The Daily Bulletin

Please join the Biology Department and the Great Lakes Center for the seminar “Speciation and Gene Flow of Rainforest Birds,” presented by Silu Wang, assistant professor of biological sciences at the University at Buffalo, today, February 5, at 3:00 p.m. in Science and Mathematics Complex 151. Attendees are welcome to arrive at 2:30 p.m. to enjoy coffee and cookies before the seminar.

Abstract
A central question in modern speciation research is how much of the classic genetic principles established from decades of research on lab organisms explain the speciation continuum in the wild. Rainforests harbor most of the terrestrial biodiversity globally, yet it is one of the least understood biomes for speciation research. Dr. Wang's work in the Forest Speciation Lab involves bushwhacking in the sword ferns and dancing with mist nets among the Douglas firs to disentangle the genomic and behavioral basis of species boundaries in temperate and tropical rainforests of the Americas. Please join us on this “evergreen” time travel.