Spring 2025 Biological Sciences Seminar Schedule

 

• Jan15

  Organizational Meeting

• Jan22

  Effects of landscape integrity on insect diversity: A case study from tropical moist broadleaf forests of Southeast Asia

  Speaker: Dr. Rahul De, Texas Tech

  Host: Caleb Phillips

• Jan29

  Biodiversity Detection with eDNA: Are the Answers Blowin' in the Wind?

  Speaker: Dr. Matt Barnes, Natural Resources Management, Texas Tech

  Host: JR McMillan

• Feb05

  New algorithms for species phylogenetics -- combatting gene tree estimation error and beyond

  Speaker: Dr. Erin Malloy, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland

  Host: David Ray

• Feb12

  Form and Function of Mirtrons, a class of non-canonical microRNAs

  Speaker: Dr. Alex Flynt, Center for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, University of Southern Mississippi

  Host: Ethan Chen

• Feb19

  The when, where, and who of wildlife disease risk

  Speaker: Dr. Dan Becker, School of Biological Sciences, University of Oklahoma

  Host: Tigga Kingston

• Feb26

  From Fossils to Genes: Testate Amoebae and the Reconstruction of Ancient Ecosystems

  Speaker: Dr. Alfredo Sousa, Biological Sciences, Texas Tech

  Host: Alex Tice

• Mar05

  Title TBA

  Speaker: Dr. Jacquelyn Gill, School of Biology and Ecology, University of Maine

  Host: TTUAB Superspeaker

• Mar12

  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

• Mar19

  Spring Break

• Mar26

  Viral ecogenomics: exploring viral diversity and virus-host interactions from metagenomes

  Speaker: Dr. Simon Roux, DOE Joint Genome Institute

  Host: Lisa Bono

• Apr02

  Title TBA

  Speaker: TBA

  Host: TBA

• Apr09

  Title TBA

  Speaker: TBA

  Host: TBA

• Apr16

  Title TBA

  Speaker: Dr. Chloe Josefson, Biological and Biomedical Sciences, North Carolina Central University

  Host: Breanna Harris

• Apr23

  Title TBA

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

  Host: WTAB Superspeaker

• Apr30

  The role of mitochondria in eukaryotic evolution

  Speaker: Dr. Sergio Munoz-Gomez

  Host: Alex Tice

  ** Last quiz due May 7 @ 4:00 pm, no late quizzes accepted, NO FINAL EXAM