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Dr. Brian Hammer
Dr. Brian Hammer
9:00am - 10:00am
9:00am - 10:00am
Title: Love (and War) in the Time of Cholera
Title: Love (and War) in the Time of Cholera
About 3 million cases are reported annually of the often fatal disease cholera, which results from consumption of food or water contaminated with the waterborne bacterial pathogen Vibrio cholerae. The talk will discuss progress in understanding how this microbe thrives in environmental and host settings using cooperative and competitive strategies.
Dr. Rayna C. Bell
Dr. Rayna C. Bell
1:00pm - 2:00pm
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Title: Bridges, rafts, and phenotypic diversification in the Gulf of Guinea archipelago
Title: Bridges, rafts, and phenotypic diversification in the Gulf of Guinea archipelago
Island faunas have inspired evolutionary biologists for centuries and I am especially captivated by the enigmatic history of amphibians on islands. Over the last ten years I have been studying amphibian diversification in the Gulf of Guinea archipelago, a chain of islands off the coast of Central Africa that is composed of one land-bridge island (Bioko) and three oceanic islands (Príncipe, São Tomé, and Annobón). In this talk I integrate genomic, behavioral, ecological and morphological data to investigate the colonization history and diversification of the archipelago’s amphibian fauna.
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