Virginia Tech Life Science Seminars
The Virginia Tech Life Science Seminars (VTLSS) is a university-wide seminar series funded by the Fralin Life Sciences Institute. The seminars take place on Fridays at 12:00pm at the Fralin Auditorium in Fralin Hall. These interdisciplinary seminars are open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff. You are not required to be in life sciences to attend; if a subject matter is of interest to you, we welcome your participation.
Seminars are given by renowned scientists from the US and abroad whose research connects to the life sciences disciplines at Virginia Tech. Some past seminars are available on our Youtube playlist.
Seminars will be in-person, hybrid, or virtual.
Virtual and hybrid seminars will be hosted at this Zoom link:
https://virginiatech.zoom.us/j/81458701257
Students and postdocs, if you are interested in having lunch with the speaker, please contact each respective host.
THIS SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Colette St. Mary, University of Florida
Integrative Evolutionary Biology and the Parallels to Diversity and Inclusion
Haruka Wada, Auburn University
Consequences of stress during development
January 26 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Kendra Sewall
Michael McMurray, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
The journey, not the destination: lessons from septin proteins about macromolecular assembly
February 2 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by José Vargas-Muñiz
George Kantor, Carnegie Mellon University
A path to dexterous robotic manipulation in agriculture
February 9 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Song Li
Sebastian Kadener, Brandeis University
Physiological and Molecular functions of circular RNAs (circRNAs)
February 16 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Carla Finkelstein
Loren Rieseberg, University of British Columbia
Recombination and Speciation in the Annual Sunflowers
February 23 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by John Jelesko
Angeles Salles, University of Illinois at Chicago
A Bat's Tale of Auditory Processing and Social Communication
March 1 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Silvio Herrera
Shanta Hinton, College of William & Mary
Pseudophosphatase MK-STYX: the de-stressor
March 15 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Birgit Scharf
Timothy Jarome, Virginia Tech
The Role of the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System in Memory Formation across the Lifespan
March 22 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Silke Hauf
Diego Fernandez, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Investigating Time Perception and Anticipatory Behaviors in Mice
March 29 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Shihoko Kojima
Miyeko Mana, Arizona State University
Dietary Control of Intestinal Stem Cells: Tales from the Crypt
April 5 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Bas Bargmann
This Seminar Has Been Cancelled
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Jason Londo, Cornell University
Winter Physiology in a Warmer World: Cold Hardiness and Dormancy Interactions in Grapevine
April 19 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Courtney Leisner
Natalia Dudareva, Purdue University
Emission and perception – two steps of plant communication
April 26 - 12:00p - Fralin Hall Auditorium
Hosted by Dorothea Tholl
In order to nominate a speaker please fill out the form found here. Please note that only VT faculty are allowed to nominate and host VTLSS speakers. The VTLSS faculty committee will review the nomination and email the faculty member with permission to extend a formal invitation to the nominated speaker. Faculty are allowed to submit multiple nominations, but each faculty member is only allowed to invite and host one speaker per semester.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Krystal Turner.
The VTLSS faculty committee consists of:
Committee Member | |
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Michelle Olsen | molsen1@vt.edu |
Silke Hauf | silke@vt.edu |
Clay Caswell | caswellc@vt.edu |
Tim Jarome | tjjarome@vt.edu |
Ryan Senger | senger@vt.edu |
Jim Westwood | westwood@vt.edu |
Joel McGlothlin | joelmcg@vt.edu |