Fall 2023 Seminar Series
Seminars will be held in Shoemaker 303. Please contact the department at 662-915-7203 or email biology@olemiss.edu if you require special assistance.
Date: Friday, September 8, 2023 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Keith Crandall, George Washington University
Seminar title: “Computational approaches to analyze sequence data: from Microbiomes to Phylogenies, from human health to conservation”
Host: Dr. Ryan Garrick
Date: Friday, September 22, 2023 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. John Kiss, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
Seminar title: “The future of plants in space”
Host: Dr. Yongjian Qiu
Date: Friday, October 6, 2023 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Megan Smith, Mississippi State University
Seminar title: “Rethinking the models and data we use to make evolutionary inferences”
Host: Dr. Ryan Garrick
Date: Friday, October 20, 2023 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Bret Elderd, Louisiana State University
Seminar title: “How variability affects disease transmission: Insights from an agricultural pest”
Host: Dr. Peter Zee
Date: Friday, October 27, 2023 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Ling Li, Mississippi State University
Seminar title: “From Arabidopsis to crops: a molecular tool to increase protein content and disease resistance”
Host: Dr. Yongjian Qiu
Date: Friday, November 10, 2023 2 p.m. – 3 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Shahid Mukhtar, University of Alabama Birmingham
Seminar title: “Getting to the edge of plant networks”
Host: Dr. Becks Prescott
