Images courtesy C. Boettiger (left) and A. Perkins (right).
CPB Seminar Series: Spring 2013
When: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30PM
Where: 1022 Life Sciences Building (campus map)
- April 2: Luke Mahler, CPB Postdoctoral Research Fellow
UC Davis
Title: “Phylogenetically correct analysis of species data in ecology and evolution”
This will be the first lecture in a 3-part CPB Postdoctoral Fellowship Workshop. - April 9: Nicholas Fabina, Graduate Student
Center for Population Biology, UC Davis
Title: “How do communities of coral hosts and photosynthetic symbionts respond to environmental changes?”
Host: Sebastian Schreiber - April 16: Tobin Northfield, CPB Postdoctoral Associate
UC Davis
Title: “Coevolution and the effects of climate change on interacting species”
Host: Jay Rosenheim - April 23: Sarah Signor, Graduate Student
Center for Population Biology, UC Davis
Title: “The genetic basis of convergent evolution” (Ph.D. Exit Seminar)
Host: Artyom Kopp - April 30: Pat Krug, Professor
California State University, Los Angeles
Title: “Slugging it out: a dynamic range boundary set by local adaptation, larval supply and violent mating”
Host: Scott Burgess
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May 7: Two 30-minute talks
Jaime Ashander
Graduate Student, Center for Population Biology, UC Davis
Title: “Understanding plastic and evolutionary responses to a changing environment from time series of traits and abundance”
Host: Marissa Baskett
David Luecke
Graduate Student, Center for Population Biology, UC Davis
Title: “Nothing new under the sun? The recent evolution of shape and sense in male Drosophila prolongata”
Host: Artyom Kopp
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May 14: Gideon Bradburd, Graduate Student
Center for Population Biology, UC Davis
Title: “Disentangling the effects of geographic and ecological isolation on genetic differentiation”
Host: TBA
- May 21: Michelle Afkhami, Graduate Student
Center for Population Biology, UC Davis
Title: “Beyond the fundamental niche: Mutualist-mediated niche expansion across the species range in fungal endophyte-grass symbioses” (Ph.D. Exit Seminar)
Host: Sharon Strauss
- May 28: Christopher Martin, Graduate Student
Center for Population Biology, UC Davis
Title: “Context of adaptive radiation in Caribbean pupfishes and Cameroon crater lake cichlids” (Ph.D. Exit Seminar)
Host: Peter Wainwright
- June 4: Megan Frederickson, Assistant Professor
University of Toronto
Title: “Ecology and evolution of mutualism: insights from ant-plant interactions”
Hosts: Michelle Afkhami, Rick Grosberg
Interested in presenting? Please contact gradcoordinator.