PEEC Seminars

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/2/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/9/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/16/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 9/23/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 9/30/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/7/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Eric Gulson-Castillo, UIUC EEB Department, "TBD"

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 10/14/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 10/21/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 10/28/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 11/4/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 11/11/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 11/18/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 12/2/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 12/9/2026
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 1/20/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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PEEC Affiliation Seminar - Dr. Michael Brent Hawkins, UIUC EEB Department, TBD

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 1/27/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/3/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/10/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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PEEC Seminar - Dr. Hollis Woodard, UC Riverside, TBD

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 2/17/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 2/24/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/3/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 3/10/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 3/24/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 3/31/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/14/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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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 4/21/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 4/28/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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

Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm 5/5/2027
Location: Charles Miller Auditorium- CLSL B102

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