Spring 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 February 3, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Xin Zhou, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Seminar title: “ProteinPaint for biomedical data exploration”
Host: Biology Graduate Student Society
Date: Friday February 10, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Greer Dolby, University of Alabama Birmingham
Seminar title: “A Geogenomic perspective: how Earth processes shape biological speciation”
Host: Dr. Ryan Garrick
Date: Friday, February 17, 2023 Canceled due to weather
Speaker: Dr. Garrett Hopper, University of Alabama
Seminar title: “Exploring the causes and consequences of variation in animal cycling traits across ecological gradients“
Host: Dr. Colin Jackson
Date: Friday, February 24, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Jason Taylor, USDA Sedimentation lab
Seminar title: “Demystifying Denitrification in Delta Aquatic Agroecosystems”
Host: Dr. Cliff Ochs
Date: Friday, March 3, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Michael Moore, UC Denver
Seminar title: “Climatic drivers and constraints on the evolution of animal beauty”
Host: Dr. Michel Ohmer
Date: Friday, March 24, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Brame, Vanderbilt University
Seminar title: “Active Learning: Why and how to embed it into your students’ practice, in and out of class”
Host: Department of Biology
Date: Friday, March 31, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Ivan Erill, University of Maryland
Seminar title: “Sending out an SOS: convergent evolution of a transcriptional regulatory system”
Host: Dr. Patrick Curtis
Date: Friday, April 14, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Barbara Gisabella, University of Mississippi Medical Center
Seminar title: “Regulation of Emotional Memory in Psychiatric Disorders”
Host: Dr. Lainy Day
Date: Friday April 21, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Peter Zee
Seminar title: “Origins and consequences of complex community interactions”
Date: Friday April 28, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Joshua Bloomekatz
Seminar title: “Cell Transitions during Cardiac Development”
Date: Friday May 5, 2023 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Mika Jekabsons
Seminar title: “Metabolic plasticity in cancer metastasis”
