Fall 2021 Virtual/In Person Seminar Schedule
| August 23 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
President Susan R. Wente, WFU | Title: Gatekeepers of the Nucleus Topic Area: Cell biology; specifically, nucleocytoplasmic trafficking |
| August 30 Monday, Online |
Kiyoko Gotanda, Brock Univ. |
Title: Adaptation in a changing world: human influences on evolution Topic Area: Evolution, ecology, and behavior |
| September 20 Monday, Online |
Rebecca DuBois, UC Santa Cruz |
Title: Structure-guided design of vaccines Topic Area: Mechanisms of virus infections |
| September 27 Monday, Online |
Joseph Taube, Baylor University |
Title: Chromatin dynamics underlie metastasis-associated epithelial-mesenchymal transition Topic Area: Cancer epigenetics |
| October 4 Monday, Online |
Kenneth Stedman, Portand State Univ. |
Title: Viruses from Hell: The Unique and Ubiquitous Fuselloviruses of Archaea Topic Area: Extreme viruses |
| October 18 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Z. Carter Berry, WFU Biology |
Title: Seeing the light from a different angle: Diffuse light and the associated effects on plant carbon Topic Area: Ecosystem carbon cycling and plant function |
| October 25 Monday, Online |
Kay Bidle, Rutgers Univ. |
Title: Contextualizing phytoplankton-virus arms races at sea: from subcellular controls to oceanographic scales Topic Area: Microbial ecology, plankton physiology, molecular evolution and ecology, biogeochemistry, ecosystem processes |
| November 15 Monday, Online |
Christian Happi, Redeemer’s Univ. |
Title: Genomics Characterization and Surveillance of Microbial Threats in West Africa Topic Area: Infectious disease genomics, particularly of emerging outbreaks including Sars-CoV-2 in Africa |
| November 29 Monday, Wake Downtown 4802 & Online |
Ashley W. Seifert, Univ. of Kentucky |
Title: Illuminating cell and non-cell autonomous mechanisms of complex tissue regeneration in mammals Topic Area: Mammalian regeneration |
| December 6 Monday, 1 PM Wake Downtown 4802 & Online |
Allison DeLange, WFU Biology |
Title: Flavonols protect tomato pollen and roots from heat stress induced reactive oxygen species synthesis MS Graduate Student in Dr. Gloria Muday‘s Laboratory |
Fall 2021 Seminars were held at 4:00 PM Online and/or In Person unless otherwise noted.