Fridays 12:20-1:10, Apodaca 201 and Zoom
Zoom Link: https://wcu.zoom.us/j/88663954798
Schedule may change if unexpected circumstances arise.
The schedule of presentations will be updated for the 2024 Fall term as soon as it is complete. Below is the schedule for the 2024 Fall term.
August 23rd: Organizational Meeting – Meeting in-person in AP 201. All students enrolled in class must attend.
August 30th: Dr. Mark Jaben, Physician Coach, Haywood County Health Department Advisor, Haywood Regional Emergency Department (retired); in person; topic TBA
September 6th: Dr. Jeffrey Brodsky, University of Pittsburgh (protein folding and molecular chaperones, in person)
September 13th: Dr. Quentin Johnson, Berry College (computational biochemistry, in person)
September 20th: Dr. Gavin Rice, University of Pittsburgh (evolution and development in Drosophila, zoom)
September 27th: Dr. Will Petry, NC State University (plant population or community ecology, in person)
October 4th: Dr. Van Oosten-Hawle, UNC-Charlotte (organismal proteostasis in aging, zoom)
October 11th: Debjani Pal, Oak Ridge National Lab (development of theranostics agents to fight cancer, in person)
October18th: No Seminar, Fall Break
October 25th: TBD
November 1st: Dr. Jeremy Rentsch, Francis Marion University (evolutionary ecology; zoom)
November 8th: Dr. Chequita Brooks, Bowles Aquatic Geomicrobiology Lab, LUMCON (biogeochemistry in the Gulf of Mexico; zoom)
November 15th: Dr. Keith Gibbs, WCU (aquatic ecology, in person)
November 22nd: Grad student talks (TBA)
November 29th: No Seminar, Thanksgiving
December 6th: Grad student talks (TBA)
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.
*All seminars will be broadcast in AP 201 and on Zoom. In Person seminars may move to Zoom depending on weather and institution travel policies.