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NIMBioS 2020 Event Calendar Archive
Due to the evolving coronavirus situation, NIMBioS activities that involved travel to NIMBioS from March%nbsp;10th through December 31 were canceled, postponed, or conducted remotely. Read more ».
January 2020
Jan 1	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for New Year's Day.
February 2020
Feb 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after March 15.
Feb 3	Ecological Society of America (ESA) Southeast Chapter Communications Training
Feb 4 3:30 p.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Carlos A. Botero, Biology, Washington Univ., Saint Louis, MO Topic: Ecological and evolutionary modeling shed light into the evolution and spread of human agriculture
Feb 27-29	Quantitative Biology at Community Colleges Network Meeting, hosted by NIMBioS.
March 2020
Mar 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after April 15.
Mar 3 3:30 p.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Christian Houle, Political Science, Michigan State Univ. Topic: The political implications of ethnic inequality
Mar 3 2 p.m.	Pre-workshop online Webinar for NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Quantitative Education in Life Science Graduate Programs
Mar 10	Postponed due to COVID-19. DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Neil Johnson, Physics, The George Washington Univ., Washington D.C. Topic: Online ecologies of distrust and hate
Mar 12-14	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitor to NIMBioS: Kling et al. collaborating with Suzanne Lenhart and Charles Sims on "Computational models of adaptive management"
Mar 16-18	Postponed due to COVID-19. NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Quantitative Education in Life Science Graduate Programs
Mar 16-18	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Petrovskii et al. collaborating with UT paleontoligist Colin Sumrall to study "Transient dynamics of mass extinctions: Linking the past to the future"
Mar 23-26	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Zhou et al. collaborating to study "Biodiversity loss in the face of global change"
Mar 24 3:30 p.m. Online only	NIMBioS/Math Biology Seminar. Sandy Liebhold, Research Entomologist, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service. Topic: Socioeconomic drivers of historical global insect invasions
Mar 31 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Webinar. The role of applied math in real-time pandemic response: How basic disease models work with Dr. Nina Fefferman, Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Tennessee
April 2020
Apr 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after May 15.
Apr 1-3	Postponed due to COVID-19. NIMBioS Tutorial: Adaptive Management.
Apr 1-4	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Chang and Masuda collaborating with Paul Armsworth and his research group to study "Using environmental social media to combat issue polarization for common pool resources"
Apr 6-9	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Ferguson et al. collaborating with Bialic-Murphy and others to study "Quantifying the effects of non-native invaders on the biodiversity of island ecosystems and developing biologically and economically efficient restoration strategies"
Apr 7 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Webinar. Costs and benefits of defending against viral infection: Lessons from natural ecosystems with Dr. David Talmy, Microbiology, Univ. of Tennessee
Apr 7	Postponed due to COVID-19. DySoC/NIMBioS Seminar. Michael Bailey, Research Scientist Manager, Facebook Topic: The economic impact of social networks
Apr 10	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Spring Holiday.
Apr 14 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Webinar. Modeling for a globally connected world: What models are good for and how they work with Dr. Louis Gross, Mathematics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Univ. of Tennessee
Apr 21 3:30 p.m.	NIMBioS Webinar. Mathematical modeling of malaria transmission by mosquitoes with Dr. Vitaly Ganusov, Assoc. Professor, Microbiology, Univ. of Tennessee
May 2020
May 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after June 15
May 5-8	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Manore et al. collaborating with Louis Gross to study "Grower decisions and cooperation impact on crop disease spread"
May 11-15	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitor to NIMBioS: Molofsky et al. collaborating on "Exploring the edge of trait space with theoretical models"
May 12-15	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Lawani et al. collaborating with Amanda Hyman, Paul Armsworth, and Orou Gaoue on "Addressing conservation issues in Benin with innovative optimization models"
May 18-22	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitor to NIMBioS: Bernoff et al. collaborating with Christopher Strickland on "Foraging and social interaction in the formation of locust hopper bands"
May 25	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Memorial Day.
May 27-30	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Kivlin et al. group collaborating on "Creating a framework to interpret and model plant and mycorrhizal fungal traits at the global scale"
June 2020
Jun 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after July 15
Jun 1-Jul 10	NIMBioS Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (SRE)
Jun 1-3	Postponed due to COVID-19. TRIPODS+X Meeting/Innovation Lab
July 2020
Jul 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after August 15
Jun 1-Jul 10	NIMBioS Summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (SRE)
Jul 3	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Independence Day.
Jul 27-29	Rescheduled to Nov 9-10 due to COVID-19. NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Computational Modeling to Advance Cultivated Meat.
Jul 30 4 p.m.	Outreach Webinar: NIMBioS with GAMES. From suburbia to ski bum to succession with Virginia Dale, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee; Corporate Fellow Emeritus, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Register to attend this free event, designed for middle school students (and their parents).
