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Fall 2019 Departmental Seminars

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.

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