Dr. Kevin Feldheim, The Field Museum of Chicago: "Shark pop-gen and mating systems" Parthenogenesis, or virgin birth, is a recently described phenomenon in the elasmobranchs (sharks, skates, and rays). This […]
Dr. Chaofan Chen, University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science: "Interpretable Case-based Deep Learning for DNA Classification" The use of deep neural networks has become increasingly popular, especially for computer vision and natural language processing tasks. In the genomics domain, deep learning has also received increasing attention, and has been used for classifying […]
Dr. Lauren Azevedo-Schmidt, UMaine School of Biology and Ecology, and Climate Change Institute Abiotic and biotic processes influence plant and insect herbivore species, a pattern that has been occurring across millions of years. By bridging the gap between modern and paleoecological studies we can more accurately root our understanding of community dynamics against the backdrop […]
Dr. Min Wu, Yale School of Medicine Mast cell is specialized in sensing and rapid responding to foreign antigen. Our lab discovered that many signaling, and actin cytoskeletal proteins formed oscillatory waves on the surface of mast cell. These observations suggest that the cortex of mast cell is close to the onset of a dynamical […]
Dr. Charles Cogbill, Harvard Forest The forests of Maine before Euro-American settlement This presentation develops a reconstruction of the vegetation of Maine before major changes wrought by Euro-American activities. After reviewing lines of evidence from biogeographical zones, modern analog vegetation, and “old growth” remnants, empirical historical data are compiled. This picture is based on an […]
Dr. Jared Balik, Western Colorado University Predicting Functional Outcomes of Climate-driven Changes in Animal Communities through Species Traits and The Geography of Wildfire Spread and Occurrence in North America Dr. Balik will describe two very different research projects. First, animals can have large effects on ecosystem processes such as nutrient cycling or detritus processing, but […]
Dr. Jannelle Couret, The University of Rhode Island. Of Mice, Mites, Microbes, and Men: The Ecology and Management of Lyme Disease Human cases of tick-borne diseases have been increasing in the United States, particularly Lyme disease, which, caused by the bite of an infected blacklegged tick, is increasing in incidence and geographic range. To understand […]
Daniel Laughlin, University of Wyoming. Plant strategies and the path to understanding in ecology. Plant strategies are phenotypes that evolved to increase demographic persistence in the environments to which their traits aremost adapted. Few topics have both captured the imagination and furrowed the brows of ecologists than plant strategies, yet notopic is more important for understanding […]
Jake Socha, Virginia Tech. Talk title TBD. To learn more about Jake Socha, click here.
AJ Jolley, University of Waikato. Talk title TBD. To find out more about AJ Jolley, click here. Hosted by Kate Ruskin.
