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.

2019 Departmental Seminar Nomination Form

Archive of Speaker Presentations (2015 - present)

Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule

Date	Name, Affiliation	Title	Host	Summary	Paper
31 -Jan.	Dr. Frank Middleton Upstate Medical University http://www.upstate.edu/search/?tab=people&ID=middletf	"Of Mice, Men, MicroRNA and your Microbiome: Building Better Biomarkers for Brain Disorders"	Sandra West	PDF	PDF
07 - Feb	Dr. Mary Jo Kirisits University of Texas at Austin http://www.caee.utexas.edu/faculty/ directory/kirisits	"What are these microbes doing in my filter?"	Robert McLean	PDF
14 - Feb	Dr. Paula Furey St. Catherine University https://works.bepress.com/paula-furey/	"Algae in a Warming, Nutrient‐Rich World"	Weston Nowlin	PDF.	PDF
21 - Feb	Dr. Sarah Fritts Texas State University https://www.bio.txstate.edu/about/Faculty---Staff/faculty/Sarah-Fritts.html	"Wildlife Conservation on Anthropogenic Landscapes"	Dittmar Hahn	PDF
28 - Feb		Colloquium
06 - Mar	Dr. Sibum Sung University of Texas, Austin https://sites.cns.utexas.edu/sunglab/home	"Mechanisms to mediate temperature-triggered responses"	Hong-Gu Kang	PDF	PDF
13 - Mar	Dr. Jane Anderson Texas A&M - Kingsville https://www.tamuk.edu/agriculture/ departments/rwsc/faculty-staff-rwsc/ anderson.html	"The Challenges of Charismatic Invasive Species"	Christopher Serenari	PDF	PDF
27 - Mar	Dr. Sairah Malkin University of Maryland https://www.umces.edu/sairah-malkin	"Chesapeake Bay's electric bacteria: a primer on cable bacteria in coastal sediments"	Astrid Schwalb	PDF	PDF
03 - Apr	Dr. Jenny Ouyang University of Nevada, Reno https://www.unr.edu/biology/people/jenny-ouyang	"Endocrine evolution in an urbanizing world"	Caitlin Gabor	PDF
10 - Apr	Dr. William Gray University of Minnesota https://cbs.umn.edu/contacts/william-m-gray	" Regulation of Auxin-mediated Cell Expansion by SAUR Proteins"	Nihal Dharmasiri	PDF	PDF
17 - Apr	Dr. Kerry Griffis-Kyle Texas Tech University https://www.depts.ttu.edu/nrm/people/faculty/ faculty_pages/kerrygriffiskyle/griffis-kyle.php	"Sonoran Desert waters: improving our ability to support wildlife"	Sarah Fritts	PDF	PDF
24 - Apr	.	*Awards Day*
01 -May	Dr. Garrett Street Mississippi State University https://www.cfr.msstate.edu/people/wfa.asp	"A Body in Motion: Movement and Its Consequences for Wildlife Ecology"	Floyd Weckerly

Date

Name, Affiliation

Title

Host

Summary

Paper

31 -Jan.

Dr. Frank Middleton

Upstate Medical University

http://www.upstate.edu/search/?tab=people&ID=middletf

"Of Mice, Men, MicroRNA and your Microbiome: Building Better Biomarkers for Brain Disorders"

Sandra West

Biology Department Seminars

Biology Department Seminars

"The Sensory Ecology of Sexual Selection in Peafowl"

“Unraveling prions: the complexities between the prion protein, Complement, and B cells in diverse pathogenic settings”

Department of Biology