Monthly Group Meetings

Open to all CBio-Associated faculty, staff, students, campus affiliates of CBio, and local and regional partners

Dr. Jennifer Mandel; Dept. of Biological Sciences; Asteraceae, phylogenetics, evolution

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No Meeting (Month Off)

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Dr. Michael Collins; Dept. of Biology; Rhodes College; Avian ecology, community ecology, and disease ecology with a particular focus on avian malaria

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Dr. Youngsang Kwon; Dept. of Earth Sci.; biogeography, forest dynamics, species distribution modeling, terrestrial carbon cycling, RS/GIS, climate change

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Memphis Zoo Research Staff; Introductions, Research Summary

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Dr. Na Ra Shin; Dept. of Biological Sciences (Postdoc; McKenna Lab); Horizontally acquired genes encoded in the genomes of longhorn beetles (Cerambycidae) that facilitate the metabolism of woody plant tissues.

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Dr. Terrence Sylvester; Dept. of Biological Sciences (Postdoc; McKenna Lab); Beetle population and comparative genomics, evolution, sex chromosomes.

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Dr. Claudio Maier; Dept. of Civil Engineering; Cottonwood (Populus deltoides) establishment on gravel-bed rivers and hyporheic flow exchange at the river bar scale.

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No meeting due to weather conditions / campus closure

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Dr. Alka Sharma; Dept. of Biological Sciences; Work with the TN Open Educational Resources textbook and challenge exam for the high school dual credit course “Introduction to Plant Science”.

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Dr. Erika Moore-Pollard; UofM; Mandel Lab; Recent visit to the Royal Botanical Gardens (Kew) and the International Botanical Congress conference in Madrid, Spain.

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Y. Sonia Holmes; Environmental Project Coordinator, City of Memphis Stormwater Department; Stormwater pollution awareness & abatement.

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Dr. Dorian Burnette; UofM; Department of Earth Sciences; Reconstructing Extreme Weather and Climate Events.

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Dr. Duane McKenna & Soo-hyun Jeong (PhD candidate); UofM Department of Biological Sciences. Research adventures in Madagascar.

Dr. Mehdi Amini; UofM; Department of Marketing & Supply Chain Management; Developing Future Transportation Technology.

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Dr. James Moore; Dept. of Biology; Christian Brothers Univ.; riverine & wetland ecology, population & community ecology, biostatistics

Dr. Alison Happel-Parkins; Dept. of Counseling, Educational Psychology & Research; environmental justice

Dr. Ryan Parish; Dept. of Earth Sciences; archaeology, initial colonization of the Americas, cultural resource management

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Dr. Ted Maclin; Dept. of Anthropology; ethnography; food & agriculture; globalization; energy & climate change; science & policy

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Dr. Shawn Brown; Biological Sciences; cross-domain microbial ecology, mechanisms of community assembly

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Dr. Emily Puckett; Dept. of Biological Sciences; genetic architecture, introgression/ admixture, bears

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Soohyun Jeong; Dept. of Biological Sciences (Graduate student: McKenna Lab); Evolution & adaptive radiation of endemic longhorn beetles in Madagascar

Catherine Justis; Director of Education, Wolf River Conservancy; Opportunities for research, teaching & outreach involving the Wolf River & its watershed; notable habitats & conservation activities in the region.

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Hayden Johnson; PhD student; Biomed. Eng.; Fungi. Using NMR to measure metabolites in biological samples & deep learning techniques to improve data processing in NMR metabolomics.

Dr. Jennifer Mandel; Dept. of Biological Sciences; Plant population genetics, comparative genomics, systematics & evolution

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