Nyeema Harris Knobloch Family Associate Professor of Wildlife and Land Conservation Yale University

Theme: Animal behavior, conservation, and urban ecology

Download the Event Flyer (PDF) AND the Scavenger Hunt Flyer (PDF)

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Agenda

Friday, September 9th

11:30 AM G10 Biotech Seminar: Spatial ecology of carnivores across scales in a crowding planet (coffee and snacks available before the talk)

Lunch after the seminar

3 PM A409 Corson Hall, Whittaker Room Workshop for grads and postdocs led by Nyeema: Scaling up and out your academic impact by diversifying your scholarly portfolio.

Saturday, September 10th

9:00 AM – afternoon Treman South Shelter Organismal Biology Symposium & Social Talks (start at 9:30), lunch, natural history, and plenty of opportunity for socializing.

• • Courtney Murdock, ENT faculty, Predicting vector-borne disease transmission in an increasingly urban world
  • Brian Dillard, EEB Graduate student, Humanization of wildlife gut microbiota in urban environments
  • Jeremy Searle, EEB Faculty, history of black rat colonization
  • Michael Sheehan, NBB Faculty, Effects of domestication on behavior of rewilded lab mice
  • Paola Andrea Olaya Areans, postdoc ENT, Exploring the diversity and function of insects associated with Ficus americana in urban environments
  • Dan Katz, SiPS faculty, Plants, pollen, and people: leveraging ecology to address a public health problem
  • Aalayna Green, DNRE student, Wild Seed: Integrating Justice & Identity within Conservation Science & Practice
  • Sebastian Heilpern, postdoc (EEB/DNRE), Functional diversity enhances the multiple nutritional contributions fish make to people

1:30 – 3:30 PM  following lunch  Natural History Scavenger Hunt. Prizes for the top teams! Bonus points for teams with New Cornellians (for example, 1st year PhDs). Scavenger hunt will feature a mix of species, ecological interactions, and behaviors to capture with your phone/camera.

3:30 PM  Academic Karaoke and Prizes