Dr. Caitlin Bowman, Assistant Professor of Psychology at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about her research, entitled ‘Brain Mechanisms of Memory Specificity and Generalization and Their Age-Related Change’. Learn more about Dr. Caitlin Bowman’s work here. Healthy memory function involves both... Read More
Dr. Victoria McCoy, Assistant Professor in the UW-Milwaukee Department of Geosciences, will present a talk about her research, entitled ‘End of an Enigma: Identifying the Strange Extinct Tully Monster as a Chordate’. Read more about the Tully Monster in Dr.... Read More
Dr. Nigel Rothfels, Associate Professor in the UW-Milwaukee Department of History, will present a talk about his research, entitled ‘Seeing Animals in History: A Story of Collaboration and the Przewalski's Horse’. Learn more about Dr. Nigel Rothfels' work here. This talk... Read More
Dr. Jack Costello, Professor of Biology at Providence College, will present a talk about his research, entitled ‘Bending Rules for Animal Propulsion’. Learn more about Dr. Costello’s work here. During steady motion, natural propulsor tips bend to similar extents in similar... Read More
Lauren Simmons, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about her research, entitled ‘Phytoplankton Mortality in an Urban Pond: Understanding the Roles of Abiotic Factors, Grazing Pressure and Allelopathy’. Phytoplankton communities consist of... Read More
Dr. Madhusudan Dey, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about his research, entitled 'Unfolded Protein Response (UPR): Sensing and Signaling'. Learn more about Dr. Dey’s work here. Secretary proteins fold and mature inside the endoplasmic... Read More
Daqing Jiang, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about her research, entitled ‘Bacterial Envelope Stress Signaling on the Regulation of Type III Secretion System in Dickeya dadantii 3937’. Bacteria are known for... Read More
Libby Falat, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about her research, entitled ‘The Role of the Basement Membrane in Brain Morphogenesis’. The ability of organs to execute specific functions relies heavily on... Read More
Rachel Conrad, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about her research, entitled ‘Roles of Secreted Proteins and Iron Utilization Proteins in Virulence of the Fish Pathogen Flavobacterium columnare’. Flavobacterium columnare causes columnaris... Read More
This semester, as a guiding topic, we will have an expression from Carl Sagan: Absence of Evidence Is Not Evidence of Absence Carl Sagan had a TV show on space and the universe. He had his hands full with answering... Read More