Seira Ashley Adams

Graduate Student

Bachelor of Arts (2012)

Biology & Visual Arts  |  Brown University

PhD Candidate (2013 – present)

Environmental Science, Policy, and Management  |  University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Interest

Chemical Ecology / Animal Behavior / Evolution / Speciation

email: seira.adams (at) berkeley.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Born and raised in Japan, I grew up running around the forests of Japan finding plants and catching animals. I moved to the United States after my first year of high school and have been here since. I went to Brown University as an undergraduate where I double majored in Biology and Visual Arts. There, I worked with Prof. Douglass Morse on the mating behavior of the parasitoids wasp Alabagrus texanus in Maine, which lead to my Animal Behaviour paper – “Condition-dependent mate choice of a parasitoid wasp in the field”.

Driven by my enthusiasm for public education and mentoring of youth, I have made use of my skills in both the arts and sciences to create and engage in various outreach opportunities throughout my life. My innate interests in biology deeply influences my artwork, and in turn, my art stimulates my creation of unique scientific outreach and education material.

Now, as part of the EvoLab working with Prof. Rosemary Gillespie, I am pursuing my research interests in chemical ecology, animal behavior, and evolutionary biology and advancing through my graduate career in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at University of California, Berkeley.

Publications

Adams, SA & Morse, DH 2014. Condition-dependent mate choice of a parasitoid wasp in the field. Animal Behaviour 88:221-232. PDF

Teaching Experience

University of California Berkeley

Berkeley Connect Fellow | 2018 – 2019
Insect Behavior (ESPM 143) | Fall 2017
General Entomology (ESPM 111) | Fall 2015

Wheeler High School

Japanese Language Course | 2011 – 2012

Outreach Experience

Everything Matters: Copper | Exploratorium | May, 2018

Creatures, Nightlife | California Academy of Sciences | Oct, 2018
Creatures, Nightlife | California Academy of Sciences | Oct, 2017

Poison, After Dark | Exploratorium | Nov, 2018
Animal Appetite, After Dark | Exploratorium | Nov, 2017
Animal Senses, After Dark | Exploratorium |  Feb, 2017

Wakase High International Exchange | UC Berkeley |  2013 – present

Entomology Student Org, Co-President | UC Berkeley |  2014 – 2015

Elementary School Spider Course | Bay Area Science in Schools |  2014

Science Center, Graphics & Events Coordinator | Brown University |  2010 – 2012