CPB Tuesday Seminar Series:  SPRING QUARTER 2019

When: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30PM

Where: 1022 Life Sciences Building (campus map)

PBG 290 – CRN 83499

Schedule as of March 25, 2019

Interested in presenting? Please contact gradcoordinator.

 

April 2, 2019 – Mark Ravinet

Postdoc, Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, University of Oslo, Norway

Title:  The Evolution of Human-Commensalism in House Sparrows

Host:  Graham Coop

 

April 9, 2019 – Carlos Roberto Fonseca

Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil

Title:  Herbivores, Sex and Flower Evolution

Host:  Sharon Strauss

 

April 16, 2019 – Pleuni Pennings

Professor, San Francisco State University

Title:  How we Stopped HIV Drug Resistance Evolution

Host:  Matt Osmond

 

April 23, 2019 – Michelle Stitzer

Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, Ross-Ibarra Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Exploring the Genomic Ecosystems of Transposable Elements in Plants

Host:  Jeff Ross-Ibarra

 

April 30, 2019 – Cancelled

 

May 7, 2019 – Jiansi Gao

Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, Moore Lab, UC Davis

Title:  New Bayesian Phylogenetic Approaches for Modeling the Evolution of Fast-Evolving (Influenza) Viruses

Host:  Brian Moore

 

May 14, 2019 – Asher Hudson

Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, Ross-Ibarra Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Genotype by Environment Interactions in Maize

Host:  Jeff Ross-Ibarra

 

May 21, 2019 – Suzanne Pierre

UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Dawson and Firestone Labs, UC Berkeley

Title:  Terrestrial Plant and Microbial Nutrient Limitation: Global Change Drivers and Mechanisms

Host:  Didem Sarikaya

 

May 28, 2019 – Fernanda Guizar Amador

Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, Ramirez Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Floral scent differentiation in the orchid genus Gongora

Host:  Santiago Ramirez

 

June 4, 2019 – Robin Decker

Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, Hastings Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Climate Change and the Spatial Spread of Plant Populations: Invasions, Range Shifts, and Resilience

Host:  Alan Hastings

 

June 11, 2019 – Bo Zhang

UC Davis Chancellors' Postdoc Fellow, Hastings Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Carrying Capacity in a Heterogeneous Environment with Habitat Connectivity

Host:  Alan Hastings