Clint Sergi, PhD Candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about his research, entitled “Animals Are Smarter Than You Think.” The tradition among behavioral biologists has been to assume behaviors are products of only the... Read More
Alexandra S. Savchenko and Rony Huys, from the Natural History Museum in London, will present a talk about their work, entitled “Radically Divergent Body Plans in the Crustacea: How to Fit Them in the Tree of Life.” The presentation will... Read More
Biswarup Banerjee, PhD Candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about his research, entitled “An Insight Into AraC Family Transcription Factor VfmE as a c-di-GMP Binding Effector in a Plant Pathogen Dickeya dadantii.” Dickeya dadantii... Read More
Kerry Brown, PhD Candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about his research entitled, "Mitochondria and AMPK: When the Powerhouse Meets the Fuel Gauge." AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) is often referred to as the... Read More
Alaleh Ghasemimianaei, PhD Candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences' Yang Lab at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about her research entitled, "A novel transcription factor CdeR regulates type III secretion system in a c-di-GMP dependent manner." The enterobacterium Dickeya... Read More
Nicole Thunes, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, will present a talk about her research entitled, "Gliding Motility, Protein Secretion, and Flavobacterium columnare Virulence." Flavobacterium columnare causes columnaris disease in many economically important freshwater fish. Mutants lacking... Read More
Dr. Rubens Lopes, Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Oceanography at the University of São Paulo, will present a talk entitled, "The AtlantECO Project - Atlantic Ecosystems Assessment, Forecasting, and Sustainability." Learn more about Dr. Lopes' research here. The... Read More
Dr. Qingsu Cheng, Assistant Professor at the UW - Milwaukee in the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, will present a talk about his work entitled, "Breast Tumor Microenvironment: Mammographic Density and Fibroblasts." Learn more about Dr. Cheng's work here.... Read More
Dr. Ricardo Zayas, Associate Professor of Biology at San Diego State University, will present a talk about his work entitled "Regeneration of Sensory Neurons in Planarians." Read more about Dr. Zayas' work here. "My laboratory studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying... Read More
Dr. Lauren Cirino, Dr. Tamjid Chowdhury, Dr. Emily Latch, Dr. Mark McBride, and Dr. Alita Burmeister will compose a panel of post-docs, new faculty, and established faculty that will sit during this week's colloquium and discuss entering academia. The panel... Read More