Biology Lunch Bunch
Fall 2023
| DATE | SPEAKER | LAB/HOST | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 25 | Meet & Greet | ||
| September 8 | Keith Sockman | Keith Sockman | "Escalating summer temperature-minima drive collapse of a mountain insect community" |
| September 15 | Chase Rakowski | Senay Yitbarek | "Extending trophic cascade theory using pond species interaction experiments and models." |
| September 22 | Matthew Zipple, Cornell Postdoc | Karin Pfennig | "The Best of Both Worlds: Social Behavioral Ecology of Lab Mice Living Under Semi-Natural Conditions" |
| September 29 | Catherine Kehl | "Bio-inspired Navigation In Space" | |
| October 6 | Mallory Choudoir, NC State | Senay Yitbarek | TBA |
| October 13 | Aimee Deconinck, Defense | "Cross-specific hypoxia tolerance in introgression lines of Tigriopus californicus” | |
| October 20 | FALL BREAK | ||
| October 27 | Jeff Pippen, Carolina Butterfly Monitoring Program | Joel Kingsolver | "Introducing the Carolinas Butterfly Monitoring Program: Using Citizen Science to Assess Insect Population Trends on a Continental Scale" |
| November 3 | Braulio Assis | Eric Riddell | "70 years since invasion: Genomic signatures of adaptation in native lizards following the anthropogenic introduction of fire ants" |
| November 10 | Andrew Isdaner | David Pfennig | TBA |
| November 17 | Gongyuan Cao, Duke Graduate Student | Kuangyi Xu & Brian Lerch, co-hosts | "On the mechanism underlying the evolution of a novel defense protein in tomato” |
| November 24 | THANKSGIVING | ||
| December 1 | Amy Goldberg, Duke Faculty | Parul Johri | TBA |
| December 8 | Melissa Manus, University of Manitoba | Corbin Jones | "Associations between early life environments, the microbiome, and infant health across populations" |
Lunch Bunch Seminar organizer and contact: Dr. Maria Servedio
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