Past Departmental Seminars

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter	Host
02/15/2024	Reserved - Cell Biology Search	LW
02/22/2024	Reserved - Cell Biology Search	MM
02/27/2024	Reserved - Cell Biology Search	KL
02/29/2024	Reserved - Cell Biology Search	AP
03/07/2024	The Forked Tongue of Indigenous Genomics: Coloniality, Race, Inequity in Health and Ancestor Care	Krystal Tsosie-ASU	BioGrad
03/21/2024	No Seminar ***SPRING BREAK***
03/28/2024	Nitrogen-fixing symbiosis in a challenging world: Insights from large-scale modeling	Ryan Folk - Miss State	Latvis
04/04/2024	The insect visual system as a model for neural development and evolution	Mike Perry - UCSD	Westerman
04/11/2024	Life and earth evolve together	Felipe Zapata - UCLA	BioGrad
04/18/2024	Diseases, Declines and Decisions: Advancing theEcology and Management of Wildlife Diseases	Molly Bletz - Penn State	DuRant
04/25/2024	Deciphering tumor ecosystems at single-cell resolution:  A multidimensional view of cancer in space and time	Federico Gaiti - Toronto	Nakanishi
05/02/2024	FUTURECASTING-Restocking the Toolbox for Success	Planning Committee	Dr. Adam Siepielski and Dr. Marlis Douglas

 

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter	Host
08/24/2023	Mechanisms of Visual Recognition Memory Deficits:  Insights from Mouse Models	Dr. Jai Subramanian, University of Kansas	Evans
09/07/2023	Wearing Three Hats	Steve Stephenson - UA	Lewis
09/14/2023	From Individuals to Landscapes:  Arkansas Herpetology to Inform Conservation and Sustainability	JD Willson - UA	Evans-White
09/21/2023	Coexistence, adaptation, and selection in a dynamic food web	Adam Siepielski - UA	Evans-White
09/28/2023	* * * * C A N C E L L E D * * * *	Don Catanzaro - UA	Evans-White
10/05/2023	The temperature of butterfly wings:  prospecting for bio-inspired materials from nature	Naomi Pierce- Harvard University	BioGrad
10/12/2023	Theoretical and empirical tests of the mechanisms of species coexistence	Ron Bassar	Siepielski
10/19/2023	Insights into allopatric speciation of North American freshwater fishes	Tom Near	Beaulieu/ Westerman
10/26/2023	Climate Impacts on Water Quality: A perspective from agricultural, intermittent, and Arctic streams	Shannon Speir	Naithani
11/02/2023		Reserved Co-op Search
11/06/2023	Molecular changes in eggs, sperm, and females that mediate fertility: Lessons from the Drosophila model	Mariana Wolfner (Cornell University)	BioGrad
11/16/2023		Paul Turner	Beaulieu/ Westerman
11/23/2023	No Seminar	Thanksgiving
11/30/2023		Reserved Co-op Search
12/07/2023		Reserved Co-op Search

02/16/2023	Wasps know each other's faces:  Communication, cognition, and cooperation in the Polistes	Elizabeth Tibbetts - University of Michigan (virtual seminar)	BGSA
03/02/2023	Nucleus accumbens dopamine release reflects the selective nature of pair bond	Zoe Donaldson - Univeristy of Colorado, Boulder	Westerman
03/09/2023	Embedding Ecology into Statistical Abundance Models	Jake Ferguson - University of Hawaii, now at University of Kentucky	BGSA
03/30/2023	Eliciting antibodies to conserved sites and their role in viral evolution	Aaron Schmidt - Harvard University	Forbes
04/06/2023	The Edge of the map:  Adventures in Structural Biology	Sarah Bowman - University of Buffalo	BGSA
05/04/2023	Genetics of host-virus conflict, from yeast to humans	Meru Sadhu - NIH (NHGRI)	Lewis

 

08/31/2022 - How cnidarian biology informs our understanding of neural evolution. Dr. Nagayasu Nakanishi, University of Arkansas

09/08/2022 - Ecology and emergence of wildlife zoonoses. Dr. Kristian Forbesi, University of Arkansas

09/15/2022 - Bridges and barriers to the evolutionary success of diatoms. Dr. Andrew Alversoni, University of Arkansas

10/06/2022 - Butterfly wing pattern diversity: The genes that make the wings! Dr. Robert Reed

10/13/2022 - Matters of scale in the ecology and evolution of coexisting species. Dr. Rachel Germain, University of British Columbia

10/20/2022 - Optimizing predictive models to prioritize viral discovery and uncover infection dynamics in zoonotic reservoirs. Dr. Daniel Becker, University of Oklahoma

11/03/2022 - Process-based restoration ecology for fire-dependent ecosystems. Dr. Carissa Wonkka, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Sidney, MT

11/10/2022 - Preventing spillover of bat pathogens in global hotspots & Genome size evolution in diatoms. Dr. Tamika Lunn & Dr. Wade Roberts, Post Doctoral Fellows, University of Arkansas

11/17/2022 - Ecological stability from bird communities to biomes & Using spatially-explicit occupancy models to understand occurrence and biodiversity patterns across macroscales. Dr. Samantha Cady, University of Nebraska-Lincoln & Dr. Jeffrey Doser, Michigan State University

 01/27/2022 - Enhancing bioibformatics and omics Efforts with AHPCC. Jeff Pummill, University of Arkansas - Arkansas High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC)

