Fall 2025 Biological Sciences Seminar Schedule

 

• aug07

  Organizational meeting in 101 @ 3:30pm

• sep03

  How do plants acclimate to optimize their strategies for maximizing carbon gain?

  Speaker: Allisar Cheaib

  Host: Nick Smith

• sep10

  Evidence based approaches to student motivation and resilience: From theory to practice

  Speaker: Lisa Limeri

  Host: Lou Densmore

• sep17

  Modeling limitations, stressors, and constraints on population dynamics

  Speaker: Angela Peace

  Host: JR McMillan

• sep24

  Amino acids gone rogue – AgRP neurons linking BCAAs to insulin resistance

  Speaker: Andrew Shin, Nutritional Sciences

  Host: Jim Carr

• oct01

  Heat, Drought and Fire: Forest Persistence on a Changing Planet

  Speaker: Dr. Dan Johnson, Warnell School of Forestry & Natural Resources, University of Georgia

  Host: Dylan Schwilk

• oct08

  Temporal genomics of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus): An assessment of genetic diversity over more than a century of change

  Speaker: Johnathan Hruska

  Host: Joe Manthey

• oct15

  Ornaments, Enemies & Sensory Filters in the Eco-Evo of Communication Systems

  Speaker: Ximena Bernal, Purdue University

  Host: JR McMillan

• oct22

  TBA

  Speaker: N/A

  Host: N/A

• oct29

  Mammalogist Search

  Speaker: N/A

  Host: N/A

• nov05

  Mammalogist Search

  Speaker: N/A

  Host: N/A

• nov12

  Mammalogist Search

  Speaker: N/A

  Host: N/A

• nov19

  Spatial proteome of ciliates: untangling the carbon metabolism

  Speaker: Dagmar Jirsova, Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution, University of Arizona

  Host: Alex Tice

• nov26

  Thanksgiving Break

• dec03

  Evaluating a drought-driven hypothesis for the origin of obligate apomixis

  Speaker: Dr. Amanda Grusz, Swenson College of Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Duluth

  Host: WTAB