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Fall 2022 Departmental Seminars

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.

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