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Date |
Seminar
Speaker/Title |
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January 15 |
no seminar
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January 22 |
no seminar |
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January 29 |
Dr. Al Savitsky (link)
Professor of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University;
Program Director, Division of Biological Infrastructure, National Science Foundation
Host: Grace Wyngaard
"Purloined Poisons: Sequestered Chemical Defense in an Asian Snake"
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February 5 |
no seminar due to weather
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February 12 |
Kristine Grayson (link)
Graduate student, Laboratory of Henry Wilbur
Department of Biology, University of Virginia
Host: Reid Harris
"Should I Stay or Should I Go? Life History Trade-offs of
Migration in a Pond-Breeding Amphibian"
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February 19 |
Master's Degree Research Proposal Presentations
Kristina Silke (Advisor: Roshna Wunderlich) "Effects of hormones
and fatigue on overuse injuries in female athletes"
Sara Heltzel (Advisor: David Jaynes) "Variation in external carotid
artery branching patterns" |
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February 26 |
Dr. Daniel Mulcahy (link)
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History
Host: Grace Wyngaard
"Systematics, Biodiversity, and Biogeography: Herpetological
Perspectives from western North America" |
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March 5 |
Master's Degree Research Proposal Presentations
Stephanie Wolf (Advisor: Roshna Wunderlich) "Locomotor ontogeny
and postcranial growth in Propithecus verreauxi and Lemur catta"
Bryan Saunders (Advisor: Chris Lantz) "The role of Interleukin-3 (IL-3)
in cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL)"
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March 12 |
Spring Break
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March 19 |
Master's Degree Research Proposal Presentations
Julia Stutzman (Advisor: Conley McMullen) "A revision of the
endemic members of Cordia in the Galapagos Islands"
Carly Muletz (Advisor: Reid Harris) "The Role of Amphibians'
Skin Bacteria in Chytridiomycosis"
Paul Arsenovic (Advisor: Tim Bloss) "The role of apoptotic
proteins ICD-1 and ICD-2 in neuronal development in C. elegans"
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March 26 |
Dr. Vickie Bakker
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Biology
James Madison University
Host: Tim Bloss
"Viability-based management for an endangered carnivore; the island fox
(Urocyon littoralis) on California's Channel Islands"
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April 2 |
Dr. Quyen L. Aoh
Postdoctoral Associate, Laboratory of Mara C. Duncan (link)
Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Host: Jim Herrick
"SCAMPering the EGF Receptor to the Surface"
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April 9 |
Brad Trumbo
JMU Departmemt of Biology (Advisor: Mark Hudy)
"Resiliency of small scale brook trout habitats to climate change"
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April 16 |
Biosymposium Keynote Lecture:
Dr. Megan Reinertsen Ross ('96) (link)
Lincoln Park Zoo
“Guts and data: The confluence of management and science in the modern zoo”
Biosymposium schedule Thursday and Friday
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April 23 |
Tim Bigdeli (JMU '06)
Graduate student in the lab of Brion Maher (link)
VCU School of Medicine
Host: Chris Rose
"Identification of Genetic Variants Conferring Susceptibility to Schizophrenia"
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