Emory's Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution Graduate Program

Hi PBEE, please join us today for seminar to welcome our incredible speaker, Dr. Brandon Ogbunu of Brown University.

https://news.emory.edu/stories/2020/01/lgs_Brent_Allman/campus.html

Congrats, Brent!

Brent Allman receives the Kharen Fulton Award Brent Allman, a fourth-year student in the Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution doctoral program, has been named the Laney Graduate School’s 2019-20 Kharen Fulton Diversity Awardee.

All! Tomorrow is the PBEE retreat, so there will be no seminar. For those of you who are attending the retreat, it will be a day so fun that you won't even realize you will be learning too. It will take place at Hard Labor Creek State Park (that got its name from the eponymous creek which runs through the park).

Check your e-mails for the schedule. Google predicts it will take roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes to arrive at 9:45am on Friday (from campus), so plan accordingly!

The exact location is the golf course club house at:
1400 Knox Chapel Rd, Social Circle, GA 30025

And remember to wear comfortable walking shoes and bring an umbrella or rain jacket just in case. See you tomorrow!

Hard Labor Creek Golf Course ★★★★☆ · Golf course · 1400 Knox Chapel Rd

Join us tomorrow for our resumption of invited speaker talks (after so many great defense talks & ethics seminars!). We will be hosting Dr. Micaela Martinez from Columbia University. Dr. Martinez is a disease ecologist focusing on drivers of seasonality in infectious disease systems and the impact of biological rhythms on disease. Learn more about her here:

https://memartinez.org/

1462 Bldg, room 308, noon-1pm. See you then!

Micaela E Martinez, Ph.D. Infectious Disease Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

New paper by PBEE graduate student Erica Harris in PLoS Pathogens. Check it out here!

Diet–microbiome–disease: Investigating diet’s influence on infectious disease resistance through alteration of the gut microbiome Abiotic and biotic factors can affect host resistance to parasites. Host diet and host gut microbiomes are two increasingly recognized factors influencing disease resistance. In particular, recent studies demonstrate that (1) particular diets can reduce parasitism; (2) diets can alter the gut microb...

TODAY! Come see Dr. Venkat Talla, postdoc in the de Roode lab, discuss his work on "Patterns of genetic diversity, gene flow, selection and base composition in genomes of Lepidoptera." https://twitter.com/Talla_Venkat

Noon-1pm; 1462 Bldg, Room 308, snacks

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Hello everyone! Please remember to join us TODAY at noon for our seminar this week, given by Venkat Talla: "Patterns of genetic diversity, gene flow, selection and base composition in the genomes of Lepidoptera"

Hello all, please join us this Friday, at 12 to listen to Megan Cole present her talk, "Course-based research experiences and persistence in science"

Congrats to recent PBEE graduate Wen-Hao Tan for his first-author publication in Molecular Ecology! And shout out to current student, Erica Harris, for her contributions to this work. Check it out here:

Transcriptomics of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) reveals that toxic host plants alter expression of detoxification genes and down‐regulate a small number of immune genes Herbivorous insects have evolved many mechanisms to overcome plant chemical defenses, including detoxification and sequestration. Herbivores may also use toxic plants to reduce parasite infection. Pl...

"Uno de los mayores retos que tenemos como sociedad es tratar de vivir en armonía con los murciélagos", Amanda Vicente Santos, bióloga y especialista en murciélagos. Más información en http://ucr.cr/r/3f3J

PBEE's very own Carmen Shaw wrote an article for INSCRIPTO, the GDBBS alumni newsletter, called "Representation of at a predominantly white institution." Check it out here:

Representation of #BlackGirlMagic at a Predominantly White Institution — GDBBS Alumni Newsletter By: Carmen Shaw National and private establishments invest millions of dollars annually into science diversity programs in order to expand representation in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields – for both undergraduate and graduate schools. Nevertheless, minority groups continu...