Biology Department Seminars : Department of Biology : Texas State University

Biology Department Seminars

Biology Departmental Seminars are usually held on Fridays at 2 pm in Room 116 of the Supple (Science) Building, or as announced below. A brief Q&A period typically follows each seminar. After that, everyone (age 21 and over only) is welcome to attend a reception for the speaker in the courtyard of the Old Greenhouse, liquid refreshments provided. To find out more about the speakers, follow the links to their web pages, and check out the seminar (you never know what interesting person might be speaking). TBA indicates "to be announced" unless the date arrives and no seminar speaker has been scheduled at which point it means we do not have a seminar speaker for that day. Please check frequently.

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2018 Departmental Seminar Nomination Form

Fall 2018 Seminar Schedule

Date	Name, Affiliation	Title	Host	Summary	Paper
07 - Sept.	Dr. Robert McLean Texas State University http://mcleanlab.wp.txstate.edu/research/	“Studies of bacterial growth on surfaces at Texas State/SWT from 1993-2018”	Dana Garcia		PDF
14 - Sept.	Dr. Tyler Buchinger Michigan State University https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tyler_Buchinger	"Evolution of pheromone communication in sea lamprey"	Mar Huertas Pau	PDF	PDF
21 - Sept.	Dr. Rebecca Young University of Texas at Austin https://devoevo.ccbb.utexas.edu/	"Evolutionary Systems Biology of Conservation and Convergence of Complex Traits"	Caitlin Gabor	PDF	PDF
28 - Sept	Dr. Cynthia Luxford Texas State University http://luxford.wp.txstate.edu/	“Fostering student success in chemistry classes through study habits and visual representations”	Dana Garcia
05 - Oct.		Departmental meeting with Provost
12 - Oct.	Dr. Jennifer Schmidt Shark Research Institute https://www.sharks.org/leadership/sri-staff/jennifer-v-schmidt-ph-d-2	"Whale Sharks: Mysteries of an Ocean Giant"	Jessica Dutton	PDF	PDF
19 - Oct.	Dr. Rasika Harshey University of Texas at Austin https://cns.utexas.edu/directory/item/16-molecular-biosciences/162-harshey-rasika-m?Itemid=349	"Bacterial Swarming and Antibiotic Tolerance"	Manish Kumar	PDF	PDF
26 - Oct.	Dr. Shahid Mukhtar University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.uab.edu/cas/biology/people/faculty/shahid-m-mukhtar	" Network biology and predictive modeling to link genome to phenome"	Hong Gu Kang	PDF	PDF
02 - Nov.	Dr. Niranjan Awasthi University of Notre Dame https://harpercancer.nd.edu/people/niranjan-awasthi/	"Enhancing Nab-paclitaxel-based Chemotherapy Response: Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer"	Manish Kumar	PDF	PDF
09 - Nov.	Dr. Daniel Roberts University of Tennessee https://bcmb.utk.edu/people/faculty/dan-roberts/	" Breaking down the Hourglass: The Myriad Roles of Nodulin-like Intrinsic Proteins in Plant Nutrition and Stress Responses"	Nihal Dharmasiri	PDF	PDF
16 - Nov.	Dr. Karolina Mukhtar University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.uab.edu/cas/biology/people/faculty/karolina-m-mukhtar	"Regulatory Mechanisms of Pathogen-Mediated Cellular Stress Signaling in Arabidopsis"	Sunethra Dharmasiri	PDF	PDF
23 - Nov.	.	.Thanksgiving
30 - Nov.	Joan Parrott	"Fossil Angiosperm Woods from the Jose Creek Member of the McRae Formation"	Garland Upchurch

Date

Name, Affiliation

Title

Host

Summary

Paper

07 - Sept.

Dr. Robert McLean

Texas State University

http://mcleanlab.wp.txstate.edu/research/

“Studies of bacterial growth on surfaces at Texas State/SWT from 1993-2018”

Dana Garcia

PDF

14 - Sept.

