Past Events

Toll

Genetics Seminar Series: "The ecology, evolution, and genetic basis of habitat segregation in monkeyflowers" with Kathy Toll, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences (Univ of South Carolina)
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Life Sciences B118
Seaver

Genetics Seminar Series: "Regeneration along the primary body axis in a segmented worm" with Elaine Seaver, PhD

Professor, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience (University of Florida)
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Life Sciences B118
Levine

Canceled - Genetics Seminar Series: Mia Levine, PhD

Associate Professor, Biology (University of Pennsylvania)
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Life Sciences B118
Zhang

Genetics Seminar Series: "The evolutionary history, selective effects, and detection of archaic introgressed variants" with Xinjun "Jun" Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor, Human Genetics (University of Michigan Medical School)
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Life Sciences B118
GOETZ

Genetics Seminar Series: “Exploring the role of ciliary signaling in the form and function of neurons" with Sarah Goetz, PhD

Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology (Duke University School of Medicine)
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Life Sciences B118
Evans

Genetics Seminar Series: " Predicting gastric cancer risk in dogs: Genomic analyses uncover over 15 loci governing susceptibility in a naturally-occurring canine model" with Jacquelyn Evans, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biomedical Sciences (Cornell University)
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Life Sciences B118
Bargmann

Genetics Seminar Series: "Protoplast Regeneration: to Cell and Back" with Bastiaan Bargmann, PhD

Assistant Professor, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences (Virginia Tech)
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Life Sciences B118
Weber

Genetics Seminar Series: "Genetics of coevolution between threespine stickleback fish and a cestode parasite" with Jesse Weber, PhD

Assistant Professor, Integrative Biology (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Life Sciences B118
Fay

Genetics Seminar Series: "Evolution of thermal tolerance" with Justin Fay, PhD

Professor, Biology (University of Rochester)
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Life Sciences B118
Bracewell

Genetics Seminar Series: "Sex chromosome evolution, Y chromosome degeneration, and the formation of new species" with Ryan Bracewell, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biology (Indiana University)
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Life Sciences B118
Unckless

Genetics Seminar Series: "Evolutionary Genomic Causes and Consequences of Meiotic Drive" with Rob Unckless, PhD

Associate Professor, Molecular Biosciences (University of Kansas)
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Life Sciences B118
Akera

Genetics Seminar Series: "Cell biology of meiotic cheating in mouse oocytes" with Takashi Akera, PhD

Stadtman Investigator, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NIH)
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Life Sciences B118
Menke

Genetics Seminar Series: "Leaping Lizards! A Reptilian Model for Studies of Gene Function in Evolution and Development" with Douglas Menke, PhD

Professor & Director of Developmental Biology Alliance, Genetics (UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA)
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Life Sciences B118
Lyons

Genetics Seminar Series: "Precision Medicine in Felines" with Leslie Lyons, PhD

Gilbreath-McLorn Endowed Professor of Comparative Medicine, Veterinary Medicine & Surgery (University of Missouri – Columbia)
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Life Sciences B118

Genetics Seminar: Daniel, Pique, MD/PhD

Clinical Geneticist, (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Life Sciences B118
Wagner

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "(Re) programming cell fate and function in response to environmental and develpmental cues" with Doris Wagner, PhD

Robert I. Williams Term Professor, Biology (University of Pennsylvania)
Life Sciences B118
Anyi

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "From Genomes to Signals: Deciphering Butterfly Wing Patterning Diversity" with Anyi Mazo-Vargas, PhD

Assistant Research Professor, Biology (Duke University)
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Life Sciences B118
Libuda

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "It’s getting hot in here: mechanisms of temperature-induced transposon mobilization in spermatocytes" with Diana Libuda, PhD

Associate Professor, Biology (University of Oregon)
Life Sciences B118
Fudenberg

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Building biophysical models of 3D genome organization" by Geoff Fudenberg, PhD

Assistant Professor, Quantitative and Computational Biology (University of Southern California)
Life Sciences B118
Andrews

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Exploring faculty thinking and practices in undergraduate STEM teaching" by Tessa Andrews, PhD

Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, Genetics (UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA)
Life Sciences B118
Ben Williams

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "The rules and roles of epigenetic dynamics in plant development" by Ben Williams, PhD

Assistant Professor, Plant & Microbial Biology (University of California, Berkeley)
Life Sciences B118
Rogers

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Conserved and divergent mechanisms regulating neural crest development" by Crystal Rogers, PhD

Assistant Professor, Anatomy, Physiology & Cell Biology (UC Davis)
Life Sciences B118
Unckless

Cancelled: Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: Rob Unckless, PhD

Associate Professor, Molecular Biosciences (University of Kansas)
Life Sciences B118
Springer

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Attempts to understand sources of gene regulation variation in complex maize genomes" by Nathan Springer, PhD

Professor, Plant Biology (University of Minnesota)
Life Sciences B118
Goll

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Chromatin regulation in development and disease" with Mary Goll, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Genetics (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences B118
Taylor

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "The genetics of population divergence and adaptation in chickadees" by Scott Taylor, PhD