02/03/2022 - Landscape ecology of Culicoides biting midges. Dr. Emily McDermott, UA Entomology & Plant Pathology Department

03/10/2022 - From Herpetologist to Captive Wildlife Biologist: My Experience with State Wildlife Agencies. Ashley A Grimsley-Pardon, Captive Wildlife Program Coordinator

03/17/2022 - Is a real predator the best defense against a perceived monster? Dr Tony Stankus, University of Arkansas Libraries

03/31/2022 - Venom Evolution and Diversification in the Advanced Snakes. Dr. Stephen P. Mackessy, Professor of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Northern Colorado

04/07/2022 - Characterizing the safety and efficacy of in vivo gene editing. Chisopher Nelson, PhD. Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas

04/14/2022 - Why are moarch butterflies declining? Dr. Elise Zipkin, Michigan State University, College of Natural Science, Department of Intergrative Biology

04/21/2022 - Conversation of arid and semi-ard stream fishes in a changing landscape. Dr Jean Rogosch, U.S. Geological Survey, Texas Cooperative Fish & Wildlife Research Unit, Texas Tech University

Thursday at 3:30 PM, unless otherwise noted.

09/09/2021 - Why do we like different things? Using butterflies to understand diversity in preferences. Dr. Erica Westerman Dr. David McNabb

09/16/2021 - Patient Inspired Research, Education and Service for Understanding Mitochondrial. Diseases Dr. Shilpa Iyer Dr. David McNabb

09/23/2021 - From mutations to macroevolution, what we learn from biodiversity genomics. Prof. Guojie Zhang Dr. Xuan Zhuang

09/30/2021 - Volcanos, Viruses, Chickens, Viruses, Seizures, Viruses Dr. Michael Ceballos. Dr. David McNabb

10/14/2021 - Integration of traits and diversification: Lessons from large phylogenies. Dr. Rosana Zenil-Ferguson BGSA

10/21/2021 - Nits to powerhouses: Using lice and their associates to help untangle host-symbiont evolution. Dr. Andrew Sweet, Arkansas State University Dr. Jeff Lewis

10/28/2021 - Mechanisms of regeneration and their evolution. Dr. Mansi Srivastava, Harvard University Dr. Nagayasu Nakanishi

11/04/2021 - Saving the eagles - Investigating novel toxin risk to fish and wildlife from aquatic plant and cyanobacterial co-invasions. Dr. Susan Wilde, University of Georgia Dr. Donald Catanzaro

11/11/2021 - The Changing Face of Water: Hydroecology in a Fluid World. Dr. Tyler Fox Dr. Dan Magoulick

11/18/2021 - Reproductive interactions and species coexistance. Dr. Miguel Gomez Dr. Erin Sauer Siepielski DuRant

11/25/2021 - No Seminar-Happy Thanksgiving Thanksgiving

12/02/2021 - Using Connexin 43 to Understand How Development contributes to Skull Variability. Dr. Katherine Willmore BGSA

12/09/2021 - **Cancelled** Dr. Tameka Bailey Dr. Jeff Lewis

 

Thursday at 3:30 PM, unless otherwise noted.

This is a recurring weekly Zoom with a Zoom Link: https://uark.zoom.us/j/83774794016?pwd=VFc4clBFVTBGdUN5YkVlYUcxWkt0dz09

Meeting ID: 837 7479 4016
Passcode: Bisc-S2020

Passcode: Bisc-S2020

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter	Host
01/14/2021	Dust Devil or Fantastic Yeast? The Mysterious Life of Coccidioides	Bridget Barker, Northern Arizona University (NAU)	Catanzaro
02/11/2021	On the Track of the Elusive Slime Mold	Steve Stephenson, UA Biology	Lewis
02/18/2021	The Ecology of Lyme Disease in a Changing World	Rick Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies	BGSA
02/25/2021	The Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Disease	Tiffany Lyle, Purdue University	Bailey
03/4/2021	Genetic Architecture, Gene Network Variation, and Evolutionary Hotspots in the Fungi	Paul Magwene, Duke University	Lewis
03/11/2021	Linking Ecology and Macroevolution Using Plant-Insect Interactions	Marjorie Weber, Michigan State University	BGSA
03/18/2021	Quantitative Label-free metabolic imaging of skin wound healing	Kyle Quinn, UA Biomedical Engineering	Iyer
03/25/2021	No Seminar	Spring Break
04/15/2021	Color and color vision: evolution, genetics, and neurogenomics of color, color preference and mating behavior	Natasha Bloch, Universidad de los Andes	Westerman
04/22/2021	An Epidemiologist Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic:  What’s Next?	Benjamin Amick, UAMS	Catanzaro
04/29/2021	Exploring the crosstalk between the gut microbiota and the enteric nervous system in animal models of gut-brain axis dysfunction	Valentina Caputi,  UA Dept of Poultry Science	Rhoads

 

 

Thursday at 3:30 PM, unless otherwise noted.

This is a recurring weekly Zoom with an ID of 893 6659 8329 and a passcode of Bisc-F2020.

