Feb. 8

Dr. Laura Mydlarz, Department of Biology, University of Texas-Arlington
"Is coral immunology the key to understanding coral decline?"

Feb. 15

Dr. Malcolm Hill, Department of Biology, University of Richmond
"Sponge symbioses: Insights into the evolutionary and ecological forces that shape interactions between and among partners "

Feb. 22

open

Mar. 1

Justin Yeager, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University
"When the colors bleed: measuring the influence of selection pressures on population boundaries"

Mar. 8

Dr. Karl Hassenstein, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
"Free-fall and more to study plants and space"

Mar. 15

No seminar: Spring Break

Mar. 22

Dr. Darin Rokyta, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
"Molecular adaptation in viruses and venoms and the genotype-phenotype-fitness map"

*Thursday, March 28 at 4 p.m.

(Good Friday holiday this week)

Dr. Guri Tzivion, Cancer Institute and Department of Biochemistry, University of Mississippi Medical Center
"The nicotinamide-sirtuin axis: a new modulator of DNA damage response, longevity and metabolism"

Apr. 5

CANCELED

Apr. 12

Dr. J. Paul Taylor, Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
"Prion-like domains in human proteins: How study of a rare disease can inform cell biologists, protein chemists and medical researchers"

Apr. 19

Dr. Megan Rua, NSF Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Mississippi
"The Role of Mutualists in Plant Response to Pathogen Infection"

Apr. 26

**3:30 p.m. at the UM Field Station

University of Mississippi Field Station Biannual Seminar:

Dr. Charles Kerfoot, Department of Biological Sciences, Michigan Technological University
"Challenges of chasing exotics (spiny waterfleas, quagga mussels) across the landscape"