College of Earth, Life, and Health Sciences

Go Blue Friday
2018-02-04, 2018-02-05, 2018-02-06, 2018-02-07, 2018-02-08, 2018-02-09, 2018-02-10 | ME
The following days have been designated as UMaine’s Go Blue Fridays, a chance to show your UMaine spirit and campus pride by wearing blue and/or UMaine clothing: Feb. 10 and 24; March 24; April 7 and 14; and May 12.

Phylodynamics of Pathogen Transmission in Multi-host Wildlife Disease Systems
2018-02-05 12:15 - 13:15 (America/New_York) | 204 Nutting Hall, Orono, ME, United States
The Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology presents
Dr. Pauline Klamath
University of Maine

Host: Sara Boone
Please contact the speaker’s respective host to make arrangements to meet with speakers.

Sara Boone: sara.wendt@maine.edu (414) 750-0424
Brandon Boxler: brandon.boxler@maine.edu (808) 230-7099
Scott Lindemann: scott.lindemann@maine.edu (425) 503-8528

If you are a person with a disability and need an accommodation to participate in this program, please call or text Scott Lindemann (425) 503-8528 to discuss your needs. Receiving requests for accommodations at least 2 days before the program provides a reasonable amount of time to meet the request, however all requests will be considered.

Yin Yang-1 is master regulator of T cell exhaustion in cancer and HIV
2018-02-05 13:30 - 14:30 | 203 Hitchner Hall, Orono, ME, 04469, United States
The Department of Molecular & Biomedical Sciences presents
Mumtaz Y. Balkhi Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Tufts University School of Medicine

Host: Robert Gundersen, Ph.D.
All lectures are free and open to the public. The University of Maine is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. If you are a person with a disability and need an accommodation to attend/participate in this program, please call Doreen Sanborn at 207-581-2810, as early as possible before the event, to discuss your needs.

Species Invasions and Rapid Adaptation in the Sea
2018-02-09 11:15 - 12:15 | 354 Aubert Hall, 354 Aubert Hall, Orono, ME, United States
Dr. Carolyn Tepolt
Assistant Scientist – Biology
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Biological invasions are agents of significant and ongoing global environmental change, and can have devastating ecological and economic consequences. They also offer a rare opportunity to study rapid adaptation in nature. Invasive species, by definition, are highly adept at surviving and thriving in novel environments. I integrate ecology, physiology, and genomics to explore the dynamics of rapid adaptation in marine systems using species invasions as natural experiments. In the invasive European green crab, temperature appears to have shaped physiology and genomics on both long and short time scales. In the white-fingered mud crab, an invasive body-snatching parasite impacts host crab populations very differently depending on their co-evolutionary history.
Polycom availability with Darling Marine Center, Gulf of Maine Research Institute, and Bigelow Laboratories
Host: Nishad Jayasundara

The Intersection of Science, Policy, and Activism
2018-02-09 15:00 - 16:00 | 107 Norman Smith Hall, orono, ME, United States
The School of Biology and Ecology presents
Leehi Yona
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
Leehi Yona is a MESc candidate at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. She studies ways to integrate climate science and policy, and is examining greenhouse gas inventories from ecological and political science perspectives. Specifically, she researches the way soil carbon stocks in forests are measured by scientists and understood by policymakers. She is passionate about science communication and the science-policy interface and has written nearly 100 opinion pieces on climate policy. She was named Canada’s Top Environmentalist Under 25.
All are welcome! Refreshments served at 3:00 PM
For information: Zach Wood, zachary.t.wood@maine.edu
Co-sponsored by SBE GO and the School of Biology & Ecology as part of the 2018 Spring Seminar Series