You can also join using the following link: https://uark.zoom.us/j/89366598329?pwd=bTI2UHVVei8zNFIwMG1KcUk1TVJ3Zz09

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter
9/10/2020	Macroevolutionary Questions Without Limits	Jeremy Beaulieu
9/17/2020	Understanding the Patterns, Causes, and Consequences of Spatial Heterogeneity for Sustainable Land Management	Kusum Naithani
9/24/2020	Avian incubation behavior links environmental conditions with offspring phenotype	Sarah DuRant
10/15/2020	Phenotypic plasticity and adaptive evolution: Are we asking the right questions?	Cameron Ghalambor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
10/29/2020	Darwin’s Mad Dream: What error and invention tell us about how science works	Bill McComas, UARK College of Education and Health Professions
11/5/2020	The Great Life-Cycle Scam	Fred Spiegel
11/12/2020	Social and developmental plasticity and the origin of novelty in mating signals and mate preferences: a case study in Enchenopa treehoppers	Rafael Rodriguez Sevilla, UW-Milwaukee
11/19/2020	Nutritional constraints on cognitive and life history evolution: from butterfly brains to salty roadsides	Emilie Snell-Rood, Univ. Minnesota
11/26/2020	No Seminar - Thanksgiving Break
12/3/2020	Isolation and phylogenetic characterization of anoxygenic phototrophs from tropical aquatic samples	Elizabeth Padilla Crespo, La Universidad Interamericana (Aguadilla, Puerto Rico)
12/10/2020	Rescheduled to 2021	Tiffany Lyle, Purdue

 

 

Thursday at 3:30 PM in SCEN 604, with a reception at 3:00 in SCEN 502 (coffee and snacks) unless otherwise noted.

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter
09/05/2019	Control of aspergillus flavus growth and infection	Dr. Jocelyn Moore Assistant Professor of Biology Philander Smith College
09/12/2019	The complexity and dynamics of cellular stress responses	Dr. Jeffrey A. Lewis, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
09/19/2019	The effects of dynamically changing environments on osmoregulation and growth:  insights from the euryhaline mozambique tilapia	Dr. Andre P.  Seale, Department of Human Nutrition, Food and Animal Sciences, University of Hawaii
09/26/2019	Chance matters for reproductive success and evolution	Dr. Shripad Tuljapurkar, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
10/10/2019	The Biology of Methanogens:  A Window to the Past and an Avenue to the Future	Dr. Dan Lessner, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
10/17/2019	Finch in a pinch: effects of anthropogenic change on endemic birds in the Galapagos Islands	Dr. Sarah Knutie, University of Connecticut
10/24/2019	Intergenomic Mechanisms Underlying Aging and Cancer	Dr. Keshav Singh, Professor of Genetics, Pathology and Environmental Health, Joy and Bill Harbert Endowed Chair and Director of Cancer Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
10/31/2019	From Elements to Elk and Elephants: Effect of Nutrients and Herbivores in Global Grasslands	Dr. Elizabeth Borer, University of Minnesota
11/7/2019	Fueling defense? Resources and the ecology and evolution of macroparasite (co)infections	Dr. Sarah Budischak, Claremont McKenna, Pitzer, and Scripps Colleges, California
11/14/2019	The journey and the destination: Sensory cues used by monarch butterflies during their fall migration to their overwintering sites	Dr. Patrick Guerra, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cincinnati
11/21/2019	Morphogenesis across length scales: forces organizing cell behaviors in tissues	Dr. Karen E. Kasza, Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
12/5/2019	Insights on Being a Scientist Outside of Academia	Dr. Crystal Upperman, World Resources Institute

 

 

Thursday at 3:30 PM in SCEN 604, with a reception at 3:00 in SCEN 502 (coffee and snacks) unless otherwise noted.

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter
01/17/2019	"Applications of Stable Isotopic and Elemental Analysis for the Biological Science."	Erik Pollock, University of Arkansas
1/24/2019	"The Causes and Consequences of Salamander Life Cycle Evolution."	Dr. Ronald Bonett, University of Tulsa
01/31/2019	tba	tba
02/07/2019	"Using transcriptomics and genome editing to understand coral symbiosis and bleaching."	Dr. Phillip Cleves, Sanford University
02/14/2019	"Glucose Disturbance in Alzheimer’s Disease is not Diabetes – Red Herring has a High Glycemic Index"	Dr. Steven Barger, UAMS
02/21/2019	"Neurological and Cognitive Changes Following Cancer Treatment"	Dr. Antiño Allen, UAMS
02/28/2019	“Between a Pod and a Hard Test: Deep Evolution and Development of Amoeboid Microbes”	Dr. Matthew Brown, Mississippi State Univ
03/07/2019	"A Mitochondrial Etiology of the Common Complex Disease"	Dr. Douglas Wallace, Child. Hosp. Philadelphia
03/14/2019	"Feeding colds and starving fevers? Evolutionary theory illustrates why appetite during illness matters"	Dr. Jessica Hite, Univ Nebraska
03/21/2019	No Seminar - Spring Break	n/a
03/28/2019	"Heart Attack and Mitochondria:The Powerhouses become a menace"	Dr. Edward Lesnefsky Jr., VA Commonwealth University
04/04/2019	No Seminar - Fulbright College Faculty Meeting	n/a
04/11/2019	"Floral traits, friends and foes: Nocturnal pollination and herbivory in the evening primrose family, Onagraceae"	Dr. Krissa Skogen, Chicago Botanical Garden
04/11/2019	"Pleistocene Cacophony: Crested Wildebeest of the East African Rift"	Haley O'Brien, Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences
04/18/2019	“Ploidy dynamics of an opportunistic fungal pathogen”	Dr. Meleah Hickman, Emory
04/25/2019	“Mind control is real! How parasitic manipulators alter brain and behavior”	Dr. Shelley Adamo, Dalhousie University
05/02/2019	**Cancelled**	Carlos Moraes, University of Miami
05/08/2019	No Seminar - Final Exams	n/a

 

 

Thursday at 3:30 PM in SCEN 604, with a reception at 3:00 in SCEN 502 (coffee and snacks) unless otherwise noted.

