About

Seira Ashley Adams, PhD

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Positions & Education

2022 - 2024

University of California, Davis | Center for Population Biology Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Population Biology + Evolution & Ecology

Sponsors: Santiago Ramirez, Peter Wainwright, Gail Patricelli

2013 - 2022

University of California, Berkeley | PhD
Environmental Science, Policy & Management

Committee: Rosemary Gillespie, Neil Tsutsui, Noah Whiteman, Gabriele Uhl

2008 - 2012

Brown University | BA
Biology + Visual Arts (double major)

Advisor: Douglass Morse

CV

  • 2025 | Best Oral Presentation | Gordon Speciation Seminar

    2020 | Ernst Mayr Award | The Society of Systematic Biologists

    2020 | Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award | UC Berkeley

    2020 | Student Presentation Competition Award | American Arachnological Society

    2019 | Natural Product Reports Poster Award | International Society of Chemical Ecology

  • 2024 - 2022 | Postdoctoral Fellowship | Center for Population Biology, UC Davis

    2022 - 2018 | Continuing Fellowship Award | Dept of ESPM, UC Berkeley

    2021 | Robert and Peggy van den Bosch Memorial Scholarship | UC Berkeley

    2021 | Johannes Joos Memorial Endowed Fund | Dept of ESPM, UC Berkeley

    2021 - 2014 | Margaret C. Walker Fund | Essig Museum, UC Berkeley

    2020 - 2019 | Bob Lane and Sandy Purcell Fund | Dept of ESPM, UC Berkeley

    2020 - 2016 | Greifswald-Berkeley Grant | Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley

    2019 - 2018 | Berkeley Connect Fellowship | UC Berkeley

    2019 - 2015 | Graduate Researcher Fellowship | National Science Foundation

    2017 - 2016 | Organisms and Environment Awards | Dept of ESPM, UC Berkeley

    2016 | ESPM Travel Grant | Dept of ESPM, UC Berkeley

    2016 | Pre-Dissertation Research Grant | Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley

    2016 | Vincent Roth Fund for Systematic Research | American Arachnological Society

    2016 | Portuguese Studies Research Award | Institute of European Studies, UC Berkeley

    2015 | Mildred E. Mathias Student Research Grant | UC Natural Reserve System, UC Berkeley

    2015 | SysEB Student Research Travel Award | Entomological Society of America

    2015 - 2014 | ESPM Summer Grant | Dept of ESPM, UC Berkeley

    2014 | Philip Spieth Travel Award | Dept of ESPM, UC Berkeley

  • 2026 | California Academy of Sciences | Lecture Series

    2025 | Gordon Research Conference | Speciation

    • symposium: Microevolutionary Mechanisms of Multivariate Trait Divergence During Speciation

    2025 | American Arachnological Society | Annual Meeting

    • symposium: Genomics

    2022 | UC Davis | Center for Population Biology Seminar

    2019 | The Willi Hennig Society | Annual Meeting

    • symposium: Phylogenetics, Ecology, and Conservation Biology

    2019 | Berkeley Japanese Academic Network | Seminar *seminar conducted entirely in Japanese

    2019 | California Academy of Sciences | Lecture Series

    — Public Outreach —

    2026 | Golden Gate Bird Alliance | Speaker Series

    2018 | Exploratorium | Everything Matters

  • 2015 - 2014 | Graduate Student Coordinator | UC

    2015 - 2014 | Berkeley Entomology Student Organization | UC Berkeley