SBE Spring 2025 Seminars

List of SBE Spring 2025 Seminar Speakers

  • January 24 Jasmine Saros, UMaine, Lakes in the cryosphere: ecological consequences of melting glaciers and thawing permafrost. Hosted by Seanna Annis.
  • February 7 Graduate Lightning Talks, UMaine, Amrit Poudel
    Holly White, Grayson Huston, Eric Brown,  Michael Galli.
  • February 14 Brittany Slabach, College of the Atlantic, Wildlife Ecology in Multi-Use Landscapes: Case Studies from Acadia National Park. Hosted by Danielle Levesque.
  • February 21 Stephanie Miller, UMaine SBE postdoc, Understanding Conservation through the Lens of Quantitative Ecology. Hosted Brian McGill.
  • March 7 Geoffrey Zahn, Utah Valley U, Building a better holobiont: Modeling facilitated assembly processes in plant microbiomes. Hosted by Pete Avis.
  • March 10 Jessie Williamson, Cornell University, Avian migration, physiology, and speciation at elevational extremes. Co-hosted by SBE, WFCB.
  • March 14 Melissa Aikens, UNH, Building Quantitative Skills in Biology Students. Hosted by Angela Mech.
  • April 4 Jordan Dowell, LSU,Tossing out the Binary: towards understanding the role of multifunctional traits in growth-defense tradeoffs. Hosted by Jacquelyn Gill.
  • April 11 Jess Gersony, Smith College, Tangled up in blue: Understanding carbon movement in trees during water stress. Hosted by John Zhang.
  • April 18 Kiley Daley, UMaine Postdoc, Ecological Calendars as a Tool to Understand Climate Variability, Freshwater Resources Changes, and Agricultural Impacts in South Greenland. Hosted by Jasmine Saros
  • May 2 Trisha Spanbauer, University of Toledo, Using microfossils and ancient environmental DNA to understand past evolutionary. Hosted by MCGE & Jacquelyn Gill. 

UMaine Institute of Medicine Spring 2025 Seminar Series

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The Oral Health-Total Health Connection: Improving Interprofessional Care for Older Adults

Understanding the Nervous System Using C. elegans as a Model Organism