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter
08/23/2018	Etiology and Pathogenesis of Bacterial Chondronecrosis with Osteomyelitis in Broiler Chickens	Dr. Douglas Rhoads, Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
09/06/2018	Sex, death, acrobatics and combat, Capitalizing on the weird biology of an amphibious fish	Dr. Ryan L. Earley, Biological Sciences, University of Alabama
09/13/2018	Social behavior andcolonialityin cliffswallows: insights from a 35-year study	Dr. Charles Brown, Biological Sciences, University of Tulsa
09/20/2018	Wiring the insectnervous system:The genetics of axonguidance in Drosophila	Dr. Tim Evans, Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
09/27/2018	The evolutionary ecology of communities	Dr. Adam M. Siepielski, Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
10/4/2018	Unraveling the enduring mystery of dying oak trees in the Ozarks	Dr. Rose-Marie Muzika, Professor Emerita School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri | Curator of Ecology at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History
10/11/2018	A new look at inorganicpolyphosphate as a regulator ofeukaryotic cells	Dr. Michael Downey, University of Ottawa
10/18/2018	Keep CALM and Mind The Gap: calcium mediated synapse development in C. elegans	Dr. Brian Ackley, University of Kansas
10/25/2018	Exploring Symbioses: New World Warblers and Feather Mites	Dr. Than Boves, Arkansas State University
11/01/2018	Unraveling the epidemiology of staphylococcal mastitis in dairy cattle and goats using molecular tools	Dr. John R. Middleton, University of Missouri
11/08/2018	The Moon Jellyfish Genome andthe Origins of Animal Complexity	Dr. David A. Gold, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Davis
11/15/2018	Freshwater metacommunities in a changing world	Dr. Shannon J. McCauley, University of Toronto Mississauga
11/29/2018	Primates and snakes, 75 million years of deadly dialog?	Dr. Harry W. Greene. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
12/09/2018	How useful are molecular phylogenies for understanding evolution in deep time? Examples from the fossil record of conifers	Dr. Andrew Leslie. Brown University

 

 

Thursday at 4PM in SCEN 604, with a reception at 3:30 in SCEN 502 (coffee and snacks) unless otherwise noted.

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter
01/18/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
01/25/2018	To Be Announced	Dr. Rob Denton, University of Connecticut
02/01/2018	No Seminar	No Seminar
02/08/2018	Behavior influences population persistence and structure in an insular songbird system.	Dr. Jennifer Mortensen, University of Arkansas
02/12/2018	Disease Ecology faculty search seminar	Faculty Candidate
02/15/2018	Developmental Genetics faculty search seminar	Faculty Candidate
02/19/2018	Developmental Genetics faculty search seminar	Faculty Candidate
02/22/2018	Developmental Genetics faculty search seminar	Faculty Candidate
02/26/2018	Disease Ecology faculty search seminar	Faculty Candidate
03/01/2018	Disease Ecology faculty search seminar	Faculty Candidate
03/05/2018	Developmental Genetics faculty search seminar	Faculty Candidate
03/12/2018	Disease Ecology faculty search seminar	Faculty Candidate
03/15/2018	To Be Announced
03/22/2018	No Seminar	Spring Break
03/29/2018	Christmas (Island) in May and a visit to Shoolini University	Dr. Steve Stephenson, Research Professor
04/05/2018	Life in the Fast Lane: My Career as a Community Ecologist	Dr. Kimberly G. Smith, Distinguished Professor
04/12/2018	Eco-evolutionary dynamics in Galapagos	Dr. Andrew Hendry, McGill University
04/19/2018	Phylogeny and diversification of the paintbrushes (Castilleja,  Orobanchaceae): A recent and rapid radiation in the face of repeated hybridization.	Dr. David Tank, University of Idaho
04/26/2018	A tale of two fishes: perils and predictions for white- and red-blooded notothenioids in the Southern Ocean.	Dr. Lisa Crockett, Ohio University
05/03/2018	A Mitochondrial Etiology of the Common Complex Disease	Dr. Douglas C. Wallace, University of Pennsylvania
05/10/2018	The causes and consequences of fungal community structure	Dr. Geoffrey Zahn, Utah Valley University

 

Thursday at 4PM in SCEN 604, with a reception at 3:30 in SCEN 502 (coffee and snacks)

