[Nhcoll-l] Fwd: Early Career Scientists Symposium | Natural History Collections: Drivers of Innovation

[Cody Thompson]

Colleagues:

Please see the announcement below regarding the upcoming 16th Annual Early
Career Scientists Symposium hosted by the University of Michigan Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/)!
The symposium will be held virtually, and will occur Fridays (March 5th to
April 2nd) from 1 to 3 pm EST.  Details are provided below.

Take care,
Cody

Cody W. Thompson, PhD
Mammal Collections Manager
& Assistant Research Scientist
University of Michigan
Museum of Zoology
3600 Varsity Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108
Office: (734) 615-2810
Fax: (734) 763-4080
Email: cwthomp at umich.edu
Website: codythompson.org

*In response to the ongoing events associated with COVID-19, the University
of Michigan Museum of Zoology has suspended non-essential operations. This
includes access to the collections via scientific visits or outgoing loans.
Please do not ship collections (gifts, exchange, loan returns, etc.) to the
museum at this time.*


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From: Gail Kuhnlein <kuhnlein at umich.edu>
Date: Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 2:04 PM
Subject: Early Career Scientists Symposium | Natural History Collections:
Drivers of Innovation
To: 2012 ECSS Regional Scientists Emails <2012ecssregsci at umich.edu>


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Dear all,

The 16th annual Early Career Scientists Symposium will be held this year in
a virtual format over five consecutive Fridays, beginning March 5 and
concluding April 2, 2021. Our theme is "*Natural History Collections:
Drivers of Innovation*." The 2020 symposium was canceled due to COVID-19
but our full original lineup of speakers will present at the 2021 symposium.


* Host department*: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB)

* Dates*: Fridays, March 5 – April 2, 2021

* Time*: 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

*Further information* <https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/> is on the ECSS
website including *SCHEDULE
<https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/schedule/>, talk titles
<https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/home/speakers-2020/>, **abstracts*
<https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/home/abstracts-2020/>and more. Symposium
poster is attached. *You do not have to be in your early career to attend. *

*REGISTRATION* <https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/ecss/register/> (*Free but
required for Zoom admission. Zoom link and password will be sent to
registrants via email*).

*SCHEDULE*

March 5 | Keynote: *Rob Guralnick* | Sizing up new uses of natural history
collections for ecogeography and global change biology



March 12 | *Jocelyn Colella* | Connecting next-generation museum
collections to public health; *Kelly Speer* | Determining drivers of
symbiont evolution in a multi-tier hierarchical system



March 19 | *Alexis Mychajliw* | Conflicts in context: natural history
collections as archives of human-carnivore interactions through time; *Daniel
Park *| Herbarium collections reveal wide variation in plant phenological
responses to climate; *Alex White* | Biogeography of fern shapes as
revealed by deep learning



March 26 |* Eric LoPresti* | Plants and the materials that stick to them:
an ecological and evolutionary investigation; *Laurel Yohe* | Morphological
and developmental basis of olfactory evolution: evidence from
museum-collected iodine-stained bat specimens and embryos



April 2 | Keynote: *Pamela Soltis* | Integrative research using natural
history collections: examples from herbaria

We hope to see you soon!

Sincerely,
Dan Rabosky

(on behalf of the ECSS Committee: Benjamin Nicholas, Teresa Pegan, Daniel
Rabosky, Brad Ruhfel, Cody Thompson, Taylor West)


Illustration and poster: John Megahan. Image credits: Eric LoPresti, John
Megahan, Timothy James, Linda Garcia

Promotions, logistics & administrative assistance: Linda Garcia, Gail
Kuhnlein

(apologies if you've received this more than once)



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