[Bgsa] Lunch with this week's seminar speaker

[Kenneth C. Welch Jr.]

Dear Bio Grad Students,

I still have a few openings left to have lunch with this week's seminar 
speaker, Dr. Raul Suarez, on Thursday.  Let me list a few reasons why 
you might want to consider joining Dr. Suarez for lunch:

1. Free lunch at The Barn! (that alone is reason enough)

2. Raul is a recognized expert in the fields of comparative animal 
energetics and biochemistry, and you can get his valuable outside 
perspective on a bit of your own work (he's worked on 
birds/bats/fish/insects and more!).

3. Raul can give you a sense for how grad students are treated in the 
Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology department at UCSB. I know you all 
are pressing hard to see some changes made to the program here. Raul can 
offer you his insights regarding what works, what doesn't, and how he'd 
like to see things improved at UCSB...and this can inform your own work.

4. Raul has a sharp wit, and can tell you plenty of funny and 
potentially embarrassing stories about Kim Hammond, Mark Chappell, Ted 
Garland and others! You always need some good ammo for your own thesis 
defense talks!

5. As he is my former PhD advisor, you can ask Raul, "What's Ken's 
problem? Is there something toxic in the water in Santa Barbara? How do 
I keep from being like that guy?"

Please reply via e-mail if you are interested in joining Raul for lunch 
on Thursday (plan for 12-1:30).

Ken

Kenneth C. Welch Jr., Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Researcher
Laboratory of Douglas Altshuler
Department of Biology
University of California, Riverside
900 University Ave.
Riverside, CA 92521-0427
(951) 827-4030
(951) 827-4286 (fax)
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~kenwelch/