Biology Lunch Bunch
Spring 2024
DATE | SPEAKER | LAB/HOST | TOPIC |
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January 19 | Sara Lipshutz, Duke University | K. Pfennig Lab | "Fighting for fitness: integrating behavioral, hormonal, and genomic perspectives on the evolution of female competition" |
January 26 | Yuxiang Liu, UT Southwestern Medical School | Burmeister Lab | “The extra-circadian function of human CLOCK during neurodevelopment.” |
February 2 | Joel Kingsolver and Corbin Jones | “Leveraging Innovations From Evolution (LIFE): a new NSF initiative” | |
February 9 | Alex McAvoy, UNC School of Data Science and Society | Servedio Lab | Mutation-selection dynamics in spatially structured populations |
February 16 | Pat Gensel | TBA | |
February 23 | Graduate Student Recruitment | ||
March 1 | Jacob Marsh | Johri Lab | "Biases in ARG-based inference of historical population size in populations experiencing selection" |
March 18 | Schyler Ellsworth | McCoy Lab | Investigating venom complexity and venom resistance using Scolopendromorpha and Drosophila" |
March 15 | SPRING BREAK | ||
March 22 | Sean Anderson | Matute Lab | TBA |
March 29 | UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY | ||
April 5 | Lorrie He | Willett and Kingsolver Labs | "Nighttime recovery from stressful daytime temperatures in Manduca" |
April 12 | Katherine Malinski, Defense | Kingsolver and Willett Labs | “High temperatures and climate change disrupt the ecophysiology of interacting hosts, parasites, and symbionts: evidence from an agricultural insect pest” |
April 19 | Brian Lerch | Servedio Lab | "Eco-evolutionary dynamics of predation and sexual selection" |
April 26 | Emily Harmon, Defense | D. Pfennig Lab | "Plasticity mediates persistence in new environments: a test of the ‘buying time’ hypothesis" |
Lunch Bunch Seminar organizer and contact: Dr. Maria Servedio
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