Herp Group Dec 1: Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda

[Rebecca Tarvin]

Hi all,

Our last Herp Group of the semester will be given by Dr. Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda, recent PhD graduate from the Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley, now a King Center postdoc at Stanford University. The title of her talk is What does it take to eat toxins and to work on snakes in the Colombian Amazon?

Some of her talk will overlap with her MVZ seminar from the other week, but she will also give a bit of a travelogue. 

"Doors" at 5pm in the MVZ GML, event starts at ~5:15pm. Dinner at Little Plearn after the talk. 

Zoom is the same as usual: https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/96256299162?pwd=MHTBYxq7XZzojXbeobQCClsofeqZVD.1

Meeting ID: 962 5629 9162
Passcode: 790998

Sept 8	Audra Barrios, Executive Director, Things That Creep (https://www.thingsthatcreep.org/) Title: Conservation through science education
Sept 22	Jeff Alvarez, The Wildlife Project and President of the Western Section of The Wildlife Society Title: Natural history notes: connecting dots and filling gaps
Oct 6	Casey Moss, Endemic Environmental, Sacramento CA Title: Discovery and Rediscovery: Salamanders of the Family Plethodontidae
Oct 20	Tiffany May, San Francisco Zoo/San Francisco State University Title: Survival, Behavior, and Predation at ‘Toad Island’ in Yosemite National Park
Nov 3	Hale Garcia-Dean (M.S.), Sonoma State University Title: Patterns of dispersal and short-term survivorship in post-metamorphic California Red-legged Frogs (Rana draytonii)
Nov 17	No meeting
Dec 1	Valeria Ramírez-Castañeda, Department of Integrative Biology and Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley; Stanford University Title: What does it take to eat toxins and to work on snakes in the Colombian Amazon?

Rebecca (Becca) D. Tarvin

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Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology 

Assistant Curator of Herpetology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

3101 Valley Life Sciences Building

University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-3160

Lab website: www.tarvinlab.org

Twitter: @frogsicles

Senior Associate, AmphibiaWeb

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Rebecca Tarvin

163 Weill Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

[Rebecca Tarvin]

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately Valeria is sick and unable to give herp group this Monday. 

See you all next semester

Rebecca (Becca) D. Tarvin

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Assistant Professor, Department of Integrative Biology 

Assistant Curator of Herpetology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

3101 Valley Life Sciences Building

University of California Berkeley

Berkeley, CA 94720-3160

Lab website: www.tarvinlab.org

Twitter: @frogsicles

Senior Associate, AmphibiaWeb

FOR PACKAGES USE:

Rebecca Tarvin

163 Weill Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720