Author: Meris Carte

The Department of Biological Sciences’ Spring 2025 Seminar Series begins Monday, Feb. 3. The first seminar is from 4 to 5 p.m. in 218 Hubbard Hall with Dr. Dan Marschalek, Central Missouri State University. He will give a public lecture titled, “Assessing monitoring techniques and habitat use to make data-driven decisions for management of the threatened regal fritillary butterfly.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend. For more information, visit wichita.edu/biology.

Applications are now being accepted for undergraduate research support during the spring semester from the Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE) program. Students in this program are supported with an hourly wage for a ten-week period and mentors are allocated funds for lab supplies.

To be eligible, students must identify a mentor and a research lab in which to work. For full announcement and eligibility requirements, email Meris Carte, research laboratory manager for biological sciences, at meris.carte@wichita.edu. Applications are due at end of day Feb. 6.

Are you interested in studying abroad? Your first step would be to attend one of the upcoming information sessions, the first of which is at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24 in 261 Rhatigan Student Center, Olive Room.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ Seminar Series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, April 29 in 218 Hubbard Hall, with Dr. Sufi Thomas of KU Medical Center with her talk, “The Role of the Tumor Microenvironment in Head and Neck Cancer Progression.”

As always, seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ Seminar Series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, April 15 in 218 Hubbard Hall with Dr. Matt Gibson of the Stowers Institute with his talk “Understanding your Inner Anemone: Hox Genes, Segmentation, and Somitogenesis During Cnidarian Development.”

As always, seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ Seminar Series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, April 8 in 218 Hubbard Hall with Dr. Jeroen Roelofs, KU Medical Center, with his talk, “Stress Induced Relocalization of Proteasomes into Condensates.”

As always, seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ seminar series continues at 4 p.m. Monday, April 1 in 218 Hubbard Hal with Dr. Jocelyn McDonald, Kansas State University, with her talk, “Group Activities: How Migrating Cell Collectives Organize and Move Together.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, March 25 with Dr. Jaina Agan, University of Central Oklahoma, with her talk “The Role and Importance of Juvenile Dimorphisms.”

As always, seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend. For more information, visit the biological sciences webpage.

The Department of Biological Sciences’ seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, March 8 in 218 Hubbard Hall. with Dr. Medhavi Ambardar, Fort Hays State University, with her talk, “Relationships Among Parental Behavior, Physiology, and Fitness in Birds.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.

The Department of Biological Sciences spring 2024 seminar series continues from 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, March 4 in 231 Hubbard Hall, with Dr. Mohamed Fakhr, of the University of Tulsa, with his talk, “Campylobacter Survival In Retail Meats: An Interesting Story.”

Seminars are open to the public and undergraduates are encouraged to attend.