Department News
2018-09-17 Professors Pamela Yeh And Van Savage, As Well As Postdoctoral Researcher, Elif Tekin's Remarkable NSF- And Nih/ncats-funded Npj Systems Biology And Applications Antibiotics Research Was UCLA's #4 Top Story Of 2018
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EEB Postdoctorate Student, Evan Mccartney-melstad, Featured In A Q&a In Knowable Magazine
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Upcoming Seminars
January 23, 2019
Nathan Lemoine
An Integrative Ecology Approach to Predicting the Consequences of Global Change on Communities and Ecosystems
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January 28, 2019
Anna Trugman
Leveraging Ecophysiology and Trait-Based Ecology to Predict Forest Responses to Climate Change
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Dr. Charles Marshall
Inferring Ecological Processes and Evolutionary Dynamics from Molecular Phylogenies and the Fossil Record: Some Unexpected Finding (Some Welcome, Some not!) […]
Jamie Lloyd-Smith
I am interested in the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, and I build mathematical models of disease spread and test them against epidemiological data to better understand disease dynamics. From HIV to pandemic influenza, most infectious diseases of humans originate in other animal species, and many (like rabies or West Nile virus) cross the animal - human boundary all the time. [ read more]