[QSB-grads] QSB Seminar - student sponsored speaker - this Friday @ 1:30pm in SSM 104

[Frederick Wolf]

The final QSB seminar of the semester features the QSB sponsored speaker Alison Davis Rabosky.
Come on out and support our graduate students!
Mix N’ Mingle to follow in SE1 390 - everyone is welcome.


Alison Davis Rabosky, University of Michigan

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.




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Fred W Wolf, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Natural Sciences / UC Merced
5200 N. Lake Rd. Merced, CA 95343
415.370.1132
fwolf at ucmerced.edu
http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/fwolf/
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