Center for the Environment

EcoLunch

EcoLunch Seminar Series

Wednesdays at 12:30 pm in Lilly G456

The "EcoLunch" seminar series provides a casual yet critical forum for Purdue students, faculty and visiting scientists to present their research on a wide variety of topics related to ecology and evolutionary biology.

Sponsored by the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Cluster (EEB), the seminar series is open to all.  For more information contact Nancy Emery (nemery@purdue.edu)

Schedule of topics (download a pdf)

Aug. 22 Dr. Jen Lau, Assistant Professor

Kellogg Biological Station and Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University

Host: Nancy Emery

Evolutionary consequences of global change: Effects on populations,

communities, and ecosystems

Aug. 29 Dr. Kerry Rabenold, Professor

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

Ecological principles in building: how much difference can “green”

construction strategies make?

Sept. 5 Dr. Matthew Huber, Professor

Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Purdue University

Hothouse climates

Sept. 19 Dr. Juli Carillo, Graduate Student

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Rice University

Host: Ian Kaplan

Invasive Chinese tallow tree reduces investment in a putative defense trait:

Tests of the EICA hypothesis

Sept. 26 Luis Beltran, Graduate Student

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

Paramo: an endangered ecosystem

Oct. 3 TBD

Oct. 10 Dr. Peter Waser, Professor

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

Does dispersal have consequences for fitness?

Oct. 17 Nick Marra, Graduate Student

Department of Forestry & Natural Resources / PULSE, Purdue University

RNA-seq in Heteromyid rodents: Studying how kangaroo rats live in the

desert without drinking water

Oct. 24 Nathan Robinson, Graduate Student

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

Sea turtles as ecological indicators

Oct. 31 Dr. Leigh Raymond, Professor & Director of Center for the Environment, and Dr. Rosalee Clawson, Professor and Head

Department of Political Science, Purdue University

All climate politics are local? Framing effects on attitudes toward policies

on climate change

Nov. 7 TBD

Nov. 14 Kelly Ronald, Graduate Student

Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University

Let me see your song and dance: Evaluating the multimodal cowbird

Display

Nov. 21 Thanksgiving Break – No Seminar

Nov. 28 Kendra Abts, Graduate Student

Department of Forestry & Natural Resources, Purdue University

MHC characterization and mate choice in captive koalas

Dec. 5 Dr. Jennifer Zaspel, Assistant Professor

Department of Entomology, Purdue University

Phylogenetic and comparative studies in vampire and tiger moths (Insecta:

Lepidoptera: Erebidae)