Anything but barren: evolution and origin of the Appalachian shale barren flora

The Architecture of Biodiversity

Reimagining restoration: grasslands under global change

A Question of Values: Weaving science and society for forest conservation

Developing mosquito gene drives for human health and wildlife conservation

Title: Genes of a feather flock together: a gene coevolution network maps eukaryotic cellular structure and function

Indexing the North American Spring: Patterns, Sources and Impacts of Timing Variations and Trends in Seasonal Transitions across the Coterminous U.S.

Title: Social evolution in spiders

Charting the spatiotemporal landscape of species’ responses to climate change

Please join EEB/EEOB for our weekly seminar series. This week's speakers are Deb Lewis and Phil Klahs from the Ada Hayden Herbarium at Iowa State University.

Please note that a recording of this seminar (and previous seminars from this semester) will be available for viewing at the following link to anyone with an Iowa State netID: https://iastate.box.com/s/5rlfb8c86871nm37kfq72dwkuyfybjbu

The impact of polyploidy on genetic diversity in vascular plants

Diversification of cichlid fishes: How a key innovation facilitates novel functional morphology

Soils may amplify or attenuate global change: cautions from an unpredictable present

Disassembly and reassembly of a tropical seed dispersal network

Please join EEB/EEOB for our weekly seminar series. This week's invited speaker is Dr. Katherine Geist of Iowa State University.

Title: Seeds in conflict: genomic evidence of within-family conflict in Arabidopsis

Refreshments served at 3:30pm in 248 Bessey

Please contact Amy Toth (amytoth@iastate.edu) if you would like to meet with Dr. Geist

Please join EEB/EEOB for our weekly seminar series. This week's invited speaker is Dr. Dale Clayton of the University of Utah.

Title: On the origin of species: rapid experimental evolution of reproductive isolation within a single natural population of parasites

Contemporary range expansion and phenotypic evolution in the monarch butterfly

Your past predicts your future: hormonal and genomic mechanisms of behavioral plasticity

Physiological and molecular mechanisms of adaptation: insights for extreme environments

Stress and the four Fs: Fathering, fearing, feeding, and forgetting

Physiological ecology of stress: from timing of breeding to maternal care

Evolution of plant mating systems

Disentangling drivers of diversity on sky islands: from phylogenetics to functional genomics

Seismic shifts in island food webs: Island responses to invasive mammal removal

The National Ecological Observatory Network: Early findings and opportunities to leverage this community resource

The challenge of studying megadiversity: the past and the present of rove beetles through phylogenetic analysis

Islands as dynamic models for the study of evolutionary diversification

The evolution of diversity in morphology and species richness in frogs and toads of the world

Our annual EEB Spring Symposium is once again upon us, and EEB graduate students are looking forward to hosting two great scientists: Dr. Andrew Kraemer from Creighton University and Dr. Rebecca Tonietto from the University of Michigan Flint. We will also hear about the hard work of graduate students in the EEB program through a combination of lightning talks and regular 15 minute talks. Breakfast starts at 8 am, and talks start at 8:55 am.

Evolutionary ecology of behavior in rodents

Rappelling into the Pleistocene: A study of faunal response to a changing world

Lion Conservation on a Crowded Continent

Hybridization interacts with diversifying selection to drive patterns of genetic diversity across peripheral populations of southwestern white pine

From genomics to archeology: Changing insights on crop domestication

Evolutionary genomics of maize domestication and adaptation

Please join the Department of Entomology for seminar speaker Kevin Moulton from the University of Tennessee.

Molecular phylogenetics of flies

Seminar co-sponsored by EEOB.

Recent advances in carbon cycle research: phenology and fluorescence

Conservation in the genomics age: what animals eat and why it matters in East Africa

Visit Reiman Gardens and celebrate National Pollinator Week. There will be many collaborators and fun activities to make sure this day is educational and plenty of fun!

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

The EEOB GSO will participate in the Story County Conservation's Partners' Spring Festival with their annual Iowa native plants fundraiser.

Development in the Wild: Environmental Effects on Development, Within and Across Generations

Lichen diversity and conservation: White Pine Hollow State Preserve and the lichen Lobaria

Ecological promiscuity and patterns of diversification in aquatic beetles

Evolutionary dynamics of antipredator coloration

Infiltrating the hive mind: immune and viral effects on honey bee (Apis mellifera) behavior

Out of sight, out of mind? Belowground carbon response to landscape disturbance

Codiversification and community assembly of a plant-insect brood pollination mutualism in the Asia-Pacific region

Floral traits mediating pathogen dynamics in pollinators

Nutrients in browning waters: Nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to temperate seepage lakes associated with allochthonous dissolved organic carbon inputs

Is that plasticity, or just behavior? Understanding the regulation of highly dynamic phenotypes

Evolution of spiders on oceanic islands: The venture of fe and gain of many

Diversifying Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Programs

Scaling approach to microbial interactions in soil across three bioenergy cropping systems

From population genetics to phylogenetics: co-diversification of ecological communities in shallow and deep time

Asexual breeding in crops: Molecular evolutionary approaches to revolutionizing agriculture

Pathogens and parasites as drivers of organismal movement

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.