Assistant Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Colorado)
Life Sciences B118
Miga

Joint IOB/Genetics Norman Giles Lecture: "Expanding studies of global genomic diversity with complete, telomere-to-telomere assemblies" by Karen Miga, PhD

Assistant Professor, Biomolecular Engineering (UCSC)
Life Sciences C127
Wentao Li

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Genome-wide Analysis of the Formation and Repair of DNA Damage Caused by Environmental Carcinogens" by Wentao Li, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Health Science (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences B118
Schnitzler

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Hydractinia: a marine invertebrate model for regeneration and stem cell biology" by Christine Schnitzler, PhD

Associate Professor, Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience (University of Florida)
Life Sciences B118
Jie Chen

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Signaling in skeletal muscle regeneration and muscular dystrophy" with Jie Chen, PhD

Professor, School of Molecular & Cellular Biology (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
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Edward Grow

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Reprogramming in oocytes and early embryos" with Edward Grow, PhD

Assistant Professor, Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences (UT Southwestern)
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Dina Newman

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Disconnects in visual literacy may create roadblocks for students navigating the DNA landscape" with Dina Newman, PhD

Professor, Thomas H. Gosnell School of Life Sciences (Rochester Institute of Technology)
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Jason Pellettieri

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Metabolic control of porphyrin biosynthesis by mTOR signaling in a planarian model of acute porphyrias" with Jason Pellettieri, PhD

Professor, Biology (Keene State College)
Coverdell S175
Snyder-Mackler

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Unique adaptations of a grazing, high elevation primate" with Noah Snyder-Mackler, PhD

Assistant Professor, Center for Evolution and Medicine (Arizona State University)
Coverdell S175
Eckert

Joint Plant Biology/Genetics Seminar: “CRISPR-Enabled Functional Genomics in Cyanobacteria and Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria” with Carrie Eckert, PhD

Senior Scientist, Synthetic Biology Group (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
2401 Miller Plant Sciences
Hanlon

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "B chromosome dynamics during female meiosis in D. melanogaster" with Stacey Hanlon, PhD

Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology (UCONN)
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McFarland

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Theoretical & experimental models of cancer evolution" with Chris McFarland, PhD

Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences, School of Medicine (Case Western Reserve University)
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Blake Billmyre

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "High-throughput transposon mutagenesis and sequencing enables genome-wide analysis of drug resistance in a human fungal pathogen" with Blake Billmyre, PhD

Assistant Professor, Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences (University of Georgia)
Coverdell S175
Fabio Morgante

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: “Embracing complexity to improve phenotype prediction” with Fabio Morgante, PhD

Assistant Professor, Genetics and Biochemistry (Clemson University)
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Clark

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Identification of genetic risk factors for congenital megaesophagus in German Shepherd Dogs" with Leigh Anne Clark, PhD

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Jose Dinneny

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: “Diversification of environmental stress responses in plants” withJosé Dinneny, PhD

Professor, Biology (Stanford University)
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Barbara Mellone

Genetics Wednesday Seminar Series: "Centromeres and retroelements: selfish elements strike a deal" with Barbara Mellone, PhD

Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology (uconn)
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Sucre

Genetics Special Seminar: "Having New Eyes: A New Integrated Model of Alveologenesis in 4-Dimensions" with Jennifer Sucre, M.D.

Jennifer Sucre, Department of Pediatrics (Vanderbilt University Medical Center)
Life Sciences B118
Lynette

Genetics Seminar Series: "A snapshot of color: exploring the ecological and genomic basis of color variation in a tropical beetle" with Lynette R. Strickland, PhD

Center for Biodiversity Research, Biological Sciences (University of Memphis)
Life Sciences B118
Nicole

Genetics Seminar Series: "Genome-wide responses in meiotic recombination to structural variation" with Nicole Crown, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Anderson

Genetics Seminar Series: "Local adaptation in a rapidly changing climate: Insights from an alpine wildflower, Boechera stricta (Brassicaceae)" with Jill Anderson, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Natalia

Genetics Seminar Series: "A plant living inside a plant: holoparasitism and the evo-devo of extreme morphological transformation and reduction" with Natalia Pabón-Mora, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Monroe

Genetics Seminar Series: "Mechanisms, origins, and consequences of targeted DNA repair in plants” with Grey Monroe, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Ye

Genetics Seminar Series: "Quantitative Genetics of Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids" with Kaixiong Ye, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Erika Geisbrecht

Genetics Seminar Series: "Through Thick and Thin: the path towards muscle proteostasis" with Erika Geisbrecht, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Gene Flyer

GENES Club Presents: Beth Shapiro

Beth Shapiro, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of California Santa Cruz)
Davison B118
Carol Huang

Genetics Seminar Series: "Efficient mapping of genome-wide regulatory elements for biological insights" with Carol Huang, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Trudy Mackay

Provost’s Seminar Series on Academic Excellence: "Genetic Architecture of Complex Traits: Lessons From Drosophila" with Trudy F. C. Mackay, PhD

