BIOL 252 Seminars
Spring Quarter 2024
Genomics Auditorium - Thursdays at 4:00pm
April 4
Speaker: Anat Belasen, University of Texas at Austin
Title: "Learning from the past to inform the future: Amphibian disease ecology in a changing world"
Host: Helen Regan
April 11
Speaker: Erin Sauer, University of Arkansas
Title: "Behavioral and physiological drivers of wildlife disease"
Host: Helen Regan
April 18
Speaker: Miranda Redmond, University of California, Berkeley
Title: "Variability in Tree Demographic Responses to Climate and Disturbances Across Environmental Gradients"
Host: Marko Spasojevic
April 25
Speaker: Jacob Moutouama, Rice University, Department of Biosciences
Title: "Ecological drivers of species' range limits under global warning"
Host: Kurt Anderson
May 2
Speaker: Ted Stankowich, Cal State University, Long Beach
Title: "Spines, Shields, Sprays, and Stripes: The Evolution of Antipredator Defenses and Coloration in Mammals"
Host: Ted Garland
May 9
Speaker: Nathan Upham, Arizona State University
Title: "Querying the mammalverse of genomes, ecologies, and species"
Host: John Hughes
May 16
Speaker: Kathryn Turner, Idaho State University
Title: "Herbarium enabled investigations of evolution in an invasive mustard"
Host: Kate Ostevik
May 23
Speaker: Rafael Bovo, University of California, Riverside
Title: "Physiology in the puzzle of climate-change impacts on amphibians"
Host: Daniel Moen
May 30
Speaker: Pamela Yeh, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Urban Evolution and the Dark-Eyed Junco"
Host: Sam Louden
June 6
Speaker: Nyeema C Harris
Title: "Human-carnivore coexistence on a diverse planet"
Host: Natalie Holt