BIOL 252 Seminar Series 2018-2019
Thursdays at 4:10 pm • Genomics Auditorium
Refreshments served beforehand in the Moore Room (Spieth 3365).
Please contact the host to make an appointment with any of the speakers.
Fall 2018 Quarter / Winter 2019 Quarter / Spring 2019 Quarter
Fall Quarter 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title | Institution | Host |
| September 27th | Dr. Alex Kirschel | "Factors mediating coexistence and reproductive isolation between related species at contact zones" | University of Cyprus | Alan Brelsford |
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October 4th |
Dr. Joe Parker | "Convergent Evolution of a Complex Symbiosis" | California Institutue of Technology | Alan Brelsford |
| October 11th | Dr. Anne Hilborn | "The effect of prey, predators, and sociality on cheetah hunting behavior" | University of California Riverside | Kurt Anderson |
| October 18th | Dr. David Hembry | "Evolutionary and ecological consequences of mutualism and parasitism in leafflower-leafflower moth associations" | University of Arizona | Joel Sachs |
| October 25th | Dr. Cassie Stoddard | "Shape, structure, pattern and color in the avian world: insights from eggs and hummingbirds" | Princeton Univeristy | Chris Clark |
| November 1st | Dr. Marek Borowiec | "Ant bytes: studying diversity and evolution of ants with the help of modern computing" | Arizona State University | Alan Brelsford |
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November 8th |
Dr. Sandy Kawano | "Revisiting biomechanical models of the water-to-land transition in vertebrate evolution" | California State Univeristy, Long Beach | Tim Higham |
| November 15th | Dr. Chris Clark | "Animal Aeroacoustics at UCR: past, present, future" | Univeristy of California, Riverside | Marko Spasojevic |
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November 22nd |
No Seminar | Thanksgiving Holiday | ||
| November 29th | Dr. Albert Ruhi Vidal | "Rivers of the Anthropocene: responses of freshwater communities to novel flow regimes" | University of California, Berkeley | Kurt Anderson |
| December 6th | Dr. Kabir Peay | "Plant feedback with rare microbes can generate alternative ecosystem states" | Stanford University | Sydney Glassman |
Winter Quarter 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title | Institution | Host |
| January 10th | ||||
| January 17th | Dr. Tanya Cheeke | "Harnessing the power of soil microbes for ecological restoration" | Washington State University | Sydney Glassman |
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January 24th |
Dr. Gil Rosenthal | "Mate choice and its consequences" | Texas A&M University | Lauren Conroy |
| January 31st | Systems Physiology Asst. Professor - Faculty Candidate | "TBA" | Ted Garland | |
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February 7th |
Systems Physiology Asst. Professor - Faculty Candidate | "TBA" | Ted Garland | |
| February 14th | Systems Physiology Asst. Professor - Faculty Candidate | "TBA" | Ted Garland | |
| February 21st | Systems Physiology Asst. Professor - Faculty Candidate | "TBA" | Ted Garland | |
| February 28th | Dr. Roo Vandegrift | "Cloud forest fungal biodiversity and ecology: science as conservation activism" | University of Oregon | Sydney Glassman |
| March 7th | Dr. Allison Shultz | "Evolution across timescales: comparative and population genomics studies of host-pathogen co-evolution in birds" | LA County Natural History Museum | Chris Clark |
| March 14th | Seminar cancelled |
Spring Quarter 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title | Institution | Host |
| April 4th | n/a | EEOB Graduate Program Meeting | ||
| April 11th | ||||
| April 18th | Dr. Brandon Barton | Predator-mediated effects of global change and the implications for food webs in the Anthropocene | Mississippi State University | Nicole Rafferty |
| April 25th | Dr. Sehoya Cotner | "Envisioning more equitable STEM Education" | University of Minnesota | EEOB Graduate Students |
| May 2nd | Dr. Donovan German | "It takes guts to make it in this world! How fishes solve issues of eating diverse diets" | University of California Irvine | Kristin Edwards |
| May 9th | Dr. Dan Allen | "Geographical aquatic ecology: studying process and pattern in aquatic ecosystems across regional and continental scales" | University of Oklahoma | Kurt Anderson |
| May 16th | EDGE Institute panel discussion | Marilyn Fogel | ||
| May 23rd | Dr. David Reznick | "Mode of maternal provisioning builds a bridge between microevolution and macroevolution" | University of California Riverside | Alan Brelsford |
| May 30th | Dr. Jon Shurin | "Evolutionary and ecological effects of climate in mountain lakes" | University of California San Diego | Sydney Glassman |
| June 6th | Katie Johnson | "Vocal learning in the Costa's hummingbird" | University of California Riverside | Chris Clark |