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

Archive of Speaker Presentations (2015 - present)

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/

"The interplay between DNA damage and plant immune responses"

Hong-Gu Kang

PDF

08 -Feb.

Dr. Joshuah Perkin

Texas A & M University

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

“Fish SCALES: Scaling, Conservation, and Landscape Ecology in Streams”

Weston Nowlin

PDF

15 - Feb.

Dr. Mar Huertas Pau

Texas State University

http://huertaslab.com/

“Fish nose as a biosensor for chemical signals, olfactory disruptors and pathogens”

Dittmar Hahn

22 - Feb.

Biology Colloquium

01 - March

Dr. Russell Fielding

University of the South

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

"The Wake of the Whale: Human and Environmental Implications of Whaling in the Caribbean and North Atlantic"

Jessica Dutton

PDF

08 - March

Dr. Woo-Suk Chang

University of Texas, Arlington

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

"The soybean rhizosphere microbiome: who is a key player and what factor drives differences in soybean productivity?"

Bob McLean

PDF

15 - March

Dr. Nicholas Som

USFWS

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

“Process, proxy, or possible? habitat modeling to inform population dynamics models”

Thom Hardy

PDF

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

Dr. Ramona Salcedo Price

Texas State University

https://www.fcs.txstate.edu/ms_nutrition/faculty/salcedo-price.html

TBA

Dana Garcia

19 - April

Dr. Diego Figueroa

University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

https://www.utrgv.edu/biology/faculty/brownsville/diego-figueroa/index.htm

TBA

Benjamin Schwartz

26 - April

Awards Day

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.	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	PDF	PDF

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