BIOL 252 Seminars
Fall Quarter 2024
Genomics Auditorium - Thursdays at 4:00pm
October 3
Speaker: Abraham Morales Cruz, Joint genome institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: "Conservation of the gene regulatory landscape in plants"
Host: Conner Lay & Kate Ostevik
October 10
Speaker: Louise Heitzmann, University of California, Riverside
Title: "Brain sexual differentiation in a mouse species with naturally occurring sex reversal"
Host: Polly Campbell
October 17
Speaker: Rishi De-Kayne, University of California, Berkeley
Title: "Uncovering overlooked variation - the role of structural variants in adaptation"
Host: Kate Ostevik
October 24
Speaker: Rebecca Kariuki, Arizona State University
Title: "Land use and land cover change (LULCC) scenarios around protected areas in East African savannas and their implications on conservation"
Host: Helen Regan
October 31
Speaker: Natalie Holt, University of California, Riverside
Title: "Mechanisms of contraction, variation, plasticity, and adaptation in skeletal muscle"
Host: Natalie Holt
November 7
Speaker: Matthew Medeiros, University of Hawai'i, Mānoa
Title: "Environmental and ecological factors influence the gut microbiome of wild picture-wing Drosophila across the Hawaiian Islands"
Host: Chris Clark
November 14
Speaker: Andy Sih, University of California, Davis
Title: "Why should ecologists care about animal personalities or behavioral syndromes: four case studies"
Host: Ted Garland
November 21
Speaker: Joseph Graves, North Carolina A&T State University
Title: "Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions"
Host: Ted Garland & Natalie Holt
Note: Seminar via Zoom
November 28
No seminar, Thanksgiving break
December 5
Speaker: Bruno Soares, University of Regina
Title: "Disentangling community and interaction assembly rules to understand aquatic food webs at large spatial scales"
Host: Helen Regan