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Speaker: Ivette Perfecto, James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice, University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability

Ivette Perfecto is the James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Professor of Environmental Justice. Her research focuses on biodiversity and arthropod-mediated ecosystem services in rural and urban agriculture. She also works on spatial ecology of the coffee agroecosystem and is interested more broadly in the links between small-scale sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and food sovereignty. She is the co-author of four books, Breakfast of Biodiversity, Nature’s Matrix: Linking Agriculture, Conservation and Food Sovereignty, and Coffee Agroecology, and Ecological Complexity and Agroecology.

Location - Hybrid Format:

• In person: Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center - AGR Room
• Virtual: Zoom information will be provided to registrants

Agenda:

• 4:00pm - doors open
• 4:10pm - introductory remarks
• 4:15pm - talk TBD

About the Series:
The Tracy and Ruth Storer Lectureship in the Life Sciences is the most prestigious of the endowed seminars at UC Davis. Established in 1960, the Storer Endowment makes it is possible to invite distinguished biological scientists to campus to present two lectures and meet with faculty members and graduate students in their field of interest. The series is presented by the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences.

***Registration Link Forthcoming***