If you would like to propose a speaker, please contact us at eebtalks@queensu.ca or with the contact form on this website.
EEB seminar schedule for 2020/2021:
Winter 2021
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
Jan 14th | Blake Jones | Bennington College | Bonier Lab | |
Jan 21st | Manas Samant | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research | Chippindale Lab | |
Jan 28th | Kate Laskowski | UC Davis | EEB | |
Feb 4th | René S. Shahmohamadloo | University of Guelph | Orihel Lab | |
Feb 11th | Geetha Thimmegowda | National Centre for Biological Sciences and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research | Aristizabal Lab | |
Feb 18th | Lindsay Miles | University of Toronto Mississauga | Martin Lab | |
Feb 25th | Daniel Gillis | University of Toronto | Lougheed Lab | |
Mar 4th | Emily Choy | McGill University | Friesen Lab | |
Mar 11th | Christopher Schell | University of Washington Tacoma | Bonier Lab | |
Mar 18th | Amanda Xuereb | Université Laval | Lougheed Lab | |
Mar 25th | Zeeshan Syed | Syracuse University | Chippindale Lab | |
Apr 1st | Amy Forsythe (exit seminar) | Queen’s University | Nelson/Day Labs | |
Apr 8th | Wenxi Feng (exit seminar) | Queen’s University | Lougheed Lab | |
Apr 15th | Julie Messier | University of Waterloo | Eckert Lab |

Fall 2020
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
Sept 10th | Theresa Jones | Queen’s University | Martin Lab | Sociality across multiple foraging contexts in a colonial seabird |
Sept 17th | Panel: Jacqueline Scott, Peter Soroye, Jessica Winters | University of Toronto, University of Ottawa, Memorial University | EEB | How to make ecology less white |
Sept 24th | Leslie Holmes | Queen’s University | Nelson Lab | Direct and indirect effects of host food quality on host life |
Oct 1st | Olivier Cotto | Queen’s University | Day Lab | Models of adaptation to climate change with complex life histories |
Oct 8th | Steve Phelps | University of Texas at Austin | Bonier Lab | Singing mice as integrative models for adaptive display |
Oct 15th | Chris Boccia | Queen’s Univerity | Friesen Lab | Testing for convergent evolution in semi-aquatic Anolis lizards |
Oct 22nd | Emma Lachance Linklater | Queen’s Univerity | Friesen Lab | Population genomic structure of Glaucous Gull in the Canadian Arctic |
Oct 29th | Mike Dungey | Queen’s University | Eckert Lab | A broad-scale test of dispersal constraints on the northern range limit of a Pacific coastal dune plant |
Nov 5th | Lauren Carley | University of Minnesota | Eckert Lab | Ecological contexts of balancing selection in nature |
Nov 12th | Robin Kimmerer | SUNY ESF | QUBS | What does the Earth ask of us? |
Nov 19th | Maria Aristizabal | Queen’s University | EEB | Deciphering mechanisms of transcription regulation and their role in the biological embedding of experience |
Nov 26th | Ina Anreiter | University of Toronto | Aristizabal Lab | Deciphering pleiotropy: how complex genes are regulated to affect behaviour |
Dec 3rd | Peter Soroye | University of Ottawa | Eckert Lab | Climate change and land use change impacts on pollinators |
Dec 10th | Cathy Rushworth | University of Minnesota and UC Davis | Friedman Lab | Ecology and evolution of mate choice in wild plant populations |