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AU2025
EEOB 8896.04
Strong Inference Science
Instructor: James Mouton
Credit: 1
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Class# 37683
This class will (1) teach the principles and philosophy of conducting strong inference science and (2) provide students with opportunities to apply this framework to their own research. Strong inference involves a systematic approach to scientific investigation where researchers devise multiple, competing hypotheses, design experiments that can potentially falsify those hypotheses, and then rigorously test those experiments to see which hypotheses are supported or refuted. Students will develop skills related to designing new research and clearly communicating their gap in knowledge, research questions, hypothesis.
EEOB 8896.05
Foundations of Evolution
Co instructors: Carstens/Pease
Meeting day & time: Mondays 10-12
Full semester, 2 credit hours
Class# 38182
An exploration of the central concepts of evolutionary biology and genetics through discussion and readings in the literature of foundational and modern studies. Topics will cover from classical approaches to current computational and AI analysis.
EEOB 8896.21
Mentoring Mentors
Co-Instructors: Adams/Kulesza/Herrmann/Smock
Meeting day & time: Wednesdays 9am
Class# 38186
SP2025
EEOB 8896.04
Applying for academic jobs
Instructors: Meg Daly (daly.66@osu.edu) & Jim Hood (hood.211@osu.edu)
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We will address aspects of this application process including preparing a CV as well as research, teaching, and statements; how to prepare an effective research talk; and what a competitive application looks like. As the seminar progresses, we will also read literature about the academic job market, discuss the requirements for different types of academic jobs, and negotiations. At the end of the seminar, we will spend time discussing other career paths.
EEOB 8896.05
Topics in Scientific Career Development
Instructor: James Pease (pease.25@osu.edu)
credits: 1-2 units
Meeting day & time: 1st 7 weeks of semester
Location: TBD
Class# 307980
Seminar discussing topics in scientific career development with a focus on visual presentation, scientific communication, and oratory.
EEOB 8896.07
Assessing and Monitoring Biodiversity
Instructor: Karen Goodell
Credit: 1-2 units
Location:TBA
Meeting day & time: 1st 7 weeks of semester, Th 10AM-11:30AM
Class#35049
EEOB 8896.19
Multivariate Statistics Course
Instructors: Jacob Hopkins and Alison Bennett
Credit: 1-2 units
Location: Dulles 0016
Meeting day & time: 14 weeks, M W 12:45-2:05pm
Class#30907
Interested in using multivariate statistical methods in your research, but aren’t fan of heavy math and statistics? This seminar will both discuss and provide practical instruction in how to appropriately use methods like ordination, PERMANOVA, factor analysis, structural equation modeling, network modeling, and CoDA methods in your research. We will meet two days a week with Day 1 focusing on lecture and discussion of the method(s), and Day 2 focusing on how to use the method in R. This course will not be HW intensive and will instead rely on in-class participation and a small final project for evaluation. This course will be open to all graduate students and members of the EEOB department, and will not require extensive experience in R. Also, while some math will be discussed, this is not a math based course.
EEOB 8896.19
Foundations of Mathematics for Ecologists
Instructor: Lindsey Bruckerhoff
Credit: 1 Credit hour
Location: Research Center Room 124, 1314 Kinnear Rd.
Meeting day & time: 14 weeks, Thursdays, 2:45-3:45 pm
Class#29202
In this seminar, we will explore how basic mathematical and statistical concepts are applied in ecology. Examples of topics include chaos theory, random effects, Generalized Additive Models, machine learning, and other topics requested by students. This seminar will be largely discussion based.
EEOB 8896.19
SLiM: Simulating Evolution with Selection and Linkage
Instructor: Bryan Carstens (carstens.12@osu.edu)
Credit: 1-2 units
Location:TBD
Meeting day & time: TBD
Class# 38147
Join us in the first half of the Spring 2025 semester as we explore the data simulation package SLiM. According to its development team, SLiM is an evolutionary simulation framework that combines a powerful engine for population genetic simulations with the capability of modeling arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios. Simulations are configured via the integrated Eidos scripting language that allows interactive control over practically every aspect of the simulated evolutionary scenarios. The underlying individual-based simulation engine is highly optimized to enable modeling of entire chromosomes in large populations.
