Past Events

View some of the previous events hosted in the last year by the BRC.

BRS Marco Todesco: UV patterns in wild sunflowers: one gene and two functions.

September 15, 2021

host: Rieseberg Lab Title: UV patterns in wild sunflowers: one gene and two functions. Abstract: While all sunflowers appear uniformly yellow to the human eye, they display extensive variation for floral ultraviolet (UV) patterns. UV patterns have long been known to be important for attracting...

BRC Ice Cream Social

BRS: Molecular Ecology prize: Victoria Sork "Evolutionary and conservation genomics of oaks"

host: Loren Rieseberg Abstract: Oaks are an evolutionary and ecological success story yet their ability to respond and adapt to rapid climate change will determine their future success. In the first part of the talk, I will summarize studies of landscape genomics, DNA methylation, and gene...

BRS: Evolution lecture Trevor Price "The distribution of biodiversity across the Himalaya"

host: graduate students (contact Ken Thompson) Abstract: Tropical mountainous regions are exceptionally biodiverse. In this talk, I address causes of species richness across the Himalaya. The entire range lies just north of the tropics but still spans 30% of the world’s climates, 8% the world’s...

BRS: Chris Martin "The complex origins of vertebrate adaptive radiation: from adaptive gene flow to fitness landscapes"

host: Dolph Schluter Abstract: Adaptive radiations produce many new species with diverse and often novel ecological niches. How do populations rapidly adapt to novel ecological niches? My talk will explore the myriad factors underlying the evolution of novel trophic specialists in two case studies...

BRS: Lian Pin Koh "Promises and Pitfalls of Nature-based Climate Solutions"

host: Cole Burton Title: Promises and Pitfalls of Nature-based Climate Solutions Abstract: The protection or restoration of natural ecosystems can contribute to climate mitigation through carbon storage and sequestration. However, there are various social, economic, cultural and political...

BRS: Nadia Singh "Phenotypic plasticity in recombination in Drosophila melanogaster"

host: Judith Mank abstract: Meiotic recombination rate is phenotypic plastic, varying in response to a number of environmental stimuli. Recombination seems particularly plastic in response to stressors, including pathogens, aging, and starvation. Though plastic recombination is pervasive and has...

BRS: Tadashi Fukami - Chitty lecture "Making sense of messy communities"

host: graduate students (please contact Sam Straus) Abstract: Seeing that ecological communities are messy in the patterns they exhibit in structure and function, some researchers have sought to uncover general principles that govern all communities, while others have focused on describing unique...

BRS: Loeske Kruuk "Climate change meets quantitative genetics: tales from a long-term bird study”

host: Mike Whitlock

BRS: READING WEEK

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BRS Marco Todesco: UV patterns in wild sunflowers: one gene and two functions.

BRC Ice Cream Social

BRS: Molecular Ecology prize: Victoria Sork "Evolutionary and conservation genomics of oaks"

BRS: Evolution lecture Trevor Price "The distribution of biodiversity across the Himalaya"

BRS: Chris Martin "The complex origins of vertebrate adaptive radiation: from adaptive gene flow to fitness landscapes"

BRS: Lian Pin Koh "Promises and Pitfalls of Nature-based Climate Solutions"

BRS: Nadia Singh "Phenotypic plasticity in recombination in Drosophila melanogaster"

BRS: Tadashi Fukami - Chitty lecture "Making sense of messy communities"

BRS: Loeske Kruuk "Climate change meets quantitative genetics: tales from a long-term bird study”

BRS: READING WEEK