Fall 2019 Seminar Schedule
| September 2 Monday |
Emil Nelson, WFU (post-doc) |
Investigation into the importance of a tRNA modifying enzyme and its role in decoding |
| September 16 Monday |
Brett Aiello, Georgia Tech. |
From fish to flight: the evolutionary tuning of neuromechanical systems for effective movement |
| September 23 Monday |
Kate Meyer, Duke Univ. |
Detecting RNA methylation and its role in gene expression |
| September 30 Monday, Wake Downtown 4802 |
Clay Wright, Virginia Tech. |
The signal and the noise: understanding and engineering plant signaling with synthetic biology and natural variation |
| October 7 Monday |
Butch Brodie, U. of Viriginia |
FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGY
Poisonous newts and the snakes that eat them: convergence and constraint in a coevolutionary arms race |
| October 21 Monday |
Jesse Barber, Boise State Univ. |
Sensory ecology as a lens to understand natural systems |
| October 28 Monday |
Melissa Maginnis, U. of Maine |
Cellular and molecular determinants of a fatal viral infection |
| November 4 Monday |
Beth Shank, UNC |
Chemical communication in the soil microbiome |
| November 18 Monday |
Sean Carroll, HHMI | FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGY
Butterfly spots and rattlesnake tales: the evolution of novelty |
| November 18 Monday, 7:30 PM Byrum Auditorium |
Sean Carroll, HHMI | The Serengeti rules: the regulation and restoration of biodiversity |
| November 25 Monday |
Hiroshi Maeda, U. of Wisconsin |
Unlocking plant aromatic amino acid biosynthesis to boost the production of natural products |
Fall 2019 Seminars are held at 4:00 PM in Winston Hall 126 unless otherwise noted.
WFU students, faculty, and staff may also view upcoming seminars on the google calendar: Biology Seminars.
PAST SEMINARS
Spring 2019 Seminar Schedule
| January 28 Monday |
Roland Kays, NC Museum of Natural Sci. | Making the most of wildlife “Big Data” from camera trapping and animal tracking. |
| February 4 Monday |
Dan Johnson, Univ. of Georgia | Fire and drought impacts on tree physiology and survival |
| February 18 Monday, Winston Hall 126 |
Sharon Swartz, Brown Univ. | FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGY
Bats aren’t birds or bugs: skin, stretching, sensing, and spinning in evolution’s youngest fliers |
| February 25 Monday |
Marcella Rojas Pierce, NCSU | Plant vacuoles: dynamic organelles for physiological control |
| March 4 Monday |
Steve Haase, Duke Univ. | Clock control of host-parasite interactions during malaria infection |
| March 18 Monday |
Shiv Grewall, National Cancer Inst. | FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGY
Heterochromatin inheritance and epigenetic control of the genome |
| March 25 Monday |
Jason Gagliano, WFU | Ribosome profiling of late adenovirus-infected cells reveals ribosome stacking on the 5′ untranslated region of messenger RNA translated by shunting |
| April 1 Monday |
Robin Chazdon, Univ. of Connecticut | FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGY
Lessons learned from long-term studies of tropical forest regeneration |
| April 15 Monday, Winston Hall 126 |
William Farfan Rios, WFU | What happens when biodiversity hotspots get hotter? Forest responses to climate change in the Andes and Amazon? |
| April 17 Wednesday, Winston Hall 126 |
Stephanie Bilodeau, WFU | Ecological process in pattern generation in tropical coral-seagrass reefscapes |
| April 22 Monday |
MC Regan, WFU | Tails of the sea: morphological scaling and ontogeny of shark caudal fins |
| April 25 Thursday, 10 AM Winston Hall 221 |
Sam Kim, WFU | TRP’ed up by earthworms: three ways to miss and one way to identify TRP-channel-expressing cells in Eisenia hortensis |
| April 29 Monday, Winston Hall 126 |
Honors and Awards Day | |
| May 1 Wednesday |
Robbie Baldwin, WFU | Deer and Browsing in Pilot Mountain: an evaluation of population survey methods and browsing pressure at a NC state park |
Spring 2019 Seminars were held at 4:00 PM in Winston Hall 125 unless otherwise noted.