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Biodiversity

  • Descriptive alt text: Biodiversity Day promotional graphic featuring a scrapbook-style collage of wildlife and biological specimens, including a black beetle, an African elephant with a calf, microscopic fungal structures, and a fossil skull. Decorative illustrations of a monarch butterfly, honeybee, oak leaves, acorns, and mushroom surround the photographs against a muted green background. Bold text reads “Biodiversity Day,” followed by “November 5th, 4:00–6:00 p.m.” The Adventure Science Center and Vanderbilt University Evolutionary Studies logos appear at the bottom.

    Jaap de Roode to Deliver 2026 Biodiversity Day Lecture

    Nashville, TN –– Vanderbilt University’s Evolutionary Studies Initiative is thrilled to announce that evolutionary biologist Jaap de Roode will be delivering the annual Biodiversity Day Lecture. de Roode is widely recognized for his groundbreaking research on the behavioral ecology of parasite-infected monarch butterflies, which has transformed our understanding of the disease… Read More

    October 15, 2026

  • Vanderbilt University

    Distinguished Evolutionary Biologist Anne Yoder to Deliver Annual Biodiversity Day Lecture

    By Danielle Bowden, Evolutionary Studies administrative specialist Nashville, TN –– Vanderbilt University’s Evolutionary Studies Initiative is thrilled to announce that distinguished evolutionary biologist Anne Yoder will be delivering the annual Biodiversity Day Lecture. Yoder is widely recognized for her groundbreaking research on the genetics and speciation of… Read More

    September 12, 2024