Life Sciences B118
John McDonald

Genetics Seminar Series: "The contribution of micro-RNAs to cancer metastasis: an evolutionary perspective" with John McDonald, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Pengpeng Bi

Genetics Seminar Series: "Genetic and evolution mechanism of vertebrate muscle cell fusion" with Pengpeng Bi, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Robin Buell

Genetics Seminar Series: "Use of complementary single cell omics to elucidate specialized metabolism in Madagascar periwinkle" with Robin Buell, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Murand

Genetics Seminar Series: “An exploration of cis-regulatory diversity in plant single-cells” with Alex Marand, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Molly Schumer

Genetics Seminar Series: "The genetic architecture of hybrid incompatibilities: insights from swordtail fish" with Molly Schumer, PhD

Life Sciences B118
Lisa Hoelski

Genetics Seminar Series: "Evolution and genetics of plant defense: Plant-herbivore interactions in a model plant species" with Liza Holeski, PhD

Coverdell S175
Leslie Lienwand

Genetics Seminar Series: "Snake oil: lessons learned from an animal evolved to survive in extreme environments" with Leslie Leinwand, PhD

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Rafael Guerrero

Genetics Seminar Series: "Double feature: Hybrid incompatibilities in gene networks // Early sex-chromosome evolution in plants" with Rafael Guerrero, PhD

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Eszter Posfai

Genetics Seminar Series: "Towards understanding the dynamics of cell fate decisions and organization in the early mammalian embryo" with Eszter Posfai, PhD

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Yarui Diao

Genetics Seminar Series: "The 4D Nucleome of gene regulation in stem cell pluripotency and differentiation" with Yarui Diao, PhD

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Ricardo

Genetics Seminar Series: "The developmental basis of biological diversity: insights from mammalian skin" with Ricardo Mallarino, PhD

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Yannick Jacob

Genetics Seminar Series: "Regulation of chromatin replication by the histone H3.1 variant" with Yannick Jacob, PhD

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Armstrong

Genetics Seminar Series: "Fat-to-ovary communication coordinates the ovarian response to dietary input" with Alissa Armstrong, PhD

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Courtney

Genetics Seminar Series: "Type IV pili: a multi-scale system for understanding the physical world of bacteria" with Courtney Ellison, PhD

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Floyd Chilton

Genetics Seminar Series: “Impact of Gene by Diet Interactions on Fatty Acid Metabolism and Inflammatory/Cardiometabolic Diseases: A Potential Pathogenetic Basis for Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities” with Floyd "Ski" Chilton III, PhD

Coverdell S175
Gibson

Genetics Seminar Series: "Canalization of Polygenic Risk and its influence on Personalized Genomic Medicine" with Greg Gibson, PhD

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Nancy

Genetics Seminar Series: "My life with the thymus and parathyroids" with Nancy Manley, PhD

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Kurt

Genetics Seminar Series: “How do Microbes Choose their Neighbors?” with Kurt Dahlstrom, PhD

Coverdell S175
good

Wednesday Seminar Series: 4/27 with Dr. Jeff Good

Jeff Good, Wildlife Biology (University of Montana)
Coverdell S175
Kamberov

Wednesday Seminar Series: 4/20 with Dr. Yana Kamberov

Yana Kamberov, Genetics (University of Pennsylvania)
Zoom; for an invite, contact Susan White at whites@uga.edu
Zakas

Wednesday Seminar Series: 4/13 with Christina Zakas

Christina Zakas, Genetics (North Carolina State University)
Davison B118
Safran

Wednesday Seminar Series: 4/6 with Dr. Rebecca Safran

Rebecca Safran, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Colorado Boulder)
Zoom; for an invite, contact Nate Caskey at nathanael.caskey@uga.edu
Chen-Musgrove

Wednesday Seminar Series: 3/30 with Dr. Miranda Chen-Musgrove

Miranda Chen-Musgrove, RE(3)ACH Lab (University of Colorado Boulder)
Zoom; for an invite, contact Nate Caskey at nathanael.caskey@uga.edu
Chen

Wednesday Seminar Series: 3/23 with Dr. Nancy Chen

Nancy Chen, Biology (University of Rochester)
Coverdell S175
Lea

Wednesday Seminar Series: 3/16 with Dr. Amanda Lea

Amanda Lea, Biological Science (Vanderbilt University)
Coverdell S175
Dapper

Wednesday Seminar Series: 3/2 with Dr. Amy Dapper

Amy Dapper, Biological Sciences (Mississippi State)
Coverdell S175
wang

Wednesday Seminar Series: 2/23 with Dr. Jianbin Wang

Jianbin Wang, Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology (University of Tennessee)
Zoom; for an invite, contact Nate Caskey at nathanael.caskey@uga.edu
Rieder

Wednesday Seminar Series: 2/16 with Dr. Leila Rieder

Leila Rieder, Biology (Emory University)
Zoom; for an invite, contact Nate Caskey at nathanael.caskey@uga.edu
Lovely

Wednesday Seminar Series: 2/9 with Dr. Ben Lovely

Ben Lovely, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics (University of Louisville)
Coverdell S175
rachel

