In the last three weeks of the fall semester, the College of Science at the University of Idaho will host two science-based seminars.
The bi-annual series offers an opportunity for researchers to present their work, and for students to learn more about the science fields, specifically evolution, Luke Harmon, an associate professor at the College of Life Science at UI, said. The first is from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. in Life Sciences South room 277.
The speaker is Josef Uyeda, who is from Oregon State University and has been working on specific parts of evolution.
His seminar will talk about how microevolutionary processes can connect to macroevolutionary processes across space and time.
Uyeda said he basically looks at how evolution seems to take place rapidly during field tests, but when looking at fossils seems to happen extremely slowly, and he will discuss this phenomenon in the seminar.
The second seminar will take place from 12:30 to 1:20 p.m. on Dec. 3 in room 277 of Life Sciences South.
The speaker in December is Matthieu Delcourt, a postdoctoral researcher at UI.
His seminar is titled “Genomic sequence divergence under neutrality using coalescent simulations” and will be about how genes change due to different influences.
Delcourt’s research is based on using various techniques to understand how the genetic architecture of multiple traits influences how selection occurs.
Allison Griffith can be reached at arg-news.uidaho.edu