2015-16 Seminars

Antioxidants: Suddenly a foe once you have cancer

Leslie Saucedo

University of Puget Sound Biology Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Fall Student Research Symposium
All summer science research students will present posters of their research
4 pm to 6 pm, Harned Colonnade

Land, livelihood, and legacy: Community-based conservation and natural resource management--Lessons from a year of study and international travel as a 2014 Watson Fellow

Kelsey Crutchfield-Peters '14

4 pm, Thompson 175

How to build a mouse muscle in 3 easy steps: Functional divergence of myogenic transcription factors

Melissa Conerly

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

4 pm, Thompson 175

Applying evolutionary ecology to real-world problems

Megan Van Etten

University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Vanessa Koelling

Larkspurs in the wake of the flood: Origin and diversification of an endangered PNW wildflower

Keith Karoly

Reed College Biology Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Vanessa Koelling

Extensive antibody mutations and the road to HIV vaccine discovery

Mesfin Mulugeta Gewe

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

4 pm, Thompson 175

Larval biology of organisms from deep-sea cold seeps and hydrothermal vents

Shawn Arellano

Western Washington University Shannon Point Marine Center

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Kena Fox-Dobbs

Ion mobility mass spectrometry: New instrumentation and applications to structural biology

Matthew Bush

University of Washington Department of Chemistry

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Megan Gessel

Does mate choice speed adaptation in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster?

Devin Arbuthnott

University of Washington Department of Pathology

4 pm, Thompson 175

Discovery of novel per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances (PFASs) in aqueous film-forming foam (AFFF) and AFFF-impacted groundwater

Krista Barzen-Hanson

Oregon State University Chemistry Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Dan Burgard

Mercury cycling in Pacific Northwest forests

Abir Biswas

Biogeochemist, The Evergreen State College

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Kena Fox-Dobbs

Blue whales: Great size, tiny prey

Louise McGarry

Cornell University Ocean Resources & Ecosystems Program

4 pm, Thompson 175

Get stressed! Protein degradation in plant responses to the environment
Bryan Thines

University of Puget Sound Biology Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Coupled vibrations in musical drumheads: Experimental and numerical methods
Rand Worland

University of Puget Sound Physics Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Chemical and biological sensing using liquid crystals
Sandra Ward
University of Puget Sound Chemistry Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Aging brains and lifestyle choices: From humans to bumblebees
Sue Hannaford

University of Puget Sound Biology Department

4 pm, Thompson 175
Abstract

Aneuploidy and adaptation in yeast
Maitreya Dunham

University of Washington Genome Science Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Rachel Pepper
Abstract

Methods promoting forest recovery by accelerating ecological succession
Jenise Bauman

Western Washington University Huxley College of the Environment

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Leslie Saucedo

Gene regulation in Borrelia burgdorferi, the tick-borne agent of Lyme disease

Scott Samuels

University of Montana Division of Biological Sciences

4 pm, Thompson 175

The Visioneers: How a group of elite scientists pursued space colonies, nanotechnologies, and a limitless future

Patrick McCray

University of California Santa Barbara History Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Kristin Johnson

Accretion of the Olympic Mountains and the Eocene transformation of Washington geology
Jeff Tepper
University of Puget Sound Geology Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Exploring the molecular mechanisms that allow plants to interpret light signals and alter their development
Keisha Carlson

University of Puget Sound Biology Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Sex, stress, and plastics: How the brain responds to chemicals in the environment

Siddharth Ramakrishnan

University of Puget Sound Biology and Neuroscience Departments

4 pm, Thompson 175

The maintenance of an ecologically relevant trait in nature: Herbicide resistance in the common morning glory, Ipomoea purpurea
Regina Baucom

University of Michigan Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Vanessa Koelling

Investigating metacognition and learning: Implications for teachers and students

Amy Siegesmund

Pacific Lutheran University Biology Department

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Gregory Johnson

Building a brain with stem cells: TAF lessons from fruit flies
Alexandre Neves

Postdoc, Eisenman Lab, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

4 pm, Thompson 175

Host: Leslie Saucedo