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)

Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule

Date	Name, Affiliation	Title	Host	Summary	Paper
04 - Sept.
11 - Sept.
18 - Sept.
25 - Sept.
02 - Oct.	Dr. Jessica Dutton Texas State University	"Relationship between mercury and selenium concentrations in marine fishes and odontocetes"	Dittmar Hahn	PDF	PDF
09 - Oct.	Dr. Benjamin Schwartz Texas State University	TBA	Dittmar Hahn
16 - Oct.	Dr. David Rodriguez Texas State University	"Host-pathogen dynamics of mycoses in reptiles and amphibians"	Dittmar Hahn	PDF
23 - Oct.	Dr. William Gray University of Minnesota https://cbs.umn.edu/contacts/william-m-gray	"Regulation of Auxin-mediated Cell Expansion by SAUR proteins” Cancelled	Nihal Dharmasiri	PDF	PDF
30 - Oct.
06 - Nov.	Dr. Sairah Malkin University of Maryland https://www.umces.edu/sairah-malkin	"Chesapeake Bay's electric bacteria" Cancelled	Astrid Schwalb	PDF	PDF
13 - Nov.	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" Cancelled	Floyd Weckerly
20 - Nov.
27 - Nov.		Thanksgiving

Date

Name, Affiliation

Title

Host

Summary

Paper

04 - Sept.

11 - Sept.

18 - Sept.

25 - Sept.

02 - Oct.

Dr. Jessica Dutton

Texas State University

"Relationship between mercury and selenium concentrations in marine fishes and odontocetes"

Dittmar Hahn

PDF

09 - Oct.

Dr. Benjamin Schwartz

Texas State University

TBA

Dittmar Hahn

16 - Oct.

Dr. David Rodriguez

Texas State University

"Host-pathogen dynamics of mycoses in reptiles and amphibians"

Dittmar Hahn

PDF

23 - Oct.

Dr. William Gray

University of Minnesota

https://cbs.umn.edu/contacts/william-m-gray

"Regulation of Auxin-mediated Cell Expansion by SAUR proteins”

Cancelled

Nihal Dharmasiri

PDF

30 - Oct.

06 - Nov.

Dr. Sairah Malkin

University of Maryland

https://www.umces.edu/sairah-malkin

"Chesapeake Bay's electric bacteria"

Cancelled

Astrid Schwalb

PDF

13 - Nov.

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"

Cancelled

Floyd Weckerly

20 - Nov.

27 - Nov.

Thanksgiving

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	"Cancelled"	Astrid Schwalb	PDF	PDF
03 - Apr	Dr. Jenny Ouyang University of Nevada, Reno https://www.unr.edu/biology/people/jenny-ouyang	"Cancelled"	Caitlin Gabor	PDF
10 - Apr	Dr. William Gray University of Minnesota https://cbs.umn.edu/contacts/william-m-gray	"Cancelled"	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	"Cancelled"	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