Tyson Research Center Announces Summer Seminar Series

Seminars take place on Thursday afternoons starting shortly after 4:00 PM at the Tyson Research Center. Seminars are followed by an informal BBQ—please bring your favorite side dish! For additional information please contact Meghan Kelly (mkelly@wustl.edu; 314-935‐8430).

  • MAY 20: BRIAN WILSEY, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Biodiversity and temporal niche differences
  • MAY 27: BILL RESETARITS, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
    Habitat selection and the dynamics of communities and metacommunities
  • JUNE 3: CANDACE GALEN, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    New insights on the role of floral volatiles as ecological signals in a pollination web
  • JUNE 10: PAUL NELSON, UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE
    The Homogecene Era: Planet of weeds
  • JUNE 17: ALAN COVICH, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
    The importance of long‐term, place‐based studies in ecology: Learning about biotic responses to changing environments and landscapes

    June 17 is a special seminar event in honor of former Tyson Director Dr. Owen Sexton. Please RSVP by June 10 for this event (mkelly@wustl.edu).
  • JUNE 24: MICHAEL ANGILLETTA, INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
    Adaptation to thermal change: Physiological strategies and their ecological
    implications
  • JULY 1: KEITH SUMMERVILLE, DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    Is all timber harvest bad? Resistance and resilience in forest lepidopteran communities
  • JULY 8: JENNIFER WILLIAMS, NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS
    One species, two continents: Changes in species interactions between ranges
    determine invader success
  • JULY 15: BOB RICKLEFS, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, ST. LOUIS
    The regional community: Forest birds of eastern North America
  • JULY 22: MICHAEL JENKINS, PURDUE UNIVERSITY
    Bugs, blights, and burns: Endemic disturbance in a post‐invasion landscape
  • JULY 30: RICARDO HOLDO, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
    Herbivory, fire, and landscape change in the Serengeti