All seminars will be held at 4:10 p.m. in Iacocca Hall, room B23, unless otherwise noted.
Please note that the seminar schedule will be updated regularly. Please check back again soon!
Department Seminar Series
Fall 2018
All Biological Sciences seminars are electronics free. Please turn off your cell phones and laptops!
DATE |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
| Thursday August 30 |
Amber Rice, Ph.D. Lehigh University |
"Reproductive isolation between hybridizing chickadee species" |
| Tuesday September 4 |
Greg Lang, Ph.D. Lehigh University |
"Genome evolution in laboratory populations of yeast" |
| Thursday September 6 |
Julie Miwa, Ph.D. Lehigh University |
"Unlocking the molecular constraints on learning and behavioral adaptation" |
| Thursday September 13 |
Paul Whiteaker, Ph.D. Barrow Neurological Institute |
"Defining the sites and effects of prototoxin interactions with nicotinic acetylcholine receptors" |
| Thursday September 27 |
Jessica Leung Ph.D. Candidate Nemes Fellow |
"Evading Taxol at mitotic entry: The contribution of 'cutters' and 'chippers' to microtubule array remodeling" |
| Thursday October 4 |
John Straub, Ph.D. Boston University |
"Role of membrane domains and interfaces in protein structure, assembly and function" |
| Thursday October 11 |
CANCELLED |
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| Thursday October 18 |
Otto Holst, Ph.D. Research Cener Borstel, Germany |
"Lipopolysaccharides and endotoxins" |
| Thursday October 25 |
Julie Haas, Ph.D. Lehigh University |
"Electrical Synapses, Plasticity, and Cortical Attention to the Sensory Surround" |
| Thursday November 1 |
Kaitlin Fisher Ph.D. Candidate Nemes Fellow |
"Exploring parallelism and constraint in experimentally evolved yeast populations" |
| Tuesday November 13, 4:15pm ATLS IL B101 |
Patrick Bradley, Ph.D. J. David Gladstone Institutes UC San Francisco |
"Decoding the human microbiome through functional metagenomics " |
| Thursday November 15 |
Cassandra Field Pre-doctoral research associate |
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| Tuesday November 27, 4:15pm ATLS IL B101 |
Wynn Meyer, Ph.D. Dept. of Computational and Systems Biology University of Pittsburgh |
"From blue eyes to the deep blue sea: exploring the genetic basis of convergent traits in mammals" |
| Thursday November 29, 4:15pm ATLS IL B101 |
Jae Young Choi, Ph.D. Dept. of Biology New York University |
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| Tuesday December 4, 4:15pm ATLS IL B101 |
Brian Hollis, Ph.D. School of Life Sciences École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, (EPFL), Switzerland |
"Sexual selection and sexual conflict in experimentally-evolving populations of Drosophila melanogaster" |
| Thursday December 6, 4:15pm ATLS IL B101 |
Lauren Sugden, Ph.D. Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Brown University |
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| Tuesday December 11, 4:15pm ATLS IL B101 |
Chad Eliason, Ph.D. Field Museum of Natural History Integrate Research Center |
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