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
Host: 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