Join us for our Winter 2023 Bio Grad Seminar Series! This January, Alex Neitz (de la Iglesia Lab), Zoe Kulik (Sidor Lab), and Sujay Balebail (Sisneros Lab) will be presenting their research reports.

How landscape change has shaped patterns of diversity on Earth is a central question in Biology. In Plant Systematics, a great volume of research on this problem has centered on how major geological events shaped the evolution of the Neotropical flora (the world’s richest flora). In this talk, I will show how I rely on natural history observations as a powerful tool for identifying plant groups whose biology make them ideal model systems for approaching long-standing questions from unexplored angles.

Simon Snoeck | Steinbrenner Lab
"Evolutionary gain and loss of a plant pattern-recognition receptor for HAMP recognition"

Sarah Guiziou | Nemhauser Lab
"Integrases to record gene-expression during plant development"

Kristen Finch | Wasser Lab
“Designing and deploying forensic DNA tests for counter wildlife trafficking”