Photo and video contest voting is here!
Pick your top 10 by Oct. 1. Email your vote to Christy Byks-Jazayeri.

SNRE's Sustainable Agriculture Speaker Series begins
4 - 5:30 p.m., Mondays, 2024 Dana Building
Sept. 8, Professor John Vandermeer presents “Rethinking biodiversity conservation in tropical agricultural landscapes."
Sept. 15, Professor Catherine Badgley presents "Report on the Organic World Congress."
See SNRE events.

EEB student and faculty photo and video contest
Submit photos and videos of yourselves engaging in research. (more)

The EEB Fall Weekend: Meet, mingle, and explore!
The 24th Annual EEB Fall Weekend (formerly known as the Retreat) at the University of Michigan Biological Station in Pellston, Mich. will be held Friday, Sept. 5 through Sunday, Sept. 7.

The program will include field trips, a tour of the station facilities, parties, a poster session, special graduate student gatherings and brief presentations by faculty on major questions in their areas of interest. The poster session will be the usual low-tech, high-quality presentations by all participants. There will be a prize for the best student poster, so think (but don’t actually do anything) ahead! We will provide poster paper and magic markers on site. Posters are optional for first year students.

Also, note that a field trip to Mud Lake Bog will be available. If you are interested, please bring rubber boots or old sneakers and a dry pair to change into—you will get wet—and have a great time. A field trip schedule will be emailed this week.

Bring a sleeping bag, pillow, towel, flashlight, clothes for outdoor hiking and playing, extra shoes or boots and bathing suits (UMBS is on Douglas Lake). Be sure to bring some warm clothing, as it is likely to be cooler than the Ann Arbor area. We will sleep on beds in cabins or in the dormitory. 

There will be socials hosted by the faculty on Friday evening and during/after the poster session on Saturday evening. Breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday will be served in the UMBS dining hall. Participants will also be able to pack sack lunches during breakfast on Sunday morning for the trip back to Ann Arbor.

The cost for food and lodging is:
Faculty $65
Postdocs $30
Grad students $15

Spouses, significant others, and children are very welcome as guests. The cost for each guest is the same as the sponsor’s cost, except that children under five attend for free.

Any student who has financial difficulty should see Deborah Goldberg for assistance. If enough people are interested, the department will arrange some activities for children or provide childcare so that student, postdoc, and faculty parents can participate fully in activities. 

Vans will be available for transportation to UMBS and a sign-up sheet for rides will be posted on the EEB student lounge/mailroom door (room 2060 Nat Sci). Vans will depart at 1, 5 and 6 p.m. and the trip takes four to four-and-a-half hours. Car pooling is encouraged if you want to drive. A map will be posted next to the sign-up sheet.

Participation in the retreat is both valuable and fun for new students, experienced students and faculty. New students benefit greatly by meeting their new colleagues and learning about the graduate program and research in EEB. Everyone gets to know each other better at a first-class facility in a beautiful setting. 

Please let us know if you plan to attend, by contacting Jane Sullivan in the EEB Graduate Office in 2019 Nat Sci with the information requested. Payment, via check made out to the University of Michigan, should be given to Sullivan by Thursday, September 4, 2008 (see her if this is a problem). Please give us give us your reply about attending as soon as possible so we can make plans for transport and accommodations at the BioStation.

New EEB student orientation
Breakfast and introductions will begin at 9 a.m., Thursday, 8/28/08, Room 2009 Ruthven Museums. Get acquainted with new colleagues and EEB’s resources. Further scheduling information is forthcoming.

Come to her defense
3:30, Monday, August 25. Nicole Maturen presents "Genetic analysis of the evolution of petaloid bracts in dogwood." East Conference Room, Rackham Building.

BioStation centennial
A public open house will be held from 2 - 6 p.m, June 28, at the U-M Biological Station to celebrate the 100 year anniversary. Alumni and friends will gather Aug. 21- 23 on the shores of Douglas Lake near Pellston, Mich. (LSAmagazine story, U-M News service press release)

Michigan Ecology Mixer at ESA conference
Faculty, students, alumni, and their guests are invited to the Michigan Ecology Mixer at the Hilton Milwaukee City Center 6:30 – 8:30 p.m., Tuesday, August 5 at the Ecological Society of America annual meeting in Milwaukee, Wisc.

Come to her defense
10 a.m., Wednesday, 8/13/08, Room 2024 Dana Building. Andrea Walther presents "A systematic study of North American freshwater limpets (Gastropoda: Hygrophila: Ancylidae)."

Camp Explorations returns to Exhibit Museum
This summer your children can try their hands at paleontology, astronomy, forensic science, archaeology and more at the U-M Exhibit Museum of Natural History’s Camp Explorations program. (more)

UROP open house
Undergraduate Research Opportunity invites faculty, postdocs and research scientists to breakfast and to learn how to be a UROP sponsor. 8:30 - 10 a.m., 7/31/08, Undergraduate Science Building. RSVP to Shante Galloway.

