Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series

Everyone, regardless of affiliation, is welcomed and encouraged to attend the E&E seminars.

Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursdays at 4 p.m. The seminars this semester will be in-person or virtual. In-person seminars will be held in the Alampi room at DMCS.

For scheduling information, please contact Dr. Brooke Maslo (brooke.maslo@rutgers.edu) and or Shaneika Nelson (s.nelson@rutgers.edu)

Zoom Information for Virtual Seminars (Only)

Zoom Webinar Link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/93940676519?pwd=LSuyEX6nJNuBI5Elz5ZSVbVILlWIvB.1
Webinar ID: 939 4067 6519
Webinar Password: EEweb24

Fall 2024 Seminars
Date	Speaker, Affiliation, and Seminar Title	Host, Platform
Sept. 19	Daniela Shebitz Chair and Professor Environment and Sustainability Sciences Kean University "Taking Root: Connecting communities in New Jersey through afforestation" In-Person Seminar	Dr. Erin Vogel
Oct. 3	Jason Blackburn Professor University of Florida "Scavengers, collars, camera traps, remote sensing, and disease detection: sorting out pathogen transmission for pathogens with environmental reservoirs" Virtual Seminar	Morgan Mark (Maslo Lab)
Oct. 10	Lynsey Harper Senior Officer DNA-based Monitoring Natural England "Environmental DNA: moving from research to practice" Virtual Seminar	Shannon Dickey (Lockwood Lab)
Oct. 17	Justin Bernstein Assistant Professor The University of Texas Arlington "Field-Based Approaches in the '-omics' Era to Better Understand Biodiversity and Evolution" Virtual Seminar	Erin McHale (Maslo Lab)
Oct. 24	Catherine Cullingham Associate Professor Carleton University "Unfolding the Genetic Mysteries of Chronic Wasting Disease Spread in the 'Deerly Departed'" Virtual Seminar	Bobby Kwait (Maslo Lab)
Oct. 31	Sergey Kryazhimskiy Associate Professor School of Biological Sciences "Emerging regularities in the effects of mutations on microbial fitness" In-Person Seminar	Duhita Sant (Manhart Lab - CABM RBHS)
Nov. 7	SEMINAR POSTPOSED: Dr. Bodnar will be the Eminent Evolutionary Biologist in the spring Andrea Bodnar Donald G. Comb Science Director Gloucester Marine Genomics Lab "The Ocean’s Methuselahs - Genomic signatures of exceptional longevity and negligible aging in sea urchins" In-Person Seminar	Erin Chille (Bhattacharya Lab)
Nov. 14	SEMINAR CANCELLED - MOVED TO SPRING 2025 Mark Johnson Professor University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign "Stepping out of the water: Environmental DNA applications for terrestrial research. Case studies in airborne and pollinator eDNA analysis" Virtual Seminar	Daniel Fisher (Maslo Lab)
Nov. 21	Sarah Bassing Research Scientist Idaho Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit "Are we telling the same story? Comparing sampling perspectives for wildlife monitoring" Virtual Seminar	Christian Crosby (Maslo Lab)
Dec. 5	David Bushek Professor / Director Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory Rutgers University "DARPA Reefense Project Overview: A mosaic oyster habitat for coastal defense" Virtual Seminar	Brooke Maslo

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