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After an exhausting summer 2025 of the Scopes Symposium and the ISEMPH conference, we&#8217;re going to pick up Biodiversity Day in 2026 with Japp de Roode in November!<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-14\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-14\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1 odd\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Speaker<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Institution<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Date<\/th><th class=\"column-4\">Topic<\/th><th class=\"column-5\">Media<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Jaap de Roode<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Emory University<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2026 11\/4<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Animal Medications Across the Tree of Life<\/td><td class=\"column-5\">Coming Soon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3 odd\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Anne Yoder<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Duke University<\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2024 09\/25<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Speciation and Biodiversity of Lemurs<\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution\/distinguished-evolutionary-biologist-anne-yoder-to-deliver-annual-biodiversity-day-lecture\/\">Press Release<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4 even\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Peter and Rosemary Grant<\/td><td class=\"column-2\">Princeton University <\/td><td class=\"column-3\">2023 10\/04<\/td><td class=\"column-4\">Biodiversity and the Evolution of Darwin's Finches<\/td><td class=\"column-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=STCtD7kDEFI&amp;t=146s\">Video<\/a> - <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution\/renowned-evolutionary-biologists-peter-and-rosemary-grant-to-deliver-inaugural-biodiversity-day-lecture\/\">Press Release<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<!-- #tablepress-14 from cache -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We hosted our inaugural Biodiversity Day Lecture on October 4th, 2023. 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