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BYU Biology Department Seminar Series: Fall 2023
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September 711 am2102 LSBAnnual Mandatory Graduate Student & Faculty Advisor MeetingGraduate Coordinator & Graduate Program Manager
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September 124 pm2006 LSBRank Advancement: Steve Peck
Associate Professor, Biology Department, BYU
"Emergence, Agency, and Evolutionary Relationships in Real and Digital Ecologies"Leigh Johnson
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September 1411 am2102 LSBCollege Seminar: Faith & Science SeminarCollege
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September 194 pm2006 LSBRank Advancement: Sam Payne
Associate Professor, Biology Department, BYU
"Bioinformatics for the People"Leigh Johnson
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September 2111 am2102 LSBRank Advancement: Clint Whipple
Associate Professor, Biology Department, BYU
"Branches, Boundaries, and Bracts: In Search of the Meristematic Homunculus"Leigh Johnson
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September 2811 am2102 LSBRank Advancemen: Perry Ridge
Associate Professor, Biology Department, BYU
“Bioinformatics for the Win! How Bioinformatics Facilitated Genetic Discoveries in Alzheimer’s Disease”Leigh Johnson
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September 287 pm2102 LSBSemi-Annual Tanner Lecture: Marcus Smith
Host of BYUradio's Constant Wonder Podcast
"Constant Wonder, Awe-Awakening & Life Science"
What is the powerful dynamic of deep wonder and sacred awe? How do these illuminate the aspirations and duties of a life scientist?
Bean Life Science Museum
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October 511 am2102 LSBRank Advancement: Liz Bailey
Assistant Professor, Biology Department, BYU
"Seeking after the One Sheep in Biology Education Research and Finding Benefits for the Whole Flock"Leigh Johnson
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October 93 pmB112 MARBMelanie Borup
PhD candidate, University of Tasmania
"Culturing, Life Histories, and Ecology of Antarctic Bdelloid Rotifers"Byron Adams
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October 1211 am2102 LSBSkyler Coombs
Career Director, Careers & Experiential Learning, BYU
"Career and Life Planning"PWS
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October 1911 am267 RBCollege Seminar - Alumni Achievement Award: Earlene Durrant"Faith: Determination and Resilience"College
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October 2611 am2102 LSBUndergraduate Alumni Symposium:
Makani Fisher
Doctoral Student, Department of Entomology, Purdue University
Samantha Standring
Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant and Wildlife Sciences, BYU
"The Evolution and Ecology of the Enigmatic Lichen-Feeding Tiger Moths"

"Unraveling the Web: Systematics and Evolution of Thread-Legged Assassin Bugs (Emesinae: Reduviidae)"
Blaine Griffen
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November 211 am2102 LSBKirk Winemiller
University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A&M University
"Functional Traits, Convergent Evolution, and Periodic Tables of Niches"Diego Ardon Betancourt
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November 9College Seminar: CANCELLED
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November 1611 am2102 LSBEric Larson
Associate Professor, Natural Resources & Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Conservation Challenges for Endemic Crayfishes of Western North America"Doreen Cabrera
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November 23THANKSGIVING
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November 30None
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December 7None
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December 1411 am2102 LSBJustin Shaffer
Teaching Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines
"The Impact of High Structure Course Design Across Courses, Disciplines, and Universities"Bailey & Jensen Labs
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