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Fall 2020 Departmental Seminars

Fall 2020 Virtual Seminar Schedule

August 31
Monday
Doug Lyles,
Wake Biochemistry
Title: How viral nucleoproteins travel in the cytoplasm of infected cells
Topic: RNA Virus Biology
September 14
Monday
Lauren Childs,
Virginia Tech
Title: Modeling the Dynamics of Malaria Infection
Topic: Mathematical Modeling of Malaria
September 28
Monday
Rosie Alegado,
Univ. of Hawai’i, Mānoa
Title: From evo to eco: a microbiologistʻs journey from bench to boat
Topic: Role of Bacteria in Organismal Development/Evolution
October 5
Monday
Joelle Muhlemann,
WFU Biology
Title: Flavonols take the heat out of heat stress to protect pollen from elevated ROS
Topic: Plant Cell Signaling
October 5
Monday
Heather Brown-Harding,
WFU Biology
Title: Expansion Microscopy to Analyze Developmental Genes in Chlamydia
Topic: Imaging Chlamydia Infection
October 19
Monday
Thea Whitman,
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: Wildfire effects on soil microbes
Topic: Soil Ecology and Climate Change
October 26
Monday
Leslie E. Sieburth,
Univ. of Utah
Title: Gene Expression: roles of mRNA decay in steady state and during stimulus response
Topic: Plant Development
November 2
Monday
Michael Butcher,
Youngstown State
Title: Are sloths the undisputed (anaerobic) kings of the jungle?
Topic: Structure-Function of the Musculoskeletal System
November 16
Monday
Luis Fernandez,
WFU CINCIA
Title: The Price of Paperless: developing a multidimensional characterization of ecosystem degradation due to artisanal mining in the Amazon
Topic: Ecosystem Preservations
November 23
Monday
BIO Graduate Students,
WFU
Short Talks By:
Rebecca Seifert, Jon Nelson, David De La Cerda, and Anthony Postiglione
Title(s):
RS: The Denning Behavior of Crocuta crocuta
JN: Neuropeptide modulation of olfactory behavior in Drosophila
DC: Differential 3´extension profiles enhance gene expression analysis in fission yeast (Schizosaccharomyces pombe)
AP: Spatial Regulation of Reactive Oxygen Species During Abscisic Acid-Induced Stomatal Closure
November 30
Monday
Michael Ward,
WFU
Title: TBD

Fall 2020 Seminars were held at 4:00 PM Online unless otherwise noted.

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