CPB Tuesday Seminar Series: SPRING QUARTER 2021
When: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30PM
Where: Remote – Via Zoom – Instructions will be emailed each week to cpb@ucdavis.edu
PBG 290 – CRN 53717
Interested in presenting or have questions? Please email smmann@ucdavis.edu.
MARCH 30, 2021: GRANT KINSLER
Graduate Student, Petrov Lab, Stanford
Title: Fitness variation across subtle environmental perturbations reveals local modularity and global pleiotropy of adaptation
Host: Carl Veller, cveller@ucdavis.edu
APRIL 6, 2021: JOE McGIRR
Postdoc, Whitehead Lab, UC Davis
Title: Using temporal genomic contrasts to understand slow population recovery in Pacific Herring following the Exxon Valdez oil spill
Host: Andrew Whitehead, awhitehead@ucdavis.edu
APRIL 13, 2021: BRIAN DONOVAN
Research Scientist, BSCS Science Learning
Title: Genomics Literacy Matters for Dismantling White Supremacy
Hosts: Graham Coop, gmcoop@ucdavis.edu, and Pavitra Muralidhar, pmuralidhar@ucdavis.edu
APRIL 20, 2021: MATT FORISTER
Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Title: Butterflies and climate change
Host: Michael Turelli, mturelli@ucdavis.edu
APRIL 27, 2021: Rubén Rellán-Álvarez
Professor, North Carolina State University
Title: Teosinte introgression modulates phosphatidylcholine levels and induces early maize flowering time
Host: Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, rossibarra@ucdavis.edu
MAY 4, 2021: KELSEY LYBERGER – Exit Seminar
Graduate Student, Schreiber and Schoener Labs, UC Davis
Title: Ecological and evolutionary feedbacks: insights from models and experiments
Hosts: Sebastian Schreiber, sschreiber@ucdavis.edu, and Thomas Schoener, twschoener@ucdavis.edu
MAY 11, 2021: MELISSA KARDISH – Exit Seminar
Graduate Student, Stachowicz Lab, UC Davis
Title: Disentangling the processes driving microbiome assembly on a marine plant using global surveys and local experiments
Host: Jay Stachowicz, jjstachowicz@ucdavis.edu
MAY 18, 2021: CATHY RUSHWORTH
Postdoc, Ross-Ibarra Lab, UC Davis
Title: The ecology and evolution of mate choice in flowering plants
Host: Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, rossibarra@ucdavis.edu
MAY 25, 2021: ERIN CALFEE – Exit Seminar
Graduate Student, Coop Lab, UC Davis
Title: Hybridization and the invasion of novel niches
Host: Graham Coop, gmcoop@ucdavis.edu
JUNE 1, 2021: VICTORIA MORGAN – Exit Seminar
Graduate Student, Grosberg and Bay Labs, UC Davis
Title: The Life Terrestrial: Sea-to-Land Transitions in Decapod Crabs
Hosts: Rick Grosberg, rkgrosberg@ucdavis.edu, and Rachael Bay, rbay@ucdavis.edu