Mondays at 4:10 p.m.
Plant Bioscience Building (PBB), Room 108 

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Previous Seminars

Spring 2025 Schedule


Date
Speaker
Affiliation
Presentation Topic
January 27th
Angela Olivero

Syracuse University

Uncovering the Ecology, Evolution, and Genome Biology of Protists in Extreme environments
February 3rd
Shawn McGlynn

University of Tokyo

Metabolic Differentiation in a Cyanobacterial Population

February 10th
Open 

 

 

February 17th
Open

 

 

February 24th
Sylvia Nupp

Montana State University

4th year seminar: Extremophilic Methanogens and Fungi

March 3rd
Frank Robb

University of Maryland

Metabolic versatility and a novel chaperonin in the thermophilic, ammonia oxidising archaeon. 

Nitrosocaldus cavascurensis

March 10th 

Bruce Fouke

University of Illinois

Mammoth Hot Springs as a Foundation for work in Mayo Clinic and UCLA Health on Kidney Stones, Heart and Breast Calcification.

March 31st

Kati Ford

North Carolina State University

Examining The Effects of Temperature on Fermentation in Hyperthermophiles from Yellowstone National Park

April 7th 

David Valentine

University of California Santa Barbara 

The DDT Story We Never Finished

April 14th 

Open 

 

 

April 21st

Madison Meyers

Montana State University

Layers of Time: Modernizing Yellowstone's Geology Maps

April 28th

Will Ratcliff

Georgia Tech

Evolution of Multicellularity in Yeast

May 5th

Mircea Podar

Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

Chasing Elusive Microbes in the Wild

 

For speaker suggestions, contact Brent Peyton