Department Seminars
Weekly Seminars on Biological Sciences Topics
3:00 PM – 4:15 PM
Department seminars will be held online. The links will be provided below as they become available.
| Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Title | Host | Zoom Link Information |
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| September 15, 2020 | Graduate Proposal Showcase | Join Zoom Meeting Graduate Proposal Showcase Zoom Link Meeting ID: 972 6387 6586 Passcode: 730348 |
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| September 17, 2020 | Caroline Strömberg, University of Washington | The past is the key to the present: Using fossil plant silica to reconstruct the Cenozoic assembly of Earth's grassland ecosystems | Dr. Matt Kohn, Geosciences | The past is the key Zoom Link Meeting ID:954 9306 6231 Passcode: 623198 |
| October 1, 2020 | Peter Unger, University of Arkansas | Evolution's Bite: Reconstructing Diet and Human Evolution | Dr. John Ziker, Anthropology | Evolutions Bite Zoom Link Meeting ID:978 4322 8589 Passcode: 220973 |
| October 15, 2020 | Megan Walsh, Central Washington University | Combining Paleoecology, Geology, and Archaeology: What Interdisciplinary Research Can Teach Us About Holocene Human-Landscape Interactions in the Pacific Northwest | Dr. Megan Cattau, Human-Environment Systems & Dr. Jen Pierce, Geosciences | Combining Paleoecology, Geology, and Archaeology Zoom Link Meeting ID:921 7282 4095 Passcode: 216960 |
| October 22, 2020 | Rachel Kopec, The Ohio State University | Biochemical Strategies to Elucidate Poorly Understood Pathways of Fat-Soluble Nutrient/Bioactive Metabolism | Dr. Jennifer Forbey, Biological Sciences | Biochemical Strategies Zoom Link Meeting ID:967 3860 7988 Passcode: 810565 |
| October 29, 2020 | Anand Roopsind, Boise State University | Why and When Conservation Policy Works: A Rights-Based Approach of Titling Indigenous Community Lands To Improve Forest Protection | Dr. Jodi Brandt, Human-Environment Systems | Why and When Conservation Policy Works Zoom Link Meeting ID:963 0973 8362 Passcode: 773900 |
| November 5, 2020 | Brad Ferguson, University Nevada Reno | Phytochemicals attenuate pathological cardiac hypertrophy via genome-wide changes in the cardiac transcriptome: A role for HDACs? | Dr. Jen Forbey, Biology | A role for HDACs Zoom Link Meeting ID:954 7872 6981 Passcode: 067464 |
| November 12, 2020 | Jean Polfus, Canadian Wildlife Service | Ɂełexé Eghálets’eda (Learning Together): Strategies for cross-cultural collaboration | Dr. Kelly Hopping, Human-Environment Systems | Watch Dr Polfus's Seminar on Zoom Meeting ID:985 3168 9805 Passcode: 849874 |
| November 19, 2020 | Theresa Laverty and Sarah Bombaci, Colorado State University | Research advancing justice, equity, and inclusion in ecology and STEM | Carlos Garcia Linares, PhD EEB Program and Callie Puntenney, MS Biology Program | Watch Drs. Bombaci and Laverty's Seminar on Zoom Meeting ID:977 5898 3843 Passcode: b8dzSy |
| December 3, 2020 | Michael Donoghue, Yale University | On the value of model clades: Integrative studies of Viburnum evolution | Dr. Jim Smith, Biology | Watch Dr. Donoghue's seminar on Zoom Meeting ID:959 5666 5050 Passcode: 957721 |