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 |
| December 2 Monday |
Mike Rizzo, WFU |
An unexpected role for the first extracellular loop in G-protein coupled receptor function |
Fall 2019 Seminars were held at 4:00 PM in Winston Hall 126 unless otherwise noted.