Spring 2021 Seminar Series
All seminars will be held via zoom. Please contact host for further information.
Date: Friday, January 29, 2021, 2:00 – 2:50pm
Speaker: Dr. Heather D. Alexander
Assistant professor, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University
Seminar title: Arctic Fires: Impacts on Forests of Northeastern Siberia
Host: Dr. Steve Brewer
Date: Friday, March 5, 2021, 2:00 – 2:50pm
Speaker: Dr. Chris Muir
Assistant professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaii
Seminar title: Global syntheses of stomatal evolution and local adaptationa
Host: Dr. Peter Zee
Date: Friday, March 19, 2021, 2:00 – 2:50pm
Speaker: Dr. Lynn Siefferman
Associate professor, Biology Department, Appalachian State University
Seminar title: Decoupling pioneering traits from latitudinal patterns in a North American bird experiencing an unusual southward range shift
Host: Dr. Susan Balenger
Date: Friday, March 26, 2021, 2:00 – 2:50pm
Speaker: Dr. Staci Bilbo
Professor, Systems and Integrative Neuroscience Group, Duke University
Seminar title: Prenatal environmental stressors impair postnatal microglia function and adult behavior in male mice.
Host: Dr. Lainy Day – Neuroscience Symposium
Date: Friday, April 19, 2021, 9:00 a.m.
Speaker: Tyler Bacon – Master’s Thesis Defense
Advisor: Dr. Peter Zee
Seminar title: TBD
