2009 Fall Quarter CPB Seminars   (PBG290/CRN 34477)

When:    Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30 PM

Where:   1022 Life Sciences Building

CPB Seminar PDF

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September 29, 2009
Amber Wright, Ph.D. Exit Seminar: Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis
Title: Niche breadth variation and invasion success in a tropical lizard.

October 6, 2009
Jean Burns, CPB Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UC Davis
Sharon Strauss, Professor: Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
Title: More closely related species are more ecologically similar.
Website: Dr. Burns and Website: Dr. Strauss

October 13, 2009
Morgan Kelly, Graduate Student: Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis
Title: Thermal stress and the evolutionary biology of geographic range limits.

October 20, 2009
Roi Holzman, Postdoctoral Scholar: Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
Title: Evolution of performance in complex systems.

October 27, 2009
David Harris, Graduate Student: Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis
Title: Can analytical models predict biotic homogenization from field data?

November 3, 2009
Carl Boettiger, Graduate Student: Population Biology Graduate Group
Title: Inferring Adaptive Landscapes from Phylogenetic Trees.

November 17, 2009
Louie H.Y. Yang, Assistant Professor: Department of Entomology, UC Davis
Title: A meta-analysis of resource pulse-consumer interactions.
Website

November 24, 2009
Terry Ord, Postdoctoral Scholar: Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
Title: The evolutionary ecology of communication in challenging environments.
Website

December 1, 2009
Brian R. Moore, Assistant Professor: Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis
New Applications of the Dirichlet Process Prior Model to Some Old Problems in Phylogenetic Biology.

December 8, 2009
Matthew McGee, Graduate Student: Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis
Michelle Afkhami, Graduate Student: Population Biology Graduate Group, UC Davis
Title: TBA

Updated: 09/30/2009