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UC Davis Evolution and Ecology Seminars Announced

Professor Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
Professor Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra has announced the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology's fall seminars, which will all be virtual in keeping with COVID-19 precautions.

Zoom links and times will be announced for each speaker, he said.

The list:

  • 10/1/20 
    Gil Rosenthal, Texas A&M
    “Mate Choice and its Consequences for Speciation and Hybridization”
    Host: Gail Patricelli

  • 10/8/20
    Nandita Garud, UCLA
    “Rapid Adaptation in Natural Populations: Lessons from Drosophila and the Human Microbiome”
    Host: Kate Lane

  • 10/15/20
    Sarah Fitzpatrick, W. K. Kellogg Biological Station, Michigan State University
    “Linking Evolution and Demography through Genetic Rescue of Small Populations”
    Host: Erin Calfee

  • 10/22/20 
    Jenny Ouyang, University of Nevada, Reno
    “Ecology and Evolution of Physiological Traits in a Changing World”
    Host: Thomas Coombs-Hahn

  • 10/29/20
    Gillian Bowser, Colorado State University
    “Ecological Racism: The Blindness to Environmental and Social Justice in Ecological Research”
    Host: Frederick Nelson

  • 11/5/20
    Alison Feder,  UC Berkeley
    “Probing Tumor Evolutionary Progression through Space and Time”
    Host: Matt Osmond

  • 11/12/20
    Ellen Damschen, University of Wisconsin 
    “Local and Landscape Influences on Plant Community Dynamics in a Changing World”
    Host: Susan Harrison

  • 11/19/20
    Anurag Agrawal, Cornell University
    “Ecological and Evolutionary Effects of Suppressing Insect Herbivores in a Long-term Field Experiment”
    Host: Danielle De La Pascua

  • 11/26/20
    Thanksgiving, No Seminar

  • 12/3/20
     Emily Darling, Wildlife Conservation Society, New York City
    “Big Data on Coral Reefs for Ecology, Conservation, and International Policy”
    Host: Brooke Benson

  • 12/10/20
    Susana Wadgymar, Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
    “Can Assisted Gene Flow Rescue Populations that are Threatened by Climate Change?”
    Host: Elena Suglia

Contact: Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra at rossibarra@ucdavis.edu