2018 Spring Seminar Schedule

No Seminar: Short Week

Dr. Brandon Ballengee, Dr. Prosanta Chakrabarty, Link Morgan, & Sean Miller, Department of Biological Sciences and College of the Arts, Louisiana State University
Title: "Crude Life: A citizen art and science investigation of Gulf of Mexico biodiversity after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill."

Mark Swanson, Jessie Salter, Andre Moncrieff, Cameron Rutt, & Vitek Jirinec, LSU Museum of Natural Science & School of Renewable Natural Resources, Louisiana State University
Title: “Expedition Travelogue Part III: Indonesia, Florida, Bolivia, and Brazil”

Dr. Jake Schaefer, University of Southern Mississippi
Title: "What hybrid zones can tell us about evolution"

No Seminar: Mardi Gras

Jackson Roberts, LSU Museum of Natural Science
Title: "Taxonomy and systematics of freshwater turtle blood flukes (Digenea: Schistosomatoidea)"

Dr. Rebecca Tarvan, University of Texas at Austin
Title: "Evolutionary biology of acquired chemical defenses in poison frogs"

Erik Enbody, Tulane University
Title: “Genetic, Transcriptional, and endocrine factors drive evolutionary transitions in female phenotypes”

Dr. Ingo Schlupp, University of Oklahoma
Title: “Ecology and Evolution in Livebearing Fishes: A drama in several acts”

Dr. Scott Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder
Title: “Insights from avian hybrid zones into the origin and maintenance of biodiversity"

No Seminar: Spring Break

No Seminar: Spring Break

Dr. Jeff Lozier, University of Alabama
Title: "Buzzing Through a Complex World: Population genomics of bumble bees across heterogeneous landscapes"

Dr. Erik Johnson, Audubon Louisiana
Title: “Making sense of the noise - understanding diverse molt strategies in understory Amazonian birds”

Dr. Gregg Gorton, Lewis Katz School of Medicine, Temple University
Title: "Ted Parker: A snapshot of his life and work"