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Department of Biology Seminar Series

Seminars are held from 12:00-1:00 p.m. on the specified date in Rankin Science West Room 183, unless otherwise noted. Recordings of each seminar can be found in the list below.

Seminar: Breaking the Rules: The Biology of Plant Superinvaders

Dr. Jason Fridley
Professor, Clemson University
Department of Biological Sciences
Date: Friday, September 22, 2023

Seminar: Reconstructing costal marshes over the past century: The relative roles of plant trait plasticity and rapid evolution in driving ecosystem-level change

Dr. Megan Vahsen
Utah State University
Department of Wildland Resources
Date: Friday, September 15, 2023

Seminar: Pathogenesis with Staphylococcus aureus (In-person Seminar Only)

Dr. Melinda Grosser
UNC Asheville
Date: Friday, September 8, 2023

Seminar: Targeting Molecular Mechanisms to Accelerate Recovery from Nerve Injury

Dr. Jeff Twiss
Professor, University of South Carolina
SmartState Chair in Childhood Neurotherapeutics
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the Department of Biological Sciences.
Date: Friday, April 28, 2023

Seminar: Transcription Start Site Identification and Examination of Noncoding Promoter Features

Dr. Andrew Murray
Ginkgo Bioworks
Date: Friday, April 21, 2023

Seminar: Native Americans, Smoke the Bear and the Rise and Fall of Eastern Keystone Pyrogenic Ecosystems

Marc D. Abrams
Pennsylvania State University
Date: Friday, April 14, 2023

Seminar: Stress, Evo-Devo, and the Timing of Life

Dr. Sally Seraphin
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Trinity College
Sponsored by Promega Corporation
Date: Friday, March 10, 2023

Seminar: Conserving and Assessing the Health of Gray's Lily (Lilium grayi)

Ben Brewer
M.S. Student, Appalachian State University
Mentor: Dr. Matt Estep
Date: Friday, March 3, 2023

Seminar: An Integrated Ecological Approach for Assessing Sustainable Development

Dr. Matthew Ogwu
Assistant Professor
Sustainable Development
Appalachian State University
Date: Friday, February 24, 2023

Seminar: Digital Biodiversity & The Internet of Animals

Dr. Roland Kays
Research Associate Professor
Department of Forestry & Environ. Resources
North Carolina State University
Museum of Natural Sciences
Date: Friday, February 17, 2023

Seminar: Faculty Flash Talks

Dr. Steve Seagle
Dr. Pablo Chialvo
Ms. Julia Showalter
Dr. Mary Kinkel
Dr. Mike Gangloff
Mr. Kevin Oley
Dr. Khadija Fouad
Dr. Annkatrin Rose
Dr. Cara Fiore
Dr. Maryam Ahmed
Dr. David Nieman
Dr. Shea Tuberty
Dr. Jennifer Geib
Appalachian State University
Date: Friday, February 10, 2023

Seminar: Understanding Cell Proliferation and Dormancy in the Age of AI

Dr. Orlando Arguello-Miranda
North Carolina State University
Assistant Professor, Biology
Date: Friday, February 3, 2023

Seminar: Evolution of Sensory Systems: Extreme Adaptation to Low Food by Deep-Sea Glass Sponges

Dr. Sally Leys
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alberta
Date: Friday, January 27, 2023

Seminar: Searching Sewers for SARS-VoV-2: Wastewater Testing at App State

Dr. Chequita Brooks
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Biology
Appalachian State University
Date: Friday, December 2, 2022

Seminar: The Evolution of Social Life in a World Full of Microbes? What can we learn from a Subsocial Insect?

Dr. Joël Meunier
Université de Tours
The French National Center for Scientific Research
Date: Friday, November 18, 2022