Events – Department of Biological Sciences

Congratulations to the 2019 BioFest poster presentation award winners!

September 30, 2019

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 […]

Research seminar – Casey Morrow – 27 April 2017

April 27, 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”.

The fall 2012 graduate student seminar schedule

August 2, 2012

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 […]

The fall 2012 departmental seminar schedule

August 1, 2012

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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July 2, 2012

BSC Open House – 27 September – Alabama Natural History Museum

September 24, 2011

Please join us for an Open House sponsored by the Department of Biological Sciences, at the Alabama Museum of Natural Sciences. Thursday September 27, 6:00-8:00pm. Student Invitation0002

Departmental seminar – Carol Duffy – 27 September 2012

September 24, 2011

Carol Duffy University of Alabama Title TBA 4:00pm, 1093 SEC