Eco/Evo Lunches are weekly seminars for students, postdocs, faculty, and other friends of the department to share research, conversation, and lunch. Lunch is provided weekly, followed by research talks on topics in ecology and evolution.

Dr. Joseph Hoyt's lab explores the effects of introduced pathogens on biodiversity loss and seeks to understand the ecological dynamics of emerging wildlife diseases to help identify and develop effective management solutions. They use a variety of techniques including empirical data collection, field and laboratory experiments, and modeling approaches to understand host and pathogen dynamics. The lab primarily focuses on questions related to free-living pathogen survival and its effects on populations, and novel host and pathogen responses across spatial and temporal scales. Hoyt and colleagues work on these questions across a variety of systems including white-nose syndrome, which has resulted in the collapse of North American bat populations, and snake fungal disease, caused by an invasive pathogen with unknown impacts to snake communities. 

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