EEOB 8896.21
The Culture of Science
Instructor: Mandy Slate (slate.41@osu.edu)
Credit: 1
Location: TBD
Meeting day & time: Registered students will be polled to determine a day/time before the semester starts. (full semester)
Class##31160
We will engage with weekly readings and discussion topics related to STEM Culture. Concepts discussed will be participant directed to best align with participant interests and recent events. All members of EEOB – faculty, staff, and students – are welcomed and encouraged to participate. Please reach out to Mandy Slate (slate.41@osu.edu) with any questions.
AU2024
EEOB 8896.04
Methods in Plant-Soil Microbial Ecology
Instructors: Steve Hovick and Mandy Slate
Interactions between plants and soil-dwelling microbes are often critical for the performance, fitness, and long-term persistence of plants, but they are notoriously difficult to study. As a result, a wealth of methods have been developed to characterize exactly how plants are affected by their soil microbes (or vice versa), and to characterize the microbial community itself. In this seminar, we will be focusing on current methods within this subfield of ecology by reading and discussing recent papers with an eye towards the methods used in them, and the pros/cons of those methods. Students will pick papers for the group to read and lead discussions about those papers. Grading will be S/U.
EEOB 8896.19
Data Wrangling and Visualization in R
Instructors: Jim Hood (hood.211@osu.edu) and Shaley Valentine
R statistical program is a free, open-access program widely used for data management, visualization and analysis. Using R requires knowledge of its programming language. Accessible tools to effectively learn R coding language and apply functions to research questions are lacking, making learning R for data management, visualization, and analysis daunting. This seminar will walk graduate students through fundamentals of data management, wrangling, and visualization using R. We will work through materials and exercises using real data moving from introduction to R and data management, wrangling data, visualizing data, and the creation of publication quality figures using the tidyverse packages including dplyr, tidyr, and ggplot2. Functions within these packages will allow students to learn the process of moving from raw data to the creation of visualizations using summarized and derived data. Visualization aesthetics for publication-quality figures, fundamentals of data management and visualization, and appropriateness of figures and data types will be emphasized. Writing code in any language takes much practice, so the seminar is meant to provide code, explanation of code, and offer exercises where we practice editing or writing our own code and applying it to ecological datasets.
SP2024
EEOB 8896.02
Domestication
Instructors: Susan Gershman & Ian Hamilton
Processes and patterns associated with domestication by humans and non-human animals, comparing and contrasting domestication and acclimation to anthropogenic environments, and consequences of loss of domestication (feralization).
EEOB 8896.04 (reg term)
Maximizing deep work and productivity in Ecology and Evolution.
Instructors: Jim Hood, & Steve Hovick
We will read selections from various authors (E.g., Deep Work by Cal Newport) focused on maximizing time for deep work, improving project management, and maximizing efficiency.
EEOB 8896.05
Presentation Skills
Instructor: Robin Bagley (bagley.72@osu.edu)
Gain resources and general tips/tricks for preparing and giving presentations.
EEOB 8896.19
Current Topics in Quantitative Methods
Instructor: Gerry Carter
EEOB8896.21
Instructor: Laura Kubatko
AU2023
EEOB 8896.04-20
Foundations of Ecology Graduate Seminar
Instructor: Dr. Stuart Ludsin
EEOB 8896.12 Molecular Ecology
Conservation Genomics
Instructor: Lisle Gibbs
Current topics on application of genomics to conservation of biodiversity.
