Eminent Ecologist Seminar

Justin Brashares, PhD

Professor and G.R. & W.M. Goertz Chair, University of California, Berkeley

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Website: https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/wildlife/people/justin-brashares

Dates: June 1-5, 2026

Seminars:

Monday June 1 @ 5 pm, KBS Auditorium:

Title: An inescapable network of mutuality: ecology in an era of change

Wednesday June 3 @ 5 pm, KBS Auditorium:

Title: Trophic cascades at 65: is the world still green?

Contact Dr. Nick Haddad (haddadn3@msu.edu) for questions about Dr. Brashares’ visit or seminars.

Raina Plowright, PhD, MS, BVSc

Rudolf J. and Katharine L. Steffen Professor, Cornell University

Veterinary Medicine and Disease Ecology

Website: https://bzndiseaselab.org/

Dates: June 29-July 3, 2026

Seminars: 
Monday, June 29 @ 5 p.m, KBS Auditorium:

Title: Can we prevent the next pandemic?

Wednesday, July 1 @ 5 p.m, KBS Auditorium:

Title: Why bats stay healthy while we get sick: integrating ecology, evolution, and immunology to understand zoonotic spillover

Contact Dr. Nick Haddad (haddadn3@msu.edu) for questions about Dr. Plowright’s visit or seminars.

* Asterisk denotes speakers who have participated in more than one summer.

2026

Justin Brashares, University of California-Berkeley

Raina Plowright, Cornell University

2025

Jonathan Levine, Princeton University

Laura Dee, University of Colorado-Boulder

2024

Ximena Bernal, Purdue University

Haldre Rogers, Virginia Tech

2023

Aaron Ellison, Harvard Forest *

Serita Frey, University of New Hampshire

2022

Amy Angert, University of British Columbia

Mark Bradford, Yale University

2021

Francesca Cotrufo, Colorado State University

Keith Paustain, Colorado State University

Taylor Ricketts, University of Vermont

2019

Diana Wall, Colorado State University

Kelly Zamudio, Cornell University

Elizabeth Borer, University of Minnesota

Eric Seabloom, University of Minnesota

2018

Susan Alberts, Duke University

Bob Holt, University of Florida *

Josh Schimel, University of California – Santa Barbara

2017

Judith Bronstein, University of Arizona *

Goggy Davidowitz, University of Arizona

Jacques Finlay, University of Minnesota

Sarah Hobbie, University of Minnesota

2016

Alan Hastings, University of California – Davis

Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University

2015

Peter Adler, Utah State University

Nancy Grimm, Arizona State University

Nelson Hairston Jr., Cornell University

2014

Andy Gonzalez, McGill University

Peter Groffman Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies

Ken Whitney, The University of New Mexico

Jennifer Rudgers, The University of New Mexico

2013

Richard Gomulkiewicz, Washington State University

Sebastian Diehl, Umeå University

Mike Ryan, University of Texas at Austin

2012

Joel Brown, University of Illinois at Chicago

Alison Power, Cornell University

Alex Flecker, Cornell University

2011

John Fryxell, University of Guelph

Mathew Leibold, UT Austin

Mark McPeek, Dartmouth College *

2010

Brian Enquist, University of Arizona

Andy Sih, UC-Davis *

Terry Chapin, University of Alaska *

2009

Jim Elser, Arizona State University

Warren Abrahamson, Bucknell University

Curt Lively and Linda Delph, Indiana University

2008

Nancy Collins Johnson, Northern Arizona

Yoh Iwasa Kyushu, University of Japan

Sharon Strauss, UC-Davis

2007

Mary Firestone, UC-Berkeley *

Judy Bronstein, University of Arizona *

Carla D’Antonio, UC-Santa Barbara

2006

Scott Forbes, University of Winnepig

Anurag Agarwal, Cornell University

2005

John Maron, University of Montana

Butch Brodie, Indiana University

Mike Pace, Institute of Ecosystem Studies

2004

Bill Schlesinger, Duke University *

Aaron Ellision, Harvard Forest *

Trevor Price, University of Chicago

2003

Steve Arnold, University of Chicago

Mike Vanni, Miami of Ohio

Peter Abrams, University of Toronto

2002

Mary Power, UC-Berkeley *

Ray Huey, University of Washington

Sara Via, Cornell University

2001

Lisa Graumlich, Montana State University

Bill Reiners, University of Wyoming

Joan Roughgarden, Stanford University

2000

Shahid Naeem, University of Washington-Columbia

Bob Howarth, Cornell University

Mark McPeek, Dartmouth College *

1999

Doug Schemske, University of Washington *

Mark Hunter, University of Georgia

Bob Ricklefs, University of Missouri-St Louis

1998

Steve Stearns, University of Basel, Switzerland

Gary Polis Vanderbilt, UC-Davis

Susan Harrison, UC-Davis

Tom Mitchell-Olds, Max Planck Institute, Germany

1997

Mary Firestone, UC-Berkeley *

Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia *

1996

Tony Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Andy Sih, University of Kentucky *

1995

Mike Lynch, University of Oregon

Bob Holt, University of Kansas *

Si Levin, Princeton University *

1994

Terry Chapin, UC-Berkeley *

1993

Bobby Peckarsky, Cornell University

May Berenbaum, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign

Joe Travis, Florida State University

1992

Mike Rosenzweig, University of Arizona

Annie Schmidt, Brown University

Bill Schlesinger, Duke University *

1991

Sally Holbrook, UC-Santa Barbara

Russ Schmitt, UC-Santa Barbara

Jim Brown, University of New Mexico

Astrid Kodric-Brown, University of New Mexico

Pam Matson, Stanford University

Peter Vitousek, Stanford University

John Endler, UC-Santa Barbara *

1990

Dolph Schluter, University of British Columbia

Mark Hixon, Oregon State University

Dan Simberloff, Florida State University

1989

Nelson Hairston Jr., Cornell University

Martyn Caldwell, Utah State University

Doug Futuyma, SUNY-Stony Brook

Monty Slatkin, UC-Berkeley

1988

Norm Ellstrand, UC-Riverside

Bob Holt, University of Kansas *

Nick Waser and Mary Price, UC-Riverside

1987

Norma Fowler, University of Texas

Joe Travis, Florida State University

Steve Hubbell, University of Georgia

Mary Power, UC-Berkeley *

1986

Henry Wilbur, Duke University/University of Virginia

Janis Antonovics, Duke University

1985

Bill Neill, University of British Columbia

Rob Colwell, University of Connecticut

Hal Caswell, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

1984

John Endler, UC-Santa Barbara *

Bob Paine, University of Washington

Simon Levin, Cornell University *

1983

Doug Schemske, University of Chicago *

Ron Pulliam, SUNY-Albany/University of Georgia

Dave Tilman, University of Minnesota

The following speakers also visited KBS as part of the Eminent Ecologists program, but our records are incomplete, and we are uncertain as to the year of their visit. If you have more information about this, please email communityrelations@kbs.msu.edu.

Jerry Franklin

Jim Hamrick

Peter Kareiva

Mark Kirkpatrick

Lennert Persson

Loren Reisberg

Dan Simberloff

Mike Wade

Will Wilson