November 28–29, 3–5:30 p.m. each day
Orchard View Room, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, 330 N. Orchard St.
This annual two-day event includes keynote speeches from a prominent visiting researcher in the field of ecology and talks from early-career and recent additions to UW–Madison’s ecology community.
Thanks to all who attended!
Videos
Day 1
- Introduction
- Talks by early-career UW–Madison faculty
- Lecture by Dr. Mercedes Pascual, “The Structure of Hyper-Diversity and Niche Emergence in Host-Pathogen Systems”
Day 2
- Welcome
- Talks by early-career UW–Madison faculty
- Lecture by Dr. Mercedes Pascual, “Polarization in the Science and Communication of Climate and Infectious Diseases”
Keynote Speaker
Mercedes Pascual
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago
Pascual is a theoretical ecologist interested in the temporal and spatio-temporal dynamics of ecological systems, from populations experiencing the spread of pathogens to large communities of interacting species in ecosystems. With an itinerant undergraduate and graduate trajectory that took her back and forth between biology and mathematics, she is deeply interested in the intersection of numbers and nature. She studies complex systems in ecology and epidemiology to understand and predict patterns of variability and their connection to structure and scale.
“Biological systems in general, with their diversity and interactions at different levels of organization, represent this century’s challenge for quantitative approaches, including dynamical modeling, statistical inference and informatics,” Pascual says. “Ecological systems, including the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, pose some of the most urgent and challenging problems today.”
Pascual will present two keynote talks:
- The Structure of Hyper-Diversity and Niche Emergence in Host-Pathogen Systems
- Polarization in the Science and Communication of Climate and Infectious Diseases
UW–Madison Faculty Speakers
Sarah Ensor
Assistant Professor, Department of English
Queer Ecologies and Other Incongruous Juxtapositions
Nisa Karimi
Research Associate, Department of Botany
Spatial Variation in the Pollination Ecology of the African Baobab (Adansonia digitata)
Jess Hua
Assistant Professor, Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
Pollutants, Parasites, and People — Disease Ecology in the Face of Environmental Change
Olaf Jensen
Associate Professor, Center for Limnology
Are Marine Fisheries Sustainable? Comparative Analysis of the World’s Largest Fisheries
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