Join us for our final seminar in the Spring 2023 Bio Grad Seminar Series! This June, Vaibhav Chhaya (Santana Lab) will be presenting his research report. Hosted by Andy Hempton.

Join us for our Spring 2023 Bio Grad Seminar Series! This May, Kaysee Arrowsmith (Brosi Lab), David Cuban (Rico-Guevara Lab), and Hayden Davis (Leache Lab) will be presenting their research reports. Hosted by Edú Guerra.

Therese Lamperty, PhD
"Investigating the effects of hunting-induced animal declines in the Amazon on plant population genetics: are the small-seeded plants affected too?"

Federico Marcello Tenedini, PhD
"Length dependent neurodegeneration is mediated by inflammatory cytokines"

Mugdha Sathe, PhD
"How do immune cells detect and respond to electric fields at the wound?"

Join us for our Spring 2023 Bio Grad Seminar Series! This April, Benjamin Sheppard (Steinbrenner Lab), Nathan Grassi (Kerr Lab), and Edú Guerra (Santana Lab) will be presenting their research reports. Hosted by Sophia Jannetty.

Widespread tree mortality following disturbances such as droughts, fire, and pest and pathogen outbreaks has emerged as an environmentally and economically devastating ‘ecological surprise’. Increases in disturbance-driven tree mortality with further climate change has the potential to massively disrupt terrestrial ecosystem productivity and biodiversity, causing Earth’s forests to release carbon into the atmosphere.

Individuality is a fundamental feature of animal behavior and represents a potent substrate that evolutionary pressures can act upon. Such idiosyncrasy in behavior exists across scales: within a single animal from moment-to-moment, across animals responding to an identical stimulus, or in response to complex and changing environments. Individuality within insect behavior is also important to understand within the context of global health.