Departmental Seminar, Grad Research & Pasakarnis-Buchanan Lecture
FALL 2024
Seminars are held each week Wednesday at 3:30pm in McLeod Hall 210.
To schedule a seminar or for any questions related to our seminar series, please contact Dr. Bidart (gbidart@bgsu.edu).
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Host |
Aug 28 | Lauren Greenwell, Vice President BGSA | BGSA meeting (Graduate students only) | BGSA |
Sept 4 | Dr. George Bullerjahn, BGSU | Cyanobacterial HABs in shallow lakes: lessons learned in Lake Erie and elsewhere | |
Sept 11 | Dr. Maitreyee Mukherjee, Eastern Michigan University | Rise of the superbugs, an emerging 21st century crisis | George Bullerjahn |
Sept 18 | Dr. Gabriella Wolff, Case Western Reserve University | Sensory integration in mosquito predator avoidance and host preferences | Vern Bingman |
Sept 25 | Dr. Michael Freeman, Tufts University School of Medicine | Co-option and evolution of a human endogenous retrovirus-derived restriction factor | Julia Halo |
Oct 2 | Dr. Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Smithsonian Institution/George Mason University | Decoding survival: How genomics informs the conservation of endangered species | Julia Halo |
Oct 9 | Dr. Alejandro Rojas, Michigan State University | Tracing plant-associated fungal pathogens through integrated approaches | Vipa Phuntumart |
Oct 16 | Dr. Sarah Emery, BGSU | Plant-mycorrhizal interactions in agriculture: Stories of soil, symbionts, and sustainability | BGSU American Society for Microbiology: the Common Ground event |
Oct 23 | Dr. Bridget O’Banion, University of Wisconsin | Disentangling the plant microbiome: Identifying host and microbial colonization determinants | Dan Pavuk |
Oct 30 | Dr. Carlos Botero, University of Texas at Austin | Virtual Seminar: The eco-evolutionary dynamics of climate change | Gabriela Bidart |
Nov 6 | Dr. Sudeshna Fisch, Pfizer Inc. | Drug Discovery - Challenges and Opportunities in the age of AI | Carol Heckman |
Nov 13 | Dr. Bartolomeo Gorgoglione, Michigan State University | Overview on fungal and oomycete pathogens in fishes | Vipa Phuntumart |
Nov 20 | Dr. Kevin McCarthy, University of Pittsburgh | Immunity to influenza: You get what your B cells see | Julia Halo |
Nov 27 | Thanksgiving | No Seminar | |
Dec 4 | Dr. Welkin Johnson, Boston College | Conservation and extraordinary adaptability of the Gammaretrovirus ENV protein: A 300 million year retrospective | Julia Halo |
SPRING 2025
Date | Speaker | Seminar Title | Host |
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Jan 15 | BGSA meeting | Graduate Students only | BGSA |
Jan 22 | Dr. Xiaohong Tan, BGSU Center for Photochemical Sciences | Paul Morris | |
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Feb 12 | Dr. Nathan Morehouse, University of Cincinnati | Kevin McCluney | |
Feb 19 | |||
Feb 26 | Dr. Neil Shubin | Pasakarnis-Buchanan Lectures | Murphy/Halo |
March 5 | SPRING BREAK! | No Seminar | |
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March 19 | |||
March 26 | |||
April 2 | |||
April 9 | |||
April 16 | Dr. Eric Hibbets | Dan Pavuk | |
April 23 |
Graduate Research-in-Progress (GRIP) is a seminar series for graduate students to present their research ideas and progress to other graduate students (and faculty). The goals for attending and presenting are to increase awareness of research across the discipline, to hone presentation skills essential for conveying scientific knowledge, to promote critical thinking skills, and to build camaraderie among graduate students. Students are encouraged to present yearly, so they get feedback early in the developmental stages of their research, as well as later when they have obtained some results and are trying to organize these within their conceptual framework.
The GRIP schedule for the Semester is below.
- GRIP is held every Friday at 12:30pm in LSC 334. All are welcome.
- If you would like to sign up to present, contact Dr. Miner or Dr. Wildschutte
Presenters, please remember to:
- Introduce yourself--include status in graduate program or affiliation.
- Describe the purpose of the talk; i.e., is it practice for a conference, or a discussion of ideas?
- You will be presenting to a diverse audience. Initially, put your work into a broad biological conceptual framework, so that everyone can understand the focus of your research. You can then go into depth, but remember to return to the ‘big picture’ as you conclude/summarize.
- It is suggested that you have a presentation review with your faculty mentor before you finalize your presentation.
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Previous Pasakarnis-Buchanan Lectures
Tuesday, March 26, 2024 @ 7:00PM, “The Serengeti Rules: The Regulation and Restoration of Biodiversity” (Public Talk), featuring Sean B. Carroll (University of Maryland). In the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater.
Thursday, April 13, 2023 @ 7:00PM, Crises Abound: Health, Climate, Energy, Food, Pandemics... How Large-Scale Systems Biology Can Help Address the Major Challenges We Are Facing (Public Talk), featuring Dan Jacobson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory). In the Bowen-Thompson Student Union Theater.
Thursday, March 24, 2021, @ 7:00PM, Fish Whispering: Exploring Environmental Impacts from Life History and Eco-Geochemistry (Public Talk) featuring Dr. Karin Limburg.
**Due to precautions taken to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the 2020 Pasakarnis-Buchanan lecture was canceled.
Tuesday, April 9, 2019, @ 7:00PM, Forecasting Nature: Ecological Experiments in a Time of Planetary Change (Public Talk) featuring Dr. Nicholas Gotelli.
Tuesday April 3, 2018 @ 7PM (Public Talk) "Digging for genes that affect behavior" (Public Talk) featuring Dr. Hopi Hoekstra (Harvard University).
Tuesday April 4, 2017 @ 7PM (Public Talk) "Eco-Evo-Devo: the synthesis of epigenetics, medicine and evolution". Scott Gilbert (Swarthmore College).
Thursday, April 14, 2016 @ 7:00PM (Public Talk): "Resurrecting Ancient Proteins from Extinct Life" featuring Dr. Steven Benner (The Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, FAME).
Tuesday, March 24, 2015: Dr. Tyrone Hayes (University of California, Berkeley). Dr. Hayes's topic was From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014: Dr. Arturo Casadevall (Albert Einstein College of Medicine). Dr. Casadevall's topic was Thoughts on the Origin of Virulence.
Tuesday, March 21, 2013: Dr. P. Dee Boersma (University of Washington). Dr. Boersma's topic was Penguins as Marine Sentinels.
Thursday, April 12, 2012: Dr. Jianzhi Zhang (University of Michigan). Dr. Zhang's topic was On the path to humanity: genes lost, gained, and modified during primate evolution.
Tuesday, April 19, 2011: Dr. Nils Walter (University of Michigan). Dr. Walter's topic was Chemistry of Life: Driving Force for the Evolution from Cyanide to the RNA World to Mankind.
Updated: 10/21/2024 01:00PM