Wednesday Seminar Series: 2/2 with Rachel Roberts-Galbraith

Rachel Roberts-Galbraith, Cellular Biology (University of Georgia)
Coverdell S175
Nelms

Wednesday Seminar Series: 1/12 with Dr. Brad Nelms

Brad Nelms, Plant Biology (University of Georgia)
Coverdell S175
Alex

Wednesday Seminar Series: 11/17 with Dr. Alex Dainis

Dr. Alex Dainis, (Helicase Media)
Format/Location TBA
jenn

Wednesday Seminar Series: 11/10 with Dr. Jenn Coughlan

Dr. Jenn Coughlan, Biology (UNC Chapel Hill)
Davison Life Sciences Room B118
Carrie Wessinger

Wednesday Seminar Series: 11/3 with Dr. Carrie Wessinger

Dr. Carrie Wessinger, Biological Sciences (University of South Carolina)
Davison Life Sciences Room B118
jill dowen

Wednesday Seminar Series: 10/27 with Dr. Jill Dowen

Dr. Jill Dowen, Biochemistry and Biophysics (UNC Chapel Hill)
Zoom, to be emailed to UGA Life Sciences Lists. For an invite, please contact nathanael.caskey@uga.edu.
kendall moore

Wednesday Seminar Series: 10/20 Film Screening: 'Can We Talk? Difficult Conversations With Underrepresented People of Color' by Dr. Kendall Moore

Dr. Kendall Moore,
Davison Life Sciences Room B118
Leslie

Wednesday Seminar Series: 10/13 with Dr. Elizabeth Leslie

Dr. Elizabeth Leslie, School of Medicine (Emory University)
Zoom, to be emailed to UGA Life Sciences Lists. For an invite, please contact nathanael.caskey@uga.edu.
Karyadi

Wednesday Seminar Series: 9/29 with Dr. Danielle Karyadi

Dr. Danielle Karyadi, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics (National Cancer Institute)
Zoom, to be emailed to UGA Life Sciences Lists. For an invite, please contact nathanael.caskey@uga.edu.
adler

Wednesday Seminar Series: 9/22 with Dr. Carrie Adler

Dr. Carrie Adler, Molecular Medicine (Cornell University)
Davison Life Sciences Room B118
Mooney

Wednesday Seminar Series: 9/15 with Dr. Jazlyn Mooney

Dr. Jazlyn Mooney, Quantitative and Computational Biology (USC Dornsife)
Zoom, to be emailed to UGA Life Sciences Lists. For an invite, please contact nathanael.caskey@uga.edu.
callan

Wednesday Seminar Series: 9/8 with Callan Russell

Callan Russell, Department of Genetics (Stanford Medicine)
Davison Life Sciences Room B118
caspary

Wednesday Seminar Series: 9/1 with Dr. Tamara Caspary

Dr. Tamara Caspary, School of Medicine (Emory University)
Davison Life Sciences Room B118
xiaoming liu

Wednesday Seminar Series: 8/25 with Dr. Xiaoming Liu

Dr. Xiaoming Liu, College of Public Health (University of South Florida)
Davison Life Sciences Room B118
Goldberg

Weekly Seminar Series

Amy Goldberg, Biology (Duke Universtiy)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Mamta Tahiliani

Weekly Seminar Series

Mamta Tahiliani, Grossman School of Medicine (New York University)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Huangfu

Weekly Seminar Series

Danwei Huangfu, Sloan Kettering Institute (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Abdel Halloway

Weekly Seminar Series

Abdel Halloway, Botany and Plant Biology (Purdue Univeristy)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Celina Juliano

Weekly Seminar Series

Celina Juliano, College of Biological Sciences (University of California Davis)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Mike White

Weekly Seminar Series

Mike White, Department of Genetics (University of Georgia)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Erin Kelleher

Weekly Seminar Series

Erin Kelleher, Department of Biology and Biochemistry (University of Houston)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Kaixiong Ye

Weekly Seminar Series

Kaixiong Ye, Department of Genetics (University of Georgia)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Collins and Harwood

Weekly Seminar Series

Stacy Harwood and Jasmine Collins, (University of Utah (Harwood), The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Collins))
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Andrea Sweigart

Weekly Seminar Series

Andrea Sweigart, Department of Genetics (University of Georgia)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Jen Cech

Weekly Seminar Series

Jen Cech, (Seattle Children's Hospital)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Neil Shubin

2021 Boyd Lecture

Neil Shubin, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy (The University of Chicago)
Registration Link Below
Satyaki Rajavasireddy

Weekly Seminar Series

Satyaki Rajavasireddy, Whitehead Institute (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Extavour

Weekly Seminar Series

Cassandra Extavour, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (Harvard University)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Dr. Lemon

Weekly Seminar Series

Laramie D. Lemon, Department of Biology (Emory University)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Effie Apostolou

Weekly Seminar Series

Effie Apostolou, Medical Sciences (Cornell University)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
ma

