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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Special thank you again to Fred for the announcement each week.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Please join us at this year’s final QSB Mix ‘n Mingle brought to you by VWR. This week we will be serving a special drink to toast to then end of the academic
year. Grab your lab mates, class mates, and friends and kick off summer right!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cheers!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Morgan<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> qsb-grads [mailto:qsb-grads-bounces@lists.ucmerced.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Frederick Wolf<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:57 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> qsb-grads@lists.ucmerced.edu; UCM QSB Faculty (qsb-faculty@lists.ucmerced.edu)<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [QSB-grads] QSB Seminar - student sponsored speaker - this Friday @ 1:30pm in SSM 104<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The final QSB seminar of the semester features the QSB sponsored speaker Alison Davis Rabosky.<br>
Come on out and support our graduate students!<br>
Mix N’ Mingle to follow in SE1 390 - everyone is welcome.<br>
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Alison Davis Rabosky, University of Michigan<br>
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Mimicry, in which two unrelated species converge upon a novel phenotype for the purpose of signaling to predators, is a classic system for understanding the mechanisms that drive transitions to strikingly new and distinct character states. My research on trait
evolution has leveraged the phenomenon of Batesian mimicry of highly venomous coral snakes (family Elapidae) across the New World to test hypotheses about “evolutionary trajectories” in nature. I combine large-scale digitization of museum records, phylogenetic
comparative approaches, modeling, and behavioral experiments to create comprehensive tests of how mimicry evolves across both space and time. These tests challenge traditional ideas about the ecological origins and evolutionary stability of mimicry systems
and identify exciting new targets for future research into the drivers of phenotypic convergence across systems.<br>
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Fred W Wolf, Ph.D.<br>
Assistant Professor<br>
Natural Sciences / UC Merced<br>
5200 N. Lake Rd. Merced, CA 95343<br>
415.370.1132<br>
<a href="mailto:fwolf@ucmerced.edu">fwolf@ucmerced.edu</a><br>
<a href="http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/fwolf/">http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/fwolf/</a><br>
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