The Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (MEEC) is an annual regional conference hosted by different Midwestern institutions each year and is organized and directed entirely by graduate students. This conference is graduate and undergraduate student-focused, providing a professional atmosphere for students of all levels to interact with and learn from their peers. Previous conferences have drawn between 250 and 300 attendees from universities around the Midwest. Attendees are typically composed of 45% graduate students, 45% undergraduate students, and 10% faculty members.


Thank you to all attendees, poster and talk presenters, workshop leaders, judges, and plenary speakers for attending MEEC 2021. We hope you all enjoyed the conference and we look forward to seeing you at MEEC 2022 (stay tuned)!

Special congratulations to our talk and poster winners!

Artistic Poster Winners:

Undergraduate artistic poster winner: Kaylee Rosenberger with their poster: Proportional sampling significantly increases genetic diversity capture when population sizes differ

Graduate artistic poster winner: Molly Simonis with their poster: Big brown bats with chronic Pseudogymnoascus destructans exposure weigh less in northern latitudes compared to southern latitudes (formerly titled: Eptesicus fuscus with chronic Pseudogymnoascus destructans exposure weigh less in northern latitudes compared to southern latitudes)

Traditional Poster Winners:

Undergraduate Traditional poster winner: Zachary Fox with their poster: Three Year Progression of Beech Leaf Disease in an Old Growth Beech-Maple Forest

Graduate Traditional poster winner: Sheryl Hosler with their poster: Can powerline corridors provide pollinator habitat in a suburban landscape matrix?

Talk winners:

Undergraduate talk winner: Toyosi Adesinasi with their talk: Limb Proportions and Locomotor Behavior in Prosimians

Graduate talk winner: Lucy Delaney with their talk: The Four Causes of Adaptation: How do students construct biological explanations about natural selection?


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