Spring 2017 Colloquium - Tuesdays 12:00 - 1:00pm, Darwin 103
| Jan 24 | Introductory Meeting – Dr. Lisa Bentley, Colloquium Coordinator |
| Jan 31 (Host: Radosevich) |
Dr. Nancy Anderson, University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, OWCN. "Oiled Wildlife Response in California: How Biologists Are Involved" |
| Feb 7 (Host: Dodge) |
Dr. Simon Melov, Buck Institute for Research on Aging. "Translating Geroscience" |
| Feb 14 (Host: Cushman) |
Dr. Lara G. Reichmann, University of California, Berkeley. "Direct and Indirect Contrils of Precipitation on ANPP: Legacies, Meristem Limitation and Plant Communities" |
| Feb 21 (Host: Cohen) |
Dr. Helen Raybould, University of California, Davis. "Bugs, Guts and Brains: How Gut Microbiota Shapes Your Mind and Body" |
| Feb 28 (Host: Gilmore) |
Dr. Anneliese Hettinger, Oregon State University. "Challenges and New Approaches for Understanding Coastal Marine Species Under Ocean Acidification" |
| March 7 (Host: Place) |
Dr. Tyler Evans, California State University, East Bay. “A Role for Transcriptomics in Environmental Physiology, Global Change Biology, and Finding the ‘Genes that Matter' for Environmental Adaptation” |
| Mar 14 |
SPRING BREAK |
| Mar 21 (Host: Bogan) |
Kathern Corn, Ph.D. Student, University of California, Davis. "Shark Saws to Fish Jaws: Using Fish Biomechanics to Explore Evolution" |
| March 28 (Host: Crocker) |
Dr. Luis Huckstadt, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Understanding the Current and Historical Role of Pinnipeds in Antarctic Trophic Webs: New Insights from Stable Isotopes Analysis" |
| Apr 4 (Host: Rank) |
Dr. Meghan Laturney, University of California, Berkeley. "Love and Chemical Warfare: the Battle of the Sexes over Female Reproductive Behaviours in Drosophila" |
| Apr 11 (Host: Bentley) |
Dr. Michael Loik, University of California, Santa Cruz. "Cold Rain and Snow: Plant Responses to Precipitation Change" |
| Apr 18 (Host: Torok) |
Dr. Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "Challenges and Successes in Developing Solvent-Tolerant Bacteria: Use of Proteins in Strain Engineering" |
| Apr 25 (Host: Geist) |
Dr. Jason Watters San Francisco Zoological Society. "Zoo Animal Behavior and Welfare: Observations, Ideas and Experiments" |
| May 2 (Host: Zippay) |
Dr. Cheryl Logan, California State University, Monterey Bay. "A Comparative Analysis of High pCO2 Effects on Rockfish (genus Sebastes) Physiology" |
| May 9 (Host: Pillai ) |
Dr. Imilce A. Rodriguez-Fernandez, Buck Institute for Research on Aging. “A New Proteostasis Checkpoint in Drosophila Intestinal Stem Cells” |