Fall 2024 Virtual/In Person Seminar Schedule
| August 26 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Ke Zhang Reid, WFU Biology |
Title: Epigenetic regulation by heterochromatin Topic Area: Chromatin Biology/Gene Expression |
| September 2 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Henry Adeola, Vanderbilt University |
Title: Clinical proteomics approaches for diagnosis and treatment monitoring of Alzheimer’s Diseases and Related Dementias Topic Area: Clinical proteomics approaches for diagnosis and treatment monitoring of Alzheimer’s Diseases and Related Dementias |
| September 16 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Kenneth Feeley, University of Miami |
Title: Should They Stay or Should They Go? The responses of tropical forests to global warming Topic Area: Ecology and biogeography of tropical forests |
| September 23 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Christina Zakas, NC State University |
Title: Finding the genetic basis of developmental evolution using a marine annelid Topic Area: Evolutionary Developmental Genetics (EvoDevo) |
| September 30 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Andrew Broadbent, University of Maryland |
Title: Understanding the formation and function of Birnaviridae virus factories Topic Area: Virology |
| October 7 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Luciane Gargaglioni, São Paulo State University (Unesp) |
Title: Locus coeruleus: The blue spot and respiratory control in vertebrates Topic Area: Breathing control |
| October 21 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Justin Walley, Iowa State University |
Title: Unraveling Signaling Networks using Integrated Omic Profiling Topic Area: Protein modifications, quantitative Mass Spectroscopy |
| October 28 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Robert Holt, University of Florida |
Title: The value of long-term experiments in ecology: The Kansas habitat fragmentation experiment, 40 years old and counting. Topic Area: Evolutionary Ecology |
| November 4 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Brian Silliman, Duke University |
Title: Harnessing Biological Partnerships to Enhance Ecosystem Restoration Topic Area: Marine Conservation Biology |
| November 18 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Elizabeth Duncan, University of Kentucky |
Title: Mechanisms for activating essential gene expression during planarian regeneration Topic Area: Chromatin regulation, stem cell biology, animal regeneration |
| November 22 Friday, 12 PM, Wake Downtown 4802 & Online |
Maleana Khoury, WFU Biology |
Title: The plant hormones auxin and ethylene control root growth and development through gene regulatory networks PhD Graduate Student in Dr. Gloria Muday‘s Laboratory |
| November 25 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Brian Byrd, Western Carolina University |
Title: La Crosse Encephalitis – Western North Carolina’s Endemic Mosquito-borne Disease Topic Area: Ecology and epidemiology of domestic vector-borne infectious diseases |
| December 2 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Andrew Davies, Harvard University |
Title: Animal-landscape interactions on a changing planet Topic Area: Ecosystem processes at landscape scales |
Fall 2024 Seminars are held at 4:00 PM Online and/or In Person unless otherwise noted.