Honors Seminar Program

Center of Excellence for Field Biology & Department of Biology, Austin Peay State University
Spring 2012
Honors Seminar Program

Seminars are presented at 11:15 AM on Mondays, Room E106A, Sundquist Science Center

January 23, 2012 - meet with graduate class

January 30, 2012 - L. Dwayne Estes, PhD, APSU & Christopher Gentry, PhD, APSU "Promoting student research through experiential learning."

February 6, 2012 - C.M. Gienger, PhD, APSU "Monsters of the Mojave: natural history, ecology and physiology of Heloderma suspectum (Gila Monsters)."

February 13, 2012 - Jason C. Slot, PhD, Vanderbilt University "The genomics of ecological change in microorganisms."

February 20, 2012 - Steven J. Baskauf, PhD, Vanderbilt University "The challenge of biodiversity informatics: discovery, aggregation, and permanence of data about organisms in the age of the Internet."

February 27, 2012 - Chad Brooks, PhD, APSU "Characterizing a few molecular strategies employed by Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of human Lyme disease."

March 12, 2012 - Jennifer White, PhD

WEDNESDAY, March 21, 2012 - Stefan Woltmann, PhD "Effects of habitat fragmentation on gene flow and population persistence in birds."

March 26, 2012 - Ryan Norris, PhD "Reconstructing the evolutionary history of rodents with both DNA and fossils."

April 2, 2012 - Graduate Seminar: Terry Hopkins "Amphibians and reptiles of Cheatham Wildlife Management Area." Mark Hoger "Inter-seasonal movements of Etheostomatinae darters in Yellow Creek and Whiteoak Creek, Tennessee."

April 9, 2012 - Graduate Seminar: Angel Fowler "Macroinvertebrate community response to the invasive submersed macrophyte, Hydrilla verticillata, in the Emory River Watershed, East Tennessee." Seth McCormick "Comparison of acoustic monitoring strategies for determining bat populations throughout Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area."

April 16, 2012 - Graduate Seminar: Clea Klagstad "Perpetuating a dying field of study: the floristic inventory and vegetation classification of Western Highland Rim forests in Tennessee." Josh Schulte "Habitat preferences of bats in Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area."

April 23, 2012 - Graduate Seminar: Matthew Wagner "Utility of amplified fragment length polymorphisms in a phylogeographic study of the Redband Darter, Etheostoma luteovinctum." Courtney Gorman "Taxonomic, ecological and biogeographic studies in Polymnia (Asteraceae) of the broader southern Appalachian region."