Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule

All of the seminars listed below will be held from 12:40-1:40pm on the date listed. All seminars will be hosted virtually via Zoom, and some will also occur in person in BioScience 1007.

To attend a seminar virtually, go to https://jmu-edu.zoom.us/ and click on Join Meeting. Enter the meeting ID for the seminar (891 7161 4421) and the passcode. Email Dr. Reider from a JMU email address if you need the passcode. The passcode will be the same for all seminars this semester.

January 20, 2023
  • Presenter: Dr. Sarah Little-Letsinger, Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University
  • Title: TBD
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 and via Zoom
January 27, 2023
  • Presenter: Dr. Katherine Mertes, Research Ecologist at Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute
  • Title: TBD
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 and via Zoom
February 3, 2023
  • Presenter: Sarah Leventhal, PhD student in Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado
  • Title: Investigating the early evolution of division of labor in the Cretaceous bryozoan Wilbertopora
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 and via Zoom 
February 10, 2023
  • Presenter: Dr. Emily Bruns, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, Department of Biology
  • Title: The evolution of age-specific disease resistance: a tale of anther-smut on wild carnations
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 and via Zoom 
February 17, 2023
  • Presenter: Dr. Howard Whiteman, Professor at Murray State University
  • Title: A Tail of Two Salamanders: Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 AND via Zoom
February 24, 2023
  • Presenter: Ignacio Escalante Meza
  • Title: Mechanisms and evolutionary implications of behaviors: biomechanics and communication in an arachnid
  • Location: via Zoom 
March 3, 2023
  • Presenter: Dr. Marquis Walker, Assistant Professor at James Madison University
  • Title: Novel photoreceptors at the intersection of light and pain response in the iris
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 AND via Zoom 
March 10, 2023
  • Graduate Student Research Proposals 
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 AND via Zoom 
March 24, 2023
  • Graduate Student Research Proposals 
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 AND via Zoom 
March 31, 2023
  • Presenter: Arianna Kuhn, VA State Herpetologist at the Virginia Museum of Natural History
  • Title: TBD
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 AND via Zoom 
April 7, 2023
  • Presenter: Dr. James Herrera, Research Scientist and Program Coordinator at Duke University
  • Title: TBD
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 AND via Zoom 
April 14, 2023
  • Presenter: Dr. Kristopher Kubow, Associate Professor at James Madison University
  • Title: TBD
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 AND via Zoom 
April 21, 2023
  • Presenter: Jon Monroe, Professor at James Madison University
  • Title: TBD
  • Location: Bioscience 1007 AND via Zoom
April 28, 2023
  • Biosymposium

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