CPB Tuesday Seminar Series: WINTER 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 35662
Schedule as of January 14, 2021
Interested in presenting or have questions? Please email smmann@ucdavis.edu.
January 5, 2021 – Silu Wang
Postdoc, Bachtrog Lab, UC Berkeley
Title: Genomic contributors of speciation: insights from nascent species boundaries
Host: Graham Coop, gmcoop@ucdavis.edu
January 12, 2021 – Samantha Worthy – CPB Postdoc Candidate
Graduate Student, University of Maryland
Title: Integrating plant form, function, and demographic variation to understand emergent patterns of species distributions and community composition.
Hosts: Jenny Gremer, jrgremer@ucdavis.edu; Susan Harrison, spharrison@ucdavis.edu; Andrew Latimer, amlatimer@ucdavis.edu
January 19, 2021 – April Martinig – CPB Postdoc Candidate
Graduate Student, University of Alberta
Title: Not all risks lead to ruin: the long and short of dispersal
Hosts: Marissa Baskett, mlbaskett@ucdavis.edu; Kate Laskowski, klaskowski@ucdavis.edu
January 26, 2021 – Michael Yuan – CPB Postdoc Candidate
Graduate Student, UC Berkeley
Title: Convergence and divergence from populations to species: phenotypic evolution of Caribbean Anolis Lizards
Hosts: Rachael Bay, rbay@ucdavis.edu; Tom Schoener, twschoener@ucdavis.edu; Peter Wainwright, pcwainwright@ucdavis.edu
February 2, 2021 – No Seminar - CPB Postdoc Search Faculty Meeting
Host: Graham Coop, gmcoop@ucdavis.edu; Sharon Lawler, splawler@ucdavis.edu
February 9, 2021 – Joanna Griffiths
Postdoc, Whitehead/Fangue Lab, UC Davis
Title: Natural variation and evolutionary responses to climate change stressors in marine invertebrates
Host: Andrew Whitehead, awhitehead@ucdavis.edu
February 16, 2021 – Rachel Thayer
Postdoc, Begun Lab, UC Davis
Title: Genetic basis and evolutionary context for structural color shift in the Buckeye butterfly
Hosts: David Begun, djbegun@ucdavis.edu
February 23, 2021 – No Seminar - PBG Admissions Faculty Meeting
Hosts: Brian Moore, brianmoore@ucdavis.edu; Santiago Ramirez, sanram@ucdavis.edu
March 2, 2021 – Marina Alberti
Professor, University of Washington
Title: The Complexity of Urban Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics
Host: Madison Armstrong, mlarmstrong@ucdavis.edu; Danielle De La Pascua, drdelapasqua@ucdavis.edu
March 9, 2021 – Mitra Menon
Postdoc, Ross-Ibarra Lab, UC Davis
Title: Gene expression profiling in a conifer hybrid zone reflects the influence of hybrid ancestry on adaptive trait evolution
Host: Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, rossibarra@ucdavis.edu
March 16, 2021 – Alison Gould
Research Scientist, California Academy of Sciences
Title: Shedding light on symbiosis: lessons from a bioluminescent coral reef fish
Host: Melissa Kardish, mrkardish@ucdavis.edu