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

"TBA"

Hosted by: Kristi Montooth

February 28 -- No Seminar

March 7 -- Anthony Dell - National Great Rivers Research and Education Center

"TBA"

Hosted by: John DeLong

March 14 -- CANCELLED -- Mike Webster - Cornell University

“Sexual signals and speciation in Australian Fairy-wrens”

Hosted by: Dai Shizuka

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

"TBA"

Hosted by: Michael Herman

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