CPB Tuesday Seminar Series:  FALL QUARTER 2019

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

Where: 1022 Life Sciences Building (campus map)

PBG 290 – CRN 54134

Interested in presenting? Please contact gradcoordinator.

Schedule as of 9/17/19

 

September 24, 2019 – Vadim Karatayev

Graduate Student, Ecology Graduate Group, Baskett Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Ecological resilience in heterogeneous ecosystems

Host:  Marissa Baskett

 

October 1, 2019 – Faculty Flash Talks

This inaugural Faculty Flash Talk session will be given by:  Art Shapiro, Andrew Whitehead, Michael Turelli, Geerat Vermeij, Graham Coop, Tim Caro, and Louie Yang.  Please come and hear about their research philosophy!

Host:  Artyom Kopp

 

October 8, 2019 – Kate Laskowski

Assistant Professor, Department of Evolution and Ecology, UC Davis

Title:  Social and developmental drivers of individual behavioural variation

Host:  Jay Stachowicz

 

October 15, 2019 – Nicole Adams

Postdoc, Bay Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Genetic diversity in the island fox, Urocyon littoralis

Host:  Rachael Bay

 

October 22, 2019 – Andrew Latimer

Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis

Title:  How will increasing precipitation variability affect Californian forests?

Host:  Artyom Kopp

 

October 29, 2019 – Brenna Henn

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, UC Davis

Title:  Improving inference of genetic architecture and selection with African genomes

Host:  Artyom Kopp

 

November 5, 2019 – Michael Miller

Assistant Professor, Department of Animal Science, UC Davis

Title:  On the evolution and conservation of premature migration in Pacific salmon

Host:  Artyom Kopp

 

November 12, 2019 – Shelbi Russell

Postdoc, Sullivan Lab, UC Santa Cruz

Title:  A symbiont’s guide to the germline

Host:  Michael Turelli

 

November 19, 2019 – Deanna Beatty

Postdoc, Stachowicz Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Effects of local management on coral survival, microbiomes, and defenses toward a thermally-regulated bleaching pathogen

Host:  Jay Stachowicz

 

November 26, 2019 – Robin Snyder

Faculty, Case Western Reserve University

Title:  The role of luck in individual success

Host:  Sebastian Schreiber

 

December 3, 2019 – Anna Bazzicalupo

Postdoc, Branco Lab, Montana State University

Title:  Local adaptation to heavy metal pollution in a mycorrhizal fungus

Host:  Megan Bontrager

 

December 10, 2019 – CPB Postdoc Search Faculty Meeting

Host:  Artyom Kopp