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter
8/31/2017	From Individuals to Landscapes: Integrating Responses to a Changing World	Dr. John D. Wilson, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
9/12/2017	Illuminating Diatom Dark Matter: Evolution and Diversification of a Hyperdiverse Eukaryotic Lineage	Dr. Andy Alverson, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
9/14/2017	Aquaporin Channels and Osmoregulation in the Spiny Dogfish Shark, Squalusacanthias	Dr. Chris Cutler, Georgia Southern University
9/21/2017	Dynamics of Retrovirus Colonization of a Mammalian Genome: A Source of Innovation or just Detrimental Detritus?	Dr. Mary Poss, Penn State University
9/28/2017	Through Thick and Thin: How Fruit Flies Help Us Understand Energy Balance	Dr. Michael Lehmann, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
10/05/2017	Being Wrong in Science and Elsewhere	Dr. Walter Dodds, Kansas State University
10/12/2017	Field Test of Multiple Sensory Cues in Sex Recognition and Harassment in a Color Polymorphic Damselfly: A Cautionary Tale	Dr. Ola Fincke, University of Oklahoma
10/19/2017	Ethnobotanically-Informed Conservation in Southern Mozambique's Human-Modified Landscapes	Dr. Jen Shaffer, University of Maryland
10/26/2017	The Population Genetic Context of Resource Specialization and Coevolution in Crossbills (Loxia)	Dr. Thomas Parchman, University of Nevada, Reno
11/02/2017	The Dynamics and Outcome of Adaptive Evolution	Dr. David Gresham, NYU
11/09/2017	Ramblings of a Dinosaur-Reflections of a Career as a Federal Wildlife Biologist	Dr. David Krementz, University of Arkansas Fayetteville
11/16/2017	Analyzing RNA Polymerase II With Genomics Approaches: An Old Dog With New Tricks?	Dr. Julia Zeitlinger, Stowers Institute
11/23/2017	Thanksgiving Holiday
11/30/2017
12/07/2017

 

Thursday at 4PM in SCEN 604, with a reception at 3:30 in SCEN 502 (coffee and snacks)

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter
01/19/2017	Incubation temperature-induced phenotypes in birds and its implications for avian ecology, evolution, and conservation.	Dr. Sarah DuRant, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
01/24/2017	The Heart and the Head: Implications of Cardiovascular Disease and Intervention on the Brain.	Dr. Hanna Jensen, University of Arkansas
1/26/2017	An Experimental Study of Adaptation in Real Time in the Real World.	Dr. Joseph Travis, Florida State University, Tallahassee
02/02/2017	Neuronal circuits underlying the relationship between sleep and memory/plasticity.	Evolutionary Neurobiology Search Candidate
02/09/2017	Reconstructing the early evolution of sensory and neural systems in animals.	Evolutionary Neurobiology Search Candidate
02/16/2017	Vocal development: from songbirds to humans.	Evolutionary Neurobiology Search Candidate
02/23/2017	Glutamate Signaling in Reward-Related Behaviors.	Evolutionary Neurobiology Search Candidate
03/02/2017	Consulting in Water Resources: A Synoptic Survey of Environmental Consulting and Recent GBMc and Associates Projects	Greg Phillips, GBMc and Associates, Bryant, Arkansas
03/09/2017	Evolution of Gene Expression From Mutation to Polymorphism to Divergence	Dr. Trisha Wittkopp, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
03/16/2017	The Evolution of Reproductive Isolation in Drosophila	Dr. Daniel Matute, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
03/28/2017	MetaGenomic Species in Clinical Isolates	Dr. David Ussery, University of Arkansas, Medical Sciences
03/30/2017	Neuroprotective and Regenerative Stem Cell Therapy in a Pig Stroke Model	Dr. Frank West, University of Georgia, Athens
04/06/2017	Hot Spots and Hot Moments: How Wildlife Predation and Movement Influence Ecosystem Heterogeneity	Dr. Joseph Bump, Michigan Technological University
04/13/2017	Using Stochastic Models to Find Genes With Adaptive Expression	Dr. Rori Rohlfs, San Francisco State University
04/14/2017	Developing New Spatio-Temporal Population Viability Models for the Conservation of Lahontan Cutthroat Trout in the Great Basin Desert	Dr. Douglas Leasure, River Basin Center, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia
4/18/2017	The Evolution and Genetic Control of Stress Tolerance: How Age, Season, and Behavior Shape Fitness in Drosophila	Dr. Elizabeth Everman, Division of Biology, Kansas State University
04/20/2017	Mucins: Barrier to Infection	Dr. Ilene Gipson, Schepens Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School
04/21/2017	Molecular Ecology of Blue Crab Diseases	Dr. Tim Sullivan, University of Louisiana
04/27/2017	Genetic Relationships Within the Genus Penstemon in the Desert Highlands	Dr. Mikel Stevens, Brigham Young University
05/04/2017	Polyploidy and the the Origins of Novelty: Impact of Duplication on Genomes and Network Evolution	Dr. Chris Pires, University of Missouri
05/11/2017	Hypobarophilic Bacteria Capable of Growth under Martian Conditions of 7 mbar, 0 C, and CO2-enriched Anoxic Atmospheres	Dr. Andrew Shuerger, Univ of Florida, Space Life Sciences Lab, Kennedy Space Center

 

Thursday at 4PM in SCEN 604, with a reception at 3:30 in SCEN 502 (coffee and snacks)

Date	Title/Topic	Presenter
09/08/2016	Floods, Droughts, and the Lengths of Chains in Algal-Based River Food Webs	Dr. Mary Power, UC-Berkeley
09/15/2016	Upgrading Protein Synthesis	Dr. Chenguang Fan, Chemistry&Biochemistry, UA
10/13/2016	An expedition to the world’s oldest desert	Dr. Steve Stephenson, BISC
10/20/2016	Meet your newest ancestor: Current knowledge and future research on Homo naledi.	Dr. Lucas Delezene, Anthropology
11/03/2016	Solving the ponderosa pine puzzle	Dr. Ann Willyard, Hendrix
11/10/2016	The interplay between ecology and evolution in predator-prey dynamics	Dr. Matt Walsh, UT-Arlington
11/17/2016	Demystifying Alaska's Mushrooms	Dr. Gary A. Laursen, Director High Latitude Mycological Research Institute and Adjunct Professor, UAF
12/1/2016	The influence of foraging strategy on mercury exposure in sympatrically breeding Pygoscelis penguins	Dr. Rebecca Brasso, Southeast Missouri SU
12/8/2016	The Best Offense is a Good Defense: Repressing Non-Retinal Fates in the Fly Eye	Dr. Justin Kumar, Department of Biology, Indiana University

