Spring 2022 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. Unless otherwise noted, 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.
| Date | Speaker Institution | Title | Sponsor |
| January | |||
| 24 | Dr. Wade Huang U.S. Food and Drug Administration | Cyanobacterial bioactive metabolites—Toxins that are more common than we know | |
| 31 | Dr. Michael Britton Georgia Southern University | Pterrific pteridophytes: Ecophysiology and evolution of blue iridescence and sexual dimorphism in ferns | |
| February | |||
| 7 | Dr. Mona Behl Georgia Sea Grant | Science in Service of our Communities | John Carroll |
| 14 | Bonnie Cobb Georgia Southern University | Mortality in interspecific hybrids of Nasonia vitripennis and Nasonia giraulti | Josh Gibson |
| 21 | Dr. Stephanie Kamel University of North Carolina, Wilmington | Fortune favors the bold? Personality and mortality in a marsh ecosystem predator-prey interaction | John Carroll |
| 28 | TBA | ||
| March | |||
| 7 | TBA | ||
| 14 | Spring break – no seminar | ||
| 21 | Dr. Esther Sebastian Universidad de Alicante, Spain | Composition and structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages in the Anthropocene | |
| 23 Wednesday 1:30 PM | Cheyenne Walker Georgia Southern University | Stop, then go! Rapid acceleration offsets the costs of intermittent locomotion when turning in Florida Scrub lizards | Lance McBrayer |
| 25 Friday 10:00 AM | Emma Simpson Georgia Southern University | Florida Sand Skink and Blue-tailed Mole Skink: expanding geographic coverage of genetic analysis for conservation | Aaron Schrey |
| 28 | Dr. Patrick Biber Gulf Coast Research Lab, University of Southern Mississippi | Assessing Natural and Nature-Based coastal restoration along the northern Gulf of Mexico | |
| April | |||
| 1 Friday | Nicole Scheuermann Georgia Southern University | The Influence of Faculty Peer Network Communication in the Diffusion of a Centralized CURE | Sue Ellen Dechenne-Peters |
| 1 Friday | Anthony Sample Georgia Southern University | Fish meal alternatives: hemp seed meal shows promise as an alternative to fish meal in Striped Bass diets | Anthony Siccardi |
| 4 12:15 PM | Joshua Anderson Georgia Southern University | Cestode diversity of shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) from North Carolina and description of a new Cestode species from New Mexico | Stephen Greiman |
| 8 Friday | Tyler Follman Georgia Southern University | Investigating the effect of afacultative symbiont on pea aphid fecundity and behavior in elevated CO2 atmospheres | Ed Mondor |
| 11 | Alicia Reigel Appalachian State | Life on marginal reefs: tales of coral persistence. | Ray Chandler |
| 18 | Sara Rivero Calle Skidaway Institute of Oceanography | It is all about the Optics: The use of Optical Sensors for Marine Ecology Projects at UGA Skidaway Institute of Oceanography (SkIO) | John Carroll |
| 25 | Kathy Knowlton and Dawn Franco GA DNR | TBA | Josh Gibson |
| May | |||
| 2 | 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: 4/13/2022
