PEEC Seminars

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

PEEC Affiliation Seminar- Dr. Jonathan Henn, NRES, "Grassland restoration and management under environmental change"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, October 29, 2025

PEEC Seminar (Virtual) - Dr. Denise Devotta, Moleaer, "Career Options Outside of Academia and the Federal Government for PEEC Students"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Ya Min, Plant Biology (UIUC), "Patterning the meristem: development and evolution of the floral ground plan"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Scott Hotaling, Utah State University, "Climate Change in High Mountains of the Western USA: Using Long-Term Data to Understand the Future"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Wei Qin, Dept. of Microbiology (MCB), "Adapting to a Changing World: Ecophysiological Insights into Nitrifying Microorganisms and their Impact on the Future Nitrogen Cycle""

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Raffaela Lesch, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Urbanization, "Domestication, and the Neural Crest: A Shared Developmental Pathway?"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Kathleen Lynch, Ramapo College of New Jersey, "Uniting Tinbergen’s four questions to understand avian brood parasitism"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

PEEC Exit Seminar - Benjamin Neal, PEEC, "Genetic Strategies for Improving Livestock Health: Insights from Holstein Dairy Cattle and Commercial Pig Breeds"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Valeria Trivellone, INHS, "The Host–Vector–Phytoplasma triangle: Eco-Evolutionary insights into emerging plant diseases"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 4, 2026

PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Tigga Kingston, EEB, "Why Do People Hunt Bats?"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Jessie Tanner, University of Tennessee Knoxville, "Complex Choice Environments Level the Playing Field for Unattractive Treefrog Males"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Heather Marlow, University of Chicago, "Evolution of gene regulatory mechanisms as a driver for cell type expansions in animals"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Anne Chambers, Northern Arizona University, "The evolutionary potential of California’s wild populations to withstand environmental change"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 4, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Windsor Aguirre, DePaul University, "Fish Forms and Backbones: Microevolutionary Integration of Body Shape and Vertebral Structure in Adaptation and Disease"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

PEEC Seminar (AM Session, Virtual) - Dr. Frederick Legendre, MNHN-Paris

9:00 - 10:00 am

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium
PEEC Exit Seminar (PM Session, In-Person) - Devin Goodson, PEEC, "A Social Ecological Approach to Studying Urban Human-Bird Relationships"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, March 25, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gómez, University of California Irvine, "Measuring Collective Functions in Microbial Communities"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 1, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Agustin Fuentes, Princeton University, "Sex is bodies, behaviors & lives: the biological limits of the binary and the benefits of a spectrum approach"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 15, 2026

PEEC Exit Seminar- Lauren Otolski, PEEC, TBD

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 22, 2026

PEEC Exit Seminar - Facundo Fernandez-Duque, PEEC, "Mechanisms of Flexible Parental Care"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, April 29, 2026

PEEC Seminar - Dr. Amy Toth, Iowa State University, "Remote Control of Complex Social Behavior from Outside of the Brain: Lessons from Functional Genomics in Wasps"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium

Wednesday, May 6, 2026

PEEC Exit Seminar - Roberto Cucalón Tamayo, PEEC, "Unveiling Cryptic Diversity in Freshwater Fishes with Uncertain Species Boundaries Using Genomics"

4:00 - 5:00 pm

Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102
- Seminar/Symposium