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 |
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August 25 |
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No Seminar |
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September 1 |
Brad Reinhart |
Lab Safety Training |
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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 |
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September 15 |
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No Seminar |
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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 |
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September 29 |
John Stanga, Assistant Professor at Mercer University |
Smoking Out the Secrets of Parasitic Plant Germination |
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October 6 |
Megan Berry, Graduate Student at the University of Tennessee |
Improving Eastern Grasslands with Native Warm-Season Grasses |
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October 13 |
Bart Bryant, Assistant Research Scientist at Augusta University |
CRIPSR LRS (Long Read Sequencing) for Mapping Transgenes in the Mouse Genome |
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October 20 |
FALL BREAK |
FALL BREAK |
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October 27 |
Chris Smaga, Graduate Student at the University of Georgia |
Integrating Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination into Ecological and Evolutionary Frameworks |
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November 3 |
Graydon Gonsalvez, Assistant Professor at Augusta University |
The Drosophila Egg Chamber as a Model to Study the Mechanism of Dynein Activation |
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November 10 |
Student Seminars |
Student Seminars |
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November 17 |
Student Seminars |
Student Seminars |
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November 24 |
THANKSGIVING |
THANKSGIVING |
| December 1 | Student Seminars | Student Seminars |
| December 8 | No seminar: Exam prep | No seminar: Exam prep |