Category: Seminars and Talks

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Dear UC Davis Faculty, Staff, Students, and Community Members,

We are delighted to announce that the final Forum in the 2017-2018 season of The UC Davis Forums on the Public University and the Social Good will take place a few weeks from now on Monday, May 14th. This lecture will feature Dr. Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for Equitable Growth at UC Berkeley.

Dr. Saez will focus on a topic of great interest in both higher education and society at large: the potential of a college degree to raise one’s income level. To illuminate this topic, he will present his research data, compiled for each four-year college and university in America, on graduates’ earnings in their early thirties and their parents’ incomes. He will address the following critical questions, among others: Do colleges in America alleviate or worsen income inequalities? Which colleges contribute the most to helping children climb the income ladder? And how can we increase access to such colleges for children from low-income families?

The lecture will take place in the Multipurpose Room of the Student Community Center from 3-4:30 PM, with a reception and light refreshments to follow. This event is free and open to the public, and if you wish to attend, please RSVP using the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/emmanuel-saez-colleges-and-intergenerational-income-mobility-in-america-tickets-45391557370

Please circulate this email to anyone who you think might be interested in the event.

Emmanuel Saez Final Flyer.pdf

This week’s Animal Behavior Graduate Group seminar:

Parental Care: From Genome to Phenome

…and then off to save the world!

Rebecca M. Calisi Rodríguez

Assistant Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior

University of California, Davis

Friday, November 3rd, 12:10 in 1150 Hart Hall
Coffee and cookies will be available

Important changes in behavior occur when we become parents. For animals that exhibit parental care, raising offspring successfully involves transitioning from aggressive and sexual behaviors to more caring and nurturing ones. But how do the brain and body pull off this great feat? In the first part of this seminar, Calisi will discuss her work in characterizing a neurohormone, gonadotropin inhibitory hormone (GnIH), over the course of parental care in both a bird and rodent model, demonstrating how results of these studies could change the way we study the neural control of parental care behavior. Then, she will touch upon how this work has inspired current investigations in her lab of how the genomic activity of tissues vital to reproduction – the hypothalamus in the brain, the pituitary, and the gonads – change over the parental care stage using the avian model of the common pigeon. In the second part of her talk, Calisi will shift gears to discuss another exciting area of research in her lab. This research focuses on using pigeons as biomonitors of dangerous, human-made contaminants, with the goal of identifying problem urban and rural areas and communities in need of resources and assistance.

Of potential interest ..

“Identification of factors that drive taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional composition of microbial communities using DNA sequence analysis" by Srijak Bhatnagar Wednesday, Aug 2nd, 12:10 PM Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility (GBSF), Room 1005

“Genetic and Functional Diversity of Bifidobacterium pseudocatenulatum and its Relationship with Human Milk Oligosaccharides” by Guy Shani Friday, May 26th, 1PM Robert Mondavi Institute South, Room 1207

CPB Seminar Reminder for Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 4:10pm in 1022 Life Sciences

Speaker: Vince Buffalo
Graduate Student, Population Biology Graduate Group, Coop Lab, UC Davis
Title: “Using the footprint of linked selection to estimate quantitative genetic parameters”
Host: Graham Coop