SSE is pleased to announce the second round of the weekly virtual seminar series featuring recipients of our Graduate Research Excellence Grants (GREG). 

Recipients of the 2022 GREG R.C. Lewontin Early Awards will present their research every Monday from 12:00 - 1:00 pm Eastern time, starting March 4 through May 13. Each talk will be 45 minutes, followed by 15 minutes for questions. 

Schedule:

March 4: Robin Waterman
“Investigations of adaptation to agriculture in horseweed”
Advisor: Jeffrey Conner, Michigan State University

March 11: Matheus Januario Lopes de Sousa
“Can we bridge micro- and macroevolution? Insights from vertebrate comparative demography”
Advisor: Daniel Rabosky, University of Michigan

March 18: Aidan Harrington
“The origins and establishment of polyploidy and consequences for geographic range”
Advisor: David Moeller, University of Minnesota

March 25: Danae Diaz
"Investigating the effects of metal contaminants on the reliability of Eastern bluebird signaling"
Advisor: Stephen Nowicki, Duke University

April 1: Danai Kontou
"Tales from the deep: tracking the evolution of aquatic food webs in a changing world"
Advisor: Andrew Tanentzap, University of Cambridge
 
April 8: Sebastian Mortimer
"Dimensions of Wild Strawberry Diversity: Polyploidy and Sex Chromosomes"
Advisor: Aaron Liston, Oregon State University
 
April 15: Fabian Salgado Roa
"What is causing the presence of multiple color variants in spiders?"
Advisor: Iliana Medina, University of Melbourne

April 22: Sergio Serrato-Arroyo
"Elucidate the role of drug dose on competitive suppression and release of resistant parasites in the in vitro P falciparum model system"
Advisor: Silvie Huijben, Arizona State University

April 29: Austin Chipps
"Speciation in a Shrew Radiation from Southeast Asia"
Advisor: Jake Esselstyn, Louisiana State University
Cancelled

May 6: Josh Knecht
"Identifying Candidate Hybrid Incompatibilities in Naturally Occurring Hybrid Zones"
Advisor: James Sobel, Binghamton University

May 13: Verónica Reyes-Galindo
"Ozone tolerance mediated by epigenetic variability in Abies religiosa from a peri-urban forest"
Advisor: Alicia Mastretta-Yanes, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

The seminar will be presented via Zoom: Click here to join

This series is organized by the Graduate Student Advisory Committee (GSAC) and hosted by GSAC and SSE Council. 

We look forward to hearing about the outstanding research of these student award winners! Watch previous seminars on YouTube.