Fall 2021 Seminar Series
Georgia Southern University’s Department of Biology hosts a weekly seminar series. The purpose of this series is to enable biologists from around the country to share their newest discoveries and ideas with our students, and we encourage students to engage with our honored guests in post-seminar discussions. Seminars will be held on Mondays at 11:15 a.m., at either the Statesboro and Armstrong campuses. Seminars also will be live-streamed via Zoom. Scroll down past the schedule for instructions for joining a Zoom-based seminar.
Month | |||
| Day (Non-Monday) (Non-11:15) (Non-1109) | Speaker Institution | Title | Sponsor |
August | |||
| 16 | Stephen Greiman Georgia Southern University | Hidden Communities: parasite and bacterial community dynamics within the intestines of small mammals | Steve Vives |
| 23 | Jay Hodgson Georgia Southern University | Diatoms and Bass: Long-Term Ecological Data Served Two Ways | Steve Vives |
| 30 | Dongyu Jia Georgia Southern University | Utilizing Drosophila to study developmental biology and cancer biology | Steve Vives |
September | |||
| 13 | Vinoth Sittaramane Georgia Southern University | Developing Novel Anti-Cancer Therapeutics using Humanized-Zebrafish Models | Steve Vives |
| 20 | Tiehang Wu Georgia Southern University | Microorganisms and Nitrogen Cycling in Natural Ecosystems – From molecular DNA to ecosystem functions | Steve Vives |
| 27 | Lance Durden Georgia Southern University | Tick Larvae, Elephant Lice, And Moths During A Sabbatical | Steve Vives |
October | |||
| 4 | Matt Waters Auburn University | Ancient Algal Blooms: Using the sediment record to reconstruct historic water quality and HABs throughout the SE USA and beyond | Checo Colon-Gaud |
| 11 | Charles Amsler University of Alabama, Birmingham | Allies, cheaters, and thieves: macroalgal-mesograzer interactions on the western Antarctic Peninsula | Craig Aumack |
| 15 (Friday) | Abbie Dwire Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Habitat use of wintering Henslow’s Sparrows (Centronyx henslowii) in power line right-of-ways | Elizabeth Hunter |
| 15 (Friday) | Sarah Batchelor Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Disease presence, intensity, and population structure in oyster populations along the Georgia coast. | John Carroll |
| 18 | Jen Wyffels University of Delaware | Semen, sperm, artificial insemination and parthenogenesis in the whitespotted bamboo shark Chiloscyllium plagiosum | Christine Bedore |
| 22 (Friday) | Lauren Moniz Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Lipid metabolites as energy stores in four stingray species | Christine Bedore |
| 22 (Friday) | Nicole DeSha Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Local Adaptation in Gopher Tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) Nesting Behavior and Fecundity in a Translocated Population | Elizabeth Hunter |
| 25 | Jason Ramsay Westfield State University | Saws, Jaws and Overbites: Functional Morphology or Prey Processing in Elasmobranch Fishes | Michele Guidone |
| 25 (12:30) | Rachel Bird Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Feral Cat Distribution in an Urbanization Gradient | Ray Chandler |
| 27 (Wednesday) | Raven Hurt Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Assessing the utility of environmental DNA techniques to monitor white shrimp (Litopenaeus setiferus) abundance on the Georgia coast | John Carroll |
| 29 (Friday) | Jada Daniels Georgia Southern University exit seminar | TBA | Ray Chandler |
November | |||
| 1 | Cheyenne Walker Georgia Southern University exit seminar | TBA | Lance McBrayer |
| 1 | Sidney Anderson Georgia Southern University exit seminar | TBA | Lance McBrayer |
| 5 (Friday) | Shannon Matzke Georgia Southern University exit seminar | TBA | Lissa Leege |
| 5 (Friday) | Jack Philp Georgia Southern University exit seminar | TBA | Vinoth Sittaramane |
| 8 | TBA | ||
| 15 | Joel Kostka Georgia Institute of Technology | TBA | Heather Joesting |
| 29 | Undergraduate Research Symposium Georgia Southern University | Undergraduate Research Symposium | Department of Biology |
Instructions for joining a seminar
To join a seminar, click the above link. You will be directed to a page with a popup dialog box. If a dialog box doesn’t pop up, check that you have allowed popup windows in your security and adblocker settings. When you click Open Zoom Meetings in the dialog, it will launch the Zoom application and take you to the meeting. If you don’t have the Zoom application installed, you will have the option to download it or to join from your browser. Zoom will then ask for your name (to display to others) as well as your email address (not displayed to others). Finally, Zoom may ask for the Webinar ID: 898 5156 1012 and passcode: 831581
For more information, contact Josh Gibson.
Last updated: 10/20/2021
