Special Seminar Series
School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series
Seminars are on Thursdays at 3:30 pm in Hamilton Hall 112 on the UNL City Campus.
The School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series is a weekly series presented by invited speakers and UNL faculty to showcase current research advances in biological sciences. All School of Biological Sciences Seminars are free and open to the public.
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FALL 2018
August 23 -- Orientation
August 30 -- Joseph Coolon - Wesleyan University
"The genetic basis of octanoic acid resistance in Drosophila sechellia"
Hosted by: Michael Herman
September 6 -- No Seminar
September 13 -- Anna Selmecki - Creighton University
"The impact of polyploidy and aneuploidy on fungal adaptation and drug resistance"
Hosted by: Kristi Montooth
September 20 -- Robert Unckless - University of Kansas
"The causes of balancing selection on immunity genes: from populations to molecular interactions"
Hosted by: Colin Meiklejohn
September 27 -- Daniel Schachtman - University of Nebraska
"How the core facilities at the Nebraska Center for Biotechnology can help with your research"
Hosted by: Michael Herman
October 4 -- Brian Couch - P&T Seminar
"Building bridges: Bringing faculty and students into alignment on the use of formative assessments"
Hosted by: Alan Christensen
October 11 -- Eric Weaver - P&T Seminar
"In Search of Universal Influenza Vaccines"
Hosted by: Alan Christensen
October 18 -- Clay Cressler - 4 Year Review
"Parasite burden and infection duration variation among individuals: ubiquitous patterns with a common cause?"
Hosted by: Alan Christensen
October 25 -- Dai Shizuka - 4 Year Review
"Populations as social networks: Unraveling the complexity of winter social life of a migrant sparrow"
Hosted by: Alan Christensen
November 1 -- Bin Yu - Promotion to Full Review
"Small RNA biogenesis in plants"
Hosted by: Alan Christensen
November 8 -- David Civitello - Emory University
"Can host-parasite energetcs improve disease management?"
Hosted by: Clay Cressler
November 15 -- Lila Fishman - University of Montana
"The genomic basis of monkeyflower adaptation to an extreme geothermal habitat"
Hosted by: Kristi Montooth
November 22 -- Thanksgiving - No Seminar
November 29 -- Peter Andolfatto - Princeton University
"Constraints on adaptation revealed by the convergent evolution of toxin insensitivity."
Hosted by: Jay Storz
December 6 -- Mia Levine - University of Pennsylvania
"TBA"
Hosted by: Colin Meiklejohn