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CPB Tuesday Seminar Series - Spring Quarter 2025

 

CPB TUESDAY SEMINAR SERIES – SPRING QUARTER 2025

When:  Tuesdays, 4:10 - 5:30PM

Where:  1022 Green Hall 

PBG 290 – CRN 49159

The schedule is available below as a PDF.

Interested in presenting or have questions?  Please email smmann@ucdavis.edu.

Schedule as of March 17, 2025

 

APRIL 1, 2025: CHRIS HEGGERUD

Postdoctoral Scholar, Environmental Science and Policy, UC Davis

Title:  Modelling and Predicting Regime Shifts in Ecological Systems

Host:  Amy Briggs

 

APRIL 8, 2025: BRENDAN CARSON

Assistant Professor of the Practice, Boston College

Title:  A Cryptic Natural History: Unmasking the role of viruses, movement, and environmental context in the Baltimore checkerspot butterfly

Host:  Elizabeth Crone

 

APRIL 15, 2025:  NATASHA DHAMRAIT

PhD Candidate, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Domestication and evolution in Zea through the lens of transposable elements

Hosts:  Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra

 

APRIL 22, 2025:  GREG FUNSTON

Visiting Assistant Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences

Title:  Will the meek inherit the Earth? A new window into life history evolution, and a potential guide for conservation biology

Host:  Amy Briggs

 

APRIL 29, 2025:  KATIE ERICKSON

PhD Candidate, Rachael Bay Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Eco-Evolutionary Genomics of a Large Chromosomal Inversion in California Eelgrass Populations

Host:  Rachael Bay

 

MAY 6, 2025: JASMINE MAH

Postdoctoral Scholar, Molecular and Cellular Biology, UC Davis

Title:  Cell phylogenies (and cancer in jellyfish) Check out cell phylogenies here! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02281-9

Host:  Amy Briggs

 

MAY 13, 2025: JASEN LIU  (EXIT SEMINAR)

PhD Candidate, Santiago Ramirez Lab, UC Davis

Title:  TBD

Host:  Santiago Ramirez

 

MAY 20, 2025: JONATHAN AGUIñAGA  (EXIT SEMINAR)

PhD Candidate, Kate Laskowski Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Keep your conspecifics close, but your heterospecifics closer: mixed-species groups perform better 

Host:  Kate Laskowski   

 

MAY 27, 2025: DANIELLE DE LA PASCUA  (EXIT SEMINAR)

PhD Candidate, Jennifer Gremer Lab, UC Davis

Title:  Testing trait trade-offs across evolutionary scales and traits in a clade of native California wildflowers

Host:  Jennifer Gremer

 

JUNE 3, 2025: JEFF GROH  (EXIT SEMINAR)

PhD Candidate, Graham Coop Lab, UC Davis

Title:  The evolution and maintenance of dimorphic mating strategies with sex phase synchrony in hermaphroditic flowering plants

Host:  Graham Coop