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CES Events
Evolution of Organismal Systems Symposium
Wednesday, February 12, 2025
1 pm - 6:30 pm
Chen 100 & Breezeway
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Poster sign ups due Feb 7!
Jasmine Nirody
University of Chicago
"Adaptive motility in complex, changing environments"
Nirody Lab
Matthew Fuxjager
Brown University
"Physiological basis of gestural display evolution"
Fuxjager Lab
Natasha Mhatre
University of Western Ontario, Canada
"What sets the communication frequency in anthropod communication?"
Mhatre Lab
Michael Dickinson
Caltech
"Unique sensory-motor specializations underlie the adaptive radiation of flies"
Dickinson Lab
Event Schedule
1pm-2pm
Chen Breezeway
Student and Postdoc Poster Session 1
2pm-5:30pm
Chen 100
Symposium
2pm-2:45pm Jasmine Nirody
2:45pm-3:30pm Matthew Fuxjager
3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00pm-4:45pm Natasha Mhatre
4:45pm-5:30pm Michael Dickinson
5:30pm-6:30pm
Chen Breezeway
Student and Postdoc Poster Session 2
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Food and Drink Reception
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Mark your calendars for the next EVOxZANKOU Seminar
March 13, 2025
12-1pm
Chen 130
Betty Hong
“Odor mortis and the neural basis of olfactory function in Calliphoridae”
Jess Kanwal
"To Flex or Flee?: How Multimodal Sensory Integration Shapes Rove Beetle Interspecies Interactions"
Mark your calendar for upcoming EZ Seminars!
April 10, 2025
Ben Matthews, University of British Columbia
"Thirsting for blood then hunting for water: evolution of feeding and egg-laying behaviour in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes"
May 8, 2025
Joani Viliunas
“Evolutionary entrenchment of a myrmecophilous lifestyle: the basis of obligate parasitism in rove beetles”
Martin Tran
"Lineage motifs as developmental modules for control of cell type proportions."
Sign up to speak at EZ Seminar!
EVOxZANKOU Seminar is a monthly seminar series highlighting evolution research being done in labs across campus. EZ Seminar features Caltech faculty, postdocs, and students along with occasional guest speakers. For this informal talk series presentation of unpublished or preliminary work is encouraged. EZ Seminar is a forum for the discussion of ideas and findings, however provisional.
Past CES Events
December 12, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, John McCutcheon
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November 14, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Hannah Way and Jan Stundl
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October 3, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Frances Arnold
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September 12, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Matt Pennell, USC and Joe Ouadah
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June 6, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Haoyu Li, Georg Oberhofer and Michelle Johnson
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May 31, 2024
Southern California Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics (SCaLE) Meeting
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May 9, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Avi Flamholz and Joe Parker
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April 11, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Alex Cohen and Tom Naragon
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