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<div>The Saltzman lab has invited another seminar speaker -- Dr. W. Wesley Dowd, currently a postdoc in George Somero's lab at Hopkins Marine Station. Like the last speaker we invited (Pam Maras), Wes is pretty much still "one of us" and should be fun to meet with. </div>
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<div>Wes got his BS at Duke University, a MS at Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences with John Musick, and then got his PhD from Davis in 2009 working with Joe Cech and Dietmar Kultz studying physiological compensation in response to environmental challenges in 3 shark species.</div>
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<div>Wes's work focuses on <font face="">the interactions among physiology, ecology, behavior, and evolution. </font></div>
<div><font face="">Stolen from his webpage..... "<em>I apply approaches in </em></font><font face=""><em>comparative proteomics as part of an integrative approach to organismal function, with the ultimate goal of evaluating the ecological and evolutionary implications of environmental stress physiology. In my research I focus on the physiological mechanisms that allow some animals to cope with extreme and rapidly fluctuating environmental conditions in dynamic habitats. Rare but extreme events likely play a significant role in driving ecological and evolutionary patterns.</em>"</font> </div>
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<div>His webpage: <a href="http://www.stanford.edu/~wwdowd/">http://www.stanford.edu/~wwdowd/</a></div>
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<div>If you'd like to meet with Wes, our join our lab in taking him out for dinner just shoot me an email and we can set it up.</div>
<div><br>Thanks!</div>
<div>Bre</div>
<div> <br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Breanna N. Harris<br>PhD Candidate<br>Department of Biology<br>University of California<br>Riverside, CA 92521<br>lab phone: (951) 827-5929<br>email: <a href="mailto:bharr002@ucr.edu">bharr002@ucr.edu</a><br>
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