Dr. Tyler Buchinger

Michigan State University

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tyler_Buchinger

"Evolution of pheromone communication in sea lamprey"

Mar Huertas Pau

PDF

21 - Sept.

Dr. Rebecca Young

University of Texas at Austin

https://devoevo.ccbb.utexas.edu/

"Evolutionary Systems Biology of Conservation and Convergence of Complex Traits"

Caitlin Gabor

PDF

28 - Sept

Dr. Cynthia Luxford

Texas State University

http://luxford.wp.txstate.edu/

“Fostering student success in chemistry classes through study habits and visual representations”

Dana Garcia

05 - Oct.

Departmental meeting with Provost

12 - Oct.

Dr. Jennifer Schmidt

Shark Research Institute

https://www.sharks.org/leadership/sri-staff/jennifer-v-schmidt-ph-d-2

"Whale Sharks: Mysteries of an Ocean Giant"

Jessica Dutton

PDF

19 - Oct.

Dr. Rasika Harshey

University of Texas at Austin

https://cns.utexas.edu/directory/item/16-molecular-biosciences/162-harshey-rasika-m?Itemid=349

"Bacterial Swarming and Antibiotic Tolerance"

Manish Kumar

PDF

26 - Oct.

Dr. Shahid Mukhtar

University of Alabama at Birmingham

http://www.uab.edu/cas/biology/people/faculty/shahid-m-mukhtar

" Network biology and predictive modeling to link genome to phenome"

Hong Gu Kang

PDF

02 - Nov.

Dr. Niranjan Awasthi

University of Notre Dame

https://harpercancer.nd.edu/people/niranjan-awasthi/

"Enhancing Nab-paclitaxel-based Chemotherapy Response: Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer"

Manish Kumar

PDF

09 - Nov.

Dr. Daniel Roberts

University of Tennessee

https://bcmb.utk.edu/people/faculty/dan-roberts/

" Breaking down the Hourglass: The Myriad Roles of Nodulin-like Intrinsic Proteins in Plant Nutrition and Stress Responses"

Nihal Dharmasiri

PDF

16 - Nov.

Dr. Karolina Mukhtar

University of Alabama at Birmingham

http://www.uab.edu/cas/biology/people/faculty/karolina-m-mukhtar

"Regulatory Mechanisms of Pathogen-Mediated Cellular Stress Signaling in Arabidopsis"

Sunethra Dharmasiri

PDF

23 - Nov.

.

.Thanksgiving

30 - Nov.

Joan Parrott

"Fossil Angiosperm Woods from the Jose Creek Member of the McRae Formation"

Garland Upchurch

Spring 2019 Seminar Schedule

Date

Name, Affiliation

Title

Host

Summary

Paper

01 - Feb.

.Dr. Junqi Song

Texas A&M AgriLife Dallas Center

https://dallas.tamu.edu/research/plantimmunity/

TBA

Hong-Gu Kang

08 -Feb.

Dr. Joshuah Perkin

Texas A & M University

http://www.riverscapeecology.org/people.html

TBA

Weston Nowlin

15 - Feb.

Dr. Mar Huertas Pau

Texas State University

http://huertaslab.com/

TBA

Dittmar Hahn

22 - Feb.

Biology Colloquium

01 - March

Dr. Russell Fielding

University of the South

https://www.sewanee.edu/faculty/fielding/research/

TBA

Jessica Dutton

08 - March

Dr. Woo-Suk Chang

University of Texas, Arlington

https://mentis.uta.edu/explore/profile/woo-suk-chang

TBA

Bob McLean

15 - March

Dr. Nicholas Som

USFWS

https://www.fws.gov/arcata/

TBA

Thom Hardy

22 - March

Spring Break

29 - March

05 - April

Dr. Chris Patrick

Texas A&M, Corpus Christi

http://sci.tamucc.edu/member.php?who=cpatrick&program=lsci

TBA

Weston Nowlin

12 - April

19 - April

26 - April

Awards Day