SHSU Biological Sciences Department Seminar Series Schedule

SHSU Biological Sciences Department Seminar Series

Thursdays from 4pm until 5pm

Lee Drain Building Room 214

Lectures Open to the Public

Thursday, September 1^st: J. Nathaniel Holland- "Population and Community Ecology of Mutualism: Integrating Theory and Empiricism in Case Studies of Plant-Animal Interactions in the Sonoran Desert."

Thursday, September 8^th:  Yunxin Fu, from The University of Texas Medical School—Houston

Thursday, September 15^th: Erik Seiffert, from Stony Brook University.

Thursday, September 22^nd: Puni Jeyasingh, from Oklahoma State University—Stillwater.

Thursday, September 29^th: Lisa Nolan, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University.

Thursday, October 6^th: Douglas Rhoads-"The Genetics of Pulmonary Hypertension Syndrome; Using the Chicken as a Model of a Human Disease." From the University of Arkansas—Fayetteville.

Thursday, October 13^th: Joel Trexler, from Florida International University—Miami.

Thursday, October 20^th: Michael Reed, from Tufts University in Boston.

Thursday, October 27^th: Chris Randle-"Taking to the Trees: The Natural History of an Aerial Parasite."

Thursday, November 3^rd: Matthew Bolek-"How Frogs get their Worms! Understanding parasitic life-cycle strategies from an amphibian community perspective.” From Oklahoma State University—Stillwater.

Thursday, November 10^th: Jay Banner-"Climate and Paleoclimate Change, Water Change, and Policy in Texas." From the University of Texas at Austin.

Thursday, November 17^th: Win Sale-"The Indispensable Cilium: Regulation of Assembly and Function." From Emory University in Atlanta.

Thursday, December 1st: Joseph Petrosino-"Metagenomics and Human Microbiome." From Baylor College of Medicine—Houston.

For more information contact Madhusudan Choudhary at the following:

Email: mchoudhary@shsu.edu
Phone: (936) 294-4850