CPB Tuesday Seminar Series:  WINTER QUARTER 2019

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

Where: 1022 Life Sciences Building (campus map)

PBG 290 – CRN 45872

(Schedule as of 1/4/19)

Interested in presenting? Please contact gradcoordinator.

 

January 8, 2019 – Denon Start

CPB Postdoctoral Fellow Search Candidate

Title:  Causes and Consequences of Trait Change Across Biological Scales

Hosts:  Andy Sih, Sharon Strauss, Jay Stachowicz, Sebastian Schreiber

 

January 15, 2019 – Waring Trible

CPB Postdoctoral Fellow Search Candidate

Title:  CRISPR/Caste: Using functional genomic tools to study the major evolutionary innovations of ants

Host:  Phil Ward, Artyom Kopp, Santiago Ramirez

 

January 22, 2019 – Chris Law

CPB Postdoctoral Fellow Search Candidate

Title:  Ecomorphology and evolution of sea otters and other musteloids

Hosts:  Peter Wainwright, Brian Moore

 

January 29, 2019 – Emily Delaney

Postdoctoral Scholar, Kopp Lab, UC Davis

Title:  The Evolution of Sexually Dimorphic Pigmentation in Flies

Host:  Artyom Kopp

 

February 5, 2019 – Sivan Yair

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

Title:  From Sweeps to Complex Traits: Characterizing Neanderthal Introgression in Modern Humans

Host:  Graham Coop

 

February 12, 2019 – No Seminar – PBGG/CPB Faculty Meeting

 

February 19, 2019 – Katherine Corn

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

Title:  Effects of Coral Reefs on Evolution of Fish Feeding Mechanisms

Host:  Peter Wainwright

 

February 26, 2019 – Megan Bontrager

Postdoctoral Scholar, Gremer/Schmitt/Strauss Labs, UC Davis

Title:  Local Adaptation at Range Edges and Under Anomalous Climates

Hosts:  Jenny Gremer, Annie Schmitt, Sharon Strauss

 

March 5, 2019 – Emily Cartwright

Graduate Student, Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Graduate Group, Lott Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Regulation in Cis and Trans Across the Maternal to Zygotic Transition Between Species of Drosophila

Host:  Susan Lott

 

March 12, 2019 – Gizem Kalay

Postdoctoral Scholar, Lott Lab, UC Davis

Title:  How does a Robust Trait Evolve: Evolution of Segment Allometry across Drosophila Species

Host:  Susan Lott

 

March 19, 2019 – Elise Elwood

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

Title:  TBD

Host:  Jenny Gremer