 

Thursday at 4PM in SCEN 604, with a reception at 3:30 in SCEN 502 (coffee and snacks)

Date	Title	Presenter
1-15-15	Social behavior and mutualism in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and its bacterial symbionts	Joan Strassman (Washington University)
1-22-15	TBA	Aquatic Ecology Candidate
1-29-15	TBA	Aquatic Ecology Candidate
2-5-15	TBA	Aquatic Ecology Candidate
2-12-15	TBA	Aquatic Ecology Candidate
2-19-15	The Subantarctic Macquarie Island	Dr. Steve Stephenson, Department of Biological Sciences
2-26-15	How to make a sexy snake: estrogen activation of pheromone expression	Dr. Rocky Parker, Washington and Lee University
3-5-15	No Seminar
3-12-15	Tuberculosis & Diagnostics in the Molecular Era	Dr. Don Catanzaro
3-17-15 Tuesday	Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies: Where we have failed and how we will succeed	Johnny Stine (Science Entrepreneur)
3-26-15	SPRING BREAK
4-2-15	Bacterial Sensing and Degradation of Aromatic Compounds	Dr. Becky Parales (UC-Davis)
4-9-15	TBA	Dr. Peggy Biga (University of Alabama-Birmingham)
4-16-15	TBA	Dr. Alan Savitzky, Dept. of Biology, Utah State University
4-23-15	TBA	Dr. Claire Terhune-UA Anthropology
4-27-15 (Monday)	TBA	Steve Toon (Science Entrepreneur)
4-30-15

 

Thursday at 4:00 pm in SCEN 604, reception at 3:30 in SCEN 502 (coffee and snacks), unless otherwise noted.

Date	Title	Presenter
8-28-14	Open Access: Doing it Right, Doing it Wrong, and Doing it Really Wrong	Tony Stankus, UA Libraries
9-11-14	Where are the missing fungi? Revising fungal species estimates based on new discoveries from expeditions to the extremely remote Pakaraima Mountains of western Guyana	Dr. Mary Catherine Aime Purdue University Department of Botany and Plant Pathology
10-02-14	Exploring Spatial Heterogeneity in Species Prevalence	Dr. Avishek Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences
10-16-14	Gene conversion may limit longevity of asexual populations: a population genomic analysis of Daphnia pulex (Seminar Flyer)	Dr. Abraham Tucker, Southern Arkansas University
10-29-14(WED)	Explorations of species interactions and their evolution. (Seminar Flyer)	Craig Benkman (University of Wyoming)
10-30-14	Ex uno plures: Clonal Reinforcement Drives Evolution of a Simple Microbial Community. (Seminar Flyer)	Frank Rosenzweig (University of Montana)
11-06-14	Species limits, quarantine risk and the intrigue of a polyphagous invasive pest: Practical applications of evolutionary theory.	Dr. Michelle Rafter from the University of Queensland
11-13-14	Endocrine control of teleost osmoregulation: molecular and cellular aspects of prolactin action. (Seminar Flyer)	Dr. Jason Breves, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Skidmore College
11-27-14	Thanksgiving
12-11-14	Tentative	Dr. Joan Strassman, Washington University

 

 

 

Date	Title	Presenter
2/20/2014	The Problem of Invasive Pythons in the United States	Dr. Michael Dorcas, Davidson College, NC
2/27/2014	Maintaining Balance in the Extreme: How the Salt-Loving Microbe Halobacterium salinarum Responds to Stress	Dr. Ron Peck, Colby College, Waterville, ME
3/17/2014	Changing forests of the Ozarks reflect processes changing ecosystems in the US	Faculty Candidate
3/20/2014	Predicting forest dynamics in a changing world	Faculty Candidate
3/27/2014	SPRING BREAK
3/31/2014	Liana impacts on carbon cycling, sequestration and storage of tropical forests	Faculty Candidate
4/3/2014, 11 a.m., SCEN 613	Quantifying and Visualizing the SpatioTemporal Dynamics of Ecological Processes	Faculty Candidate
4/3/2014	The developmental and genetic basis for evolved tooth gain in stickleback fish	Dr. Philip Cleves
4/10/2014	Phylogeny vs. morphology: How does DNA sequencing help to discover new species of myxomycetes	Dr. Dmitry Leontyev
4/17/2014	"So I developed a GMO, what do I do now?"	Dr. Keith Reding, Monsanto Company
4/24/2014	USING DROPLET INTERFACE BILAYERS”“CAUGHT IN THE ACT: DIRECT MEASUREMENT OF PROTEIN TRANSLOCATION ACROSS MEMBRANES	Dr. Matt Holden, University of Massachusetts
5/1/2014	Ecology, habitat preference and conservation of Neotropical non-volant mammal communities in Costa Rica’s Caribbean lowlands	Dr. Andrea Romero

 

Biological Sciences Fall 2013 Seminar Schedule
Seminars are held in SCEN 604 at 4 p.m. unless noted otherwise. Reception (coffee and snacks) held 30 minutes prior to event in SCEN 502.