Evolution of Fern Genes and Genomes

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

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.

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

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 

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

Dark Life: The Microbiology and Geomicrobiology of Cave Environments

Co-sponsored by the Microbiology Graduate Student Organization

Studies on the molecular underpinnings of sex determination mechanism evolution and molecular sexing tools in turtles

Phenotypic divergence along a speciation continuum in pine squirrels

Effects of neonicotinoids on honey bee and bumble bee queens and impacts on colony development

Co-sponsored by EEOB.

Behavioral and physiological responses of a freshwater turtle to anthropogenic activity

Leveraging physiology to understand the biotic impacts of global change

Genome-scale problems in animal phylogeny

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. 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

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

Exploring contemporary versus historic drivers of greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural soils

Please join us as the candidate for the EEOB chair shares their vision for the department.

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.

Anna Selmecki, Creighton University

How Polyploidy and Aneuploidy Impact Adaptation in Yeast

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".

David Green

PhD defense seminar

Environmental factors affecting the residence time distribution dynamics of constructed agricultural wetlands

Dr. Cornelia Mutel, University of Iowa

A Sugar Creek Chronicle: Communicating and Surviving Climate Change

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/.

Emily Sessa, University of Florida

Fern Biology in the Genomics Era

Judie Bronstein, University of Arizona

Why Cooperate? Bee Pollinators and the “Temptation to Defect”

Nicole Valenzuela, Iowa State University

Turtle sex, climate and chromosomes: divergence and homology in sexual development and genome evolution

Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.

Edmund (Butch) Brodie III, University of Virginia

Predator-prey co-evolutionary dynamics in a garter snake-newt system

​Refreshments served in room 240 Bessey at 3:30 pm.

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?  

Please join the ISU Pollinator Working Group at Reiman Gardens, along with numerous other ISU and non-ISU groups to celebrate National Pollinator Week!  

Saturday, June 25 from  10:00-2:00, rain or shine, this event should be fun for the whole family. 

The EEOB Graduate Student Office will be selling native seedlings.

• Friday, May 6th from 3-7pm (Members of Reiman Gardens Only)
• Saturday, May 7th from 9AM-6PM
• Sunday, May 8th from 10AM-3PM (We will be present unless have we have previously sold out).

The EEOB Graduate Student Office will be selling native seedlings.

Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.

Dr. Hazel Barton, University of Akron

Dark Life: The Microbiology and Geomicrobiology of Cave Environments

Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.

Emma Goldberg, Univeristy of Minnesota

Macroevolution of Plant Reproductive Systems

​210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall.

Please mark your calendar for M.S. candidate, Andrew Albertsen's thesis defense.

Impacts of the amount of cattail (Typha x glauca) litter on abiotic and biotic conditions in prairie pothole wetlands

203 Bessey Hall

Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.

Larry Gilbert, University of Texas Austin

Passion Pollen & Poison: Innovation and diversification in Heliconius and its interaction network

​210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall.

Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.

Thure Cerling, University of Utah.

HAIR: History of Animals using Isotope Records

​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

Model misspecification in phylogenetic estimation: Lessons from empirical analyses

​210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall.

Please mark your calendar for the EEOB/EEB Seminar.

George Weiblen, University of Minnesota

Community dis-assembly: dissecting plant-insect food webs in New Guinea rain forests

​210 Bessey Hall, with a reception preceding in 240 Bessey Hall.

Dr. Yaniv Brandvain​, of University of Minnesota will present at the EEOB/EEB seminar series in room 210 Bessey Hall.

The origin and distribution of selfing species

Reception to meet with Dr. Brandvain will precede seminar at 3:30 pm in room 240 Bessey Hall.

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.

Join EEOB in welcoming Dr. Peter Biedermann of Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, for a special seminar presentation.

Cooperation under the bark - Sociality and farming in ambrosia beetles

Location:  334 Bessey Hall

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.

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.

EEOB/EEB seminar scheduled for today is canceled.  

1424 Molecular Biology Building

Bayesian Phylogenetic Methods for Synthesizing Paleontological and Neontological Data

Tracy Heath

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.

The Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology's Seminar Committee is pleased to announce the upcoming week’s speaker:

Dr. Kathleen Kron 

Wake Forest University   

Evolution and Diversification of Blueberries: Tropical and Temperate Connections

Thursday, Sept. 10th

3:45pm in 210 Bessey

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.

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.