PLE 2023 Summer Seminar Series

PLE Summer Seminar Series

PLE is pleased to announce the speakers for our annual seminar series.  Please join us this summer at the PLE Housing Site in the Dining Hall for each seminar.  All talks begin at 7 PM.

Date Speaker Instituition Title
May 16 Cori Richards-Zawacki University of Pittsburgh A fungus among us: Insights into the ecology and evolution of chytridiomycosis in a changing world
May 23 Cassie Olmsted University of Pittsburgh Exploring cryptic biodiversity in forests
May 30 Erin Eberhard Kent State University Nitrogen cycling and redox potential in Great Lakes coastal ecosystems
June 6 Chris Tracey NatureServe Stemming the tide of extinctions: Biodiversity data for conservation decisions
June 13 Alexa Wagner Case Western Reserve University Management of a secondary, temperate forest impacts population and community dynamics in understory woody plants
June 20 Trapper Hobble University of Pittsburgh Characterizing the role of functional traits and phenotypic plasticity in explaining variation in coexistence parameters
June 27 Amber Stanley University of Pittsburgh Trait changes and adaptation of Orange Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis) to climate change and urbanization
July 4 NO TALK    
July 11 Luci Anaya University of Mississippi Understanding the complex interactions between antimicrobial peptides and thermal physiology in amphibians
July 18 Taylor Zallek University of Pittsburgh Using experimental evolutionary ecology to understand biological invasions
July 25 Patrick Shirey University of Pittsburgh  
August 1 Brandon Hoenig University of Pittsburgh “More than gene editing: Using CRISPR for rapid, inexpensive, and field-deployable organism detection”