EEOB 8896.18
Mentoring
Instructors: Rachelle Adams and Zeynep Benderlioglu
EEOB 8896.19
Current Topics in Quantitative Methods
Instructor: Gerry Carter
SP2023
EEOB 8896.14
Applying for academic jobs
Instructors: Meg Daly and Jim Hood
EEOB 8896.19
Applied Multivariate statistics for research
Instructor: Alison Bennett and Jacob Hopkins
EEOB 8896.19
Meta-Analysis in Evolution and Ecology
Instructor: Steve Hovick
EEOB 8896.19
Applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence to evolutionary, ecological, and behavioral research
Instructors: Kaiya Provost and Bryan Carstens
EEOB 8896.19
“Relationships Are Complicated”: Big Data and Complex Microbial Ecological Systems
Instructor: Zakee Sabree
Autumn 2022
EEOB 8896.05
Science Communication
Instructor: Andi Wolfe
EEOB 8896.10
Phylogenetic Comparative Methods
Instructor: Jordan Satler
Spring 2022
EEOB 8896.05
Anthropogenic Change and Behavior
Instructors: Ian Hamilton and Susan Gershman
EEOB 8896.05
Visualizing Symbiosis
Instructor: Rachelle Adams
EEOB 8896.07
Graduate seminar in plant-pollinator biology
Instructor: Karen Goodell
EEOB 8896.09
Current Topics in Environmental DNA (eDNA)
Instructor: Roman Lanno
Autumn 2021
EEOB 8896.17
Invertebrate Zoology: Omic approaches to invertebrate biology
Instructor: Meg Daly
EEOB 8896.19
Meta-Analysis in Evolution and Ecology
Instructor: Steve Hovick
EEOB 8896.19
Current Topics in Quantitative Methods Selected topics in data analysis with R
Instructor: Gerry Carter
Spring 2021
EEOB 8896.04
Symbioses
Instructors: Alison Bennett, Brian Carstens, Meg Daly, Rachelle Adams, Ian Hamilton, Zakee Sabree, and Jason Slot
EEOB 8896.14
Graduate Seminar Harnessing the big data resolution in aquatic ecology: processed based modeling of environmental sensor data.
Instructor: Dr. Jim Hood, EEOB
Autumn 2020
EEOB 6620 & 6630
Scientific Writing in Evolution & Ecology: Manuscripts & Proposals
Instructor: Stu Ludsin
EEOB 8896.04
Phenotypic plasticity, adaptations, and climate change
Instructor: Libby Marschall
EEOB 8896.12
Analyzing the Genomic Basis of Adaptations
Instructors: Lisle Gibbs and Andreas Chavez
EEOB 8896.19
New frontiers in measuring biodiversity
Instructors: Dr. Brooks Kohli and Dr. Marta Jarzyna
EEOB 8896.19
Analyzing animal social networks in R
Instructor: Gerald Carter
EEOB 8896.20
Instructor: Maria Miriti and John Freudenstein
Spring 2020
EEOB 8896.01
Functional and Evolutionary Morphology
Instructor: John Hunter
EEOB 8896.05
Digitized Data: Using museum collections to study biodiversity in the Anthropocene
Instructors: Dr. Lisa Barrow, Dr. Bryan Carstens
EEOB 8896.12
Microbiome meta-analysis
Instructors: Antonino Malacrino and Alison Bennett
Autumn 2019
EEOB 8896.07
Communicating science via photography
Instructor: Andi Wolfe
EEOB8896.12
Analyzing the Genomic Basis of Adaptations
