Animals are constantly faced with decisions about what to eat, where to live, and whom to mate with. While most models of decision making assume that individuals assign absolute values to options encountered, animals often assess value relative to other options available or to options recently encountered. Such decisions can be complex, often requiring individuals to compare multiple features associated with each option and their reward payoffs. Such decisions can also produce different outcomes depending on the context of the choice.

Leigh West | Abrahms Lab
"Climate impacts on large carnivore spatial ecology and community interactions"

Andy Hempton | Imaizumi Lab
"Exploring the Role of FLP1 as a Far-Red Light Induced Systemic Developmental Signal in Arabidopsis"
Natalia Guayazan Palacios | Steinbrenner Lab
"Plant immune receptors for healthier crops: Restoring caterpillar sensing in legumes"

Jack Litle | Carrington Lab
"Using Embryonic Thermotolerance to Assess 'Tuning' of Reproductive Timing"

Join us for our Winter 2023 Bio Grad Seminar Series! This February, Hannah McConnell (Di Stilio Lab), Benjamin Downing (Nemhauser Lab), and Sophia Jannetty (Bagheri Lab) will be presenting their research reports. Hosted by Fiona Boardman.

Join us for our Winter 2023 Bio Grad Seminar Series! This January, Alex Neitz (de la Iglesia Lab), Zoe Kulik (Sidor Lab), and Sujay Balebail (Sisneros Lab) will be presenting their research reports.

How landscape change has shaped patterns of diversity on Earth is a central question in Biology. In Plant Systematics, a great volume of research on this problem has centered on how major geological events shaped the evolution of the Neotropical flora (the world’s richest flora). In this talk, I will show how I rely on natural history observations as a powerful tool for identifying plant groups whose biology make them ideal model systems for approaching long-standing questions from unexplored angles.