Virtual Open House - November 23, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
See where a Ph.D. in Biology can take you!
Click here to register and receive the link to the Zoom meeting room.
When you attend our Virtual Open House you will receive an application fee waiver -- a $75 value!
Agenda:
2:00 p.m. - Led by Amber Rice, Ph.D. and Greg Lang, Ph.D.
- Program Overview
- Introduction of Faculty in Attendance
- Registration information
- Q&A
2:30 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Drop in Q&A with faculty and grad student representatives
- Biochemistry
- Cell & Molecular Biology
- Evolution and Behavior
- Neuroscience
- Current graduate students
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Drop-in posters from current graduate students
Participating Faculty:
Daniel Babcock, Ph.D., Assistant Professor | Neuroscience
R. Michael Burger, Ph.D., Professor | Neuroscience
Matthias Falk, Ph.D., Professor | Cell Biology
Julie Haas, Ph.D., Associate Professor | Neuroscience
Wonpil Im, Ph.D., Professor | Biochemistry and Computational Biology
M. Kathryn Iovine, Ph.D., Professor | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Greg Lang, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Graduate Program Co-Director | Molecular Biology and Evolution
Linda Lowe-Krentz, Ph.D., Professor and Chair | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Robert Skibbens, Ph.D., Professor | Cell and Molecular Biology
Wynn Meyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor | Genomics
Julie Miwa, Ph.D., Associate Professor | Neuroscience
Amber Rice, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Graduate Program Co-Director | Evolution
Vassie Ware, Ph.D., Professor | Molecular Biology
Graduate Student Poster Presentations:
Dylan Faltine-Gonzalez, Ph.D. Candidate in the Layden Lab - "Wnt regulates neuronal subtype patterning in the cnidarian, Nematostella vectensis"
Shasha Feng, Graduate Student in the Im Lab - "Understanding TRPV2 ion channel function and allosteric network by computational approach"
Luke McCartin, Graduate Student in the Herrera Lab - "Applying Environmental DNA Methods for the Study of Deepwater Coral Communities"
Joan Marie Spinelli, Graduate Student in the Rice Lab- "Learning the "chick-a-dee" call: Implications for reproductive isolation in sympatry"
Mitchell Vaughn, Graduate Student in the Haas Lab - "Dopaminergic modulation of excitability and electrical synapses in the thalamic reticular nucleus"
Ryan Vignogna, Ph.D. Candidate in the Lang Lab - "Experimental evolution of yeast models of congenital disorders of glycosylation"