Seminar Schedule Fall 2020
All seminars will be hosted online via ZOOM. ZOOM details can be found at the end of the page.
Seminars are open to the public. Attendance is required for all students enrolled in Biol 497, Biol 797 and all current graduate students.
If you need additional information, please contact Dr. Mark Schneegurt , 316-978-3111 or mark.schneegurt@wichita.edu .
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24-August |
Mark Schneegurt
|
WSU
|
Presentation Primer
|
| 31-August |
Ted Harris
|
Kansas Biological Survey
|
Non-substitutable and substitutable resource ratio theory in phytoplankton ecology:
Testing theory at large-scales
|
| 7-September |
Labor Day Holiday
|
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| 14-September |
Partha Dutta
|
Vascular Medicine Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
|
Macrophages follow the heart: myocardial infarction causes insulin resistance
|
| 21-September |
Sara Baer
|
Ecology and Evolution, University of Kansas and KBS
|
Resiliency of restored grasslands to interannual variability in climate. |
| 28-September |
Franklin Champlin
|
Medical Microbiology, Oklahoma State University Health Sciences Center, Tulsa, OK
|
Mechanisms of intrinsic resistance to antibacterial agents in nosocomial Gram-negative bacteria |
| 5-October |
Jason Belden
|
Integrative Biology, Oklahoma State University
|
The importance of detox: bee decline and evolutionary toxicology
|
| 12-October |
Nichole Barger
|
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado - Boulder
|
Biological soil crusts inoculation strategies to restore degraded dryland soils
|
| 19-October | Rollie Clem |
Biology, Kansas State University
|
Barriers to arbovirus infection in mosquitoes
|
| 26-October |
Lilliam Casillas Martinez
|
Departmento de Biolog铆a, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Humacao
|
Fostering inclusion in microbiology for LatinX from a research lab to the classroom
|
| 2-November |
Michelle Evans-White
|
Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas
|
When nutrients become contaminants in detrital-based streams
|
| 9-November |
Graduate Students |
红领巾瓜报 |
Jake Wright: Effects of Hydroperiod鈥搃nduced Trophic Structure on Larval Amphibian Biomass (Luhring Lab) Ryan Brice: Wheat Protein-based Bio-scaffold for Neural Regeneration (Yao Lab) Alex Ratcliffe: Survival of Salinotolerant Bacteria Under the Extreme Chemical and Physical Conditions of Europa and the Icy Ocean Worlds (Schneegurt Lab) Abby Carney: Follicle-stimulating Hormone Macroheterogeneity in Aging Male Pituitaries (Bousfield Lab) |
| 16-November | Graduate Students | 红领巾瓜报 |
Morgan Trible: Assessing Dung Beetle (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) Biodiversity & Impact on Ecosystem Functioning in a Rangeland Ecosystem (Jameson Lab) Sierra Kanemoto:Testing at the Proteomic Level of the Hamster Cheek Pouch System for the Xenotransplantation of Human Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer Tissue Samples (Hendry Lab) Ethan Copeland: Using Time-Kill Assays to Determine Antimicrobial Synergy and Kill Kinetics against MRSA (McDonald Lab) |
| 30-November | Graduate Students
|
红领巾瓜报 |
Meris Carte: Isolation and Characterization of Bacteria from a Spacecraft Assembly Facility Capable of Surviving for a Six-Month Period in Enriched Brines Relevant to Mars (Schneegurt Lab) Christine Streid: Response of Microinvertebrates to Experimental Drying (Luhring Lab) Jacqueline Baum: White-tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) Foraging Habits in Great Plains Grasslands near Wooded and Agricultural Habitat Edges (Russell Lab) |
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