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Spring 2025

DATESPEAKERLAB/HOSTTOPIC
January 24Hazel HavensLohmann LabDefense: “Computational, behavioral, and robotic investigations of magnetoreception in the Caribbean spiny lobster”
January 31Brian LerchServedio LabDefense: "Formalizing Feedback between Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior"
February 7Allen Hurlbert and Anuraag MukherjeeServedio Lab“What’s your persona? Different approaches to framing research questions in biology”
February 14Delaney O'ConnellServedio Lab“Effect of learned mate preferences and aggression biases on maintenance of trait polymorphisms in a population”
February 21Graduate Student Recruitment Lightning Talks
February 28Anuraag MukherjeeServedio Lab"A New form of Condition Dependence"
March 7Andrew IsdanerD. Pfennig LabTBA
March 14SPRING BREAK
March 21Emily CooperHedrick Lab“Birds can do WHAT? A research proposal on studying what murmurations are, how they work and why they happen!”
March 28Karin Pfennig“The ecological consequences of hybridization”
April 4 - COKER 119Will ParkerYitbarek Lab"Temporal dynamics of microbial invasion in a canonical plant-soil feedback model"
April 8Seema ShethRiddell Lab“Plant ecological and evolutionary responses to climate in space and time”
April 18UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY
April 25Melody Young, Duke UniversityLaura Mendez (BGSA)"Pushing the Limits: How Physics and Biology Shape the Boundaries of Movement"

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