Seminar Series
Biological Sciences
Seminars are 4 pm Wednesday, Brown Hall Room 304.
For more information contact: Dr. Dhirendra Kumar or Dr. Lev Yampolsky
Date
Speaker and Presentation Title
1/19
No seminar - First week of classes
1/26
No seminar
2/2
Diwaker Tripathi, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA
Washington, Seattle, WA
Plant defense responses to pathogens and
their organelle damage during development
their organelle damage during development
2/9
Justin Ledogar, Department of Health Sciences, ETSU
Virtual biomechanics and human craniofacial evolution
2/16
Jeanette Moss
Multifaceted approaches to the study of reproductive decision-making in
natural populations: Individual strategies, eco-evolutionary dynamics,
and their mechanisms
natural populations: Individual strategies, eco-evolutionary dynamics,
and their mechanisms
2/23
Melissa Whitaker
Ecology & Evolution of Plant-Insect Interactions
3/2
Daniel Simberloff, Department of Biological Sciences, UTK
Managing biological invasions: What’s worked,
what hasn’t, and what might
what hasn’t, and what might
3/9
Adam Stuckert
Eco-evolutionary genomics of the Neotropics: from the rainforest to the
genome and back again
genome and back again
3/16
Spring Break - No seminar
3/23
Trevor Chapman, Doctoral candidate, Department of Biological Sciences, ETSU
Examining the effects of microclimate conditions on behavioral
preference and physiological stress in the Northern Gray-cheeked
Salamander
preference and physiological stress in the Northern Gray-cheeked
Salamander
3/30
Rob Walsh, Environmental
consultant, Victoria, Australia
consultant, Victoria, Australia
Introduction to the aquatic microfauna, notes
on their ecology and something generally forgotten, their vital
importance in aquatic ecology.
on their ecology and something generally forgotten, their vital
importance in aquatic ecology.
4/6
ASRF - No seminar
4/13
Dylan Shropshire, Department of Biology, University of
Montana
Montana
Manipulating animal sex lives: Genetics and
diversity of bacterial reproductive parasitis
diversity of bacterial reproductive parasitis
4/20
Charlie Kwit, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UTK TBA
4/27
TBA