Doctoral Defense: Zhongyao Ma

For Zoom info, contact zm19135@uga.edu
Jordan

Doctoral Defense: William Jordan

For Zoom info, contact williamtjordan@uga.edu
Melinda Yang

Weekly Seminar Series

Melinda Yang, Department of Biology (The University of Richmond)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Bobier

Doctoral Defense: Karen Bobier

For Zoom info, contact karen.bobier25@uga.edu
Alice Naftaly

Doctoral Defense: Alice Naftaly

For Zoom info, contact alice.shanfelter@uga.edu
Tanisha Williams

Weekly Seminar Series

Tanisha Williams, Biology (Bucknell University)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Eladio Abreu

Weekly Seminar Series

Eladio Abreu, Biology (Emory University)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Erica Andersen

Weekly Seminar Series

Erica Andersen, Pathology (University of Utah)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Dr. Lua Lopez

Weekly Seminar Series

Lua Lopez, Department of Biology (California State University, San Bernardino)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Martha Munoz

Weekly Seminar Series

Martha Muñoz, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Yale University)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Sharon Strauss

Weekly Seminar Series

Sharon Strauss, Biological Sciences (University of California Davis)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Scott Nelson

Weekly Seminar Series

Scott Nelson, History (University of Georgia)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.
Douda Bensasson

Weekly Seminar Series

Douda Bensasson, Plant Biology (University of Georgia)
Zoom invites will be provided to the UGA Genetics community by email.

Genetic Architecture, Gene Network Variation, and Evolutionary Hotspots in Yeast

Paul Magwene, Department of Biology (Duke University)
Life Sciences, B118

Increased Course Structure: A recipe for closing achievement gaps in introductory biology

Sarah Eddy, Biology and the STEM Transformation Institute (Florida International University)
Life Sciences, B118

Simple inheritance, complex regulation: supergene-mediated fire ant queen polymorphism

Brendan Hunt, Department of Entomology (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences, B118

Redesigning plant metabolism

Patrick Shih, Department of Plant Biology (University of California, Davis)
Life Sciences, B118

Using human brain organoids to unveil neuron-glial interactions during development

Steven Sloan, Department of Human Genetics (Emory University)
Life Sciences, B118

Making heads or tails of tapeworms: Region-specific regulation of stem cell-driven regeneration in Hymenolepis diminuta

Tania Rozario, Regenerative Biology (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Life Sciences, B118

The impact of demographic history and natural selection on human complex traits: examples from Sardinia and Finland

Charleston Chiang, Keck School of Medicine (University of Southern California)
Life Sciences, B118

Environmental Adaptation in House Mice from the Americas

Megan Phifer-Rixey, Biology Department (Monmouth University)
Life Sciences, B118

WTF causes infertility

Sarah Zanders, (Stowers Institute)
Coverdell, S175

Genetic manipulation of pathogen and host to probe their complex interactions

Eric Harvill, Department of Infectious Diseases (University of Georgia)
Coverdell, S175

Challenges and opportunities for epigenetic engineering in triple negative breast cancer

Karmella Haynes, Department of Biomedical Engineering / School of Medicine (Georgia Tech / Emory University )
Coverdell S175

The evolution of reproductive phenology across gradients of growing season length in the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Chris Eckert, Biology Department (Queen's University)
Coverdell, S175

Epigenetic regulation of developmental and environmental interaction

Xuehua Zhong, Laboratory of Genetics (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Coverdell, S175

Revisiting the role of structural variants in plant adaptation, speciation, and improvement

Loren Rieseberg, Department of Botany (University of British Columbia)
Coverdell, S175

Exploring the potential adaptive role of transcribed microsatellites in Helianthus annuus, the common sunflower.

Mark Welch, Department of Biological Sciences (Mississippi State University)
Coverdell, S175

Unexpected patterns of dosage compensation across independently evolved XX/XY and ZZ/ZW turtle systems illuminate vertebrate sex chromosome evolution.

Nicole Valenzuela, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology (Iowa State University)
Coverdell, S175

Y degenerate? The evolution of plant sex chromosomes

Stephen Wright, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (University of Toronto)
Coverdell, S175

Novel roles of the 26S proteasome during C. elegans gametogenesis and fertilization

Anna Allen, Department of Biology (Howard University )
Life Sciences, C114**

Evolution and genetic prediction of hereditary disease risks in ancient and modern humans

Joe Lachance, Biological Sciences (Georgia Tech )
Coverdell, S175

Functional and genomic analysis of cotton growth habit to benefit iterative field maintenance and harvest by distributed, autonomous robots

Brian Ayre, Department of Biological Sciences (University of North Texas)
Coverdell, S175

Strange bedfellows – the thymus and parathyroids, from organogenesis to aging

Nancy Manley (University of Georgia)
Coverdell, S175

How much do inversions really impede interspecies gene exchange? New surprises from a classic Drosophila system

Katharine Korunes, Evolutionary Anthropology (Duke University)
Coverdell, S175

Evolution of RNA Polymerases in plants: understanding duplication of multi-subunit complexes

