Plants for sale include perennials for sun and shade, herbs and vegetables, Iowa natives, woody plants including trees, shrubs and Buck roses, container annuals, hanging baskets, annual vines, strawberries, Hosta of the Year 2018, All-American Selection winning vegetables and herbs (or AAS) and prefinished mixed containers Read more about Plant Sale Extravaganza
Plants for sale include perennials for sun and shade, herbs and vegetables, Iowa natives, woody plants including trees, shrubs and Buck roses, container annuals, hanging baskets, annual vines, strawberries, Hosta of the Year 2018, All-American Selection winning vegetables and herbs (or AAS) and prefinished mixed containers Read more about Plant Sale Extravaganza
The EEOB GSO will participate in the Story County Conservation's Partners' Spring Festival with their annual Iowa native plants fundraiser.
Join EEOB and EEB as we host our own Three Minute Thesis competition.
Three Minute Thesis is a competition focused on developing students' ability to concisely communicate their research to a non-specialist audience. Each student is given a maximum of three minutes to explain their research and its significance Read more about EEOB/EEB 3 Minute Thesis Competition
Evolution of spiders on oceanic islands: The venture of fe and gain of many Read more about Dr. Rosemary Gillespie - Entomology Seminar Speaker
There are numerous resources available to help you through all stages of your life as a student at Iowa State. Join us to learn about just a handful of those resources. Space is limited, so please register at http://whoozin.com/PKP-XG3-9MC4 Read more about CANCELLED - ISU Resources for Graduate Students
We are happy to welcome Barbara Taylor, Ph.D. with the NOAA Marine Mammal Genetics Program, Southwest Fisheries Science Center to our 2017 Errington Lecture. Read more about Dr. Barb Taylor - Errington Lecture
Join Lynn Bagley of OSPA to learn about the grant submission process. Then meet Diane Smith to learn what LASERS has to offer.
Space is limited. Please register - http://whoozin.com/FWY-GVY-E63F Read more about All Things Grants
Join Cory Harms, Associate Director of Purchasing, to answer your questions about CyBuy, requisitions, equipment purchasing, and more.
Space is limited. Please register to save your seat - http://whoozin.com/FP3-67T-GMRD Read more about CANCELLED - All Things Purchasing
Join us for a panel discussion on what to expect after you graduate from graduate school. Space is limited, please register at http://whoozin.com/QRG-V6R-RTWN Read more about Life after graduation
Join a representative from the Center for Communication Excellence to discover the best practices for drafting the Discussion and Conclusion sections of your next manuscript.
Space is limited, so please register at http://whoozin.com/G3R-KRK-D9FD. Read more about Manuscript Writing: Discussion and Conclusion
Join Laura Bestler, CELT Program Coordinator, to discover ways to engage your diverse student populations.
Space is limited, so please register - http://whoozin.com/PGF-E4E-H3FD Read more about Teaching Best Practices with CELT
Jacki Hayes will walk you step-by-step through creating or updating your EEOB website profiles.
Please register to indicate your attendance at http://whoozin.com/FFN-HJ9-PWXU Read more about CANCELLED: Creating & Updating EEOB Website Profiles
There's more to being a successful graduate student than taking classes and writing papers. Learn how you can make the most of the department of ecology, evolution, and organismal biology during your time here.
Registration requested as space is limited - http://whoozin.com/JXR-JU3-DGWF Read more about CANCELLED - Making the most of EEOB
How much different could college and gradaute school be? Join our discussion to discover the changes you can expect as a graduate student.
Be sure to register at http://whoozin.com/MPQ-Y7E-MVGQ Read more about Thinking Like a Graduate Student: Leaving Undergraduate Student Life Behind
On behalf of the Evolution and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program and the EEOB Department, we are pleased to invite you to Brooke Bodensteiner's PhD defense seminar.
PhD Advisor: Fredric Janzen Read more about Brooke Bodensteiner- PhD Defense Seminar
Co-sponsored by the Microbiology Graduate Student Organization Read more about Dr. Hazel Barton - Seminar Speaker
This seminar is co-sponsored by the department of entomology. Read more about Dr. Corrie Moreau - Seminar Speaker
Co-sponsored by EEOB. Read more about Dr. Judy Wu-Smart - Entomology Seminar
Co-sponsored by EEOB. Read more about Dr. Reed Johnson - Entomology Seminar
The EEB Research Symposium provides an opportunity for EEB students and faculty to share their current research, network across departments, and showcase the program to prospective students.