Instructors: Lisle Gibbs and Andreas Chavez
EEOB8896.20
Instructor: Maria Miriti
Spring 2019
EEOB 5194
Group Studies: Evolutionary Ecology
Instructors: Ian Hamilton and Gerry Carter
EEOB 5797
Tropical Behavioral Ecology and Evolution in Panama
Instructors: Rachelle Adams and Gerry Carter
EEOB 6330
Phylogenetic Methods
Instructors: John Freudenstein and Laura Kubatko
EEOB 8896.01
Taste and smell in arthropods
Instructor: Norm Johnson
EEOB 8896.02
Tropical Research Proposal Writing
Instructors: Rachelle Adams and Gerry Carter
EEOB8896.04
Global biodiversity and macroecology
Instructor: Marta Jarzyna
EEOB 8896.09
Ecotoxicology
Instructor: Roman Lanno
EEOB 8896.12
Introduction to Methods in Genome Analysis
Instructors: Alexander Ochoa, Lisle Gibbs, Michael Broe
EEOB 8896.15
Topics in Population Genetics and Phylogenetics
Instructor: Laura Kubatko, and Paul Fuerst
EEOB 8896.19
Quantitative Methods: Multivariate Statistics
Instructor: Dr. Stuart Ludsin, Ben Marcek
Autumn 2018
EEOB 8896.04-190
Graduate Writing Seminar I
Instructor: Ian Hamilton
EEOB 8896.04-290
Graduate Writing Seminar II
Instructor: Ian Hamilton
EEOB 8896.10
Comparative phylogeography
Instructor: Bryan Carstens
Spring 2018
EEOB 8896.10
The practice of taxonomy and nomenclature
Instructor: Marymegan Daly
EEOB 8896.11 Graduate Seminar
Effects of climate change on populations and communities
Instructor: Allison Snow
EEOB 8896.14 Graduate Seminar
Climate change impacts on the structure and function of lake phytoplankton and zooplankton communities.
Instructor: Dr. Jim Hood
EEOB 8896.15
Seminar in Population Genetics
Instructors: Laura Kubatko, Paul Fuerst
Autumn 2017
EEOB 8896.04
Writing Science: Two-part Graduate Seminar Series
Instructor: Stuart Ludsin
EEOB 8896.07
Communicating science via photography
Instructor: Andi Wolfe
May / Summer Semester 2017
EEOB 5798
Tropical Behavioral Ecology and Evolution in Panama
Instructor: Rachelle Adams
EEOB 7210
Methods in Evolution and Ecology: Essential tools for computational biology
Instructors: Bryan Carstens and Ariadna Morales
Spring 2017
EEOB 8896.01
The Anatomy and Physiology of Host-Microbial Interactions
Instructor: Zakee Sabree
EEOB 8896.02
Graduate Seminar: Behavior
Instructor: Rachelle Adams
EEOB 8896.05
Ecological Speciation
Instructor: Bryan Carstens
EEOB 8896.11
Population Ecology Part II: developing and applying demographic models
Instructors: Maria Miriti and Libby Marschall
EEOB 8896.18
Sexual Selection and…
Instructors: Susan Gershman and Andy Roberts
EEOB 8896.19
Agent Based Models in Behavior and Ecology
Instructor: Ian Hamilton
Autumn 2016
EEOB 8896.10
Discussion of current primary literature and major topics in phylogenetic systematics.
Instructor: Meg Daly
EEOB 8896.12
When should engineered gene drives be used to manage wild species?