August 2020
Aug 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after September 15
Aug 6 4-5 p.m.	Outreach Webinar: NIMBioS with GAMES. Making the right moves in chess and in life with Carolina Blanco, Chess Master, Orthodontist, Entrepreneur
Aug 10-14	Postponed due to COVID-19. Short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Storey et al. group collaborating with Vasileios Maroulas and Farzana Nasrin on "Topological methods for identifying patterns in lung tumor gene expression data"
Aug 20 4 p.m.	Outreach Webinar: NIMBioS with GAMES: One girl's journey in engineering – Pave your own path! with Ozlem Kilic, Associate Dean for Student Affairs at Tickle College of Engineering, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville Register to attend this free event, designed for middle school students (and their parents).
September 2020
Sep 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS beginning after October 15
Sep 7	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Labor Day.
Sep 29 11:45 a.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Webinar on Cultural Evolution: Outreach for the Cultural Evolution Society: Everybody needs to know a little bit about cultural evolution, with Peter J. Richerson (Univ. of California, Davis).
October 2020
Oct 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS. Proposed visit dates must be at least two weeks after the submission date.
Oct 3	The 24th MTSU Expanding Your Horizons Virtual Conference (in collaboration with NIMBioS, the Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, Vol State, and Motlow)
Oct 6 11:45 a.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Webinar on Cultural Evolution: How to teach modeling, or Thoughts on a pedagogy for cultural evolution, with Paul E. Smaldino (Cognitive and Information Sciences, Univ. of California, Merced)
Oct 9	Tennessee Entomological Society 47th Annual Conference (virtual conference in collaboration with NIMBioS)
Oct 13 11:45 a.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Webinar on Cultural Evolution: Animal cultures: Core discoveries and new horizons with Andy Whiten (Univ. of St Andrews, UK)
Oct 20 11:45 a.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Webinar on Cultural Evolution: Cognitive biases in folklore: From fairy tales to fake news with Joseph Stubbersfield (Psychology, Heriot-Watt Univ., Edinburgh, UK)
Oct 26-29	NIMBioS Tutorial: Adaptive Management, to be conducted remotely.
Oct 26-29	NIMBioS Tutorial Webinars: Adaptive Management, to be conducted remotely.
Oct 27 11:45 a.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Webinar on Cultural Evolution: Foundations of cultural evolution with Adrian Viliami Bell (Anthropology, Univ. of Utah)
Oct 30 3:30 p.m.	Undergraduate Research Conference pre-conference webinar by Volker Grimm Modeling honeybees under stress with BEEHAVE: lessons for theory and practice
Oct 31-Nov 1	Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology, to be conducted remotely due to COVID-19 concerns.
November 2020
Oct 31-Nov 1	Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Research Conference at the Interface of Mathematics and Biology, to be conducted remotely due to COVID-19 concerns.
Nov 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS. Proposed visit dates must be at least two weeks after the submission date.
Nov 3 11:45 a.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Webinar on Cultural Evolution: Modeling the dynamics of cultural diversification with Bernard Koch (Sociology, Univ. of California, Los Angeles) and Erik Gjesfjeld (Archaeology, University of Cambridge, UK)
Nov 10 11:45 a.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Webinar on Cultural Evolution: Cultural macroevolution: Understanding the rise of large-scale complex societies in human history, with Peter Turchin (Complexity Science Hub Vienna and Univ. of Connecticut)
Nov 17 11:45 a.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Webinar on Cultural Evolution: The behavioural ecology of religious beliefs and practices, with Ruth Mace (Evolutionary Anthropology, University College London)
Nov 24 11:45 a.m.	DySoC/NIMBioS Webinar on Cultural Evolution: The impact of a tradition on the life of capuchin monkeys with Patricia Izar (Experimental Psychology, Animal Behavior, Univ. of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Nov 26-27	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Thanksgiving.
December 2020
Dec 1	Monthly deadline to apply for Short-term Visits to NIMBioS. Proposed visit dates must be at least two weeks after the submission date.
Dec 1-3	NIMBioS Virtual Investigative Workshop: Quantitative Education in Life Science Graduate Programs
Dec 8 3:30-4:30 pm	NIMBioS and MAA SIGMAA UR Webinar: REUs in the time of COVID-19
Dec 14-17	Virtual short-term visitors to NIMBioS: Bernoff et al. collaborating with Christopher Strickland on "Foraging and social interaction in the formation of locust hopper bands." The visit will be conducted via NIMBioS Interactive - a virtual collaboration platform using sococo.
Dec 21-25 Mon-Fri	NIMBioS administrative offices are closed for Winter holiday.

*Unless otherwise noted, NIMBioS Seminars are held in Rm. 206, Claxton Building, 1122 Volunteer Blvd. Light refreshments will be served starting 30 min. before seminars.

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From 2008 until early 2021, NIMBioS was supported by the National Science Foundation through NSF Award #DBI-1300426, with additional support from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.