<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div style="text-align:left"><div><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,  <br><br></span></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Next week, I am pleased to host my PhD co-advisor, Prof. Sharon Strauss, as our QSB speaker. Sharon is an evolutionary ecologist who addresses a broad set of questions, most often related to biological interactions and specialization. See her research profiles below:<br><br><a href="https://sharonstrauss.wordpress.com/">https://sharonstrauss.wordpress.com/</a><br><a href="https://biology.ucdavis.edu/people/sharon-strauss">https://biology.ucdavis.edu/people/sharon-strauss</a><br><br><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">If you would like a one-on-one meeting with Sharon please sign up on this google sheet:</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-CHTlpuchddJXyYRWd1OX2vkbQ0gSX5lyTeL4GasVHc/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13LxburQNMB5b_0JZgSbdlhSMh0-QsO31_bk1ZIwqlq4/edit?usp=sharing</a></span></div><br>Below is Sharon's talk title and abstract:<br><br></span><b>Coexistence in close relatives: a nexus of historical and ecological processes</b><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div><br></div>Coexistence
 of close relatives, e.g., many congeners, lies at the nexus where 
evolutionary processes like speciation and ecological challenges like 
competition affect local coexistence. These processes are especially 
strong in close relatives, owing to recent speciation history and shared
 ecological and physical similarity. Here, I explore mechanisms 
influencing coexistence in California plant communities, including trait
 evolution, reproductive interference and competition/facilitation.<br><br></span><br><span class="gmail-aZo gmail-a5r gmail-aZp"><a id="gmail-:20e" target="_blank" class="gmail-aQy gmail-aZr gmail-e gmail-aZI" href="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=7e2cdff230&view=att&th=162ab5ff2932f22e&attid=0.1&disp=safe&realattid=f_jfshnx480&zw" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-a3I" id="gmail-:1yc">Preview attachment me n darwin on Galapagos.jpg</span><div><div class="gmail-aSH"><img class="gmail-aQG gmail-aYB" id="gmail-:20f" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=7e2cdff230&view=fimg&th=162ab5ff2932f22e&attid=0.1&disp=thd&realattid=f_jfshnx480&attbid=ANGjdJ-FLJO4_6P3YQM_1Bah9O1deixR-XAU6zL76e2mBvavF7gH2s_OTVAahfvaL3EKC8SAEMoNbA05Mi2Z0faBkNOzhlI3nksL0dEEYdKd-sSzM_16R3TqceOAgZo&sz=w360-h240-p-nu&ats=1524319223722&rm=162ab5ff2932f22e&zw" style="margin: auto; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; max-width: 100%; max-height: 100%;"><div id="gmail-:20h" class="gmail-aYv" style="display:none"><img class="gmail-aYw gmail-aZy" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div><div id="gmail-:1yd" class="gmail-aYy"><div class="gmail-aYA"><img id="gmail-:20j" class="gmail-aSM" src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/mediatype/icon_1_image_x32.png" title="Image"></div><div class="gmail-aYz"><div class="gmail-a12"><div class="gmail-aQA"><span class="gmail-aV3 gmail-a6U" id="gmail-:20i">me n darwin on Galapagos.jpg</span></div><div class="gmail-aYp"><span id="gmail-:20k" class="gmail-SaH2Ve">1.1 MB</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></a></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I will be hosting a potluck for Sharon at our house in Mariposa Friday evening. Please let me know If you are interested in joining!<br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>Cheers,<br><br></span></div><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jay</span><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span></div>-- <br></div></div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Jason Sexton<br>Assistant Professor<br>Life and Environmental Sciences<br>School of Natural Sciences<br>University of California, Merced<br></div><div>231 Science and Engineering Building 1<br></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:jsexton2@ucmerced.edu" target="_blank">jsexton2@ucmerced.edu</a><br>(209) 228-2426<br><a href="http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/" target="_blank">http://sextonlab.ucmerced.edu/</a><br><br><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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