Fall 2021 BISC Seminar Series Schedule

Thursday at 3:30 PM, unless otherwise noted.

	Title/Topic	Presenter	Host
08/26/2021	Dust Devil or Fantastic Yeast? The Mysterious Life of Coccidioides	Bridget Barker, Northern Arizona University (NAU)	Catanzaro
09/02/2021	On the Track of the Elusive Slime Mold	Steve Stephenson, UA Biology	Lewis
09/09/2021	The Ecology of Lyme Disease in a Changing World	Rick Ostfeld, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies	BGSA
09/16/2021	The Blood-Brain Barrier in Health and Disease	Tiffany Lyle, Purdue University	Bailey
09/23/2021	Genetic Architecture, Gene Network Variation, and Evolutionary Hotspots in the Fungi	Paul Magwene, Duke University	Lewis
09/30/2021	Linking Ecology and Macroevolution Using Plant-Insect Interactions	Marjorie Weber, Michigan State University	BGSA
10/07/2021	Quantitative Label-free metabolic imaging of skin wound healing	Kyle Quinn, UA Biomedical Engineering	Iyer
10/14/2021	No Seminar	Spring Break
10/21/2021	Color and color vision: evolution, genetics, and neurogenomics of color, color preference and mating behavior	Natasha Bloch, Universidad de los Andes	Westerman
10/28/2021	An Epidemiologist Perspective on the COVID-19 Pandemic: What’s Next?	Benjamin Amick, UAMS	Catanzaro
11/04/2021	Exploring the crosstalk between the gut microbiota and the enteric nervous system in animal models of gut-brain axis dysfunction	Valentina Caputi, UA Dept of Poultry Science	Rhoads
11/11/2021
11/18/2021
11/25/2021
12/02/2021
12/09/2021
12/16/2021
12/23/2021
12/30/2021
01/06/2021

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