BioScience 113

Michelle Aguilar is an Independent Documentary filmmaker based in South Lake Tahoe, CA.

Eleinis Ávila-Lovera

Chapman University

Comparative Functional Ecology of photosynthetic stems and leaves: Key takeaways from arid ecosystems

CHRIS HUNTER

University of Pennsylvania

Tracking host-pathogen interactions

CARLOS DE LA ROSA

Lindsay Wildlife Experience

JOE PARKER

Caltech

Convergent Evolution of a Social Symbiosis: Beetles vs Ants

ALLISON SCHULTZ

Natural History Museum of Los Angeles

Male and female plumage evolution in the tanagers: a mosaic of natural and sexual selection

Tuesday, September 10th

Bioscience 113

11:45 a.m.

MAREN LILLIAN ARLING '06

Corteva Agriscience

Chemical-induced Gene Expression System to Activate Embryogenesis

STEPHEN SMITH '02

Seattle Children's Research Institute

The ability of feathers to serve many functions such as flight, thermoregulations, crypsis, and sexual signaling simultaneously or serially has allowed for the evolution of many unique life-history strategies in birds; which has in turn allowed for colonization of all of earth’s habitats outside the deep ocean. Combining these functions of feathers provides birds with many novel niches not used by any other vertebrates, especially related to their ability to track ephemeral resources over large areas.

BIOLOGY SEMINARS | SPRING 2018

Dr. Esther Chen

California State University, Fullerton

A bacterial signaling pathway critical for a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis