Biology Lunch Bunch
Spring 2025
DATE | SPEAKER | LAB/HOST | TOPIC |
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January 24 | Hazel Havens | Lohmann Lab | Defense: “Computational, behavioral, and robotic investigations of magnetoreception in the Caribbean spiny lobster” |
January 31 | Brian Lerch | Servedio Lab | Defense: "Formalizing Feedback between Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior" |
February 7 | Allen Hurlbert and Anuraag Mukherjee | Servedio Lab | “What’s your persona? Different approaches to framing research questions in biology” |
February 14 | Delaney O'Connell | Servedio Lab | “Effect of learned mate preferences and aggression biases on maintenance of trait polymorphisms in a population” |
February 21 | Graduate Student Recruitment | Lightning Talks | |
February 28 | Anuraag Mukherjee | Servedio Lab | "A New form of Condition Dependence" |
March 7 | Andrew Isdaner | D. Pfennig Lab | TBA |
March 14 | SPRING BREAK | ||
March 21 | Emily Cooper | Hedrick Lab | “Birds can do WHAT? A research proposal on studying what murmurations are, how they work and why they happen!” |
March 28 | Karin Pfennig | “The ecological consequences of hybridization” | |
April 4 - COKER 119 | Will Parker | Yitbarek Lab | "Temporal dynamics of microbial invasion in a canonical plant-soil feedback model" |
April 8 | Seema Sheth | Riddell Lab | “Plant ecological and evolutionary responses to climate in space and time” |
April 18 | UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY | ||
April 25 | Melody Young, Duke University | Laura Mendez (BGSA) | "Pushing the Limits: How Physics and Biology Shape the Boundaries of Movement" |
Lunch Bunch Seminar organizer and contact: Dr. Maria Servedio
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