BIOL 252 Seminars
Spring Quarter 2025
Genomics Auditorium - Thursdays at 4:00pm
April 3
Speaker: Donna Maney, Emory University
Title: "The bird that broke the binary"
Host: Natalie Holt
April 10
Speaker: Christopher Martinez, University of California, Irvine
Title: "Evolution in Motion: Exploring Kinematic Diversity of Fishes"
Host: Daniel Moen
April 17
Speaker: PIata Marques, University of Toronto
Title: "Fish and the city: understanding the effects of urbanization on the ecology and evolution of aquatic biota"
Host: Kurt Anderson
April 24
Speaker: Takuji Usui, University of Toronto
Title: "Biodiversity on the move: Species distributions and coexistence in an era of global change"
Host: Kurt Anderson
May 1
Speaker: Jonathan Myers, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Exploring the theory of ecological communities across temperate and tropical forests"
Host: Marko Spasojevic
May 8
Speaker: Jeff Arendt, University of California, Riverside
Title: "Frequency-
Host: Jeff Arendt
May 15
Speaker: Michael Rose, University of California, Irvine
Title: "Experimental Evolutionary Genomics in Outbred Drosophila"
Host: Ted Garland
May 22
Speaker: Gena Sbeglia, San Diego State University
Title: "Changing evolution education to meet student needs: Data and lessons learned"
Host: Helen Regan
May 29
Speaker: Sharlene Santana, University Washington
Title: "Integrative studies of bat diversification"
Host: Daniel Moen
June 5
Speaker: Melissa Wilson, San Diego State University
Title: "Comparative Genomics and Reproductive Health"
Host: Marisol Ibarra Zea