Paul Burton Seminar Series

Fall 2011

Jan 13 Organizational Meeting
Jan 20 Dr. Gloria Muday, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University
Hormonal control of plant growth and development
Jan 27 Dr. Beth Yale, Department of History, Western Carolina University
Constructing Natural History in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Feb 3 Dr. Travis Knowles, Francis Marion University
Temperate mountain grasslands: A climate-herbivore hypothesis for origins and persistence
Feb 10 Dr. Seán O’Connell, Department of Biology, Western Carolina University
Patterns of Bacterial Distribution in Southern Appalachian Streams and Soils: Ten Years of Microbe Hunting in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Feb 17 Dr. Ted Zerucha, Appalachian State University
Regulation of the Meis2 Homeobox Gene During Embryonic Development
Feb 24 Dawn Cusik, M.S., Haywood Community College
Child's Play: Science as Storytelling in Nature Nonfiction Books
Adric Olson, MS candidate, Western Carolina University
Life History Traits of the Mirror Shiner, Notropis spectrunculus, in Western North Carolina
Mar 2

Mid-Term Break

Mar 9 Erika Young, MS, Ph.D. (in progress), Biology Department, UNC-Pembroke
How coastal marine ecosystems are influenced by anthropogenic modification: Squeezed between the devil and the deep blue sea
Mar 16 Dr. Mark Wilson, Forensic Science Program, Western Carolina University
Bacillus anthracis comparative genome analysis in support of the Amerithrax investigation
Mar 23 Dr. Janice Edgerly-Rooks, Department of Biology, Santa Clara University
Behavior of silkspinning embiid insects
Mar 30 Dr. Scott Singleton, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, UNC-Chapel Hill
Chemical biology of DNA metabolism as it relates to antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens
Apr 6 Spring Break
Apr 13 Carol Petricivek, MS thesis candidate, Western Carolina University
Invasive plant biology
Kendall Fuller, MS thesis candidate, Western Carolina University
Comparison of Bacterial Communities in Healthy Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) Rhizospheres versus Hemlock Impacted by Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Adelges tsugae)
Apr 20 Dr. Michael van Dyke, Department of Chemistry and Physics, WCU
Crosstalk between inflammatory signaling pathways and epigenetic regulator homeostasis: a story of serendipity in two parts
Apr 27 Daniel Nolan, MS thesis candidate, Western Carolina University
Forensic science
Jennifer Torgerson, MS thesis candidate, Western Carolina University
Genetic variation in western North Carolina populations of Hydrastis canadensis
All Seminars are the Natural Science Auditorium at 12:20 pm Friday on the date indicated.
The Biology Department is grateful to the Paul Burton Fund and the J. Gerald Eller Scholarship and Lectureship Fund for assistance in underwriting the cost of this seminar series.




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