Spring 2024 Virtual/In Person Seminar Schedule
| March 4 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Nick Ruktanonchai, Virginia Tech |
Title: Using place-based mobility data to understand disease spread, detection, and community response Topic Area: Infectious disease modeling, Vector-borne disease, Human mobility, and Emerging pathogens |
| March 18 Monday, Online |
Sara Beery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Title: Generalization vs Specialization in Computer Vision for Ecology Topic Area: Computer Vision for the Environment, Sustainability, and Conservation |
| March 25 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Bahjat Fadi Marayati, Duke University |
Title: Illuminating mRNA modifications: GEMS Technology for Programmable Protein Expression and Real-time Monitoring of mRNA Methylation Topic Area: mRNA modification, molecular Biology and biochemistry |
| April 1 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Regina Joice Cordy, WFU Biology |
Title: Investigating the impact of host physiological variation on malaria disease progression Topic Area: Malaria pathogenesis, host-parasite interactions, human microbiome |
| April 12 Friday, 1 PM, Winston 124 & Online |
Emma Reder, WFU Biology |
Title: Big Trees, Bigger Questions: Investigating Diameter and Species Classifications of Trees in the Peruvian Amazon MS Graduate Student in Dr. Miles Silman‘s Laboratory |
| April 15 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Warren Burggren, University of North Texas |
Title: Developmental Plasticity, Epigenetics and Evolution: A Comparative Physiologist’s Od(d)yssey Topic Area: Comparative Physiology |
| April 29 Monday, Winston 126 & Online |
Richard Anthony Rabideau Childers, Harvard University |
Title: Smoke-induced nutrient translocation in the fire-adapted ant-plant, Vachellia drepanolobium: a complex novel physiological response Topic Area: Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| May 2 Thursday, 3:30 PM, Winston 126 |
Honors and Awards Day | |
| July 22 Monday, 12 PM, Winston 233 & Online |
Olutosin ‘Samuel’ Olusola, WFU Biology |
Title: The Nutrient Trail: Bacterial Chemotaxis to Essential B Vitamins MS Graduate Student in Dr. Sheri Floge‘s Laboratory |
| July 25 Thursday, 1 PM, Wake Downtown 4802 & Online |
Lara Rudman, WFU Biology |
Title: Optimizing virus-like particles to study protein-protein interactions during rotavirus assembly MS Graduate Student in Dr. Sarah McDonald Esstman‘s Laboratory |
Spring 2024 Seminars were held at 4:00 PM Online and/or In Person unless otherwise noted.