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. | |