Zoom Recording: Evolution in Urban Dark-eyed Juncos, with Dr. Pamela Yeh, et.al.

The recording of this program is now available.

[Posted by Chuck Almdale]

Evolution in Urban Dark-eyed Juncos, with Dr. Pamela Yeh, Ellie Diamant, Mars Walters, Sam Bressler & Wilmer Amaya-Mejia.

The Yeh Lab is excited to be giving a talk on evolution in urban dark-eyed juncos. Pamela Yeh, Associate Professor at UCLA, will start by discussing some of the history of the lab’s work on the juncos and providing an overview of the work being done in her lab. PhD Candidate Ellie Diamant will discuss her work on urban junco fear. Recent MS graduate Mars Walters will then talk about juncos and aggression during the pandemic. Recent MS graduate Sam Bressler will next talk about phenotypic plasticity and nest placement in the junco. Finally, PhD student Wilmer Amaya-Mejia will discuss some of his current work in-progress with juncos and their parasites.

Dr. Pamela Yeh is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UCLA.  She studies how human activities affect the evolution of species, focusing on the evolution of birds in urban environments and the evolution of drug­ resistant bacteria in urban and agricultural areas. She received her PhD in Evolutionary Biology from UC San Diego and has conducted post­doctoral work in the Center for Genomics Research and the Systems Biology Department both at Harvard University