Biology Department Seminars
Spring 2024 Seminar Schedule
Date | Presentation and Speaker | Host | Summary | Paper |
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Jan 26 | “Ecomorphological diversity of carnivoran mammals” Dr. Chris Law University of Washington | Leila Siciliano-Martina | ||
Feb 02 | “Plants as Ecogeomorphic Agent” Dr. Candice D. Piercy, US Army Engineer Research and Development Center | Todd Swannack | ||
Feb 09 |
Cancelled | |||
Feb 16 | “Context, constraints & trade-offs in organismal responses to environmental change” Dr. Thomas Luhring Wichita State University | Caitlin Gabor | ||
Feb 23 | Biology Department Colloquium - Schedule | |||
Mar 01 | "Forecasting Nature: Ecological Experiments In A Time Of Planetary Change" Dr. Nicholas Gotelli University of Vermont | Ivan Castro-Arellano | ||
Mar 08 | “Embracing the hidden strengths of large (or many) phylogenetic trees for comparative biology” Dr. Jeremy Beaulieu University of Arkansas | Sam Borstein | ||
Mar 15 | Spring Break - no seminar | |||
Mar 22 | “Harnessing the Power of the genome editing tool, CRISPR, to treat anxiety” Dr. Troy Rohn Boise State University https://www.boisestate.edu/biology/faculty-and-staff/faculty/troy-rohn/ | Micaela Vargas | ||
Mar 29 | “Waterbird research focused on key management issues: from hydrologic constraints on wading birds in the Everglades to a prioritization tool for rehabilitating colony islands on the Texas coast” Dr. Dale Gawlik Texas A&M Corpus Christi | Clay Green | ||
Apr 05 | “Recovery in the Anthropocene: When and how do populations survive disturbance?” Dr. Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn University of Massachusetts, Lowell | Lauren Fuess | ||
Apr 12 | “Alterations in polyamine metabolic pathway alleviate spaceflight- associated stress in plants” Dr. Patrick Masson University of Wisconsin, Madison. | Nihal Dharmasiri | ||
Apr 19 | “Can prescribed extreme fire management be used to restore woody encroached open ecosystems?: lessons learned in Texas semiarid savannas” Dr. William Rogers Texas A&M University, College Station | Jason Martina | ||
Apr 26 | “Evidence-based teaching and equity in student outcomes” Dr. Scott Freeman University of Washington, Seattle https://www.biology.washington.edu/people/profile/scott-freeman | Mike Wilson |
Fall 2023 Seminar Schedule
Date | Presentation and Speaker | Host | Summary | Paper |
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Sept 01 | "The Functions and Regulation of DNA/RNA helicases in DNA damage repair and genome maintenance" Dr. Xiaoyu Xue Texas State University https://www.txst.edu/chemistry/about-the-department/faculty-profiles/xue.html | Dana Garcia | ||
Sept 08 | ||||
Sept 15 | “The community ecology of a freshwater cleaning symbiosis" Dr. Bryan Brown Virginia Tech | Caitlin Gabor | ||
Sept 22 | “Uncovering Relational Governance in Wildlife Conservation” Dr. Christopher Serenari Texas State University | Dittmar Hahn | ||
Sep 29 | “Rethinking time as a mediator for ecological interactions has implications for conservation to public health” Dr. Ivan Castro-Arellano Texas State University https://www.bio.txst.edu/faculty-staff/ivan-castro-arellano/castro-arellano-lab.html | Dittmar Hahn | ||
Oct 06 | “A new regulatory mechanism by small RNAs” Dr. Hong-Gu Kang Texas State University | Dttmar Hahn | ||
Oct 13 | “The Fongoli Savanna Chimpanzee Project: Past, Present and Future” Dr. Jill Preutz Texas State University https://www.txst.edu/anthropology/people/faculty-staff/pruetz.html | Robert McLean | ||
Oct 20 | “Habitat split, climate change, and amphibian host-microbial interactions” Dr. Guilherme Becker Pennsylvania State University | David Rodriguez | ||
Oct 27 | “How plant hormones regulate vegetative and flower growth” Dr. Jason Reed University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Nihal Dharmasiri | ||
Nov 03 | “Climate change impacts and recovery of endangered species in the Florida Keys” Dr. Roel Lopez, Texas A&M University, College Station | Ivan Castro-Arellano | ||
Nov 10 | “Telomeres and the plant response to stress on Earth and in Space” Dr. Dorothy Shippen Texas A&M University, College Station | Suni Dharmasiri | ||
Nov 17 | “Viruses as Medicine” Dr. Eric Weaver University of Nebraska | Dana Garcia | ||
Nov 24 | Thanksgiving |