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Wednesday, August 26, 2026

• PEEC Fall 2026 Welcome Back Event (Ice Cream Social), August 26, 2026, 4:00 PM, NHB, 2020B

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  NHB, 2020B

  • Social/Informal Event

  

Wednesday, September 2, 2026

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Teresa Pegan, UIUC EEB Department, "Evolutionary Consequences of Seasonal Migration"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 9, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sara Ruane, Field Museum of Natural History, "Museums Collections as a Backbone for Contemporary Science"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Joseph Walker, University of Illinois Chicago, "Herbarium RNA as a Source of Evolutionary Insights"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Tracey Tuberville, University of Georgia Savannah River Ecology Lab, "Conservation Takeaways from Stalking North America’s Tortoises"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, September 30, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Sunanda Prabhu-Gaunkar, University of Chicago, "Where Science Meets Story: Engaging Audiences Through the Arts"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 7, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Bernie Kuhajda, Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute, "The Southeast’s Aquatic Biodiversity: Why it Rocks!"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 14, 2026

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Eric Gulson-Castillo, UIUC EEB Department, "From Senses to Songs: The Evolution of Complexity in Birds Across Scales"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 21, 2026

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Robin Warne, UIUC Prairie Research Institute, "The Gut, the Bad, and the Hungry: Microbial Mediation of Nutrients, Immunity & Survival"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Stephanie Porter, Washington State University Vancouver, "Adaptation in Symbioses: Mobile Genetic Elements, Microbes, and the Plants that Host Them"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Jenny Heppert, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, “Are you my microbe? What insect-killing nematodes and their bacteria can teach us about symbiosis?”

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 11, 2026

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Lauren Otolski, UIUC PEEC, "The Effects of Wood and Soil Nutrients on Tropical Wood Decomposition"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, November 18, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Iris Holmes, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, "Quantifying the Impact of Reporting Bias on Inferences about Zoonotic Pathogen Ecology and Evolution"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 2, 2026

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Nídia S. Trovão, UIUC VetMed, "The Genetic Traceability of Viral Pathogens Across the One Health Spectrum"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, December 9, 2026

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Rachel Mueller, Colorado State University, "What Sets the Upper Bound on Animal Cell Size?"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, January 20, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Jeannette Cullum, UIUC PEEC, "Disturbing Disease: Anthropogenic Stressors Shape Short- and Long-term Disease Dynamics in Daphnia"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, January 27, 2027

• PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Brent Hawkins, UIUC EEB Department, "Zebrafish Models of Key Anatomical Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, February 3, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Shasta Kamara, UIUC PEEC, "Quantifying Paddlefish Physiological Responses to Temperature and Latitudinal Variation"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, February 10, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Vivian Cheng, UIUC PEEC, "Narwhals of Past and Present: Combining Museomics and Archival History"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, February 17, 2027

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Hollis Woodard, UC Riverside, "The Future of US Bee Conservation"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, February 24, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Ilana Zeitzer, UIUC PEEC, "Exploring the Arbuscular Mycorrhizae Mutualism Through Native Illinois Prairie Plants - Looking Beyond Biomass"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Jonah Dominguez, UIUC PEEC, "Ghosts that We Knew: Avian Communication Across Species and Continents"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 10, 2027

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Michelle Wong, Yale University, "Plant Strategies in Response to Nutrient Limitation in Tropical and Temperate Forests"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 24, 2027

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Michelle Gaynor, Florida State University, "Ecological and Evolutionary Impacts of Whole Genome Duplication in Flowering Plants" 

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, March 31, 2027

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. William Sanders, University of Michigan, TBD

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, April 14, 2027

• PEEC Seminar - Dr. Solomon David, University of Minnesota, TBD

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, April 21, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Isaiah Goertz, UIUC PEEC, "History of Locally Derived Plasmid-bound Gene Modules in a Co-housed Swine Population"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, April 28, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Katie Fitzgerald, UIUC PEEC, "Ecology and Health of Temperate Bats in Missouri"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium

  

Wednesday, May 5, 2027

• PEEC Exit Seminar - Fahren Zackery, UIUC PEEC, "Microbial Ecology and Human Health: Exploring Diversity, Disease, and Microbiome Dynamics"

  Time

  4:00 - 5:00 pm

  Location

  Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

  • Seminar/Symposium