DEPARTMENT OF EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY
RECRUITMENT SEMINAR
QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Dr. Claudia Solis-Lemus
Postdoctoral Fellow
Emory University
“Statistical methods on phylogenetic networks”
Thursday, May 23, 2019
1:30pm 1022 Life Sciences Building
Faculty contact: Chair Jay Stachowicz, Department of Evolution and Ecology
Recruitment Seminar
Dennis Montoya
UC Los Angeles
Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
“Computational reconstruction of the tissue cellular microenvironment"
Thursday, May 16, 2019
1:30 pm
1022 Life Sciences
Dennis Montoya flyer, May 16 2019.pdf
Recruitment Seminar
Dennis Montoya
UC Los Angeles
Department of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
“Computational reconstruction of the tissue cellular microenvironment"
Thursday, May 16, 2019
1:30 pm
1022 Life Sciences
Job talk today of potential interest (focus is on coral reef fish behavior)
Dr. Mike Gil
Postdoctoral Scholar
Institute of Marine Sciences
University of California, Santa Cruz
“How collective behavior can shape ecosystems”
1:30 pm
Monday May 13
1022 Life Sciences.
So – last week I participated in the City Nature Challenge 2019 Sacramento Area effort. See https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/city-nature-challenge-2019-sacramento-region for more details on the challenge.
My colleague Laci Gerhart-Barley was one of the co-organizers for our region and I saw some posts from her in the run up to the event and, as I have gotten more and more into iNaturalist I decided to participate. Fortunately in a way, I got a nasty bug with fever and chills and such and this meant (1) I did not want to go to work and (2) I wanted to avoid people. This gave me some extra time to go around. The vent ran from Friday to Monday April 26-29. And I tooled around UC Davis campus a few times and Sac State Campus once (on Saturday where my daughter had a concert) and around Yolo County and also my yard a bit. And I took a lot of pictures and posted as many as seemed interesting to iNaturalist. And the most amazing thing was the community of people that Laci and others had gathered together did an incredible job of helping ID many many many of my posts.
So here are some more details
Day 1. Link to observations. Screen capture below.
Day 2. Link to observations
Day 3. Link to observations
Day 4. Link to observations.
Some of my favorite observations from these days are below;
And many many more.
Thanks to all the people who helped ID many of my pics and thanks to Laci and the other coorganizers for running the show. It was a great experience.
Oh and below I have tried to copy the images and links to many of the actual entries using their calendar display option. It only shows 200 per day so Day 1 I could not get all of them in this format.. I am not sure how well this will work.
Day 1 extras:
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Of possible interest from an email:
This is a reminder that TODAY, Judith Butler, the Maxine Elliott Professor of Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley, will be giving a lecture as part of The UC Davis Forums series. She will be speaking on the topic of "Scholars at Risk: What Are the Obligations of Universities?"
The lecture will take place in Ballroom B of the Activities and Recreation Center (ARC) from 3 to 4:30 p.m., with a reception and light refreshments to follow. This event is free and open to the public.
Please see the flyer below for more information, and feel free to contact us with any questions.
See you all soon for what will be another insightful Forum!
The UC Davis Forums
forums.ucdavis.edu
Quick post here. New preprint out: Genomes from Bacteria Associated with the Canine Oral Cavity: a Test Case for Automated Genome-Based Taxonomic Assignment | bioRxiv
Authors: , , , , , , , ,
New paper from Cassie Ettinger in the Eisen Lab:
Full citation:
Amend A, Burgaud G, Cunliffe M, Edgcomb VP, Ettinger CL, Gutiérrez MH, Heitman J, Hom EFY, Ianiri G, Jones AC, Kagami M, Picard KT, Quandt CA, Raghukumar S, Riquelme M, Stajich J, Vargas-Muñiz J, Walker AK, Yarden O, Gladfelter AS. 2019. Fungi in the marine environment: open questions and unsolved problems. mBio 10:e01189-18. https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01189-18.
Abstract:
Terrestrial fungi play critical roles in nutrient cycling and food webs and can shape macroorganism communities as parasites and mutualists. Although estimates for the number of fungal species on the planet range from 1.5 to over 5 million, likely fewer than 10% of fungi have been identified so far. To date, a relatively small percentage of described species are associated with marine environments, with ∼1,100 species retrieved exclusively from the marine environment. Nevertheless, fungi have been found in nearly every marine habitat explored, from the surface of the ocean to kilometers below ocean sediments. Fungi are hypothesized to contribute to phytoplankton population cycles and the biological carbon pump and are active in the chemistry of marine sediments. Many fungi have been identified as commensals or pathogens of marine animals (e.g., corals and sponges), plants, and algae. Despite their varied roles, remarkably little is known about the diversity of this major branch of eukaryotic life in marine ecosystems or their ecological functions. This perspective emerges from a Marine Fungi Workshop held in May 2018 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA. We present the state of knowledge as well as the multitude of open questions regarding the diversity and function of fungi in the marine biosphere and geochemical cycles.
Definitely worth a look if you are interested in fungi and/or marine microbes.
Nice article about Natascha Varona who is working in my lab with Raquel Peixoto on coral microbiomes. The article discussed her science and her art and her blending the two of them in relation to coral bleaching.
See: Undergraduate Natascha Varona Blends Science and Art to Combat Coral Bleaching | College of Biological Sciences
And check out her amazing art.
Jonathan Eisen's Lab 