School of Biological Sciences Spring Seminar Series 2023
February 6, Monday
Dr. Seth Rudman
Assistant Professor, School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Vancouver
“Rapid adaptation and its consequences for natural populations”
February 13, Monday
Dr. Amir Gilmore
College of Education and Associate Dean of Equity and Inclusion for Student Success and Retention, Washington State University
“What Will Your Students Inherit?: Fostering a Sense of Belonging Through Teaching and Mentoring”
February 27, Monday: Virtual, Zoom only
Dr. Natalie Christian
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Louisville
“The effects of global change on plant microbiomes”
March 6, Monday
Dr. Cailin O’Connor
Associate Professor of Logic and Philosophy of Science, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science at the University of California, Irvine
“Interdisciplinarity Can Aid the Spread of Better Methods”
Co-Sponsor: Honors College Bhatia Lectureship
March 20, Monday
Dr. Adam Laats
Professor of Education and History, Binghampton University
“ ’Evolution and All That:’ Why America Can’t Stop Fighting About Creationism”
March 22, Wednesday
Dr. Sarah Olson
Wildlife Conservation Society
“A large-scale empirical study of hibernating bat energetics and modeled implications on White-Nose Syndrome susceptibility”
March 27
Ryan Wessendorf
School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University
“Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase’s affinity for bicarbonate and phosphoenolpyruvate: implications for C4 photosynthesis”
April 10, Monday
Dr. Michael Bell
Air Resources Division, National Park Service
“Combustion, cows, critical loads, and conservation: Using air pollution science to protect federal lands”
April 12, Wednesday
Robyn Reeves
School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University
Title: “Leptin: Pleiotropic roles in amphibian immune regulation, wound healing, and regeneration.”
April 17, Monday
Dr. Pankaj Jaiswal
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University
“Accelerating candidate gene discovery for stress tolerance in crop plants”
April 24, Monday
Tony Carnahan
School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University
“The Development and Calibration of Techniques to Measure Energy Expenditure and Activity in Grizzly Bears”
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