Seminars

The Department of Biological Sciences hosts a series of weekly seminars each spring and fall semester in association with its colloquium courses for undergraduates (BIOL 492 and 492M) and graduate students (BIOL 592). Seminar speakers are usually invited from other universities and research institutions but occasionally the program will include faculty of the Department of Biological Sciences or other units at SIUE. Talks cover a wide range of topics in biology.

Seminars are usually held in the Science East building in lecture room 1136 (SE 1136) and take place on Mondays from 3:00-4:00 PM.  

All are welcome.

Seminars for Spring 2018

Date	Speaker	Institution	Title or Topic
Jan 22	Cassandra Vernier	Washington University in St. Louis	Colony-specific nestmate recognition cues mature via socially-regulated ontogenetic processes in the honey bee
Jan 29	Kimberley Sukhum	Washington University in St. Louis	Energetic costs increase and electrosensory regions are enlarged with the evolution of extreme encephalization
Feb 5	Boahemaa Adu-Oppong	Monsanto	Understanding the Relationship Between Hosts and their Microbiome
Feb 12	Sheela Athreya	Texas A&M University	Darwinism before Darwin: the gradual emergence of evolutionary theory (and humans) Special Darwin Day Event Ralph W. Axtell Lecture Dunham Hall Theater, 4:00-5:00 PM
Feb 19	Visiting Speaker	TBA	TBA
Feb 26	Visiting Speaker	TBA	TBA
Mar 19	Rachel Penczkowski	Washington University in St. Louis	Host-parasite interactions using wild plant populations
Mar 26	Lon Chubiz	UMSL	Life under stress: acclimation and coexistence
Apr 2	Heather True	Washington University in St. Louis	Prions: 31 Flavors of Infectious Proteins
Apr 9	Amy Hubert	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	Investigating the roles of epigenetic regulation and DNA repair in planarian stem cells
Apr 16	Chris Theodorakis	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville	Sabbatical talk: Topics in Toxicology