Biology Seminars Spring 2025

Biology Seminars for Spring 2025

January 

Friday January 17, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: "Effects of Anthropogenic Sound on Fish Behavior and Predator-Prey Dynamics"
  • Leah Glimsdal; WRS Masters Student 
     
Friday, January 24, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: Faculty Lightning Talks - 
  • "Effects of a devastating disease on Minnesota bat populations" Dr. Ron Moen
  • "Vestigial organs in nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria!!??" Dr. Cody Shiek; 
  • "Does unintended evolution happen when wild plant populations are raised on native seed farms?" Dr. Julie Etterson
     
Friday, January 31, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: "Evaluating CO2 and Sound as an Invasive Bigheaded Carp Deterrent in a Model Lock and Dam"
  • Michael Frett; WRS Masters Student 
     

February  

Friday, 7, 3:00 p.m., Life Science 185
  • Title:  "Fishers, Flying Squirrels, and Fungi: Mammals in a Changing World"
  • Dr. Michael Joyce; NRRI
  • Hosted by Dr. Jennifer Liang
 
Friday, February 14, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185 
  • Title: "Through the Lens of Time: Reflections on Advances in Cerebral Vascular Biology"
  • Dr. Les Drewes; UM Medical School Duluth
  • Hosted by Dr. Jennifer Liang
 
Friday, February 21, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: "The History, Ecology, and Conservation of Breeding Birds in Minnesota"
  • Dr. Jerry Niemi; UM Medical School Duluth
  • Hosted by Dr. Jennifer Liang 
 
Friday, February 28, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: "Intrinsic Determinants of Prion Protein (Mis)Folding and Pathogenesis"
  • Dr. Pedro Fernandez-Funez; UMN Medical School
  • Hosted by Dr. Clara Shaw

March

Friday, March 7, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: TBA
  • Dr. PJ Torres; College of the Holy Cross
  • Hosted by Dr. Clara Shaw
 
Friday, March 14th - Spring Break - No Seminar

 

Friday, March 21, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185
  • Inspirational Teacher in the Life Sciences Awardee
 
Friday, March 28, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: “Driven to Discover”: Nature the Final Frontier"
  • Dr. Sue Okerstrom; Lichen Labs
  • Hosted by Dr. John Pastor

April

Friday, April 4, in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: "Exploring the Impact of a Perfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS) and Interspecific Variation on Passerine Metabolism"
  • Angelica Smith, IBS Masters Student 
 
Friday, April 11, 3:00 p.m., in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: Minnesota White-Tailed Deer: Vehicle Collision aftermath and Movement during the Firearm Season.
  • Marissa Bober, IBS Masters Student
 
Friday, April 18, 3:00 p.m. in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: TBA
  • Dr. Alexandra Zachwieja; UM Medical School Duluth
  • Hosted by Dr. Julie Etterson

May

 
Friday, May 2, 3:00 p.m. in Life Sciences 185
  • Title: TBA
  • Austen Hilding, IBS Masters Student