Dr. Tracy Langkilde • Penn State University
What Doesn’t Kill You...Adaptive Responses to Environmental Change
Dr. Suzanne McGaugh • University of Minnesota
Blind Fish Provide Big Insights Read more about EEB 24th Annual Spring Symposium
co-sponsored by EEOB. Read more about ISU Monarch Consortium Group - Entomology Seminar
Please join us as the candidate for the EEOB chair shares their vision for the department. Read more about Candidate for the EEOB Chair
On behalf of the Evolution and Evolutionary Biology Graduate Program and the EEOB Department, we are pleased to invite you to Brent Mortensen's PhD defense seminar. Read more about Brent Mortensen - PhD Defense Seminar
Dr. Svetlana Maslakova, University of Oregon
Anna Selmecki, Creighton University
David Plachetzki, University of New Hampshire
Thirty Iowa State graduate students will summarize their research (in three minutes or less) to a non-expert audience next week and compete to represent Iowa State at a similar regional event next April. More than 100 applied for the 30 spots.
EEOB's Nick Lyon will be present his thesis "Adaptive management for pollinators in Midwestern working landscapes". Read more about 3-Minute Thesis Competition (3MT)
On behalf of the Evolution and Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Science Graduate Programs and the EEOB Department, we are pleased to invite you to Mindy Morales-William’s PhD defense seminar. Read more about Mindy Morales-Williams - PhD Defense Seminar
PhD defense seminar
Dr. Kelly Zamudio, Cornell University
Dr. Cornelia Mutel, University of Iowa
“Ecology and evolution of flexible phenotypes: Behavior and physiology in divergent life-history ecotypes of garter snakes Thamnophis elegans”
PhD advisor: Anne Bronikowski (EEOB)
Statistics Minor committee member: Philip Dixon (STAT)
PhD Committee: Lance Baumgard (AnSci), Brent Danielson (EEOB), Fred Janzen (EEOB), Gordon Burghardt (EEB/Psych: U Tennesee, Knoxville) Read more about Eric Gangloff - PhD Defense Seminar
Do you ever wish you could contribute your skills to natural history collections/herbaria projects and get a special look at specimens and specimen records? If so, WeDigBio is for YOU! Here’s the link for general information about WeDigBio: https://www.wedigbio.org/. Read more about Fun with Fungi -- Iowa State University Fungal Specimen Transcription Blitz
Joe Veldman, Iowa State University
Emily Sessa, University of Florida
Dr. Tim Linksvayer, University of Pennsylvania
Judie Bronstein, University of Arizona
Judie Bronstein, University of Arizona
Nicole Valenzuela, Iowa State University
The 52nd Paul L. Errington Memorial Lecture
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Edmund (Butch) Brodie III, University of Virginia
Refreshments served in room 240 Bessey at 3:30 pm. Read more about Dr. Edmund (Butch) Brodie III - Seminar Speaker
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Dr. Evan Fricke, Iowa State University
Refreshments served at 3:30pm outside room 210 Bessey.
Please contact Haldre Rogers (haldre@iastate.edu) if you are interested in meeting with Dr. Fricke Read more about Dr. Evan Fricke - Seminar Speaker
Want to learn more about pollinators and the plants they pollinate, catch and watch live bees and butterflies, learn ways you can help conserve pollinators, and even dance and eat like a bee?
Saturday, June 25 from 10:00-2:00, rain or shine, this event should be fun for the whole family. Read more about Pollinator Fest
Please mark your calendar for the following M.S. thesis seminar.
KristiLee Haplin, Iowa State University, Environmental Science
240 Bessey Hall Read more about KristiLee Halpin - M.S. Thesis Seminar
The EEOB Graduate Student Office will be selling native seedlings.
The EEOB Graduate Student Office will be selling native seedlings.
The EEOB Graduate Student Office will be selling native seedlings. Read more about Story County Partners Spring Festival
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Kathleen Weathers, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Kathleen Weathers - Seminar Speaker
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Dr. Hazel Barton, University of Akron
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Hazel Barton, University of Akron
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Emma Goldberg, Univeristy of Minnesota
210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall.
Rufus Isaacs, Michigan State University, Department of Entomology
E164 Lagomarcino Hall
Co-sponsored by EEB / EEOB Read more about Rufus Isaacs - Entomology Seminar Speaker
Please mark your calendar for M.S. candidate, Andrew Albertsen's thesis defense.
203 Bessey Hall Read more about Andrew Albertsen - Thesis Defense
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Ashley Keiser, Iowa State University
210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Ashley Keiser - Seminar Speaker
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Larry Gilbert, University of Texas Austin
210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Larry Gilbert - Seminar Speaker
Please join us for M.S. candidate Amy Moorhouse’s thesis defense seminar Wednesday April 6 at 11 am in 333 Science II.
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Thure Cerling, University of Utah.
210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Thure Cerling - Seminar Speaker
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Leslie Ries, Georgetown University
210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall.
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
April Wright, Iowa State University
210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. April Wright - Seminar Speaker
The Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Seminar Committee is pleased to announce the EEB Spring Symposium Saturday, January 30, 2016.
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
George Weiblen, University of Minnesota
210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. George Weiblen - Seminar Speaker
Amy Toth, assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology and entomology, will present "A More Perfect Union: Lessons in Cooperative Behavior from Social Insects" at the next public Osborn Club lecture on Monday, Jan. 11 (6 p.m., Hach Hall atrium, following club member social).
