BIOL 252 Seminars
Winter Quarter 2024
Genomics Auditorium - Thursdays at 4:00pm
January 18
Speaker: Margaret (Peggy) Merrit, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Univ. Alaska Fairbanks
Title: "Fish and Wildlife Management on the Last Frontier: Adventures of an Alaskan Woman Biologist"
Host: Daniel Moen
January 25
Speaker: Michael White, University of Georgia
Title: "Convergent evolution of master sex determination genes among stickleback fish"
Host: Kieran Samuk
February 1
Speaker: Diana Rennison, University of California, San Diego
Title: "Evolutionary-ecology of the stickleback microbiota"
Host: Kieran Samuk
February 8
Speaker: Eleanor Caves, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: "The Sensory and Behavioral Ecology of Visual Signaling: Insights from Mate Choice and Mutualism"
Host: Chris Clark
February 15
Speaker: Liz Scordato, Cal Poly Pomona
Title: "The evolutionary and ecological consequences of agricultural expansion: insights from bird communities in Southeast Asia and California"
Host: Sam Louden
February 22
Speaker: Laurel Brigham, University of California, Irvine
Title: "The response of plants and people to declining water availability"
Host: Marko Spasojevic
February 29
Speaker: Len Nunney, University of California, Riverside
Title: "The real war on cancer: the evolutionary dynamics of cancer suppression"
Host: Len Nunney
March 7
Cancelled
March 14
Speaker: Patrick Green, University of California, Santa Barbara
Title: "Contests beyond behavior: integrative approaches to studying animal fights"
Host: Daniel Moen
March 21
No Seminar