Wichita State University Department of Biology Seminar
Spring 2024
Monday 4pm-5:00pm, HH 231 (new room)
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. Bin Shuai (bin.shuai@wichita.edu)
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22-Jan | Orientation | All enrolled students should attend | |
| 29-Jan | Jeremy Ross | University of Oklahoma | Extreme weather ecology of migratory grassland birds |
| 5-Feb | Biology Graduate Students: Binuri Hewa Thotagamuwage; Riley Drees | ||
| 12-Feb | Doug Emlen Public Lecture Watkins Visiting Professor |
University of Montana | "Extreme Weapons: A Natural History" 231 Hubbard Hall, Monday, 2/12/24 at 4 to 5pm |
| 13-Feb |
Doug Emlen Scientific Lecture Watkins VIsiting Professor |
University of Montana | "The evolution of extreme weapons (lessons from a rhinoceros beetle)" 209 Hubbard Hall, Tuesday, 2/13/24 at 4 to 5pm |
| 19-Feb | Andrew George | Pittsburg State University | Bird conservation in managed forests: insights from a 100-year ecological experiment |
| 26-Feb | Jordan Brungardt Alvin Sarachek Research Seminar |
USDA-Agricultural Research Service | Transcriptome profile of pecan scab resistant and susceptible trees from a pecan provenance collection |
| 4-Mar | Mohamed Fakhr | University of Tulsa | Campylobacter Survival In Retail Meats: An Interesting Story |
| 11-Mar |
SPRING BREAK-NO SEMINAR |
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| 18-Mar | Medhavi Ambardar | Fort Hays State University | Relationships among parental behavior, physiology, and fitness of birds |
| 25-Mar | Jaina Agan | University of Central Oklahoma | The role and importance of juvenile dimorphisms |
| 1-Apr | Jocelyn McDonald | Kansas State University | Group activities: How migrating cell collectives organize and move together |
| 8-Apr | Jeroen Roelofs | University of Kansas Medical Center | Stress induced relocalization of proteasomes into condensates |
| 15-Apr | Matthew Gibson | Stowers Institute | Understanding your inner anemone: Hox genes, segmentation and somitogenesis during cnidarian development |
| 22-Apr | Graduate Student Presentations: Bryanna Woodard, Max Proctor | ||
| 29-Apr | Sufi Thomas | University of Kansas Medical Center | The role of tumor microenvironment in Head and Neck Cancer Progression |
| 6-May |
Graduate Students Presentations: Neema Fathi, Caelan Schuman, Tiffany Bass |
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