry Brosi |
October 19 | Arri Eisen Emory University | PBEE Ethics Forum: Science and the Public | N/A |
November 2 | Marcus Kronforst University of Chicago | Adaptation and speciation in | Nicole Gerardo & Amanda Pierce |
Novemer 9 | Lance Price Translational Genomics Research Institute | Livestock Associated MRSA | Tim Read & Matthew Ezewudo |
*Extra Seminar* November 13 | Myron Zaluck University of Queensland | Will Monarchs go extinct? - | Jaap de Roode |
November 16 | Marm Kilpatrick University of California Santa Cruz | The ecology and impacts of | Uriel Kitron & Rebecca Levine |
November 30 | PBEE students: Anand Bhardwaj & Joshua Shak | Anand Bhardwaj: Ecological dynamics affect Joshua Shak: The Streptococcus | N/A |
December 7 | Eric Gaucher Georgia Institute of Technology | On the use of ancient enzymes to | Nicole Gerardo & Justine Garcia |