Biology Department Seminars
Biology Department Seminars
Spring 2019 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Name, Affiliation | Title | Host | Summary | Paper | |
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| 01 - Feb. | .Dr. Junqi Song Texas A&M AgriLife Dallas Center |
"The interplay between DNA damage and plant immune responses" | Hong-Gu Kang | |||
| 08 -Feb. | Dr. Joshuah Perkin Texas A & M University |
“Fish SCALES: Scaling, Conservation, and Landscape Ecology in Streams” |
Weston Nowlin | |||
| 15 - Feb. | Dr. Mar Huertas Pau Texas State University |
“Fish nose as a biosensor for chemical signals, olfactory disruptors and pathogens” | Dittmar Hahn | |||
| 22 - Feb. |
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Biology Colloquium | ||||
| 01 - March | Dr. Russell Fielding University of the South
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"The Wake of the Whale: Human and Environmental Implications of Whaling in the Caribbean and North Atlantic" | Jessica Dutton | |||
| 08 - March | Dr. Woo-Suk Chang University of Texas, Arlington |
"The soybean rhizosphere microbiome: who is a key player and what factor drives differences in soybean productivity?" |
Bob McLean | |||
| 15 - March | Dr. Nicholas Som USFWS |
“Process, proxy, or possible? habitat modeling to inform population dynamics models” | Thom Hardy | |||
| 22 - March |
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Spring Break |
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| 29 - March |
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| 05 - April | Dr. Chris Patrick Texas A&M, Corpus Christi |
"Drivers and Consequences of Multi-scale Biodiversity in Aquatic Ecosystems" |
Weston Nowlin | |||
| 12 - April | Dr. Ramona Salcedo Price Texas State University https://www.fcs.txstate.edu/ms_nutrition/faculty/salcedo-price.html |
"Characterizing the Impact of Obesity-associated Adipocytokines and Liver Cancer" |
Dana Garcia | |||
| 19 - April | Dr. Diego Figueroa University of Texas Rio Grande Valley https://www.utrgv.edu/biology/faculty/brownsville/diego-figueroa/index.htm |
"Colonization and Speciation in Marine Caves of the Galapagos Islands" |
Benjamin Schwartz | |||
| 26 - April |
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Awards Day |
Fall 2018 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Name, Affiliation |
Title | Host | Summary | Paper |
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| 07 - Sept. | Dr. Robert McLean Texas State University |
“Studies of bacterial growth on surfaces at Texas State/SWT from 1993-2018” |
Dana Garcia | ||
| 14 - Sept. | Dr. Tyler Buchinger Michigan State University |
"Evolution of pheromone communication in sea lamprey" | Mar Huertas Pau |
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| 21 - Sept. | Dr. Rebecca Young University of Texas at Austin |
"Evolutionary Systems Biology of Conservation and Convergence of Complex Traits" |
Caitlin Gabor | ||
| 28 - Sept | Dr. Cynthia Luxford Texas State University |
“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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 02 - Nov. | Dr. Niranjan Awasthi University of Notre Dame |
"Enhancing Nab-paclitaxel-based Chemotherapy Response: Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Advanced Pancreatic Cancer" |
Manish Kumar | ||
| 09 - Nov. | Dr. Daniel Roberts University of Tennessee |
" Breaking down the Hourglass: The Myriad Roles of Nodulin-like Intrinsic Proteins in Plant Nutrition and Stress Responses" | Nihal Dharmasiri | ||
| 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 | ||
| 23 - Nov. | . |
.Thanksgiving | |||
| 30 - Nov. | Dr. Rachel Arango US Forest Service, Madison WI https://www.fs.fed.us/research/people/profile.php?alias=rarango |
“Complex associations of subterranean termites and Actinobacteria” |
Camila Carlos-Shanley |
