BIOL 252 Seminars
Fall Quarter 2025
Genomics Auditorium - Thursdays at 4:00pm
October 2
Speaker: Renata Pirani, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Exploring Species Evolutionary Dynamics in the Neotropics"
Host: Daniel Moen
October 9
Speaker: Chris Clark, University of California, Riverside
Title: "Evolution and Ecology of quiet flight: an update"
Host: Chris Clark
October 16
Speaker: Maria Akopyan, University of California, Riverside
Title: TBA
Host: Ellie Armstrong
October 23
Speaker: Wendy Saltzman, University of California, Riverside
Title: "Dad Bods and Dad Brains: Effects of Fatherhood on Males in a Biparental Rodent"
Host: Wendy Saltzman
October 30
Speaker: Nigel Hughes, University of California, Riverside
Title: "Evolutionary tempo and mode among late Cambrian dikelocephalid trilobites: What can the skeletonized early metazoan fossil record tell us of pattern and process?"
Host: Nigel Hughes
November 6
Speaker: Brad Shaffer, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: TBA
Host: Ted Garland
November 27
Thanksgiving Holiday - no seminar
December 4
Speaker: Reza Amirkhiz, University of California, Santa Cruz
Title: TBA
Host: Meredith VanAcker