<div>Hi All,</div>
<div>I've invited the seminar speaker for this Thursday's (May 12th) seminar. Heather Watts will be here on campus all day and I was wondering if anyone would like to join us for lunch at the alumni center (12-1ish). We have 2 open spots so if you'd like to chat with heather while getting free food please let me know. </div>
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<div>Talk title: "Reproductive timing in songbirds: environmental cues, sex differences, and interspecific variation."</div>
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<div> Background:<br>Heather got her BS from Duke and then went on to do a PhD with Kay Holecamp at Michigan State University studying social and ecological determinants of survival and reproduction in spotted hyenas. She then went on to UC Davis to work with Thomas Hahn on the environmental regulation of reproduction in songbirds. Heather is currently at Loyola Marymount University in LA. Her lab website: <a href="http://myweb.lmu.edu/hwatts/index.htm" target="_blank">http://myweb.lmu.edu/hwatts/index.htm</a><br>
<br>Lab interests: <br>Research in our lab integrates behavior, physiology and ecology to investigate the relationships between environmental variation, life history patterns, and the behavior of individuals. We work with both mammalian and avian systems, but focus on gregarious animals for which the social environment represents a critical component of the biotic environment.<br clear="all">
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>Bre<br>-- <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" target="_blank">bharr002@ucr.edu</a><br>
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