Mondays 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Hubbard Hall 218
Seminars are open to the public. Attendance is required for all students enrolled in Biol 497, Biol 797, and all current graduate students.
For additional information, please contact Dr. Tom Luhring.
Seminars
Presented by the Wichita State University Department of Biological Sciences
August | September | October | November | December
August 18, 2025
Orientation
- All enrolled students are required to attend
August 25, 2025
Clay Prater, PhD
- Affiliation: University of Arkansas
- Topic: I get by with a little help from my friends: Collaborative studies in ecological studies in ecological stoichiometry
September 1, 2025
Labor Day
- No seminar
September 8, 2025
Stephanie Manka, PhD
- Affiliation: Fancy Scientist, LLC
- Topic: Science, shifts, and self-discovery: Finding and following your unique career path
September 15, 2025
Sarah Nickel, MS, MLS, (ASPCP)CM
- Affiliation: Wichita State's Molecular Diagnostic Lab
- Topic: Lessons learned: My path to lab director
September 22, 2025
Ecological, Environmental, & Organismal Focused Networking Panel
Shania Burkhead Harris, WSU | Sean Corns, GSI Engineering | Ryan Waters, KS Dept of
Wildlife & Parks
September 29, 2025
Biomedical Focused Networking Panel
Tyson Baird, Sedgwick County Regional Forensics Science Center | Isabel Burns, Fagron
& WSU Tech | Fariha Tanveer, Newman University
October 6, 2025
Fanis Missirlis, PhD
- Affiliation: Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN
- Topic: Metal ions in the biology of Drosophila
October 13, 2025
Fall Break
- No seminar
October 20, 2025
George Wang, PhD
- Affiliation: East Central University
- Topic: TBD
October 27, 2025
Anuradha Ghosh, PhD
- Affiliation: Pittsburg State University
- Topic: Implementing a One Health Approach in Microbiology Research
November 3, 2025
Erika Geisbrecht, PhD
- Affiliation: Kansas State University
- Topic: Integration of proteomic and genetic approaches to understand muscle proteostasis
November 10, 2025
Graduate Student Presentations
- Lab: James Beck
- Topic: The Search for A Deadbeat Diploid
- Lab: Mark Schneegurt
- Topic: Abundance of microbial genes relevant to N2O metabolism in agricultural soils under different nitrogen fertilization regimes
November 17, 2025
Thesis Defense: Jessica Baughman
- Affiliation: Wichita State University
- Mentor: Dr. James Beck
- Topic: Conservation of convergent forms? Untangling ambiguous lineages in a threatened cactus
November 24, 2025
Graduate Student Presentations
- Lab: Leland Russell
- Topic: Take Me to Your Cedar: Effects of Juniperus virginiana encroachment in grasslands
on floral-visitor resources
- Lab: Tom Luhring
- Topic: Fashionably late to the party: Effects of varied wetland refill on amphibian fitness and ecosystem recovery
December 1, 2025
Graduate Student Presentations
Divya Padamati
- Lab: Raj Logan
- Topic: Tissue-Specific Ionomes from a Drosophila Iron Transporter Mutant
Sunita Khokhar & Angela Wyatt
- Nonthesis
- Topic: Turtle Trapping : A hands-on approach to education