Department of Biology
Spring 2020 Colloquium
Tuesdays 12:05 - 12:55 pm
Darwin 103
| Date/Host | Speaker/Title of Presentation |
|---|---|
| Jan 21 Lin |
Introduction to Fall 2019 Biology Colloquium |
| Jan 28 Rank |
Dr. George Roderick, University of California, Berkeley "Invasive Insects and the Impacts of Novel Interactions on Remote Pacific Islands" |
| Feb 4 Bentley |
Dr. Nathan Rank, Sonoma State University "Is the Insect Apocalypse Real?" |
| Feb 11 Lee |
Dr. Giovanni Rapacciuolo, California Academy of Sciences "Detecting Biodiversity Change from Unstructured Citizen Science Data to Inform Coastal Management" |
| Feb 18 Torok |
Dr. John Reed, Kiverdi Inc., Pleasanton, CA "Why Hydrogen? Challenges and Opportunities in Using H2 and Other Fuel Gases for the Rapid Bioconversion of CO2 and Other Waste Carbon Feedstocks” |
| Feb 25 Rank |
Dr. Sevan Suni, University of San Francisco "Effects of Urbanization on Plant-Pollinator Interactions" |
| Mar 3 Rank |
Dr. Andrew Whitehead, University of California, Davis "Anthropocene: The Genomic Basis of Adaptation to Pollution" |
| Mar 10 Cohen |
Dr. Poulami Chatterjee, University of California, Davis "Regulation of Plant Volatile Emission by ACC Deaminase Producing Bacteria Under Salt and Heat Stress Conditions" |
| Mar 17 | Spring Break |
| Mar 24 Biology Graduate Students |
Dr. Jenn Smith, Mills College, Oakland, CA "Evolutionary Ecology of Social Networks in Free-Living Mammals: From Hyenas to Ground Squirrels" |
| Mar 31 | Cesar Chavez Day (no seminar) |
| Apr 7 Lin |
Dr. Andreas Serra-Marques, University of California, San Francisco "Mechanisms of Nuclear Formation and Integrity After Cell Division" |
| Apr 14 Hua |
Dr. Kimberly Tanner, San Francisco State University "Collectively Improving Our Science Teaching: Department-Wide Efforts in Scientific Teaching that Produced Classroom Transformations, Unanticipated Discoveries, and Scholarly Publications" |
| Apr 21 Lee |
Dr. Jayson Smith, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona "Rocky Intertidal Ecosystems: Long-Term Change, Human Impact and Management" |
| Apr 28 Lin |
Dr. Emily Bray, Canine Companions for Independence, Santa Rosa, CA "The Effect of Early Developmental and Cognitive Factors on Canine Behavior" |
| May 5 Rank |
Dr. Matthew H. Van Dam, California Academy of Sciences "Phylogenomics of the Easter Egg Weevils (Pachyrhynchus)" |