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School of Biological Sciences

Speakers Bureau Titles

Free seminar speakers in Biological Sciences and Opportunities for students interested in graduate school in biology.

Faculty members of the School of Biological Sciences, Illinois State University, are pleased to offer research seminars to any Illinois undergraduate institution. The seminars will also serve to inform students about opportunities to pursue MS and PhD degrees in our Graduate Program. Faculty will discuss the Program with any interested students after the talk. The School will cover any transportation and lodging costs, or our speakers can set up a teleconference seminar.

Contact Information

Barbara Cox
Office Administrator

For questions about our graduate programs, pelase contact Dr. Ben Sadd.

Speakers and Topics

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  • Jan Dahl

    Response and Defense strategies of bacterial pathogens to physiological antimicrobials.

  • Rebekka Darner

    Science denial and motivated reasoning: How can science educators foster a desire to be accurate?

  • Kevin Edwards

    Using Drosophila to understand the Muscular Dystrophy protein Dystrophin.

    Full-spectrum analysis of cells and tissues with ISU's Confocal Microscopy Core Facility.

  • Paul Garris

    Drugs of Abuse

    Compensatory adaptations of dopamine neurons following dopamine denervation.

  • Craig Gatto

    How does the Na-pump pump Na?

    Strange finding you here: an intracellular role for Na,K-ATPase.

  • Ryan Paitz

    How do embryos regulate their exposure to environmental chemicals?

  • Bill Perry

    The enemy of my enemy … may not be my friend: Success and failure of crayfish invasions and dispersal in Europe and the US.

    Preserving water quality in streams of the Midwestern US streams: what doesn’t work and what can we do?

  • Ben Sadd

    Tough to be a pollinator: increasing problems in the modern world.

    Mother knows best: trans-generational immunity in insects.

  • John Sedbrook

    Using cutting edge genetic tools to rapidly domesticate pennycress as an oilseed-producing winter cover crop.

  • Wolfgang Stein

    How neurons keep their cool when it is getting hot.

    Tales of invasions and collision: when action potentials interrupt one another.

  • Andres Vidal-Gadea

    How animals detect and orient to the earth’s magnetic field.

    The effects of Martian physics on terrestrial organism

    Using worms to fight muscular dystrophy.

    How animals switch gears: molecular basis for gait transitions.

  • Laura Vogel

    The effects of aging on B cell responses and immunity Humoral immunity in reptiles.