Spring 2019 Seminar Schedule
| January 28 Monday |
Roland Kays, NC Museum of Natural Sci. | Making the most of wildlife “Big Data” from camera trapping and animal tracking. |
| February 4 Monday |
Dan Johnson, Univ. of Georgia | Fire and drought impacts on tree physiology and survival |
| February 18 Monday, Winston Hall 126 |
Sharon Swartz, Brown Univ. | FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGY
Bats aren’t birds or bugs: skin, stretching, sensing, and spinning in evolution’s youngest fliers |
| February 25 Monday |
Marcella Rojas Pierce, NCSU | Plant vacuoles: dynamic organelles for physiological control |
| March 4 Monday |
Steve Haase, Duke Univ. | Clock control of host-parasite interactions during malaria infection |
| March 18 Monday |
Shiv Grewall, National Cancer Inst. | FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGY
Heterochromatin inheritance and epigenetic control of the genome |
| March 25 Monday |
Jason Gagliano, WFU | Ribosome profiling of late adenovirus-infected cells reveals ribosome stacking on the 5′ untranslated region of messenger RNA translated by shunting |
| April 1 Monday |
Robin Chazdon, Univ. of Connecticut | FRONTIERS IN BIOLOGY
Lessons learned from long-term studies of tropical forest regeneration |
| April 15 Monday, Winston Hall 126 |
William Farfan Rios, WFU | What happens when biodiversity hotspots get hotter? Forest responses to climate change in the Andes and Amazon? |
| April 17 Wednesday, Winston Hall 126 |
Stephanie Bilodeau, WFU | Ecological process in pattern generation in tropical coral-seagrass reefscapes |
| April 22 Monday |
MC Regan, WFU | Tails of the sea: morphological scaling and ontogeny of shark caudal fins |
| April 25 Thursday, 10 AM Winston Hall 221 |
Sam Kim, WFU | TRP’ed up by earthworms: three ways to miss and one way to identify TRP-channel-expressing cells in Eisenia hortensis |
| April 29 Monday, Winston Hall 126 |
Honors and Awards Day | |
| May 1 Wednesday |
Robbie Baldwin, WFU | Deer and Browsing in Pilot Mountain: an evaluation of population survey methods and browsing pressure at a NC state park |
Spring 2019 Seminars were held at 4:00 PM in Winston Hall 125 unless otherwise noted.