EEB 50th Anniversary Symposium and Celebration

Poster for EEB 50th Anniversary Symposium, Speaker lineup listed over a light green background with clouds and tree branches

When

March 29 – April 1, 2026, All Day

In 1975, the University of Arizona established one of the first Departments of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology in the world. For fifty years, EEB has worked to understand life’s diversity from genomes to ecosystems and to integrate across levels of biological organization, with impacts ranging from basic theory to conservation and human health.

To mark this milestone, we will hold the EEB 50th Anniversary Celebration and Symposium on Monday, March 30, 2026, in Tucson. The symposium will celebrate our history, reflect on major advances and missed opportunities in ecology and evolution, and look ahead to the next era of integrative biological science.

Celebratory EEB 50th events during March 29th-April 1st will include:

  • A series of lectures by renowned visitors
  • Round-table discussions of key issues facing our fields
  • Poster presentations by our students and faculty
  • A public lecture on the powers of awe, wonder, and storytelling in science

We are pleased to share the speaker lineup for the symposium on Monday, March 30th, which reflects the breadth and intellectual reach of EEB:


Planned events include keynote lectures, a panel discussion with invited speakers, round-table discussions, student poster presentations, and a public lecture. Activities are planned from March 29 through April 1. Please visit eeb.arizona.edu for updates to the schedule of events.
 
For more information, contact: 
Alexis Montoya 
 

EEB 50th Anniversary Symposium 

March 29 - April 1 - Tucson, AZ

  • Suzanne Alonzo:
    • UC Santa Cruz
    • Behavioral ecology, sexual selection, social evolution, marine evolutionary ecology
  • Michael Donohue:
    • Yale University
    • Phylogenetics, macroevolution, plant evolutionary biology, comparative methods
  • Brian McGill:
    • University of Maine
    • Macroecology, biodiversity patterns, global change ecology, ecological forecasting
  • Michael W. Nachman
    • UC Berkeley
    • Population genetics, evolutionary genomics, adaptation, mammalian evolution
  • Marlene Zuk
    • University of Minnesota
    • Behavioral ecology, sexual selection, evolutionary physiology, host-parasite evolution
  • Susan Harrison
    • UC Davis
    • Community ecology, plant ecology, biodiversity conservation, climate change ecology
  • Daniel Bolnick
    • University of Connecticut
    • Eco-evolutionary dynamics, ecological genetics, adaptation and speciation

Keynote address by Sean B. Carrol, distinguished professor at the University of Maryland