Dr. Yaniv Brandvain, of University of Minnesota will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
Reception to meet with Dr. Brandvain will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Yaniv Brandvain - Seminar Speaker
Dr. David Wilcove, of Princeton University, will present "Saving biodiversity in southeast Asia: Are there reasons to be hopeful?" on December 2, 2015.
This event will take place in the Memorial Union Great Hall. Read more about Dr. David Wilcove - Errington Lecture
Dr. Jennifer Jandt, of Iowa State University, will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
Her talk is titled "Effects of maternal care on the long-term developmental fate of offspring: a case study with social wasps".
Reception to meet with Dr. Jandt will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Jennifer Jandt - Seminar Speaker
Please mark your calendar for the Plant Pathology and Microbiology Seminar Speaker.
Peter Biedermann, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Agronomgy 2050
This seminar has been co-sponsored by EEOB and the Department of Entomology. Read more about Dr. Peter Biedermann - Plant Pathology and Microbiology Seminar Speaker
Join EEOB in welcoming Dr. Peter Biedermann of Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, for a special seminar presentation.
Location: 334 Bessey Hall Read more about Dr. Peter Biedermann - Special Seminar
Dr. Nusha Keyghobadi, of University of Western Ontario, will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
Her talk is titled "Landscape genetics in a dynamic world: case study of an alpine butterfly".
Reception to meet with Dr. Keyghobadi will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Nusha Keyghobadi - Seminar Speaker
Dr. Luke Hoekstra, of Iowa State University, will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
His talk is entitled "Causes and consequences of thermal plasticity in short and long-lived ectotherms"
Reception to meet with Dr. Hoekstra will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Luke Hoekstra - Seminar Speaker
Lee Dugatkin Professor of Biology, University of Louisville
Thursday, October 22
7:00PM, Sun Room, Memorial Union Read more about Dr. Lee Dugatkin - National Sigma XI Lecture
Dr. Lee Dugatkin, of University of Louisville, will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
His talk is entitled "The interaction of genetic and cultural transmission in shaping mate choice in humans and nonhumans."
Reception to meet with Dr. Dugatkin will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Lee Dugatkin - Seminar Speaker
EEOB, GDCB, and BBMB welcome Dr. Joe Thornton for a seminar entitled Mechanisms for the evolution of new transcriptions factor specificity.
Please join us October 20, 2015 at 1:10 pm in Sukup Hall.
EEOB/EEB seminar scheduled for today is canceled. Read more about CANCELLED - Dr. Larry Gilbert - Seminar Speaker
Dr. James Adelman, of Iowa State University, will present for the NREM seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
His talk is entitled "Heterogeneous responses to infection in songbirds: recent findings and future directions." Read more about Dr. James Adelman - NREM Seminar Speaker
1424 Molecular Biology Building
Bayesian Phylogenetic Methods for Synthesizing Paleontological and Neontological Data
Tracy Heath Read more about Dr. Tracy Heath - BCB Faculty Seminar
Dr. Amy Toth, of Iowa State University, will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
Her talk is entitled "Integrative Insect Sociogenomics: Insights into Social Evolution and Pollinator Health from Wasps and Bees".
Reception to meet with Dr. Toth will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Amy Toth - Seminar Speaker
Dr. Cassandra Nunez, of Iowa State University, will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
Her talk is titled "Mares gone wild: Immunocontraception alters female behavior and physiology in feral horses".
Reception to meet with Dr. Nunez will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Cassandra Nunez - Seminar Speaker
Dr. Tadashi Fukami, of Stanford University, will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
His talk is titled "Historical contingency in community assembly: obstacle or opportunity".
Reception to meet with Dr. Fukami will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Tad Fukami - Seminar Speaker
The Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology's Seminar Committee is pleased to announce the upcoming week’s speaker:
Wake Forest University
Thursday, Sept. 10th
3:45pm in 210 Bessey Read more about Dr. Kathy Kron - Seminar Speaker
Ph.D. Candidate, Lakshmi Attigala, will be presenting "Phylogenetic relationships and evolution of temperate woody bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) with an emphasis on Kuruna clade" on Monday, 24 August, at 10 a.m. in 09 Curtiss Read more about Dissertation Defense - Lakshmi Attigala
Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.
Dr. Larry Gilbert, University of Texas Austin
210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Larry Gilbert - Seminar Speaker
Dr. Joe Veldman of Iowa State University, will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
Reception to meet with Dr. Veldman will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Joe Veldman - Seminar Speaker
Dr. Leslie Ries of Georgetown University will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
Reception to meet with Dr. Ries will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Leslie Ries - Seminar Speaker
Dr. April Wright of Iowa State University, will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
Reception to meet with Dr. Wright will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. April Wright - Seminar Speaker
Dr. Make Kaspari of University of Oklahoma will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.
Reception to meet with Dr. Kaspari will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall. Read more about Dr. Mike Kaspari