• September 12, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. James Wilson, Villanova
  Topic: Salmonella Stories: Genes, Survival, and Unexpected Phenotypes. Hosted by BGSA
  
  
• September 19, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Dan Lessner, Department of Biological Sciences
  Topic: Methanogens as model systems to understand the Archaea and beyond
  
  
• September 26, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Matthew E. Smith, University of Florida
  Topic: Exploring the ecology of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the tropical forests of the Guiana Shield
  
  
• October 17, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Sue Brown, Kansas State
  Topic: Implementation of the BioNano Genomics Irys system for advanced genome analysis in Triboleum
  
  
• October 24, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Konrad Lohse, University of Edinburgh (UK)
  Topic: Estimating divergence and introgression from genomes - lessons from cactophilic flies, Neandertals and gall wasps
  
  
• October 31, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Trace Peterson, DVM, Ph.D., University of Arkansas – Pine Bluff
  Topic: Diseases of Laboratory Zebrafish and Their Use as a Research Platform
  
  
• November 7, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Steven Stephenson, Department of Biological Sciences
  Topic: The Mushroom Research Centre: A Biological Field Station in Northern Thailand
  
  
• November 14, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Peter Brussock, Princeton, NJ and Holicong, PA
  Topic: Managing Persistent Contaminants in an Urban Estuary During Accelerating Relative Sea Level Rise
  
  
• November 21, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Alf Haukenes, University of Arkansas – Pine Bluff
  Topic: Building ‘fishy’ Models for Acute and Chronic stress
  
  
• December 5, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Andrea Romero, University of Kansas
  Topic: Ecology, habitat preference, and conservation of Neotropical non-volant mammal communities in Costa Rica's Caribbean lowlands
  
  
• December 12, 2013
  Speaker: Dr. Michael Moore, Oberlin College
  Topic: Strange Soils, Desert Islands, and Climate Change: Reconstructing the Origin and Diversification of the Chihuahuan Desert Gypsum Flora

 

 

• February 7
  Dr. Richard Meisel Cornell University Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics
  Title: Sex Chromosomes and Sexual Dimorphism February 14 Dr. Suzanne McGaugh Duke University Title: The impact of recombination on genomic diversity and divergence
  
  
• February 21
  Dr. Timothy Evans University of Pennsylvania
  Title: Wiring the insect nervous system: the roles of Slit/Robo signaling in embryonic axon guidance in Drosophila and Tribolium
  
  
• February 28
  Dr. Shuzhen Chen Harvard University
  Title: Understanding the roles of histone methylation in cell differentiation
  
  
• March 14
  Dr. Kerry Rabenold Purdue University
  Title: Ecological specialization, rarity, and vulnerability to climate change in birds of a tropical cloud forest
  
  
• March 28
  Dr. Mark Smeltzer UAMS
  Title: Bad to the Bone: Pathogenesis of Staphylococcal Musculoskeletal Infection April 4 Dr. John Marzluff University of Washington Title: Neuroecology of the crow: a new look at the bird brain
  
  
• April 12, 12:30 p.m., SCEN 402
  Dr. Russell J. Borski Professor, Department of Biology North Carolina State University, Raleigh
  Title: “Catch-Up” Growth: Hormones and Mechanisms
  
  
• April 15
  Dr. Lex Flagel Monsanto Company
  Title: Finding a Needle in the Haystack: Using Genomics to Identify the Genes Responsible for Adaptation and Domestication in Plants
  
  
• April 18
  Dr. David Krementz Arkansas Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Department of Biological Sciences
  Title: Marshbird Ecology and Management
  
  
• April 25
  Dr. Andrew Schurko Hendrix College Biology Department
  Title: Abstinence only? Searching for evidence of sexual reproduction in bdelloid rotifers

 

 

• Dec. 6
  Brian Counterman 
  Mississippi State University
  Genomics of the adaptive wing pattern radiation in Heliconius butterflies.
  
  
• Nov. 8 
  Fred Spiegel 
  Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas 
  Long ago, when supergroups were species
  
  
• Oct. 25
  Nolan Kane 
  Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, UC Boulder 
  Hybridization and the origins of novelty
  
  
• Oct. 4
  Lawrence D. Willis 
  Virginia Department of Environmental Quality 
  What's Wrong with our Streams? Applying Statistical Methods to Water Quality Monitoring.
  
  
• Oct. 1
  Yuchun Du
  Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
  Proteomic Studies of Novel Estrogen-Receptor-Interacting Proteins and Estrogen-Mediated Signaling
  
  
• Sep. 27
  Michelle Evans-White
  Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
  Water quality, biodiversity, and resource ratio theory in Ozark streams
  
  
• Sep. 6
  Dr. Harry Greene
  Cornell University
  Natural History, Aesthetics, and Conservation

 

 

• Apr. 26
  Dr. G. O. Graening
  California State University and Natural Investigations Company
  Cave Fauna of Arkansas: Exploration & Conservatin of Subterranean Biodiversity

• Apr. 19
  Dr. Carlos Martinez del Rio
  University of Wyoming
  Body size and temperature in biology: The historical roots of metabolic theory

• Apr. 12
  Dr. J. Dylan Maddox
  Florida Museum of Natural History
  Inbreeding avoidance, genetic neighborhoods, and gene flow in a tropical bird with limited dispersal

• Mar. 1
  Dr. Jeffrey Gardner
  University of Wisconsin-Madison
  Genetic and Functional Genomic Approaches to Study Plant Cell Wall Degradation in Bacteria

