Honors Seminar Program  

Center of Excellence for Field Biology & Department of Biology, Austin Peay State University
Spring 2025
Honors Seminar Program

Seminars are presented at 11:15 AM on Mondays

All seminars are in person unless otherwise indicated.

January 27, 2025 - Class only meeting: syllabus review and course expectations. "Giving an Effective Presentation", Dr. Rebecca Johansen.

February 3, 2025 - Faculty Search Candidate.

February 10, 2025 - Faculty Search Candidate.

February 17, 2025 - Faculty Search Candidate.

February 24, 2025 - TBA

March 3, 2025 - Faculty Search Candidate.

March 10, 2025 - APSU Spring Break. No classes.

March 17, 2025 - Brooke Grubb, PhD Candidate, Tennessee Technological University. "The challenges of chronicling the 'common and lowly' crayfish."

March 24, 2025 - Dr. Martin Douglass, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. "Clostridioides difficile: starving and attacking the cell membrane."

March 31, 2025 - Jack Sites, PhD.  BYU, Emertius. "Biodiversity and human well-being."

April 7, 2025 - Michael Fulbright, PhD. Cumberland College. "From turtle bites to bat flights: Mechanistic approaches to understanding vertebrate ecology."

April 14, 2025 - Matthew Wagner, USFWS. "Conservation of aquatic species from a state and federal perspective and the path to becoming an ichthymalacologist."

April 21, 2025 - Paul Atuahene, Master's Candidate Thesis Defense. "Effect of semaglutide on gonadotropin-releasing hormone from GT1-7 cells."

April 28, 2025 - Kris Wild, PhD. Postdoc, University of Melbourne. "Cold-blooded decisions: How lizards (accidentally) gave me a career."

Additional seminar dates (same room and start time):

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 - Faculty Search Candidate.

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 - Faculty Search Candidate.

Friday, March 28, 2025 - Carson Gehman, Master's Candidate. APSU. "Predicting the potential dirstribution of the Gila Monster and evaluating the extent of protected natural areas for conservation."