Student examining a specimen in a microscope

Seminars

Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences

The Department of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences offers an ongoing seminar series throughout the Fall and Spring semesters. Our speakers join Department of Biological, Environmental, and Earth Sciences undergraduate research students in offering an in-depth series of seminars that provide the latest information on a wide array of topics.

All seminars take place in SCI 327 from 1:00-2:30 pm.

USC AIKEN DEPARTMENT OF BIOLOGICAL, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND EARTH SCIENCES
Fall 2023
SEMINAR SCHEDULE

Week of Presenter Title

August 25

 

No Seminar

September 1

Brad Reinhart

Lab Safety Training

September 8

Michaela Canady, Environmental Technician, North Augusta City and Rachael Osborne, Environmental Project Specialist, Columbia County Board of Commissioner

Research Through the Lens of Stormwater: DNA Source Tracking

September 15

 

No Seminar

September 22

Peter Kleinhenz, Executive Director of the Aiken Land Conservancy

Open Spaces and Wild Places: The Role of Land Trusts in Private Land Conservation

September 29

John Stanga, Assistant Professor at Mercer University

Smoking Out the Secrets of Parasitic Plant Germination

October 6

Megan Berry, Graduate Student at the University of Tennessee

Improving Eastern Grasslands with Native Warm-Season Grasses

October 13

Bart Bryant, Assistant Research Scientist at Augusta University

CRIPSR LRS (Long Read Sequencing) for Mapping Transgenes in the Mouse Genome

October 20

FALL BREAK

FALL BREAK

October 27

Chris Smaga, Graduate Student at the University of Georgia

Integrating Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination into Ecological and Evolutionary Frameworks

November 3

Graydon Gonsalvez, Assistant Professor at Augusta University

The Drosophila Egg Chamber as a Model to Study the Mechanism of Dynein Activation

November 10

Student Seminars

Student Seminars

November 17

Student Seminars

Student Seminars

November 24

THANKSGIVING

 THANKSGIVING

December 1 Student Seminars Student Seminars
December 8 No seminar: Exam prep No seminar: Exam prep