Featured Speaker today: Dr Monica M Sheffer, Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley, is a molecular environmental biologist, working on how organisms respond to novel and changing environments. Her work integrates across levels of biological organization, from detailed studies of genetics, to what those mean for organismal phenotypes, and how that translates into population-level changes in distribution and fitness. She is very discovery- and curiosity-driven, and loves to develop new methods or adapt existing ones to get at the questions that drive her. For more information about this talk, or the rest of the Biology Colloquium, go to https://biology.sonoma.edu/colloquium or email biology@sonoma.edu