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Congratulations to the 2019 BioFest poster presentation award winners!

BioFest is the annual Department of Biological Sciences welcome to new students, biology career fair, and undergraduate and graduate student research poster colloquium. We had 59 poster presentations and over 800 visitors that signed in!   1st place – “Age-dependent survival and fitness consequences across an extreme salinity gradient in a euryhaline fish, the mangrove rivulus (Kryptolebias marmoratus)”. **Shelly C. McCain, Tom M. Houslay (University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK), Alastair J. Wilson (University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall, UK ), ***Ryan […]

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Research seminar – Casey Morrow – 27 April 2017

The search committee for the microbiome senior hire in biology is hosting several microbiome related seminars in the coming months to educate the department about the potential of the field.   The first of our “educational” microbiome seminars in Biology is this Friday, April 28th from 4-5pm in SEC 2435.   Dr. Casey Morrow, Director of the UAB Microbiome Resource will be presenting a talk entitled: “UAB Microbiome Resource: Precision Medicine to Repair Dysbiotic Microbial Communities”.

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The fall 2012 graduate student seminar schedule

August 24, 2012  Grad student welcome August 31, 2012  Kristin Di Bona  Marcela Mora Pinto September 7, 2012  Brandon Hill  Dan Nelson September 14, 2012  David Lanciault – Advanced Microbial Solutions September 21, 2012  Phil Lee  Britton O’Shields September 28, 2012  Marleisha Hall  Josh Jones October 5, 2012  Fall break October 12, 2012    Scotty DePriest  Nikaela Fluornoy October 19, 2012  David Bonwit – Redstone Arsenal October 26, 2012  Matt Smith  Sparkle Malone November 2, 2012  Bryan Martinez  Nathan Whelan […]

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The fall 2012 departmental seminar schedule

Thursdays at 4:00pm, Shelby 1093 August 30 Christopher Brooks Mississippi State University (Howeth) September 6 Greg Starr UA Department of Biological Sciences September 13 John Yoder UA Department of Biological Sciences September 20 Behzad Mortizavi UA Department of Biological Sciences September 27 Carol Duffy UA Department of Biological Sciences October 11 Jeremiah Hackett (MCB Grad Students) October 18 Christina Staudhammer UA Department of Biological Sciences October 25 Wendy Neckameyer St. Louis Univ. School of Medicine (O’Donnell) November 1 TBA November […]

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