Please join us today for EEB seminar at 3pm in HH 316. Longjun Wu, a graduate student in Dave Lambert’s lab at the University of Rochester, will be presenting a talk titled “Ancient origin of a Mollusc sex pheromone via lateral gene transfer”.

Dr. Ellen Martinson will present a talk titled talk is titled “Microsporidial endochitinase gene recruited as a venom protein in parasitoid wasps” at 3pm in HH316 on Friday, 12/5. Dr. Martinson earned her Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona working on fig wasps. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Werren lab at the University of Rochester working on the evolution of parasitoid wasp venom.

Please join us for a seminar from Dr. Mrinalini, a post doc in the Werren lab at the University of Rochester. Dr. Mrinalini’s talk is titled “Venom evolution and function in parasitoid wasps”.

Join the EEB department this Friday in Hutch 316 for Dr. Stewart’s talk “Sexual conflict as an impediment to adaptation: Results of a long-term selection experiment in Drosophila melanogaster”