Spring 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., unless indicated otherwise, and will be conducted remotely. Scroll down past the schedule for instructions for joining a seminar.
Month | |||
| Day (Non-Monday) (Non-11:15) (Non-1109) | Speaker Institution | Title | Sponsor |
January | |||
| 15 (Friday) | Mona Behl Georgia Sea Grant | Science Serving Georgia’s Coast | Danny Gleason |
| 25 | TBA | ||
February | |||
| 1 | Phil Barden New Jersey Institute of Technology | Ancient ants: extinct diversity and differential success in the fossil record | Josh Gibson |
| 8 | Marylou Machingura Georgia Southern University | Molecular basis of drought tolerance in sorghum: the role of the hormone, abscisic acid | Michele Guidone |
| 15 | David Pfennig The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Plasticity, Epigenetics, and Evolution | Sigma Xi |
| 22 | Corina Newsome Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Predation threat in a variable landscape: Connecting predation risk to nesting success for the Seaside Sparrow | Elizabeth Hunter |
March | |||
| 1 | Christine Ramsay Mitchell College | Christmas Trees and other tools to protect and restore coastal habitats | Guidone |
| 8 | Laura Ingwell Purdue University | Insect Management in Specialty Crops: Research to Grow By | Michele Guidone |
| 22 | Christopher Heckel Hillsdale College | Non-trophic indirect effects of abundant vertebrate herbivores on life history of a sex-labile forest herb | Lissa Leege |
| 26 (Friday) (9:00am) | Scott Meyer Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Comparative Conservation Genomics Of A Suite Of Imperiled Freshwater Mussels | Jamie Roberts |
| 29 | Chris Marsay Skidaway Institute of Oceanography | The MOSAiC Expedition: polar science while frozen in ice | Liz Sargent |
| 31 (Wednesday) | Patrick Hennessey Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Snake skull specialization and how it relates to feeding | Christian Cox |
April | |||
| 2 (Friday) | Billy Annis Georgia Southern University exit seminar | What factors affect the spatial distribution of the ribbed mussel (Geukensia demissa) in Georgia salt marshes? | John Carroll |
| 2 (Friday) | Ryne Maness Georgia Southern University exit seminar | Transcriptional regulation of DUOX-dependent reactive oxygen species production against bacterial infection in the gut of cat flea (Ctenocephalides felis). | Lisa Brown |
| 5 | Guy Caldwell University of Alabama | Found in Translation: The Preclinical Utility of C. elegans to Accelerate Discovery for Neurodegenerative Disease | Jay Hodgson |
| 12 | Michael Britton Georgia Southern University | Amphibian metabolic ecology across 5,000 meters in the tropical Andes: Elevation, latitude, and climate change vulnerability | Michele Guidone |
| 19 | Leanne Elder University of Colorado | Studying modern foraminifera to improve our understanding of past oceans | Michele Guidone |
| 26 | 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 following information:
- Meeting ID: 823 2200 8243
- Password: 058882
For more information, contact Josh Gibson.
Last updated: 4/14/2021
