| Date
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Seminar Speaker/Title |
Sept. 11
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Dr. Tim Bloss (link)
Department of Biology, JMU
Host: Jon Monroe
"Matters of life and death in the worm: control of
developmental apoptosis in Caenorhabditis elegans"
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Sept. 18 |
Graduate seminars
Chastine Kyger (Mark Hudy, advisor)
"Fish community responses to the addition of wood in Smith Creek,Virginia"
Brad Trumbo (Mark Hudy, advisor)
"Resiliency of brook trout habitat to climate change"
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Sept. 25 |
Dr. David J. Asai (link)
Director, Precollege and Undergraduate Science Education
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Host: Marta Bechtel
"Dynein-2 and retrograde intraflagellar transport"
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| Oct. 2 |
Dr. Gregory J. Anderson (link)
Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut
Host: Conley McMullen
"Darwin Got There First: Reproductive Biology and Islands"
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Oct. 9 |
Ryan Anderson (link)
Graduate student in the Department of Plant Pathology,
Physiology and Weed Science, Virginia Tech
Host, Jon Monroe
"How do oömycete pathogens manipulate plant cells?"
Ryan will also describe graduate school opportunities at VT
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Oct. 16 |
Homecoming Seminar: Dr. Steve Cresawn (link)
Department of Biology, JMU
host: Tim Bloss
"Phages of Mycobacteria: Understanding and Exploiting A Microbial Matryoshka" |
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Oct. 23 |
Dr. James Vonesh (link)
Assistant Professor, VCU Department of Biology
Host: Reid Harris
"Sequential Predator effects in complex life cycles"
|
Oct.
30
|
Stacy Beharry (link)
Graduate Student, Center for Quantitative Fisheries Ecology, Old Dominion University
Host: Christine May
"Evaluating nursery habitat by measuring fish survival using the otolith as a natural tag"
|
Nov. 6
|
Graduate seminars
Bareza Rasoul (Alex Bannigan, advisor)
"Interactions and functions of Arabidopsis Kinesin 5 Family Members"
Nhut Minh Le (Justin Brown, advisor)
"Investigating The Role Of Raphe Nuclei and 5HT1A receptors In
Mediating Cardiovascular Responses To Stress"
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Nov. 13 |
Dr. Maria Holynska (link)
Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences
Host: Grace Wyngaard
"The freshwater copepod Cyclops, an Eurasian guest in North America"
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Nov. 20 |
Graduate seminars
Brianna Lam, Leigh Siderhurst, and Elizabeth Steidle
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| Nov. 27 |
No Seminar -
Thanksgiving Break |
| Dec. 4 |
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