This video was streamed live on March 31, 2022
Our campus is home to a number of biological collections, from fossils and insects to pressed plants and yeasts. °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis recently celebrated Biodiversity Museum Day, which invites the public to visit and explore some of our collections. Joining us on this episode of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis LIVE are the curators of three of our museums to talk about their collections and how they support research, teaching and outreach on campus.
- is a professor of entomology and director of the R. M. . Founded in 1946, the museum houses the seventh largest insect collection in North America, with about 7 million specimens of arthropods.
- is manager of the . The conservatory’s collection of live plants supports research and teaching on campus, as well as for other academic institutions including K-12 schools.
- is curator of the in the . It is one of the largest public collections of wild yeasts in the world, including original yeast strains used in California wine fermentation.
As a reminder, we are taking your questions during this livestream broadcast. Leave them in the comment section and we'll do our best to have our experts answer your questions on the next °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê×ÊÁÏ¿â Davis LIVE: Biodiversity Museums on Thursday, March 31, 2022 at 12 p.m. PDT.