Rebecca Mosher, School of Plant Sciences (University of Arizona)
Coverdell, S175

Role of lncRNA-HIT in development and tissue homeostasis

Scott Stadler, School of Medicine, Molecular & Medical Genetics (Oregon Health & Science University)
Life Sciences, B118

Centromere organization and evolution in Drosophila

Amanda Larracuente, Department of Biology (University of Rochester)
Life Sciences, B118

The Gene Balance Hypothesis: How regulatory gene stoichiometries affect expression, quantitative traits and evolutionary processes

Jim Birchler, Division of Biological Sciences (University of Missouri)
Life Sciences, B118

SPATIAL CO-FRAGMENTATION PATTERN OF CELL-FREE DNA RECAPITULATES IN VIVO CHROMATIN ORGANIZATION AND IDENTIFIES TISSUES-OF-ORIGIN

Yaping Liu, Division of Human Genetics & Department of Pediatrics (Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center & University of Cincinnati, School of Medicine)
Life Sciences, B118

Evolution at the intersection of dietary adaptation and sex in East African cichlid fish

Reade Roberts, Department of Biological Sciences (North Carolina State)
Life Sciences, B118

Transposable elements as catalysts of genetic innovation

Cedric Feschotte, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics (Cornell University)
Life Sciences, B118

Chromatin regulation in development and disease.

Mary Goll (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences, B118

Lepidopteran genomics: Sperm proteomes & sex chromosomes

Jamie Walters, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Kansas)
Life Sciences, B118

Primary cilia in development and disease: from neurodegeneration to cancer

Sarah Goetz, Pharmacology & Cancer Biology (Duke University )
Life Sciences, B118

Regulation of nutrient homeostasis by a calcium signaling network in plants

Sheng Luan, Department of Plant & Microbial Biology (University of California, Berkeley)
Life Sciences, B118

Guardians of the Germline: apoptosis and transposon regulation in developing germ cells

Diana Laird, Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences (University of California San Francisco)
Life Sciences, B118

Mechanisms of transgenerational inheritance of obesity epiphenotypes in mice

Victor Corces, Department of Biology (Emory University)
Life Sciences, B118

Experimentally evolving an adaptive radiation: a study with birds and their parasites

Scott Villa, Department of Biology (Emory University)
Life Sciences, B118

Building an adaptation: 300 million years of toxin resistance evolution

Joel McGlothlin, Department of Biological Sciences (Virginia Tech)
Coverdell, S175

The highly-unusual yet evolutionarily conserved mitochondrial genome of Toxoplasma gondii – a 15 year odyssey

Jessica Kissinger (University of Georgia)
Coverdell, S175

Patterning Morphogenesis via the Planar Cell Polarity Pathway

Danelle Devenport, Department of Molecular Biology (Princeton University)
Coverdell, S175

Modeling disease of the peripheral nervous system using human pluripotent stem cells

Nadja Zeltner, Center for Molecular Medicine (University of Georgia)
Coverdell, S175

Rethinking Research Presentations: The Assertion−Evidence Structure

Michael Alley, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering (Pennsylvania State University)
Coverdell, S175

Comparative functional genomics in budding yeasts and their hybrids

Maitreya Dunham, Department of Genome Sciences (University of Washington)
Coverdell, S175

Human genetic polymorphisms, alternative transcripts, and fatty acid nutrition

Tom Brenna, Department of Pediatrics, Dell Medical School (University of Texas)
Coverdell, S175

Control of muscle development and regeneration by the fusogenic micropeptide Myomixer

Pengpeng BI (University of Georgia)
Coverdell, S175

Mechanisms underlying temperature responses in plants

Sibum Sung, Department of Molecular Biosciences (University of Texas)
Coverdell, S175

Genetic and Epigenetic Bases for Polyploidy and Hybrid Vigor

Jeff Chen, Department of Molecular Biosciences (University of Texas)
Coverdell, S175

Molecular insights into Hedgehog signaling pathway

Xiaochun Li, Molecular Genetics / Biophysics (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center)
Coverdell, S175

Metabolic patchworks between insects and their endosymbiotic bacteria

John McCutcheon, Division of Biological Sciences (University of Montana)
Coverdell, S175

The Rid system: Endogenously generated metabolic stress and its control

Diana Downs, Department of Microbiology (University of Georgia)
Coverdell, S175

Exploring the origin of multicellularity through experimental evolution

Will Ratcliff, Department of Biological Sciences (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Coverdell, S175

RNA-mediated gene fusion in cancer

Laising Yen, Department of Pathology & Immunology/Department of Molecular & Cellular Biology (Baylor College of Medicine)
Life Sciences, B118

Transcriptional Regulatory Mechanisms across Developmental and Evolutionary Timescales

Robert Franks, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology (North Carolina State University)
Life Sciences, B118

Causes and consequences of genetic conflict in Drosophila

Kelly Dyer (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences - B118

Chromatin dynamics as a driver of cancer chemoresistance

Mike Kladde, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (University of Florida)
Life Sciences - B118

Through the looking glass: host-parasite coevolution and sex

Curtis Lively, Department of Biology (Indiana University)
Life Sciences - B118

Teacher knowledge for active-learning instruction in undergraduate biology education

