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Center for Population Biology Events / Workshops

 

  • Spring 2023 - Geometric Morphometrics Workshop:  Michael Yuan, CPB Postdoctoral Fellow - CPB Workshop - May 29 and June 2, 2023:  This "Introduction to Geometric Morphometrics" workshop will be held at the end of Spring Quarter 2023.  This is a tool for incorporating 2D and 3D phenotypic shape data into projects.  The goal of the workshop is to introduce participants to the basic concepts, sampling design, data collection protocols, and multivariate analyses. 
  • Special Seminar - April 5, 2023 - Dr. Asher Leeks - Asher is currently a James F. McDonnell postdoctoral fellow in Paul Turner's lab at Yale, and previously completed his PhD at Oxford with Stuart West & Ashleigh Griffin. Asher's research combines theoretical and empirical approaches to study the dynamics of social evolution in viruses. Check out his website for more details!  Asher 's seminar will be at 12:10 on Wednesday, April 5th, on the UC Davis campus in Storer Hall, Room 2342. The title is "The Social Lives of Viruses".
  • November 10, 2022 - Maike Morrison, PhD Student, Noah Rosenberg's Lab, Stanford - CPB Talk, 2320H Storer Hall - "An Fst-based tool for measuring compositional variability: Applications to ancestry inference and microbiomes."
  • Fall 2022 - SLiM Workshop:  Pavitra Muralidhar, CPB Postdoctoral Fellow - CPB Workshop - November 4, 11, and 18, 2022:  This workshop will be an introduction to the SLiM simulation software. To give the official definition, "SLiM is an evolutionary simulation framework that combines a powerful engine for population genetic simulations with the capability of modeling arbitrarily complex evolutionary scenarios" (software homepage).  It is an individual-based modelling tool for simulating evolutionary and ecological scenarios, whether that's for research, for teaching, or just for fun! The goal of this workshop will be to introduce people to SLiM, become familiar with the basics of how to use it, and get an impression of what SLiM can do for research questions.
  • Fall CPB Social Gathering:  September 30, 2022, held outdoors on the UC Davis campus, in the Biological Orchard Gardens (BOG).
  • Summer Seminar 2022 - Ken Thompson - Seminar - 2342 Storer Hall - August 8, 2022:  This seminar talk described work in threespine stickleback fish; and progress toward developing methods to distinguish epistatic incompatibility-selection from other forms of selection.
  • Summer Seminar 2022 - Yuval Simons, a postdoc in the Pritchard Lab at Stanford, provided a seminar in 2342 Storer Hall on July 12, 2022.  This talk was titled, "Simple scaling laws control the architectures of complex traits." 
  • CPB Outdoor Social - June 17, 2022 as an end of the academic year event for all CPB graduate student affiliates, faculty, and CPB postdocs.
  • CPB Outdoor Social - April 29, 2022 for all CPB graduate student affiliates, faculty, and CPB postdocs.
  • Proutfest 2022 - April 16, 2022.  Proutfest, in honor of Professor Emeritus Timothy Prout, is the annual day-long symposium where CPB students and student affiliates give short research talks.  (The event was not held 2021 during the pandemic.)
  • Population Biology Student Diversity Committee / Ecology and Evolution 2nd Graduate School Preview Event - August 1-19, 2022 - The program for 2022 will be slightly different than previous years, with a stronger focus on mentorship.  Over three weeks, participants will be provided with insight into the graduate school application process and the graduate student experience. This is a participant-centered program, with the goal of providing participants with the tools to make the right decisions for themselves based on their academic, career, and personal goals and needs. The anticipated audience for this series is as in previous years current and previous undergraduate and masters students who are interested in attending graduate school in evolution and ecology.
  • The Center for Population Biology 30-year Anniversary Video - November 2021:  CPB in partnership with the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences development team created a video to highlight the strengths of Population Biology here at Davis:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJkv1SBTIMc.  
  • Population Biology Student Diversity Committee / Ecology and Evolution 2nd Graduate School Preview Event - 5 Virtual Sessions, August 3-31, 2021 - Population Biology and some Center for Population Biology graduate students held this Preview to increase access and transparency of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD programs with the purpose of increasing diversity within these fields.  Preview mentors and students cover what graduate school is like, the specifics of applying, funding, and how to choose a program and advisor.  Sessions included these topics:  Nuts & Bolts of Grad School, How to Apply & Timeline, Funding & Grant Writing, Finding a Good Fit, Is this Right for Me?
  • The annual CPB graduate student research workshop, also known as "Proutfest", in honor of Professor Emeritus Tim Prout, has taken place during each of the past academic years...  December 9, 2017; December 8, 2018; December 7, 2019.  The 8th Annual Proutfest event is scheduled for December 5, 2020 and will be held remotely due to COVID-19.

  • An Introduction to Building Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution Workshop/Mini-Course - Matthew Osmond, CPB Postdoctoral Fellow - November 2020:  This goal of this workshop/mini-course was to develop a better understanding of how to go from an idea to a system of equations that you can then analyze. This is one of the first steps in modelling, yet one of the most mysterious to many. The workshop was aimed at those with less modeling experience but encouraged all level of participants to gain perspectives from across the board for a fun, creative, and collaborative process, suitable for any career stage and any subdiscipline within ecology and evolution.  The workshop took place in 4 installments: 

    • Part 1: Intro (3-5PM Friday Nov 6)
      • Discuss background reading, see example problems
    • Part 2: Warmup questions (1-3PM Monday Nov 9)
      • Compare answers to homework problems
    • Part 3: Guess the model (1-3PM Monday Nov 16)
      • Write models described verbally in papers, compare with "truth"
    • Part 4: Create and exchange (3-5PM Friday Nov 20)
      • Create your own model, exchange written description with peer and compare model interpretations

  • CPB/PBG students held their Population Biology Graduate Student Workshop on September 15 and 16, 2020, virtually due to COVID-19.  The theme was "Evolutionary Response to Environmental Variation and Change."

