Category: Seminars and Talks

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*See the attached flier for the entire quarter’s seminar schedule.

This week’s Animal Behavior Graduate Group seminar:

Dog diversity as a natural experiment in cognitive and behavioral evolution

Dr. Kevin MacLean
University of Arizona

Friday, February 1st at 12:10 pm in 1150 Hart Hall

Coffee and cookies will be available.

“Dr. Evan MacLean is a biological anthropologist and comparative psychologist with interests in cognitive evolution and the study of animal minds. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 2012, and served as Co-Director of the Duke Canine Cognition Center from 2012-2016. Dr. MacLean conducts research with diverse species ranging from chimpanzees and bonobos to lemurs and domestic dogs. His work is motivated by questions about what makes the human mind unique, as well as how and why cognition evolves.”

For more information about Dr. MacLean’s research: https://dogs.arizona.edu/people/dr-evan-maclean

ABGGSeminarFlyerWinter2019FINAL_1_15_19.pdf

TODAY Dr. John Ioannidis, C. F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention at the School of Medicine, Stanford University, will be giving a lecture as part of The UC Davis Forums series. He will be speaking on the topic of "Reproducible and Useful Research: Building Trust in our Science."

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 attached flyer below for more information, and feel free to contact us with any questions.

John Ioannidis Flyer.pdf

Mathew Leibold from the University of Florida will be giving the Ecology and Evolution seminar “Rethinking Metacommunity Ecology” today, Jan 24th, at 4:10PM in 176 Everson Hall.

DEPARTMENT OF EVOLUTION AND ECOLOGY

RECRUITMENT SEMINAR

BEHAVIORAL EVOLUTION OR ECOLOGY

Dr. Russell Ligon

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Cornell University

“Behavioral Evolution: execution and strategy”

Wednesday, January 23, 2019

2:10pm 1022 Life Sciences Building

January 29 and 30 at UC Davis. Dr. Leif Andersson.

We look forward to seeing you! Please share and distribute widely. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Andersson_flyer.pdf

“There is Life After Cheddar: The Discovery and Evolution of Cheese”
Davis Science Café
Wednesday, November 14th, 2018
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
G Street WunderBar
228 G St, Davis, California 95616
FREE TO ATTEND
Complimentary soft drinks courtesy of the UCD College of Letters and Science

https://capscicomm.org/2018/10/21/science-cafe-events-in-sacramento-region-for-november-2018/

Capital Science Communicators is an association of science, health and technology communicators serving California’s capital region and beyond.
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UC Davis Genome Center

2018 HALLOWEEN SYMPOSIUM

Wednesday, October 31st8:00 am – 3:00 pm, GBSF 1005 and LOBBY

Coffee and refreshments
Pumpkin and Poster set-up; sign-in for Costume contests, Lobby

Primer “What is Epigenomics?” Dr. Janine LaSalle; UC Davis, Associate Director, Genome Center, Professor MMIOpening Remarks, Dr. David Segal; UC Davis, Professor, Genome Center, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine,

Pharmacology, and MIND Institute

Dr. Kelly Frazer; Key Note Lecture
Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Institute for Genomic Medicine, UC San Diego
“Using iPS cells and derived cell types to functionally annotate human genetic variants”

Break; poster and pumpkin viewing

“Epigenomics assays offered in the DNA Technologies Core” – Lutz Froenicke; DNA Technologies Core Manager

“Epigenomic editing technologies” – Henny O’Geen, UC Davis Segal Lab Project Scientist

“Measuring R-loop formation in the human genome using single molecule long read sequencing coupled to bisulfate probing” – Maika Malig, UC Davis IGG Student

“UBE3A in neuronal epigenomic networks” – Jesse Lopez, UC Davis IGG Student“Chromatin Architecture in Tomato” – Alex Mason, UC Davis Postdoctoral Fellow

Lunch Break*
Final voting for Posters, Pumpkin Carving & Best Costume contestants, Lobby

Dr. Steve Jacobsen; Key Note Lecture

Investigator, HHMI, Professor,
Department of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology,
Department of Biological Chemistry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UC Los Angeles

“DNA methylation in Arabidopsis”
Closing remarks; Announcement of Raffle, Poster & Contest Winners 1

2018 GC Flyer.pdf

The origin and evolution of sociality in lizards:
Kin, fitness, and parasites

Dr. Alison Rabosky

University of Michigan

Friday, October 19th at 12:10 pm in 1150 Hart Hall

Coffee and cookies will be available.

Dr. Alison Rabosky is especially interested in understanding the origin and stability of novel phenotypes in nature, utilizing interdisciplinary approaches that draw from ecological physiology, behavioral ecology, functional genomics, and macroevolutionary comparative analysis. For more information, visit: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ardr/index.html