Past Department Seminars

Fall 2015

December 8, 2015 at 2:00pm
Adam Smith
Missouri Botanical Garden
"Roadsides, rambling, and ORVs: Are we missing the low-hanging fruits of conservation?"
Research 120

December 1, 2015 at 2:00pm
Kasey Fowler-Finn
St. Louis University
Research 120

November 17, 2015 at 2:00pm
Tiffany Knight
Washington University / Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
"Causes and Consequences of Pollen Limitation"
Research 120

Friday, November 13, 2015 at 1:00 - 5:00pm
Larry Wackett
University of Minnesota
"An Ancient Enzyme Re-emerges: Cyanuric Acid Hydrolase and Water Disinfection"

Jeri Barak
University of Wisconsin
"Nontraditional partnerships: Salmonella enterica interactions with phytophagous insects"

Lawrence David
Duke University
"Perturbing the human microbiome"
Stadler 104

November 10, 2015 at 2:00pm
Shelley Lusetti
New Mexico State University
"RecN stimulates RecA-mediated recombinational repair of DNA double-strand breaks"
Research 120

Friday, November 6, 2015 at 12:00pm
James Whitfield
University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
"From biodiversity inventory to large scale descriptive taxonomy: challenges with hyperdiverse parasitoid wasps"
Research 120

November 3, 2015 at 2:00pm
Eric Knox
Indiana University
"Phylogenetics, biogeography, and organellar genome evolution in lobelias"
Research 120

October 28, 2015 at 2:00pm
Ed Spevak
St. Louis Zoo
"The science of conservation breeding: the challenges and opportunities of saving endangered species"
Research 120

October 20, 2015 at 2:00pm
Sergei Djuranovic
Washington University
"Translational control by ribosome stalling and frameshifting"
Research 120