SBE Spring 2024 Seminars

Seminars will be held in person on the below Fridays at 3 pm in the Mitchell Center (unless otherwise noted):


List of SBE Spring '24 Seminar Speakers

January 19: Sydne Record, University of Maine Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology. Leveraging a Network of Networks to Enable Innovations in Macroecology.Hosted by Víctor Ortega-Jiménez

January 26: No Seminar (SBE Department Meeting)

February 2: Richard Jagels, University of Maine School of Forest Resources. Tall-Tree Forests: Bioengineering Marvels. What is Their Future?

February 9: Elio Challita, Georgia Tech. Peeing one drop at a time: How and why sharpshooter insects use superpropulsion to catapult their fluid excreta. Hosted by Víctor Ortega-Jiménez

February 16: Alejandro Rico-Guevara, University of Washington. Behavioral ecophysics and evolutionary correlates of nectarivore.
**via Zoom**
Hosted by Víctor Ortega-Jiménez

February 23: No Seminar (SBE Department Meeting)

March 1: Suegene Noh, Colby College. Facultative symbiont virulence determines horizontal transmission rate without host specificity in social amoebas. Hosted by Jacquelyn Gill

March 8: Juan Romero, University of Maine School of Food and Agriculture. The impact of PFAS on the forage-herbivore-human continuum. Hosted by Víctor Ortega-Jiménez

March 15: No Seminar (Spring Break)

March 22: No Seminar (SBE Department Meeting)

March 29: Danielle Levesque, University of Maine School of Biology and Ecology. Causes and Consequences of Mammalian Heterothermy in a Changing World. 

April 5: Fidisoa Rasambainarivo, East Carolina University. One Island, One Health: Biodiversity conservation and health at the human domestic animal and wildlife interface in Madagascar. Hosted by Megan Schierer with One Health NRT and NSF.

April 12: TBD

April 19: Grad Student Lightning Talks

April 26: No Seminar (SBE Department Meeting)


UMaine Institute of Medicine Spring 2023 Seminar Series

Seminars