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Date |
Seminar
Speaker/Title |
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January 16 |
Dr. Kirsten A. Guss (link)
Department of Biology at Dickinson College
Host: Kim Slekar
"Beyond learning to fly:
scalloped and vestigial function
during Drosophila
embryogenesis"
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January 23 |
John
Cianchetti
JMU Biology Masters Degree
Program
Thesis advisor: Dean Cocking
"Survey of the mercury content
of earthworms
on the South River, VA,
floodplain"
|
|
January 30 |
Dr. Stephanie
Batchelet
JMU Department of Integrated Science and Technology
Host: Jon Monroe
"In soil and in planta: a role for TonB-dependent receptors
and alternate
sigma factors in
Bradyrhizobium japonicum"
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February 6 |
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February 13 |
Dr. Dagmar
Frisch (link)
Department of Zoology, University of Oklahoma Biological
Station
Host: Grace Wyngaard
"Patterns of metacommunity
build-up in a new pond complex in a
mediterranean wetland (Doqana, Southern Spain)"
|
|
Tuesday, February 17 |
College of Science and
Mmathematics
Assessment Day Faculty Research
and Teaching Symposium |
|
February
20 |
Master's Degree Research
Proposal Presentations
Leigh Siderhurst
(Advisor: Heather Griscom) "Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
mortality and changes in light levels at a southern
Appalachian
brook trout stream - Fridley Gap, VA"
Brianna Lam
(Advisor: Reid Harris) "Investigating amphibian co-existence
with
the amphibian disease chytridiomycosis: A synergy between
components of the innate immune system"
Nhut Minh Le
(Advisor: Justin
Brown) "Investigating the role of 5HT1A
receptors
in the raphe nuclei in mediating cardiovascular responses to
stress"
|
Thursday,
February 26
6125 Memorial Hall
3:45 PM
|
Dr. Hubert Staudigel
(link)
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego
Co-hosted by the Department of Geology
"3.5 Billion years of glass
bioalteration: Volcanic rocks as a basis for microbial
life" |
|
March 6 |
Master's Degree Research
Proposal Presentations
Elizabeth
Steidle(Advisor: Jon Monroe) "Discovering the
function of BAM9 in Arabidopsis thaliana."
Chastine
Kyger (Advisor: Mark Hudy) "Fish community responses
to the addition of wood
in Smith Creek, Virginia. |
|
March 13 |
No
seminar - Spring Break |
|
March 20 |
Dr. Corey Cleland (link)
JMU Department of Biology
Host: Tim Bloss
"Inflammation and trauma in
infancy can permanently alter adult nociceptive
sensitivity - The behavior, physiology, biochemistry and anatomy
of the
long term consequences of brief injury in neonatal
rats" |
|
March 27 |
Master's Degree Research
Proposal Presentations
Bareza Rasoul
(Advisor: Alex Bannigan) "Interactions and
Functions of Arabidopsis Kinesin-5 Family Members"
Brad
Trumbo (Advisor: Mark
Hudy) "Resiliency of small
scale brook trout habitats to climate
change" |
|
April 3 |
Dr. Reid
Harris (link)
JMU Department of Biology
Host: Tim Bloss
"Amphibian defense: mutualistic
microbes and their antifungal
metabolites"
|
|
April 10 |
Divya
Bansal
JMU Biology Masters Degree
Program
Thesis advisor: Terrie
Rife
Title: TBA |
April 17
|
Biosymposium Keynote
seminar
Dr. Alison Buchan
’94 (link)
University of Tennessee, Department of Microbiology
Host: Bruce Wiggins
"Genetic diversity and ecology
of the marine Roseobacter lineage"
|
|
April 24
|
Dr. Tom Arnold (link)
Department of Biology at Dickinson College
Host: Jon Monroe
"Ploughshares to swords:
how plants mobilize carbohydrates
for the production of chemical
defenses."
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