Wichita State University Department of Biology Seminar

Public Seminar 4-5:00pm CST, Spring 2021

Seminars are open to the public and hosted online via Zoom (see bottom of page for link).

Attendance is required for all students enrolled in Biol 497, Biol 797, and all current graduate students.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Mary Liz Jameson at mary.jameson@wichita.edu.

 
Date Speaker Affiliation Topic
1-Feb
Mary Liz
WSU

Seminar Orientation:  Discussion for enrolled graduate and undergraduate students
8-Feb

Cristian Beza-Beza

University of Memphis, TN

Diversification in the Mesoamerican sky-islands: Molecular phylogenetics and evolution of the New World bess beetles (Coleoptera: Passalidae: Proculini)
15-Feb

Rex Cocroft

University of Missouri, Columbia, MO

Plant perception of insect sound and vibration
22-Feb

Corrie Moreau

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Piecing Together the Puzzle to Understand the Evolution of the Ants: Macroevolution to Microbiomes
1-Mar

Elizabeth McCullagh

Oklahoma State University, OK

Tuning of the hardware: plasticity in the auditory brainstem
8-Mar

Karla Rodgers

Oklahoma University Health Sciences Center, OK

 

How to build an antibody repertoire using two RAGs
15-Mar

Jon Eric Tongren

Center for Disease Control, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Pandemics, parasites, and people: US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and International Public Health - What does it mean to you?
22-Mar

Kelley Myers

Senior Advisor on Landscape Conservation, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Kansas City, MO

The Potential of Collaboration Conservation: A Case Study in the Midwest Landscape Initiative
29-Mar Nick Barber San Diego State University, CA

Tallgrass prairie restoration: shaping diversity and function from microbes to megafauna
5-Apr Nishanta Rajakaruna California Polytechnic, CA
 

Life on the Rocks: What plants on harsh substrate ‘islands’ can teach us about diversity, ecology, evolution, and conservation and restoration practices.
12-Apr

Rodrigo Mercader

Washburn University, KS

Recruitment and species interactions following small scale honeysuckle removal
19-Apr

Morgan Trible


Jake Wright

Jameson Lab:  Wichita State University


Luhring Lab:  Wichita State Univesity

 

Assessing dung beetle (Coleoptera:  Scarabaeidae) biodiversity & impact on ecosystem functioning in a rangeland ecosystem

Amphibian larvae distribution amongst intermittent stream pools in the Flint Hlls covaries with vegetationo and fish colonization. 
26-Apr

Fariha Tanveer

Kobe Luu

Christine Streid

Hendry Lab:  Wichita State University

Houseman Lab:  Wichita State University

Luhring Lab:  Wichita State University

 Developing a Human "Avatar" System Particularly Relevant to Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC)

The role of plant functional group and soil type on grassland plant-soil feedbacks. 

Response of meiofauna within isolated stream pools to experimental drying
3-May

Morgan (Cox) Markley

Stacy D Holt, Jr.

Sierra Kanemoto

Morgan Cox : Wichita State University

 

Beck Lab:Wichita State University

 

Zendry Lab:  Wichita State University

Insights into the introduction and distribution of invasive Japanese Climbing Fern (Lygodium japonicum) through whole chloroplast sequencing

What is Salvinia molesta? Determining genetic composition of the allopolyploid invasive giant Salvinia using genomic data

Testing at the proteomic level of the hamster cheek pouchsystem for the xenotransplantation of human head and neck squamous cell cancer tissue samples

Public Seminar 4-5:00pm CST, Spring 2021

via Zoom https://wichitastate.zoom.us/j/93757837274?pwd=NDlRSjRkQ2VZSkpxY3lIWjZFL29MQT09

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