Herp Group tonight

[Jim McGuire]

Hi all,

Tonight (Monday November 18) our own Dr. Ammon Corl will be speaking about his exciting research on Uta stansburiana. His title is "A Colorful Tale of Genetics and Plasticity in the Polymorphic Side-Blotched Lizard”. This is the culmination of years of research trying to decipher the underlying genetic basis of throat color variation in side-blotched lizards famous for playing the rock-paper-scissors frequency dependent mating game. Because we have an event planned for Tuesday night in the GML, this meeting wil be held in VLSB 2040. We’ll post a sign on the front door of the MVZ to remind you all about the change of venue. Ammon also requested a change of venue for the post-Herp Group dinner and we will be going to Cancun this week.

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

Zoom info

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

Meeting ID: 926 2560 1487
Passcode: 759191

Cheers,

Jim

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: A Colorful Tale of Genetics and Plasticity in the Polymorphic Side-Blotched Lizard
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