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Darwin Keynote Speakers
From Molecules to Ecosystems Seminar Series
For the past ten years the Department of Biology has been cultivating partnerships in order to build a science community. The goal is to create and maintain a community that exemplifies the spirit of experiential learning and community engagement. Through partnerships on and off campus a speaker series has been developed that sparks interest in a broad spectrum of the Wabash Valley.
Initially, a founding partner, the Department of Sciences and Mathematics at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, has helped build a small seminar series into a resource for the community. Internally, many campus groups such as the Center for Public Service and Community Engagement, the Honors Program, First Year Experience, College of Graduate Studies and Professional Studies, the Office of Affirmative Action and Diversity, the Women’s Studies Program, the Center for Science Education, The Center for Genomic Advocacy, Office of the President, and General Education have become stakeholders and have been working towards creating a Wabash Valley Science Community.
The Ultimate goal is to develop a community that broadens the scope of scholarship opportunities between students, faculty, and the general public in the Wabash Valley. Ideally we are creating a culture of scientific communication that allows us to host nationally and internationally recognized scientists to the Wabash Valley to interact with our students (both undergraduate and graduate), faculty, and the Terre Haute community. The Wabash Valley Science Community is facilitated through the keynote speaker series “From Molecules to Ecosystems
2016 Speakers |
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Dr. James Gillingham Central Michigan University |
DARWIN DAY "Ancient Love: Social Behavior of New Zealand's Endangered Reptile, the Tuatara" |
Dr. Anthony Clemons New Mexico State University |
DIVERSITY IN SCIENCE "Paralyzing Mosquito Development: An Alternative to Insect Repellants" |
Dr. Jim Speer State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
EARTH DAY http://lti.casabo.net/faculty-staff/james-jim-speer |
Dr. Eric McCluskey The Ohio State University |
TRI-BETA Landscape ecology approaches to Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake conservation |
Dr. Joan Straussman Washington University-St. Louis |
WOMEN IN SCIENCE "Social behavior and mutualism in the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum and its bacterial symbionts" |
Dr. Sussana Remold University of Louisville |
GRAM MICROBIOLOGY "Stalking the elusive generalist: Pseudomonas in the home" http://louisville.edu/biology/faculty/remold |
Dr. Haixu Tang Indiana University |
"Computational methods for characterizing spontaneous mutations in bacterial genomes using whole genome shotgun sequencing" http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/hatang/ |
Dr. Shaad Ahmad Indiana State University |
"Genetic, Genomic and Computational Analyses of Heart Development in Drosophila." http://lti.casabo.net/cas/biology/people/faculty-profiles/ahmad-shaad |
Dr. Amit Singh University of Dayton |
"Drosophila eye model to study patterning and disease" http://www.udayton.edu/directory/artssciences/biology/singh_amit.php |
Dr. Kun Huang The Ohio State University |
"Imaging Genomics Approach for Cancer Patient Stratification" |
Dr. Michael Deem Indiana State University |
"Informational Opacity and Consent in Clinical Genomic Sequencing" http://mjdeem.weebly.com/ |
Dr. Hyunwoo Lee College of Pharmacy University of Illinois at Chicago |
http://pharmacy.uic.edu/research/center-for-biomolecular-sciences/directory/hlee31 |
2015 Speakers |
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Dr. Manyuan Long Dept of Ecology and Evolution |
"New Genes Drive Phenotypic Evolution: Little did We Learn from Metazoans and Plants" http://longlab.uchicago.edu/ |
Dr. Andrea Grunst Indiana State University |
"Condition-dependence, reproductive strategies and the expression of multiple sexual pigments in the yellow warbler (Setophaga petechia)." |
Dr. Melissa Grunst Indiana State University |
"Sexual signaling, adaptation and the adrenocortical stress response" |
Dr. Alvaro Gurovich Indiana State University |
"Exercise-induced blood flow patterns and endothelial function and gene expression" http://utep.academia.edu/AlvaroGurovichPTPhDFACSM |
Dr. Chris Martin Indianapolis Zoological Society |
ALLEE ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR "Comparing the cognition of great ape species through computerized touch-panel tasks" |
David Wooten Department of Life Sciences |
DARWIN DAY "Darwin: Books, Beetles, and Blasphemy" http://www.darwinlecture.com/ |
Dr. Alan Bergland Department of Biology |
DOUBLE HELIX DAY "The genetic basis of life-history variation and adaptation to temperate environments in Drosophila" |
Dr. Robin W. Kimmerer State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry |
http://www.esf.edu/faculty/kimmerer/ |
Dr. Jeong-Ho Kim Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine |
GRAM MICROBIOLOGY |
Dr. Ryan Jensen Department of Geography |
ROBERT MACARTHUR http://fhssfaculty.byu.edu/FacultyPage?id=rrj |
Kevin S. Kinney, Ph.D. Department of Biology |
TRIBETA "The Brain, Inflamed, and Changes under Strain." |