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 (approximately) every other Tuesday. If you are interested in joining our group, please feel free to come to any of these presentations. Contact Leslea Hlusko for further information on this year's schedule or to be added to the email list.
This course is being taught as ESPM 290 Section 7 (1 unit), Instructor K. Milton, for the spring semester 2009. All interested graduate and undergraduate students are welcome. Anyone interested in giving a presentation this semester should contact Prof. Milton.
Schedule of speakers, Spring 2009:
Jan 20, 2009 Organizational Meeting
Feb 3, 2009 Dr. Erin Vogel, UC Santa Cruz, Title "Behavioral strategies of wild sympatric orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) and white-bearded gibbons (Hylobates albibarbis) during a period of fruit scarcity"
Feb 17, 2009 Prof. Craig Stanford, University of Southern California, Title "Sharing the Wealth: the Behavioral Ecology of Sympatric Chimpanzees and Gorillas"
Mar 3, 2009 Dr. Leslea Hlusko, IB, Title "Genetic integration in the baboon dentition"
Mar 10, 2009 Sabrina Sholts, UC Santa Barbara, Title ""Morphometric analysis of human skeletal and cultural remains using 3D laser scanning technology""
Mar 17, 2009 Dr. Jackson Njau, HERC, Title "Crocodile Predation Risk for Plio-Pleistocene Hominids at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania"
Mar 31, 2009 Ferhat Kaya, University of Ankara and Cal State East Bay, Title: "The Sivas/Turkey Upper Miocene Project and Dispersal of Miocene Hominoids"
Apr 14, 2009 Dr. Rebecca Jabbour, HERC, Title "Patterns of variation in African ape limb bones"
Apr 28, 2009 Mr. Mike Wasserman, ESPM, Title "Physiological Effects of Chimpanzee Predation on the Uganda Red Colobus Monkey"
LINK TO: PrimateLit