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• Cephalopods

  Like octopus and cuttlefish, cephalopods are masters of camouflage quickly changing color, texture and shape to match their environment. Here, a small octopus from Moorea morphs from a form that conceals it amongst corals to a smoother, lighter version as it jets away over white sand.

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• Climate Change

  Todd Dawson focuses on how plants from different ecosystems respond ecologically and physiologically to climatic changes. Using field and greenhouse investigations, analysis of isotope composition of tree-ring cellulose and modeling they'll provide the science needed to guide solution-based management and policy decisions.

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• Butterfly

  This butterfly was photographed in French Guiana, where some of the oldest soils on earth support a diversity of endemic life forms. IB grad student Seth Kauppinen works in the Fine Lab where researchers investigate the origin and maintenance of tropical tree diversity.

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• Damselfly

  Another example of graduate student research—this damselfly (Zygoptera) was photographed in Monteverde, Costa Rica on a field work expedition for a tropical biology course. Seth Kauppinen is studying the ecology of symbiosis between Amazonian trees and leaf-inhabiting fungi.

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• Mammal Dentition

  Specimens from the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology have helped IB scientists discover that the genes that determine the size of your front teeth are different from those that determine the size of your back teeth—a step towards figuring out how nature makes teeth and how we might be able to use this in the dentist's office.

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• A pink-toe tarantula

  This tarantula species, a pink-toe tarantula (Avicularia avicularia) in Kourou, French Guiana, is common throughout northern South America, frequently found in dwellings. The coloration reverses around 4-5 years for juvenile specimens: pink bodies with dark-colored feet.

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• Odorous Frog

  Rana margaretae is a part of an amphibian community formed by six species living in or around the same stream. The microhabitats vary between these species, and the available resources is partitioned and consumed differently. Tadpoles of the different species forage and graze differently.

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• Thu, Feb 9, 4:00 pm

  IB SEMINAR: "The evolution of diet breadth from a bottom-up and top-down perspective"

  Angela Smilanich

• Thu, Feb 16, 4:00 pm

  IB SEMINAR: "Integrating paleontological, morphological, and molecular sequence data to reconstruct the phylogenetic positions of extinct species"

  Jonathan Hendricks

• Thu, Feb 23, 4:00 pm

  IB SEMINAR: "Title to be announced"

  Dan Rabosky

• Thu, Mar 15, 4:00 pm

  IB SEMINAR: "Title to be announced"

  Lee Dyer

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NEWS

• Berkeley News Center article: From Teaching Laboratory to Research Article in Nature: Leaping lizards and dinosaurs inspire robot design.
• Leslea Hlusko and Robert Full have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science. See the Berkeley News Center article.
• IB Faculty and students featured in Berkeley News Center article about SACNAS: teaming up to change face of science.
• IB's Greg Goldsmith has incorporated high-definition photos and video of a cloud forest in Costa Rica into a middle-school curriculum:
  Go to Berkeley NewsCenter's article about Goldsmith.
  View the Canopy in the Clouds site.
  Read National Geographic Society NewsWatch article.
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