Fall 2022 Virtual/In Person Seminar Schedule
| August 29 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Bastiaan Bargmann, Virginia Tech |
Title: It’s All in the Timing: Enhancing Regeneration Efficiency Using Morphogenic Factors Topic Area: Root regeneration and cell type specific transcriptional responses |
| September 5 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Natalia Khuri, WFU |
Title: Mining the Interplay Between Food and Drug Excipients, Intestinal Transporters and Gut Microbiome Topic Area: Intestinal Transporters and Gut Microbiome |
| September 26 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Songtao Jia, Columbia University |
Title: Mechanism of epigenetic inheritance Topic Area: Molecular Biology, Epigenetics |
| October 3 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Emily Lynch, North Carolina Zoo |
Title: Animal Research in a Zoo Topic Area: Myanmar Timber Elephant Project – more generally, use of longitudinal demographic data in wild animal populations |
| October 17 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Michael Ferdig, University of Notre Dame |
Title: Expanding the power of classical genetics to understand malaria parasite phenotypes: can malaria be the new yeast? Topic Area: Genetics and Genomics of Drug Resistance and Virulence in the Malaria Parasite |
| October 24 Monday, Online |
Stacey Schultz-Cherry, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital |
Title: Influenza in Vulnerable Populations Topic Area: Virology |
| October 31 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Rita Pilar Cervera-Juanes, WFU School of Medicine |
Title: The epigenome and its role in psychiatric disorders Topic Area: Synaptic Transmission, Epigenetics, Genetics and Genomics, Neurodegenerative Dementias, Addiction Neuroscience |
| November 7 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Seema Sheth, NC State University |
Title: Plant ecological and evolutionary responses to climate in space and time Topic Area: Plant ecology and evolution; climate change; range limits |
| November 28 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Elizabeth Haynes, Morgridge Institute for Research & University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Title: Revealing the cell biology of neurodegenerative disease using multiscale microscopy in zebrafish Topic Area: Understanding neurodevelopment & disease across scales in zebrafish |
| December 2 Friday, 10 AM, Winston 233 & Online |
Jon Nelson, WFU Biology |
Title: A Tale of Olfactory Neuromodulation: A change in smell PhD Graduate Student in Dr. Erik Johnson‘s Laboratory |
| December 13 Tuesday, 12 PM, Online |
Ghislaine Cárdenas-Posada, WFU Biology |
Title: The evolution of communication signals and beak behaviors in Woodpeckers PhD Graduate Student in Dr. Matt Fuxjager‘s Laboratory |
Fall 2022 Seminars were held at 4:00 PM Online and/or In Person unless otherwise noted.