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Center for Population Biology (CPB)


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

  • 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

  • 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
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