Primate Biology Group
The PBG is an informal group of people from the departments of ESPM, Integrative Biology, Anthropology, Molecular and Cell Biology, as well as other scientists in the local community who meet every other week during the semester to discuss research ideas, results, and recent publications related to primate biology, ecology, behavior, conservation, taxonomy, evolution, and paleontology.
We meet in room 5053 in the Valley Life Science Building from 4-5pm every other Tuesday (approximately). If you are interested in joining our group, please feel free to come to any of these presentations. Contact Professor Hlusko for further information on this year's schedule or to be added to the email list.
For graduate students and advanced undergraduates at UC Berkeley, this course is being taught as INTEGBIO 290 (1 unit), Instructor L. Hlusko for the spring semester 2012 (please email Prof. Hlusko for enrollment information). All interested graduate and undergraduate students are welcome. Anyone interested in giving a presentation this semester should also contact Prof. Hlusko.
Schedule of speakers, Spring 2012:
Jan 24: Organizational meeting & discussion of recent events in primate biology
Feb 7: Dr. Mark Griffin, Anthropology, San Francisco State University. Title: Oral Health in an Ancient Central California Population
Feb 21: Dr. Cynthia Wilczak, Anthropology, San Francisco State University. Title: Do "Bone Formers" Exist? Musings on Enthesopathies, DISH, and HFI
Mar 6:CANCELLED - TO BE RESCHEDULED Dr. William Hylander, Professor Emeritus Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Title: Canine reduction in hominins: Functional links between jaw mechanics and canine height
Mar 13: Dr. Svenja Weise, Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Title: Sex, Survival and Subsistence: Lessons from Scandinavian Skeletons
Mar 20: Amelia Hubbard, PhD candidate from Ohio State University. Title: Examining the concordance between dental and genetic reconstructions of biological distance: A case study from coastal Kenya
Apr 3: Whitney Reiner, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley, Title: Fatty acids in the diets of wild mountain gorillas
Apr 17: no meeting
May 1: Dr. Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, Title: TBA
LINK TO: PrimateLit