Herp Group - Monday, November 4

[Jim McGuire]

Hi All,

Herp Group is meeting this coming Monday in the usual place (GML) at the usual time (5:15 PM). Our speaker is Jules Wyman, a wildlife biologist at Swaim Biological Incorporated, who will speak about his research on urban herpetofauna in Tucson, Arizona (a great herping destination!). Jules' title is: “Gimme Shelter: Ecology and Conservation of Urban Herpetofauna in Tucson, Arizona”. 

"Doors" at 5pm, event starts at 5:15pm, followed by dinner at Little Plearn.

Zoom info

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https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/92625601487?pwd=LzQkYQmaNY4ttLqoV4uShWswjJaYsr.1

Meeting ID: 926 2560 1487
Passcode: 759191

Sept 9	Jim McGuire, Curator of Herpetology, MVZ, and Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley Title: Phylogenomics of Sulawesi Fanged Frogs: An Adaptive Radiation with Dozens of Cryptic Species, Diverse Reproductive Modes, and the Tantalizing Possibility of Ecological Gradient Speciation
Sept 23	Rafael Parelli Bovo, Assistant Project Scientist, Department of Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology, University of California Riverside Title: Climate-change impacts on amphibians: a physiological perspective
Oct 7	Jennifer Dever, Professor, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Title: Great Female Herpetologists, Past and Present!
Oct 21	Kyle Summers, Professor, Department of Biology, East Carolina University and Visiting Professor, Department of Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley Title: Gut check: exploring the gut microbiome in the Peruvian mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator)
Nov 4	Jules Wyman, Wildlife Biologist, Swaim Biological Incorporated Title: Gimme Shelter: Ecology and Conservation of Urban Herpetofauna in Tucson, Arizona
Nov 18	Ammon Corl, Postdoctoral Fellow, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, UC Berkeley Title: The Genetics and Evolution of the Rock-Paper-Scissors Mating Strategy Polymorphism in Side-Blotched Lizards
Dec 2	Rebecca Heald, Professor, Department of Molecular & Cell Biology, UC Berkeley Title: TBD

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Jimmy A. McGuire
Professor, Department of Integrative Biology
Curator of Herpetology, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3160
Phone: (510) 316-6201
Fax: (510) 643-8238
http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/mcguire/
email: mcguirej at Berkeley.edu