Tessa Andrews (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences - B118

Hedgehog Signaling in Embryonic and Postnatal Development, Adult Tissue Homeostasis and Cancer

Benjamin Allen, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (University of Michigan Medical School)
Life Sciences - B118

Evolution in social insects

Life Sciences, B118

Variation and Genetic Control of the Mammalian Mutation Rate

Beth Dumont, (The Jackson Laboratory)
Life Sciences - B118

A “keystone mutation” in the ochre sea star Pisaster

John Wares, Department of Genetics (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences - B118

3MT Competition and New student welcome

Life Sciences - B118

Quest for the origin of (stickleback) species

Dolph Schluter, Biodiversity Research Centre and Zoology Department (University of British Columbia)
Life Sciences - B118

The host/symbiont interface

Alex Wilson, Department of Biology (University of Miami)
Life Sciences - B118

Evidence-based teaching: just the facts or thinking like scientists?

Diane Ebert-May, Department of Plant Biology (Michigan State University)
Life Sciences - B118

Ecophysiological genomics and the desert adapted rodent, Peromyscus eremicus

Matthew MacManes, Department of Molecular, Cellular, & Biomedical Sciences (University of New Hampshire)
Life Sciences - B118

Misregulation of Chromatin Pathways in Human Cancer

Peter Lewis, Biomolecular Chemistry Department (The Wisconsin Institute for Discovery)
Life Sciences - B118

Inhibiting CRISPR-Cas9 with bacteriophage proteins

Joseph Bondy-Denomy , Department of Microbiology and Immunology (University of California, San Francisco )
Life Sciences - B118

Principles of Epigenetics and Chromatin in Development and Human Disease

Ali Shilatifard, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics (Northwestern University)
Life Sciences - B118

UGA Genetics Founders Symposium

UGA Georgia Center

More than just a pretty place: Potential for addressing broader impacts for scientific research at the State Botanical Garden

Jennifer Cruse-Sanders, State Botanical Garden (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences - B118

Does the mind matter?: How visual preferences contribute to speciation in darters

Tamra Mendelson, Department of Biological Sciences (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Life Sciences - B118
Rebeccah Rogers

Genomic meltdown in woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island

Rebekah Rogers, Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics (The University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
Life Sciences - B118

The Cis-Regulatory Architecture of GDF5 and Its Roles in Joint Development and Osteoarthritis Risk

Terence Capellini, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology (Harvard University)
Life Sciences - B118

TBA - Laurie Stevison

Laurie Stevison, Biological Sciences (Auburn University)
Life Sciences - B118

Evolution and Plasticity of Meiotic Recombination Rate

Laurie Stevison, Department of Biological Sciences (Auburn University )
Life Sciences - B118

Evolution of DNA methylation and how it affects human evolution

Soojin Yi, School of Biological Sciences (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Life Sciences - B118
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TBA - Soojin Yi

Soojin Yi, School of Biological Sciences (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Identification of mechanisms underlying the origins of spontaneous epigenetic variation

Bob Schmitz (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Molecular mechanisms for the origin of a novel cell type: the mammalian decidual cell

Gunter Wagner, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (Yale University)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Epigenetic reprogramming during plant development

Mary Gehring, Biology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Generating genetic diversity without sex: tales from an opportunistic fungal pathogen

Meleah Hickman , Biology (Emory University)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Mechanisms of signaling and cell identity specification in mammalian development

Jonathan Eggenschwiler (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Hidden inequities in active learning classrooms: How groups of students are differentially impacted by active learning

Sara Brownell, School of Life Sciences (Arizona State University)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Premating isolation and unstudied hybrid phenotypes in mice

Polly Campbell, Integrative Biology (Oklahoma State University)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - ARF Transcription Factors: Protein aggregation as a regulator of gene transcription

Lucia Strader, Biology (Washington University in St. Louis)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - CANCELLED

Tae-Hee Kim, Molecular Genetics (University of Toronto)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - The Developmental Bases for the Adaptive Radiation of Anolis Lizards

Thomas Sanger , Biology (Loyola University)
Life Sciences - B118

Genetics Grad Student (GGSA) 3MT competition and new student welcome

Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Biological complexity as exemplified by symbiotic viruses of parasitoid wasps

Gaelen Burke, Entomology (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Recombination rate influences adaptation and speciation: Studies in the Drosophila pseudoobscura species group

Mohamed Noor, Biology (Duke University)
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - Investigating patterns of DNA methylation in hymenopteran genomes

Brendan Hunt, Entomology (UGA)
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - A novel kinesin promotes neocentromere activity and meiotic drive in maize

R. Kelly Dawe (University of Georgia)
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - Genomics of Natural Populations: How the Evolution of Complex Traits Shapes Genome Structure in Drosophila pseudoobscura

Stephen Schaeffer, Biology (Penn State)
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - B cell Genomics: Developing new technologies to analyze the adaptive immune system on bulk and single cell levels

Chris Vollmers, Biomolecular Engineering (UC Santa Cruz)
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - The epigenetic function of LSD1 in cell fate and Alzheimer’s Disease

