CPB Tuesday Seminar Series: FALL QUARTER 2020
When: Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30PM
Where: Remote – Via Zoom – Instructions will be emailed each week to cpb@ucdavis.edu
PBG 290 – CRN 44196
Schedule as of September 16, 2020
Interested in presenting or have questions? Please email smmann@ucdavis.edu.
September 22, 2020 – Faculty Flash Talks! – Speakers:
Sharon Strauss https://sharonstrauss.wordpress.com/
Jay Stachowicz https://stachlab.wordpress.com/
Rachael Bay https://baylab.github.io/
Alan Hastings https://alanhastings.ucdavis.edu/
Phil Ward https://wardlab.wordpress.com/
Join us for a brief look into some of the great research being performed by CPB faculty!
Host: Matthew Osmond, mmosmond@ucdavis.edu
September 29, 2020 – Evlyn Pless
Postdoc, Anthropology, Henn Lab, UC Davis
Title: Gene flow and landscape genetics of the dengue mosquito, Aedes aegypti, in North America
Host: Brenna Henn, bmhenn@ucdavis.edu
October 6, 2020 – Gil Rosenthal
Professor, Texas A&M
Title: Restoring riparian corridors through sustainable ranching: science and outreach in Mexico’s Sierra Madre Oriental
Host: Andy Sih, asih@ucdavis.edu
October 13, 2020 – Elena Suglia
Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, Gremer Lab, UC Davis
Title: Phenological response to changing climate in a native California wildflower
Host: Jennifer Gremer, jrgremer@ucdavis.edu
October 20, 2020 – Rachel Vannette – CPB Faculty Candidate Seminar
Assistant Professor, Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis
Title: Community assembly of flower microbes and their effects on plants and pollinators
Host: Louie Yang, lhyang@ucdavis.edu
October 27, 2020 – Emily Merchant
Assistant Professor, Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis
Title: Building the population bomb
Hosts: Matt Osmond, mmosmond@ucdavis.edu, and Pavitra Muralidhar, pmuralidhar@ucdavis.edu
November 3, 2020 – Carl Veller
Postdoc, Coop Lab, UC Davis
Title: Recombination and selection against introgressed DNA
Host: Graham Coop, gmcoop@ucdavis.edu
November 10, 2020 – Adam Pepi
Graduate Student, Graduate Group in Ecology, Karban Lab, UC Davis
Title: Climate change & population dynamics: Changing patterns of precipitation & density-dependent feedbacks in the Ranchman’s tiger moth
Hosts: Rick Karban, rkarban@ucdavis.edu
November 17, 2020 – Eric Post – CPB Faculty Candidate Seminar
Professor, Department of Wildlife, Fish & Conservation Biology, UC Davis
Title: Can conservation of large herbivores mediate declining plant diversity in a warming Arctic? Insights from a 15-year experiment
Host: Marissa Baskett, mlbaskett@ucdavis.edu
November 24, 2020 – Collin Gross
Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, Stachowicz Lab, UC Davis
Title: Trait-based and phylogenetic approaches to understanding community assembly processes in a food web context
Host: Jay Stachowicz, jjstachowicz@ucdavis.edu
December 1, 2020 – Nicole Kollars – Exit Seminar
Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, Stachowicz Lab, UC Davis
Title: Consequences of grazing disturbance on eelgrass genotypic diversity
Host: Jay Stachowicz, jjstachowicz@ucdavis.edu
December 8, 2020 – CPB Postdoc Search – Faculty Meeting
Host: Graham Coop, gmcoop@ucdavis.edu