  • Population Biology Student Diversity Committee / Ecology and Evolution 1st Graduate School Preview Event - 5 Virtual Sessions, August 11, 18, 25, September 1, 8, 2020; Population Biology and some Center for Population Biology graduate students held this Preview to increase access and transparency of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology PhD programs with the purpose of increasing diversity within these fields.  Sessions included these topics:  Nuts & Bolts of Grad School, How to Apply & Timeline, Funding & Grant Writing, Finding a Good Fit, Is this Right for Me?

  • CPB Workshop - Synthesis: The Intersection of Natural Selection & Reproductive Isolation - Organized by Katie Ferris, CPB Postdoctoral Fellow, May 25 and 26, 2017:  Three former CPB post-doctoral fellows, Leonie Moyle, Maria Servedio, and Rich Glor, as well as local CPB speakers, provided talks and participated in professional development activities with CPB graduate students and post-docs.  The general workshop schedule is outlined below:

    Thursday May 25th

    9am-12pm: Invited Talks

    1:30-3:00pm: Invited Talks

    3:00-5:00pm: Career panel and networking

    5-6:30pm: CPB Social

    Friday May 26th

    9am-12pm: Invited Talks

    1:30-3:00pm: Invited Talks

    3:00-5:00pm: Diversity in the Sciences activity and networking

    5-6:30pm: CPB Social

  • Bodega Marine Laboratory Phylogenetics Workshop: http://treethinkers.org/ (March 11-18, 2017)

  • "Graduate student research workshop (aka Proutfest 2016) will take place December 3, 2016, and will feature talks from over 20 PBGG students. These talks will cover the diverse research interests of PBGG and are given by students at all stages of their graduate careers. Proutfest 2016 will also have meals and social events to foster collaborative efforts between students within the PBGG community."
  • The CPB graduate student research workshop (aka Proutfest, in honor of Professor Emeritus Tim Prout) will take place on November 21, 2015
  • CPB Postdoctoral Fellow Heather Kharouba taught a workshop on the Meta-analysis of Ecological and Evolutionary Data - April 28-30, 2015:  Over the years an unprecedented wealth of ecological and evolutionary data has accumulated - and still is accumulating. Meta-analytical approaches provide a way to make quantitative generalizations across all this data and allow us to rigorously test long standing theories and synthesize ecological and evolutionary knowledge. This workshop was aimed at graduate students and postdocs but anyone was welcome to attend. It covered the steps involved in doing a meta-analysis, the current best-practices, common issues, limitations and tips for data compilation, analysis and presentation. Heather also briefly touched on different statistical models and approaches. The format was lecture based, but there was time for work (and feedback) on independent projects. 
  • Bodega Marine Laboratory Phylogenetics Workshop: http://treethinkers.org/ (March 7-15, 2015)
  • CPB Student Mini-Conference: Questions and Methods in Ecological Genetics. Invited speakers: Jill Anderson (U. South Carolina) and David Lowry (Michigan State U.) (February 17-19, 2015)
  • UC Davis hosts Bay Area Population Genomics meeting (December 2014)
  • Annual CPB graduate student symposium (November 2014)
  • Annual CPB graduate student symposium (November 2013)
  • Bodega Marine Laboratory Phylogenetics Workshop (March 2013)
  • Data Archiving (March 2011)
  • Bodega Phylogenetic Workshop (March 2011)
  • Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology: A practical introduction to understanding and using hierarchical models. Through two lectures and three hands-on computer labs with the ecological data, this workshop introduced participants to hierarchical models. (January 2011)
  • Bay Area Biosystematists: Discussion of species delimitation methods. UC Davis guest speakers: Drs. Bruce Rannala, H. Bradley Shaffer, and Phil Ward (October 2010)
  • Using Phylogenies in Ecological and Evolutionary Research. Presented by Drs. Samantha Price and Roi Holzman, UC Davis (May 2010)
  • Genomics and Genetics in Non-Model Organisms. Guest speakers: Katie Peichel, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; and John Willis, Duke University (April 2010)
  • Data Procurement and Assembly through Tree Building (Linux from the ground up) (February 2010)
  • Metabolic Theory of Ecology. Guest speakers: James H. Borwn, University of New Mexico; and Susan Harrison, UC Davis (May 2008)
  • Coevolution Workshop. Guest speakers: Joel Sachs, UC Riverside; Scott Nuismer, University of Idaho; Mark Rausher, Duke University; and Monica Medina, UC Merced (April 2008)
  • Paleontology and Its Relevance to Neontological Research. Guest speakers: Conrad Labandeira, Smithsonian; Geerat Vermeij, UC Davis; David Jacobs, UC Los Angeles; and Todd Oakley, UC Santa Barbara (April 2007)
  • Dr. Tony Ives, University of Wisconsin-Madison (January 2006)
  • Dr. Ruth Shaw, University of Minnesota (April 2005)
  • Dr. Ray Calloway, University of Montana, and Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago (January 2005)