The Environmental Research Collaboration Series is a monthly lunch series hosted by the WashU Center for the Environment. The goals of the series are to build community among researchers, learn about one another’s work, share tools, and generate ideas for future collaboration. These gatherings showcase different aspects of environmental research happening in the WashU community.

Attend the Series

Collaboration Series lunches are open to WashU faculty members and staff researchers.
Lunches in Fall 2025 will be held the second Monday of every month 11:30AM-12:30PM (except September). Registration is requested.

Upcoming Events

Previous Collaboration Series Events

SPRING 2025
  • Society-centered studies of Climate, Environment, and Resilience: archaeological cases from Central and Southeast Asia – Michael Frachetti | February 5
  • Environmental Art and The Stories We Tell – Patricia Olynyk | March 5
  • Understanding, Predicting, and Combating Antibiotic Resistance Evolution Across Diverse Habitats – Gautam Dantas | April 2
  • E3 Nutrition Lab Panel (Environmentally Sustainable, Equitably Accessed, Evolutionarily Appropriate maternal & child nutrition) – Lora Iannotti | May 7
fall 2024
  • Spatial statistics for environmental data – Bo Li | September 4
  • Understanding indoor air quality and asthma: measurement and guidelines – Kelly Harris | October 2
  • Geospatial Research Initiative – Alexander Bradley and Nathan Jacobs | November 6
  • Some burning questions in fire ecology & opportunities for collaboration – Jonathan Myers | December 4
SPring 2024
  • 211 Counts: The helpline you’ve never heard of that could help pinpoint the next crisis – Matt Kreuter | February 6
  • Indoor environmental quality through the lenses of chemistry, microbiology, and public health – Jenna Ditto, Fangqiong Ling | March 5
  • Thinking Through Soil: aporias of health in the world’s largest sewage farm – Seth Denizen | April 9
  • One Health, biodiversity, and viromics – Jacco Boon, Krista Milich, and Dave Wang | May 7
Fall 2023
  • The Center for Water Innovation at Washington University – Zhen (Jason) He | September 6
  • GIS and the environment: Tyson Research Center – Kim Medley | October 4
  • Hazards for human physiology in neglected communities – Theresa Gildner | November 1
  • Researcher speed networking: Enhancing nature in cities for people and wildlife – Jonathan Losos | December 6