[Plantsci] FW: [drift] The Drift - April 13th

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The Drift | April 13th

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The Drift
The Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
 The University of Arizona

Please send submissions to eeb-drift at email.arizona.edu<mailto:eeb-drift at email.arizona.edu?subject=Drift%20Submission%20>

Department Seminars
Monday Seminar –  3 PM in ENR2 S107
"Microbial macroecology: where microbes, large-scale patterns, and big data meet", presented by Albert Barberan, in association with SWES.

Tuesday Seminar – 12:30 - 1:45 PM in Bio Sciences West Room 208
TBA, presented by Cristian Roman-Palacios, from the Wiens Lab
"Developmental mechanisms underlying limits to behavioral flexibility", presented by Katie Chenard, from the Duckworth Lab

Department News
Congratulations to EEB Grad Student, Alison Harrington
Alison, from the Arnold Lab, has been offered a 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to support her phylogenomics-based approaches to studying the evolution of symbioses in fungi. Congratulations Alison!

Other Seminars of Interest
Water Research Resources Center Brown Bag Seminar
Tuesday, April 17th at 4 PM in ENR2 S107
"Advances in Forecasting Summer Monsoon Precipitation, Simulation of Convective Storm Processes", presented by Chris Castro, Associate Professor, Hyrdology / Atmospheric Sciences, University of Arizona.
More information on current seminars can be found here<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=0a405dffea&e=71068ef53d>.

Soil, Water, and Environmental Science Colloquium Series
Monday, April 16th at 3 PM in Marley 230
"The engineering sie of biomass utilization and processing", presented by Dr. Catherine Brewer, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering at New Mexico State University.
More information on current seminars can be found here<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=b8fd6b8111&e=71068ef53d>.

School of Plant Sciences Interdisciplinary Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 16th at 9 AM in Bryant Bannister Tree Ring 110A
*NOTE Different Location and Time*
"Dissertation Defense - Phylogenetic Incongruence as a Signature of Past Events: Uncovering the Genomic Watermarks of Introgression and Gene Duplication", presented by Evan Forsythe, in association with the School of Plant Sciences.
More information on current seminars can be found here<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=350f27da2d&e=71068ef53d>.

Neuroscience Seminar/Colloquium
Tuesday, April 17th at 4 PM in Gould-Simpson 601
"The role of information and randomization in exploration and exploitation", presented by Robert Wilson, in association with the University of Arizona.
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School of Natural Resources and the Environment Seminar Series
Wednesday, April 18th at 3 PM in ENR2 S107
"Disturbance, resilience and (maybe) evolution", presented by Don Falk, in association with the University of Arizona.
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Tree-Ring Talk
Wednesday, April 18th at 11:45 AM in Bryant Bannister 110
Brown Bag Seminar, presented by TBD.
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The Biological and Biomedical Joint Seminar Series
Thursday, April 19th at 11 AM in ENR2 S107
TBD presented by Konstantin Doubrovinski

Monday, April 16th at 2 PM in Life Sciences South 440
"PhD Defense - Role of XIP1 / CEPR2 on Lateral Root Initiation and Elongation", presented by Ivan Dimitrov.
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Herbarium Lunch Talks
Thursday, April 19th at 12 PM in Herring Hall
"Selaginella in the southwest: natural history and characterization of a hybrid zone", presented by Anthony Baniaga.
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Geosciences Colloquium Series
Monday, April 16th at 4 PM in Saguaro Hall 202
"Tropical Pacific climate over the last 7,000 years - a coral ensemble approach", presented by Alyssa Atwood, in association with the University of California - Berkeley.

