Department Seminars

This information is an overview of seminars planned for this semester. All seminars are at 11:15 a.m. in G33 Jordan Hall, unless otherwise noted. Email biolsci@clemson.edu or call 864-656-2328 to request a Zoom link.

▧ Fall 2023 Seminars

• September 11: “Lobster Tales: Homelessness, Pestilence and Alien Encounters” — Mark Butler, Florida International University, hosted by Natalie Stephens, Alyssa Baker and Antonio Baeza.
• September 18: (virtual) “Synthesizing Evolvability and Evolutionary Rescue” — Jeremy Draghi, Virginia Tech, hosted by Matt Koski.
• September 25: “Intestinal and Vector-Borne Pathogens in Wild Living Invasive and Native Mesocarnivores in Poland” — Agnieszka Perec-Matysiak, University of Wroclaw, Poland, hosted by Lukasz Kozubowski.
• October 2: “Evolution of Endless Forms Most Beautiful, and Most Wonderful” — Sam Price, Clemson University.
• October 2: Discover Science Series — Gene Robinson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, hosted by Robert Anholt.
• October 9: “A Life of Loonacy, Leading to Jocassee” — Jay Mager, Ohio Northern University, hosted by Virginia Abernathy.
• October 23: “Stress-responsive Translatome Reprogramming in Cryptococcus neoformans – Multiple Paths to a Stress-adaptive State” — John Panepinto, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Buffalo, hosted by Sourabh Dhingra.
• November 6: “Adverse Health Effects and Induction of Transgenerational Inheritance of Disease Due to Environmental Contaminants Using the Zebrafish Model” — Tracie Baker, University of Florida, hosted by Subham Dasgupta.
• November 13: “Plant Invasions in the Tropics: Lessons From the Caribbean” — Julissa Rojas-Sandoval, University of Connecticut, hosted by Jason Fridley.
• November 27: (virtual) Ash Zemenick, Project Biodiversify, hosted by Sam Price.
• December 4: “Adaptive Trait Evolution in Heliconiine Butterflies” — James Lewis, Clemson University, hosted by Julie George.