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The Yeh Lab at UCLA is excited to be giving a
talk on evolution in urban dark-eyed juncos
(Junco hyemalis). Dr. Pamela Yeh will start by
discussing some of the history of the lab's work
on the juncos and providing an overview of the
work being done in her lab. PhD student Mars
Walters will talk about a long-term behavioral
shift in UCLAâ's dark-eyed juncos induced by the
COVID-19 lockdown. PhD student Sierra Glassman
will talk about her in-progress research on urban
genomic evolution of juncos across California. MS
student Prasheetha Karthikeyan will discuss her
ongoing research on the flocking behavior of
urban dark eyed juncos on the UCLA campus during
their nonbreeding season. Lastly, another PhD
student, Joey Di Liberto, will present new
research on how female juncos adjust the volume
of their eggs across their nests as well as over
the breeding season; and what this means for how
birds manage reproductive investment in changing conditions.
Dr. Pamela Yeh is an Associate Professor in the
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at
UCLA. She studies how human activities affect
the evolution of species, focusing on the
evolution of birds in urban environments and the
evolution of drug resistant bacteria in urban
and agricultural areas. She is also interested in
the role biology plays in public health, and how
biological data and insights can both inform
public health research as well as public health
policy.She received her PhD in Evolutionary
Biology from UC San Diego and has conducted
postdoctoral work in the Center for Genomics
Research and the Systems Biology Department, both
at Harvard University. She has been at UCLA since
2013. Dr. Yeh is also an External Faculty at Santa Fe Institute.
