School of Biological Sciences Seminar Series

SPRING 2019

January 10 -- Orientation

January 17 -- CANCELLED -- Casey Bergman - University of Georgia 

“Evolutionary Insights into the Horizontal Transfer and Copy Number Control of Transposable Elements in Saccharomyces Yeasts”

Hosted by: Colin Meiklejohn

January 24 -- Gordon Fox - University of South Florida

"TBA"

Hosted by: Erin Carr

January 31 -- No Seminar

February 7 -- No Seminar - Graduate Student Recruitment

February 14 -- Anna Selmecki - Creighton University

“The Impact of Polyploidy and Aneuploidy on Fungal Adaptation and Drug Resistance”

Hosted by: Kristi Montooth

February 21 -- Ruud Schilder - Penn State

"Factors that mediate naturally occurring variation in insect flight (muscle) performance"

Hosted by: Kristi Montooth

February 28 -- Yanbin Yin - University of Nebraska - Lincoln

 "Genomic data mining for enzymes in complex carbohydrate metabolism"

Hosted by: Karrie Weber

March 7 -- Anna Zinoveya - Kansas State University

“Molecular control of microRNA gene-regulatory activity.”

Hosted by: Michael Herman

March 14 -- Anthony Dell - National Great Rivers Research and Education Center

 "TBA"

Hosted by: John DeLong

March 21 -- No Seminar

March 28 -- J. Cameron Thrash - Univ. of Southern California

"Results of Microbe Hunting in Coastal Waters"

Hosted by: Karrie Weber

April 4 -- Ann Tate - Vanderbilt University

“The Ecological and Evolutionary Drivers of Natural Variation in Host-microbe Interactions”

Hosted by: Riley Cooper

April 11 -- Undergraduate Alumni Series: Erik Lundquist - University of Kansas

"Axon guidance in neural circuit formation"

Hosted by: Bill Glider

April 18 -- Holly Moeller - Univ. of California - Santa Barbara

“Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Fuels Ecological Opportunity and Evolutionary Innovation”

Hosted by: John DeLong

April 25 -- Amelia Villasenor -- University of Arkansas

"TBA"

Hosted by: Kate Lyons