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.

2021/2022 Departmental Seminar Nomination Form

Archive of Speaker Presentations (2015 - present)

Spring 2022 Seminar Schedule

Date	Name, Affiliation	Title	Host	Summary	Paper
28 -Jan.
04 - Feb	Dr. Hernan Lopez-Fernandez University of Michigan https://sites.google.com/site/hlffishes/home?authuser=0	"Neotropical Riverine Cichlids: Adaptive Radiation and Macroevolution at Continental Scales"	Ivan Castro-Arellano	PDF	PDF
11 - Feb	Dr. Charles Watson Texas A&M University San Antonio https://watsonecolab.com/	"Decoy Coloration in Lizards: A Tail of Deception"	Caitlin Gabor	PDF	PDF
18 - Feb	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	PDF	PDF
25 - Feb		*Colloquium*
04 - Mar	Dr. Cris Argueso Colorado State University https://agsci.colostate.edu/agbio/cris-argueso-2/	"A double edged-sword: Cytokinins in disease resistance and susceptibility of plants to pathogens"	Hong-Gu Kang	PDF	PDF
11 - Mar	Dr. Drew Davis University of Texas Rio Grande Valley www.drewrdavis.com	“Using emerging technologies to understand the distribution of imperiled species”	Joseph Veech	PDF	PDF
25 - Mar	Dr. Laura Mydlarz University of Texas at Arlington http://www.themydlarzlab.com/	"Immunity to community: applying coral immune concepts to understanding reef declines"	Lauren Fuess	PDF	PDF
01 - Apr	Dr. Sarah Fritts Texas State University https://www.bio.txstate.edu/about/Faculty---Staff/faculty/Sarah-Fritts.html	"The unintended consequences of intelligent tinkering: revisiting renewable energy resources to benefit biodiversity"	Presidential Seminar (McCoy Hall 119)
08 - 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
15 - Apr	Dr. Lily Khadempour Rutgers University https://lilykhadempour.com/	“Leaf-cutters and honeypots: Ant-microbe symbioses as models for microbial ecology and evolution”	Camila Carlos-Shanley	PDF	PDF
22 - Apr	Mr. David Buggs Texas Parks and Wildlife Department https://passporttotexas.org/cultivating-diversity-at-texas-parks-and-wildlife/	"The value of people diversity to the future of conservation"	Clay Green
29-Apr		Awards Day

Date

Name, Affiliation

Title

Host

Summary

Paper

28 -Jan.

04 - Feb

Dr. Hernan Lopez-Fernandez

University of Michigan

https://sites.google.com/site/hlffishes/home?authuser=0

"Neotropical Riverine Cichlids: Adaptive Radiation and Macroevolution at Continental Scales"

Ivan Castro-Arellano