Category: Seminars and Talks

PhD Exit Seminar Announcement

Jenna Morgan Lang
(Microbiology Graduate Group)

Friday, July 20, 2012
10:00 a.m.

Room 4202, GBSF

“Exploring Microbial Community Composition and Genome Evolution Using Environmental and Comparative Genomics”

Genetics Seminar

“Ancestry inference and population genomics: Insights to
recombination, migration, and rare variant diversity”

Speaker: John Novembre

University of California, Los Angeles | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Monday, June 4, 2012

4:10 PM

1022 Life Sciences

Next talk at http://phyloseminar.org/

"Adaptation, coevolution, and convergence in the context of protein thermodynamics"

David Pollock (University of Colorado School of Medicine)

Interactions within and between proteins are a fundamentally important part of how they evolve and adapt. We have been considering how and why proteins adapt, coevolve, and converge, and working to understand these concepts in the context of protein thermostability and function.

We will expand from the previous talk of our collaborator, Dr.
Goldstein, and discuss how and why coevolution is and should be detected, and how thermostability affects reconstruction of ancestral functions. Further, we will discuss our work on adaptive redesign in mitochondrial proteins, perhaps the largest known case of an adaptive burst in multiple metabolic proteins. The convergence between ancestral snakes and ancestral acrodont lizards is also perhaps the largest known case of adaptive convergence. We will consider what these examples tell us about the theory of how proteins appear to evolve in the context of nearly neutral versus cases of adaptive change. Further, we will discuss the impact on understanding phylogenetic relationships, and we will also discuss a unified theory of nearly neutral and adaptive evolution in the context of structure and function.

West Coast USA: 10:00 (10:00 AM) on Wednesday, May 30
East Coast USA: 13:00 (01:00 PM) on Wednesday, May 30
UK: 18:00 (06:00 PM) on Wednesday, May 30
France: 19:00 (07:00 PM) on Wednesday, May 30
Japan: 02:00 (02:00 AM) on Thursday, May 31
New Zealand: 05:00 (05:00 AM) on Thursday, May 31

MIC 275 Rec Repair Club

Monday May 14, 2012
LS 1022
10 Am

John Roth:
Mechanisms of duplication formation:
Does RecA activity PREVENT chromosome rearrangements?

Seminar announcement (Flier attached):

The Department of Public Health Sciences School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
and the Graduate Group in Epidemiology presents a guest talk on:

Translational Genomic Medicine: From the Science of Discovery to the Science of Action

Muin J. Khoury MD, PhD
Office of Public Health Genomics, CDC
Epidemiology and Genomics Research Program, NCI

Dr. Khoury is the first director of the CDC’s National Office of Public Health Genomics. In 2000, he received the CDC Research Honor Award for outstanding national leadership in genetics and public health. In 2005, he received the National Cancer Institute visiting scholar award for leadership and vision in genetic epidemiology and public health. He has extensive publications in genetic epidemiology and public health genomics with more than 350 peer reviewed articles and 3 books.

Thursday, May 17, 2012
4:00-5:00 pm
Building Location – 1020 Valley Hall
University of California, Davis campus

Videoconference to:
1222 Education Building, Sacramento
School of Medicine

Please RSVP to PHSInstAffairs and indicate Davis or Sacramento in the subject line.

0512KhourySeminarFlyerRevn4 .pdf

Genetics Seminar

“Evolutionary models of mutation and variation for genomic data”

Speaker: Reed Cartwright

Arizona State University | Biodesign Institute

Monday, May 7, 2012

4:10 PM

1022 Life Sciences

This week’s Animal Behavior Graduate Group seminar:

Dr. Edwin Lewis, Departments of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis

Infection behaviors of parasitic nematodes: The story of the slithering herd

Friday, May 4th, 12:10 in 194 Young Hall

Coffee and cookies will be available

Dr. Lewis’ website: http://nematology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/lewis/

My research program is wide-ranging in the scope of the questions asked and in the taxa that are studied. There is, however, a common thread to the work that takes place in my laboratory; we seek to understand why and how organisms find, recognize, assess and exploit resources. We ask questions about how insects and nematodes make decisions about resource utilization and what the fitness outcomes of the decisions are. To answer these kinds of questions, we engage in studies of behavior, population ecology, community ecology and evolutionary biology with several groups of insects, nematodes and bacteria. There are also intentional links to more practical pursuits including biological control of crop pests, predicting the impact of crop management on pest and beneficial organisms and restoration ecology. I see no difference between what is traditionally called “basic” and “applied” research, thus the links of nearly all of the work in the laboratory to agricultural or environmental concerns is explicit.

CPB Seminar Series: Spring 2012

When: Tuesdays, 4:10 – 5:30PM

Where: 1022 Life Sciences Building

May 1: Kyle Edwards, Postdoctoral Research Associate Michigan State University

Title: “Predicting the structure and dynamics of phytoplankton communities with functional traits”

Interested in presenting a seminar? Please contact jjstachowicz@ucdavis.edu.

Additional seminar information: http://cpb.ucdavis.edu/Seminars.html.

Genetics Seminar

“Population genomics of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a fungal pathogen of amphibians”

Speaker: Dr. Jason Stajich

University of California, Riverside | Department Plant Pathology and Microbiology

Monday, April 23, 2012

4:10 PM

1022 Life Sciences

***Informational Seminar***

BGI@UC Davis – Information on partnership capabilities and sample submission

Presented by: Bart Weimer, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Population Health and Reproduction, School of Veterinary Medicine

Co-director of BGI@UCDavis

Dates/Locations: Wednesday, May 2

Davis: Genome Center, Auditorium, Rm. 1005

3:00-3:45 pm

Thursday, May 3

Sacramento: Education Building, Lecture Hall 2222

4:00-4:45 pm

Abstract: Dr. Weimer will be presenting an information seminar to all interested researchers regarding the BGI@UC Davis partnership. Through BGI, campus researchers will have access to the capabilities and expertise of one of the world’s premier genomics and bioinformatics institutes, while BGI researchers will have the ability to collaborate with UC Davis researchers, thereby benefiting from the university’s diverse resources and expertise, especially in biology, medical sciences, agriculture, the environment and education. There will be two seminars available, one in Sacramento and one in Davis – everyone is welcome.