• Feb. 27 
  Dr. Pamela Brown 
  Indiana University 
  Evolution of Bacterial Cell Shape and Growth Mechanisms

• Feb. 23
  Dr. Tyrone Washington
  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Health, Human Performance, and Recreation
  Interleukin-6 and its role during skeletal muscle growth

• Feb. 20
  Dr. Tamara O'Connor
  Tufts University School of Medicine
  Understanding How the Evolution of a Bacterial Pathogen Shapes Its Ability to Cause Disease in Humans

• Feb. 16 
  Dr. Jeffrey Lewis 
  University of Wisconsin – Madison 
  Genome-wide analysis of stress-activated gene expression changes

• Jan. 18
  Ms. Nga Thi Ho
  Vice-Head of Science Management and International Relations (SMIR) at Ha Tinh University in Vietnam and currently a Fulbright Scholar at Loyola University in Chicago 
  Universities in Vietnam and Our Dream

 

 

• Nov. 17
  Dr. Ginny Adams
  University of Central Arkansas
  Snakehead terror in eastern Arkansas

• Nov. 10
  Thomas Edison dela Cruz 
  University of Santo Tomas, Philippines 
  Philippines Marine Mangrove Fungi as Sources of Secondary Metabolites and Extracellular Enzymes

• Nov. 3
  Steve Stephenson
  Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas 
  Global Biodiversity of Myxomycetes

• Oct. 11
  Ralph Henry
  Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas 
  Signal Recognition Particle and its Receptor: Adapting to Life in The Chloroplast

• Oct. 6
  Maureen Donnelly
  Department of Biological Sciences, Florida International University Host: BGSA
  Seminar - Amphibian Conservation in the New World Tropics: A Tragedy in Three Acts

• Sep. 29
  Morten B. Engelund & Steffen S. Madsen
  University of Southern Denmark
  Aquaporins in the intestine and kidney of fish: A role in osmoregulation and water transport

• Sep. 22
  Steffen S. Madsen
  Associate Professor, Institute of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
  Environmental estrogens and their impact on the salmon life cycle

• Aug. 18
  Ravi Barabote
  Department of Plant Sciences, University of CA Davis
  Genomic analyses and translational genomics of a cellulolytic thermophile

 

• Mar. 10
  Mario Cleves
  Associate Director, Birth Defects Research Center Professor of Pediatrics UAMS College of Medicine
  Genetic Epidemiology and Heart Birth Defects Research at the Arkansas Center for Birth Defects Research and Prevention

• Jan. 20
  Valerian V. Dolja
  Dept. of Botany & Plant Pathology, Oregon State University
  Evolution of the Virus World

 

• Sept. 23
  Thad Scott
  UA Crop, Soil, and Environmental Sciences 
  The Biological Stoichiometry of Prokaryotic Heterotrophs and Implications for Ecosystems

• Sept. 30
  David A. Zaharoff 
  Department of Biological Engineering, University of Arkansas
  Engineering Translatable Immunotherapies for Cancer

• Oct. 21
  Barbara Boland
  Member of the FNHA Board of Directors and Project Coordinator for the Green Infrastructure Planning project
  Green Infrastructure Planning: the beginning of a regional strategic conservation plan for Northwest Arkansas

• Oct. 28
  David Orlovich
  Department of Botany at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand
  Molecular Phylogenetics of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi

• Nov. 11
  Liz Karr
  Department of Botany and Microbiology, University of Oklahoma
  Transcription Regulation in Methanogens (Archaea)

• Nov. 18
  Walter Dodds
  Kansas State University
  Value of Aquatic Ecosystems Goods and Services

• Dec. 1
  Bret A. Collier
  Institute of Renewable Natural Resources at Texas A&M University
  Coordinated research and management for conservation of an endangered endemic: Golden-cheeked warblers in Texas

 

 

• Sept. 3
  No seminar 
  Fulbright College Convocation

• Sept. 10
  Scott Longing
  Dept. Bio Sciences, University of Arkansas
  Aquatic beetles: friends or foe

• Sept. 17
  Art Brown
  Dept. Bio Sciences, University of Arkansas
  Rafting bugs: downstream drift of invertebrates and leaves in headwater streams

• Sept. 24
  Delphine Brown
  From the Brazilian Amazon to a Finnish bog: An alternate perspective on forests and global climate change

• Oct. 1
  Kathryn Curtin
  Dept. Bio Sciences, University of Arkansas
  Understanding the role of basigin in cell interactions and cell structure

• Oct. 8
  Jeffrey Silberman
  Dept. Bio Sciences, University of Arkansas
  Anaerobes and Amoebae refine our understanding of Eukaryote evolution

• Oct. 15
  No seminar
  Fulbright College Faculty Meeting

• Oct. 22
  Priscila Chaverri
  Dept. of Plant Science and Landscape Arch., Univ. of Maryland
  Systematics as a tool to identify fungi for biological control: The case of Trichoderma

• Oct. 29
  Russ Greenberg
  Smithsonian National Zoological Park

• Nov. 5
  Fusun Kilic
  University of Arkansas, Medical School

• Nov. 12
  Ragupathy Kannan
  University of Arkansas, Fort Smith

• Nov. 19
  Gene Kritsky

• Dec. 3
  Dirk Charlson
  Crop, Soil and Environmental Science, University of Arkansas
  Parched soybeans thirst for nitrogen: Interactions of N-fixation and drought tolerance