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 Leslea 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 IB 290 Section 23 (1 unit), Instructor L. Hlusko (CCN 43720), for the fall semester 2009. All interested graduate and undergraduate students are welcome. Anyone interested in giving a presentation this semester should contact L. Hlusko.
Schedule of speakers, Fall 2009:
Sep 1, 2009 Prof. Brian Barskey, Computer Science, Topic: UC Berkeley Budget Discussion
Sep 15, 2009 Theresa Grieco and Oliver Rizk, Dept. Integrative Biology (affiliations with HERC, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology,and Museum of Paleontology), "Geometric morphometric analyses of primate dental variation"
Sep 29, 2009 Prof. K. Milton, ESPM, Title "Preliminary comments on kinship, spatial and social behavior in Panamanian mantled howler monkeys (Alouatta palliata)"
Oct 13, 2009 Dr. Michael Black, Head, Research & Information Systems Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Title: "The Open Museum Initiative: progress on the multi-faceted effort to facilitate access to collections information for both researchers and the public."
Oct 27, 2009 Dr. Lorena Havill, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research (visiting Regents' Lecturer), Title "Advancing Skeletal Biology Through Studies in Captive Baboons"
Nov 3, 2009 Prof. Elwyn Simons, Duke University,Title: "Eocene-Oligocene anthropoid evolution"
Nov 10, 2009 Ben Mersey, HERC, Dept. Integrative Biology, Title: Finite Element Analysis: What can it tell us about fossil mammals?
Dec 1, 2009 Pat Holroyd, UC Museum of Paleontology, title "Dental eruption patterns in eutherian mammals: an interplay of life history and phylogeny"
LINK TO: PrimateLit