Instructor: Professor Allison Snow, snow.1@osu.edu
EEOB 8896.15
Seminar in Population Genetics
Instructors: Laura Kubatko and Paul Fuerst
EEOB 8896.19
Meta-Analysis in Evolution and Ecology
Instructor: Steve Hovick
Spring 2016
EEOB 6210
Ecotoxicology
Instructor: Roman Lanno
EEOB8896.04—section 310
Publishing Papers in Plant Ecology
Instructor: Allison Snow
EEOB 8896.05
Molecular Basis of Adaptive Variation in Natural Populations
Instructor: H. Lisle Gibbs
EEOB 8896.07-100
Communicating science via photography
Instructor: Andi Wolfe
EEOB 8896.09
Hydraulic Fracturing: Environmental and sociological considerations
Instructor: Roman Lanno
EEOB8896.15
Population Genetics
Instructor: Laura Kubatko
Autumn 2015
EEOB5420
Ecology of Inland Waters
Jim Bauer
EEOB8896.04 – 500
Writing Science Graduate Seminar
Stuart Ludsin, Michael Fraker, Conor Keitzer
EEOB8896.05
Evolutionary radiations seminar
Andi Wolfe
EEOB 8896.11
Teaching College-level Ecology: Bringing Innovation Into the Laboratory Experience
Maria Miriti and Peter Curtis
EEOB8896.12
Molecular Ecology
Bryan Carstens
EEOB8896.18
Host finding mechanisms in insects
Norm Johnson
EEOB8896.19 :: CANCELED
Current Topics in Quantative Methods
Bryan Carstens
Spring 2015
EEOB8896.02 – 500
Graduate Seminar in Complex Adaptive Systems in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior
Dr. Ian Hamilton
EEOB 8896.05
Evolutionary Innovation
Dr. John Freudenstein
EEOB 8896.12
Model-based Phylogeography
Dr. Bryan Carstens
EEOB 8896.15
Topics in Phylogenomic Inference
Instructor: Laura Kubatko
Autumn 2014
EEOB 5450
Quantitative Population Ecology
Drs. Maria Miriti, Libby Marschall, and Noelle Beckman
EEOB 8896.02
Animal Personalities
Instructor: Dr. Doug Nelson
EEOB 8896.04
Career Options for EEOB PhDs: Exploring the Landscape
Instructor: Dr. Allison Snow, EEOB
EEOB 8896.04
EEOB Departmental Seminar Series
Dr. Zakee Sabree
EEOB 8896.07-100 (34551)
Communicating science via photography
Instructor: Andi Wolfe
EEOB 8896.12
Molecular Ecology focusing on Phylogeography and Landscape genetics
Instructor: Bryan Carstens
Spring 2014
EEOB 5320
Creation and Evolution: Differing Worldviews (29190)
Instructor: Dr. Andrea D. Wolfe
EEOB 6210
Ecotoxicology
Instructor: Roman Lanno
EEOB 6320
Principles of Systematics I
Instructor: Hans Klompen
EEOB 7220
Modeling in Evolutionary Ecology
Instructors: Ian Hamilton, Libby Marschall, David Glover
EEOB 8896.04
Graduate Seminar in Ecology: Ecology and evolution in weedy and invasive species: considering plant functional traits
Instructors: Steve Hovick and Kristin Mercer (HCS faculty)
EEOB 8896.05
Evolution and ecology of animal venoms: Unanswered questions
Instructors: Meg Daly, Lisle Gibbs
EEOB 8896.06
Phylogeography and evolution in marine systems
Instructor: Meg Daly
EEOB 8896.15
Current Topics in Mathematical Population Genetics
Instructors: Laura Kubatko and Paul Fuerst
Spring 2014 :: Courses of interest outside of EEOB
ENTOMOLOGY 7910
The Nature and Practice of Science
Instructors:
Dr. Dan Herms , Professor and Chair, Dept. of Entomology
Dr. Carol Anelli, Professor and Associate Chair, Dept. of Entomology
Dr. Ross MacDonald, Research Scientist, Dept. of Entomology
VETBIOS 8855
Commercialization for Researchers
Team Leader: Professor Thomas Rosol
Autumn 2013
EEOB 5420
Ecology of Inland Waters
Instructor: Dr. James Bauer
EEOB 7310
Studies in Taxonomy (to become Plant Taxonomy)
Instructor: Dr. John Freudenstein
EEOB 8896.02
Behavior Seminar
Instructors: Dr. Andrew Roberts & Dr. Susan Gershman
EEOB 8896.04
Publishing in High-Impact Journals
Instructor: Dr. Allison Snow
EEOB 8896.10
Graduate Seminar in Systematics:
Instructor: Bryan Carstens
EEOB 8896.11
Foundations of Quantitative Ecology Seminar
Instructor: Paul Hurtado
EEOB 8896.11
Graduate Seminar in Population Ecology:
Introduction to R for Biologists
Instructor: Simon Queenborough