Welcome to the PSU Biology Department Lester Newman Seminar Series. Seminars are from 12-1pm on Thursdays in SRTC Room 247.
Please see this spreadsheet for past and future seminar topics.
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
|---|
| 4/4/2024 | Jennifer Tappan | Portland State U | A history of Yellow Fever in Africa | Ruedas |
| 4/11/2024 | Angela M Oliverio | University of Syracuse | Extreme Protists | Stedman |
| 4/18/2024 | Matthew Cabeen | Oklahoma State Univ | Bacterial environmental stress sensing: new insights into the stressosome | Courcelle |
| 4/25/2024 | Philip Copenhaver | Oregon Health and Science University | Perplexing roles for Amyloid Precursor Protein: how a protein linked with Alzheimer’s Disease helps build the nervous system | Masta |
| 5/2/2024 | Kishana Taylor | Rutgers Univ | Influenza Virus Reassortment is Strain Dependent | Stedman |
| 5/9/2024 | Neil Mattson | Cornell University | Transcriptomic analysis of Petunia hybrida in response to salt stress | Ballhorn |
| 5/16/2024 | Evan Eichler | Univ Washington | Complexity and variation on the Human Y chromosome | Courcelle |
| 5/23/2024 | Heather Koehler | Washington State U. | Die to live another day: The battle between virus and host for Z-RNA | Stedman |
| 5/30/2024 | Egle Cekanaviciute | Ames Research Center, CA | Building Organ Models to Understand How Spaceflight Affects Human Health | Phoenix |
| 6/6/2024 | Sudarshan Anand | Oregon Health and Science | Giving Cancer the Flu | Courcelle |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
|---|
| 1/11/2024 | Erin Abernethy | USF&WS | An early career scientist's journey from academic research to a federal conservation agency | Ruedas |
| 1/18/2024 | Scott Gilbert | Swarthmore College | Sympoiesis | Romney |
| 1/25/2024 | Gerardo Ceballos | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México | Conservation biology in the 21st Century | Ruedas |
| 2/1/2024 | Tanya Paull | Univ of Texas, Austin | Dealing with loose ends: Repairing DNA breaks in the genome | Courcelle |
| 2/8/2024 | Joshua Saldivar | Oregon Health and Science University | Safeguarding genome integrity through spatiotemporal control of transcription condensates | Podrabsky |
| 2/15/2024 | Kevin Bilyk | Montclair State University | Heat Tolerance of Nearshore Arctic Fishes | Buckley |
| 2/22/2024 | | | | |
| 2/29/2024 | Jeb Bevers | Yavapai College | Between Wallace's lines: what can a 19th Century naturalist teach us? | Ruedas |
| 3/7/2024 | Callum Bell | National Center for Genome Resources | Interactions between plants and their nitrogen-fixing microbial partners | Ballhorn |
| 3/14/2024 | Michele Nishiguchi | UC Merced | Glowing squid and Vibrio Mutualism | Lindgren |
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
|---|
| 9/28/2023 | Bryan Cwik | Portland State University | Responsible Germline Gene Editing | Buckley |
| 10/5/2023 | Steve Zinder | Cornell University (emeritus) | Microbes that breathe chlorinated solvents | Stedman |
| 10/12/2023 | John Wyrick | Washington State University | A Genomic View of DNA Damage and Repair in Chromatin | Courcelle |
| 10/19/2023 | Darin Carroll | Centers for Disease Control | The role(s) of laboratory science in outbreak responses | Ruedas |
| 10/26/2023 | Wes Dowd | Washington State University | The stress of living in a tide pool | Podrabsky |
| 11/2/2023 | Diana Libuda | University of Oregon | Breaking (isn’t always) Bad: making and repairing DNA breaks in the immortal genome | Courcelle |
| 11/9/2023 | Josh Johnson | University of Colorado | Understanding the control of oocyte number and egg quality | Buckley |
| 11/16/2023 | Di Wen | Providence Cancer Center | Adipocytes and bioresponsive materials from drug delivery and cancer immunotherapy | Podrabsky |
| 11/30/23 | Michele Nishiguchi | UC Merced | Glowing squid and Vibrio mutualism | Lindgren |