David Katz, Cell Biology (Emory University )
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - Leveraging genomics to improve staple crops

Jason Wallace, Crop and Soil Science (University of Georgia)
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - Corals in hot water: the genomic basis of coral thermal tolerance

Dan Barshis, Biological Sciences (Old Dominion University)
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - Fin-folds and fingers share a deep regulatory homology

Marcus Davis, Biology (Kennesaw State University )
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - Role of chemokine in prostate cancer disparity

Shailesh Singh, Microbiology, Biochemistry & Immunology (Morehouse School of Medicine )
Coverdell - S175

Seminar - Cryptic variation and the evolution of complex traits

Annalise Paaby, Biology (Georgia Tech)
Coverdell - S175

TBA - Tenure Talks

Tenure Talks, Genetics (University of Georgia)
Life Sciences - B118

Seminar - Gene Targeting into the 21st Century: Mouse Models of Human Disease from Cancer to Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Mario Capecchi, Human Genetics and Biology (University of Utah School of Medicine)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - Swift and Selective: Translational Control in Stress Response

Shu-Bing Qian, Division of Nutritional Sciences (Cornell University)
B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - A Sweet Story About Sex Chromosomes

Barbara Panning, Biochemistry and Biophysics (UCSF School of Medicine)
B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - Genetics of speciation in Mimulus

Andrea Sweigart (University of Georgia)
B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - Using natural variation in tomato to understand the plant immune system

Greg Martin, Plant Sciences (Cornell University)
2401 Miller Plant Sciences

Seminar - The population genetics of evolutionary rescue

Allen Orr, Biology (University of Rochester)
B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - Smoke and hormone mirrors: the mechanism and evolution of karrikin and strigolactone signaling

B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - GDF11 as an Anti-Aging Factor: The Ongoing Search for the Fountain of Youth

Rob Pazdro, Foods and Nutrition (UGA)
B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - Keep your friends close: Cooperative receptor function in shoot stem cell patterning

Zack Nimchuk, Biology (UNC at Chapel Hill)
B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - Dominant Gene Action Accounts for Much of the Unexplained Phenotypic Variance in a Maize GWAS and Provides Insight Into Heterosis

Patrick Schnable, Plant Genomics (Iowa State University)
B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - When to do it?: selection on germination and flowering time imposed by the general, social and internal environments

Arthur Weis, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (University of Toronto)
B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - Environmental DNA – a reservoir of functional novelty

Alan McCarthy, Microbiology (University of Liverpool )
Ecology Auditorium 201

Seminar - Genetic approaches to study tomato fruit development

Esther van der Knaap, Horticulture and IPBGG (University of Georgia)
B118 - Life Sciences

Seminar - Why sex with a partner is better, the evolutionary ecology of the maintenance of outcrossing

Levi Morran, Biology (Emory University)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - Passion Pollen & Poison Innovation and diversification in Heliconius and its interaction network

Lawrence Gilbert, Section of Integrative Biology (University of Texas, Austin)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - A genetic suppressor screen in Mecp2 mice reveals that lipid metabolism is a therapeutic target for Rett syndrome

Monica Justice, Genetics & Genome Biology (University of Toronto)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - SNP/Tuck: The role of NKT cells in anti-cancer immunity

Tonya Webb, Microbiology & Immunology (University of Maryland School of Medicine)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - Investigating Common Origins of Diverse Biological Misconceptions: Cognitive Science, Intuitive Reasoning, and the Development of Biological Thinking

Kimberly Tanner, Biology (San Francisco State University)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - Cell-type-specific epigenetics of brain, fat, and placenta

Richard B. Meagher (University of Georgia)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - Strategies to improve T cell reconstitution

Marcel van den Brink, Immunology Program (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - "What do (fly) females want? Fitness Costs and Benefits of Polyandry in Ten Drosophila species"

Patty Gowaty, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (UCLA)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - What happens when you’re TOPLESS-diverse functions of a plant co-repressor

Jeff Long, Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (UCLA)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - Functional Biomarkers for African American Prostate and Breast Cancer Patients

Clayton Yates , Biology and Center for Cancer Research (Tuskegee University)
S175 Coverdell

Seminar - Alterations in brain structure and function associated with Aniridia

S175 Coverdell

Seminar - The emerging phylogenetic pattern of parthenogenesis in snakes

Warren Booth, Biological Sciences (University of Tulsa)
B118 Davison

Seminar - Limbs, genitals, and the developmental control of appendage formation

Douglas Menke (University of Georgia)
B118 Davison

Norman Giles Lecture - Evolution in Fluctuating Environments

Marcus Feldman, Biological Sciences (Stanford University)
201 Ecology

Seminar - Cellular dynamics driving the morphogenesis of the early mouse embryo

Anna-Katerina Hadjantonakis, Developmental Biology (Sloan Kettering Institute)
B118 Davison

Seminar - The genetic basis of social interactions regulating social insect caste

Timothy Linksvayer, Biology (University of Pennsylvania)
B118 Davison

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