Biology Department Seminars
Biology Department Seminars
Fall 2019 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Name, Affiliation |
Title | Host | Summary | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06 - Sept. | Dr. Weston Nowlin Texas State University |
"Developing quantitative approaches to examine the influence of animals on community dynamics and ecosystem processes" |
Dittmar Hahn | ||
| 13 - Sept. | Dr. Joseph Veech Texas State University https://www.bio.txstate.edu/about/Faculty---Staff/faculty/Joseph-Veech.html |
"Habitat as a universal explanation of species distribution and abundance" | Dittmar Hahn |
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| 20 - Sept. | Dr. Jessica Yorzinski Texas A&M University, |
"The Sensory Ecology of Sexual Selection in Peafowl" |
Kristy Daniel | PDF. | |
| 27 - Sept | Dr. Sarah J Kane Colorado State University http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/academics/mip/prion-research-center/Pages/default.aspx |
“Unraveling prions: the complexities between the prion protein, Complement, and B cells in diverse pathogenic settings” |
Joseph Koke | ||
| 04 - Oct. | Dr. Astrid Schwalb Texas State University |
"When a river goes dry and other Texas mussel tales" |
Dittmar Hahn | ||
| 11 - Oct. | Dr. Joe Louis University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
"Plant defense and insect counter-defense: Battle for survival" |
Hong-Gu Kang | ||
| 18 - Oct. | Dr. Elif Sarinay Cenik, University of Texas at Austin |
"Determinants and consequences of ribosomal poverty and subsistence" | Sunethra Dharmasiri | ||
| 25 - Oct. | Dr. Matthew Niemiller University of Alabama, Huntsville |
"Out of sight, out of mind: the ecology, evolution, and conservation of cave life" | Chris Nice / Benjamin Scwhartz | ||
| 01 - Nov. | Dr. Pierre Deviche, Arizona State University |
"Desert bums and city slickers: Physiological adjustments of birds to urbanization" |
Caitlin Gabor | ||
| 08 - Nov. | Mr. Ryan Lynch Third Millennium Alliance |
"Fighting deforestation and promoting conservation of Ecuador's disappearing coastal rainforest" | David Rodriguiez | ||
| 15 - Nov. | Dr. Kirk Winemiller, Texas A & M, College Station |
"Inheritors of the Waters: Convergence, Resilience and Destinies of Freshwater Fishes during the Anthropocene" | Ivan Castro-Arellano | ||
| 22 - Nov. | Dr. Sean Kerwin Texas State University |
“Anticancer Natural Products and Small Molecule Targeting of Non-Canonical DNA Structures” |
Dana Garcia | ||
| 29 - Nov. | Thanksgiving |
Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Name, Affiliation |
Title | Host | Summary | Paper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 -Jan. | Dr. Frank Middleton Upstate Medical University |
"Of Mice, Men, MicroRNA and your Microbiome: Building Better Biomarkers for Brain Disorders" |
Sandra West | ||
| 07 - Feb | Dr. Mary Jo Kirisits University of Texas at Austin |
"TBA" | Robert McLean |
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| 14 - Feb | Dr. Paula Furey St. Katherine University |
"TBA" |
Weston Nowlin | . | |
| 21 - Feb | Dr. Sarah Fritts Texas State University https://www.bio.txstate.edu/about/Faculty---Staff/faculty/Sarah-Fritts.html |
“TBA” |
Dittmar Hahn | ||
| 28 - Feb | Colloquium |
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| 06 - Mar | Dr. Cris Argueso Colorado State University |
"TBA" |
Hong-Gu Kang | ||
| 13 - Mar | Dr. Jane Anderson Texas A&M - Kingsville https://www.tamuk.edu/agriculture/ |
"The Challenges of Charismatic Invasive Species" | Christopher Serenari | ||
| 27 - Mar | Dr. Sairah Malkin University of Maryland |
"TBA" | Astrid Schwalb | ||
| 03 - Apr | Dr. Jenny Ouyang University of Nevada, Reno |
"Endocrine evolution in an urbanizing world" |
Caitlin Gabor | ||
| 10 - Apr | Dr. William Gray University of Minnesota |
" TBA" | Nihal Dharmasiri | ||
| 17 - Apr | Dr. Kerry Griffis-Kyle Texas Tech University |
"TBA" | Sarah Fritts | ||
| 24 - Apr | . |
Awards Day |
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| 01 -May | Dr. Garrett Street Mississippi State University |
"A Body in Motion: Movement and Its Consequences for Wildlife Ecology" |
Floyd Weckerly |