Peonies and plays at Arb
The peony garden is in glorious bloom at the Nichols Arboretum. this year's Shakespeare in the Arb is "Two Gentlemen of Verona": 6:30 – 9 p.m., June 5 - 8, 12-15, 19-22. Matinee show added, Sunday, June 22 at 1 p.m. (more)

Upcoming Ph.D. defenses
10 a.m., Monday, 5/19. Ben-Yang Liao presents "Expression evolution of mammalian genes.” Rackham West Conference Room.

10 a.m., Friday, 4/18/08, West Conference Room, Rackham. Javier Ruiz presents "Plant dispersal, seedling recruitment and insect herbivory: evidence from the Dipteryx oleifera system."

1:00 p.m., Friday, 4/18/08, 2024 Dana Building. Wendy Grus presents "Evolution of the vomeronasal system viewed through specific genes."

11 a.m., Friday, 4/25/08, West Conference Room, Rackham. Jim Crants presents "Pollination and pollen limitation in mayapple (Podophyllum peltatum L.), a deceit-pollinated spring ephemeral."

EEB spring party
12 - 1:30 p.m., Monday, 4/28, Celebrate spring and the end of the semester with fellow faculty, students and staff with lunch in the Natural Science courtyard. Rain backup: Room 2117 Nat Sci.

Garden lecture
7:45 p.m., Monday, 4/21, Professor Mark Hunter presents "The natural and un-natural history of milkweeds: Insects, toxins and other stories" at the U-M Matthaei Botanical Gardens.

Science Cafe: People at the poles
5:30-7:30 p.m., 4/9, Conor O'Neill's Traditional Irish Pub. Professor Knute Nadelhoffer will discuss the impact of human presence in the polar regions.

Special seminar
7 p.m., 4/8/08, Natural Science auditorium. Dr. William Provine, Cornell University, presents "Limitations of the evolutionary synthesis for modern evolutionary biology."

Seminar series: Are science and religion compatible?

The National Academy of Sciences has asserted that “the evidence for evolution can be fully compatible with religious faith.” What do four scholars of science, history, philosophy and politics make of this striking assertion?

All seminars are at 7:30 p.m. in the Chemistry Building.
4/9/08, 1800 Chemistry. William Provine, Cornell University, presents “Double talk at the NAS: How to have your cake and eat it too.”
4/2/08, 1210 Chemistry. Dr. David Mindell, University of Michigan, presents “NAS in the headlights: Discomfort the public, compromise science, or both” and Joseph Kay, science writer for the World Socialist Web Site, presents “Evolution and science in American politics.”
3/26/08, 1210 Chemistry. Dr. Steven Nadler, University of Wisconsin, presents “Spinoza’s God and the Problem of Religion.”

Sponsored by: The Society of Biology Students, The Michigan Student Assembly, The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, The Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, The Department of Philosophy, and The Exhibit Museum of Natural History.

UMMZ special seminars
The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology hosts a special seminar at noon, Friday, March 21, Room 2009 Ruthven Museums. Dr. Trevor Price, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, author of “Speciation in Birds” (2008) Roberts & Co. presents "Speciation into and out of the Himalayas."

Noon, 3/24/08, 2009 Ruthven Museums. Dr. James Edwards, first executive director of the Encyclopedia of Life will give a seminar entitled "The Encyclopedia of Life: a web page for every species."

Ph.D. defense seminar
3:10 p.m., Wednesday, 4/2/08, East Conference Room, Rackham. Luis Fernando Chaves presents "Ecological dynamics of vector-borne diseases in changing environments."

Early Career Scientists Symposium: Networks in ecology and evolution

The Shapiro Science Library invites you to a reception from 4 - 6 p.m. on 2/20 to dedicate their new permanent display of science journal covers. EEB is well represented with 11 of the 24 covers by Jennifer Ast, Henryk Urbanczyk, Paul Dunlap, Robyn Burnham, Meghan Pearce, George Estabrook, Bryan Carstens, Lacey Knowles, Taehwan Lee, Diarmaid Ó Foighil, Barry OConnor, Anton Reznicek and John Vandermeer. The reception takes place on the third floor of the Shapiro Library Building in the Shien-Ming Wu Current Periodicals Reading Room. RSVP by February 8 to Marylin Cesarz.

Special seminar for undergrads
5 - 6 p.m., Wednesday, 1/9/08, 1024 Dana Building. Dr. Elizabeth Jockusch presents "Where have all the frogs gone? Amphibian diversity and decline." Presented by the LSA Honors Program and EEB, with thanks to Matthew Chatfield.


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