Graduate-Level Seminar Courses
These courses are intended to fulfill the seminar requirements for our Ph.D. Biology graduate students; however, we encourage and welcome graduate students from other programs to enroll who have relevant interest in the topics. Please note that the schedules below reflect the currently planned classes, but schedules and offerings could change. Department consent may be required for some of these courses. Please contact Kenlyn Merritt for assistance.
| FALL 2020 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course # | Instructor(s) | Course Title | Topic |
| BIOL 621 | Ahmed, Copenhaver, Sekelsky | Principles of Genetic Analysis I | |
| BIOL 639 | Kieber | Seminar in Plant Molecular and Cell Biology | |
| BIOL 659 | Servedio | Seminar in Evolutionary Biology | Controversies in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology |
| BIOL 669 | Bruno | Seminar in Ecology | Principles of Marine Ecology: Let's study for our oral exams! |
| BIOL 669 | Waitt | Seminar in Ecology | Plant Conservation Science and Practice and the Conservation Garden |
| BIOL 669 | Mitchell | Seminar in Ecology | Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Diseases |
| BIOL 680 | Hedrick | Advanced Seminar in Recent Biological Research and Methods | Analyzing Biological Data using Deep Learning |
| BIOL 680 | Shiau | Advanced Seminar in Recent Biological Research and Methods | Modern experimental approach in zebrafish to study human-relevant biology and disease |
| BIOL 801 | Burmeister | Seminar in Biological Sciences | |
| BIOL 810 | Coble | Seminar in College Science Teaching | |
| BIOL 891 | Willett | Graduate Seminar in Biology | EEOB Paper Discussion; "Lunch Bunch" seminar participation |
| SPRING 2021 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Course # | Instructor(s) | Course Title | Topic |
| BIOL 604 | A.Jones | Laboratory Practices for New Investigators | |
| BIOL 620 | Matthysse | Bacterial Genetics | |
| BIOL 625 | Copenhaver, C.Jones, Sekelsky | Seminar in Genetics | Mechanism of meiosis, recombination, DNA repair and the evolution of sexual reproduction |
| BIOL 635 | Salmeron | Careers in Biotechnology | |
| BIOL 649 | P.Maddox | Seminar in Cell Biology | |
| BIOL 669 | Hurlbert | Seminar in Ecology | |
| BIOL 669 | K.Pfennig | Seminar in Ecology | Extinction |
| BIOL 704 | Slep | Seminar in Biophysics | Molecular and Cellular Biophysics |
| BIOL 680 | Nimchuk | Advanced Seminar in Recent Biologcial Research and Methods | |
| BIOL 858 | K.Lohmann | Seminar Comparative Physiology |
Please click here to see seminar courses from previous semesters.