Thursday, April 19th at 4 PM in Haury 129
TBA presented by Diane Thompson, in association with Boston University.
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School of Geography and Development Colloquium Series
Friday, April 20th at 3:30 PM in ENR2 S107
"Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Forest Loss Related to Cocaine Trafficking in Central America", presented by Steve Sesnie.
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Classifieds
R Labs in April
All sessions will be 9-11 am on Tuesday in the iSpace in the Science-Engineering Library<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=8cf637e136&e=71068ef53d>. To get the most out of these workshops, participants should bring a laptop with R and RStudio installed<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=0fa5af8c79&e=71068ef53d>.
     April 17. Open R lab. Bring your R questions or just come in to write some code and enjoy coffee and pastries.
     April 24: Reproducible reports. What if there was a way to include text and all the code we used for our analyses in a single document? What about a report that includes not only data visualization, but the actual code used to produce those visualizations? With literate programming, we write text and code in a single document - this way, we can update reports and manuscripts with new data or corrections with minimal effort.

A tentative schedule of upcoming workshops is also available at: https://jcoliver.github.io/learn-r/schedule<https://arizona.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=db9ec68208a01ab34170f765f&id=96835a5cdd&e=71068ef53d>
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Implicit Bias Workshop Opportunity - NEW!
You are invited to attend a two-hour workshop on Wednesday April 18th from 1-3pm on the role of implicit bias in higher education. Numerous studies have shown that even people who are highly committed to being fair and just can unknowingly hold and communicate biased attitudes and beliefs towards others. Unconscious or "implicit" forms of bias can seep into our judgments of people who are different from us when we review job applications, interact with colleagues and students, or comment on student work. When we interact with out-group members, implicit bias can subtly alter our facial expressions, posture, and speech patterns in ways that can convey discomfort or disinterest. Learning how to reduce implicit bias and its effects is an important step toward improving climate, equity and intergroup relations in higher education.

Please  let us know if you can attend, even if you can't attend the whole session, using the link below so that we can make sure we have space to accommodate everyone! An email will be sent out closer to the date with room details. Light refreshments will be served.
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Reviving the Southwestern Association of Biologists Meeting: Pan-southwestern Ecology Meeting - NEW!
     It has been 13 years since the last Southwestern Association of Biologists (SWAB) annual meeting, and we are writing today to find out if there is sufficient interest to revive the meeting this fall. We have a new name, the Pan-southwestern Ecology (PEN) meeting, which is more fitting. New name but same format. If you are not familiar with SWAB, the meetings gathered interested graduate students and faculty in ecology and related fields.  The focus is on universities from Arizona and New Mexico, but other universities are welcome to participate.
     It is a great venue for individual graduate students, faculty and labs to find out what others are doing in the region. Because of their small size, SWAB meetings offered more informal interactions with peers than larger national meetings. As in the past, the PEN meeting would be held at the American Museum of Natural History’s Southwestern Research Station, in Portal, Arizona. If there is interest, the station is available Oct. 5 to 7, 2018. We plan to have two invited speakers Friday and Saturday night with a sessions of contributed papers and posters Saturday and Sunday morning. There is also polyester lawn bowling to look forward to.
     No membership fee is required and the only cost is for food and accommodations at the research station. The following rates include 3 meals a day, use of meeting facilities and equipment, pool use, WIFI and internet access:
•    Shared Triplex: $69/person/night
•    Shared Dorm Room: $69/person/night
•    Private Dorm Room: $72/person/night
•    Camping (up to 7 tents): $47/person/night
     If you are interested, please send a return email expressing your interest as well as (for faculty) your assessment of the potential interest of your graduate students to Lara.Schmit at nau.edu<mailto:Lara.Schmit at nau.edu>. Please respond before May 15, 2018, so that we can determine we have critical mass to move forward. If we receive 50 affirmative responses, NAU’S Merriam-Powell Center will organize the meeting and send out instructions for payment and abstract submission.
     Thank you in advance for your consideration, and please contact NeilCobb at nau.edu<mailto:NeilCobb at nau.edu> with any questions. Of course, we would be grateful if you would share this announcement with interested colleagues working in the Southwest who we may have missed.

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