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SUMMARY:Trait data resources for understanding mammalian response to changing environments
DESCRIPTION:Bryan S. McLean\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Bryan S. McLean \n\n\n\nVisiting From: University of North Carolina Greensboro \n\n\n\nTopic: Trait data resources for understanding mammalian response to changing environments \n\n\n\nHost: Malcolm Schug \n\n\n\n\nMonitoring life on a changing planet requires open and continuously updated biodiversity data and a workforce capable of leveraging these for trend analysis and prediction. But\, which data? And what kind of workforce training? This talk will discuss my lab’s use of phenotypic traits as windows into mammalian growth\, survival\, and reproduction\, and our field- and museum-based approach to answering trait-based questions. First\, I will present work on energetically expensive traits that are seasonally plastic in small mammals\, including body size\, brain size\, and gastrointestinal size and form. Developing new trait proxies and deploying them in local ecosystems has provided exciting insights in small mammal biology in the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Second\, I will discuss the limited landscape of open trait data for mammals globally and highlight my leadership of a consortium of North American mammal collections in digitizing specimen-level traits. Liberating historical trait data is massively scaling up our understanding of life history trade-offs and response to change across North America. Finally\, I will discuss the overarching importance of the UNCG Biodiversity Collections for this work and how combining fieldwork and specimen-based research is introducing a new generation of STEM students at UNCG to ecological and evolutionary concepts through data-rich biodiversity science. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis Seminar will be held in person and shared on Microsoft Teams. Parking is available in the McIver Street Parking Deck. \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 249 460 363 763 4 \n\n\n\nPasscode: xR2u5rr3 \n\n\n\nOur Seminars cover a broad range of topics from various fields of Biology and are open to the public! For accessibility accommodations\, contact bio@uncg.edu \n\n\n\nAffiliates may contact Akira Terui for information (a_terui@uncg.edu).
URL:https://biology.uncg.edu/event/trait-data-resources-for-understanding-mammalian-response-to-changing-environments/
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SUMMARY:The tales teeth tell: Using dental histology to explore vertebrate life histories
DESCRIPTION:Anne Marie Sohler-Snoddy\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker: Anne Marie Sohler-Snoddy \n\n\n\nVisiting From: University of North Carolina Greensboro \n\n\n\nTopic: The tales teeth tell: Using dental histology to explore vertebrate life histories \n\n\n\nHost: Malcolm Schug \n\n\n\n\nThe formation of dental tissues follows a rhythmic developmental chronology\, and\, unlike bone and soft tissues\, in humans and many other mammals they do not remodel during life. A wealth of information about an individual’s life-course from gestation to the completion of tooth development can be unlocked through dental histology\, including survived episodes of physiological stress and periods of nutritional deficiency. This seminar will provide an introduction to dental histology and highlight some of its applications for understanding stress and resilience in vertebrate populations\, past and present. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar will be held in person and shared through Microsoft Teams. Parking is available in the McIver Street Parking Deck. \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 266 117 515 316 9 \n\n\n\nPasscode: Hq9R2j2z \n\n\n\nOur Seminars cover a broad range of topics from various fields of Biology and are open to the public! For accessibility accommodations\, contact bio@uncg.edu \n\n\n\nAffiliates may contact Akira Terui for information (a_terui@uncg.edu).
URL:https://biology.uncg.edu/event/the-tales-teeth-tell-using-dental-histology-to-explore-vertebrate-life-histories/
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SUMMARY:Breathing matters! The sites\, cells\, and ion channels that underlie respiration
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Del Negro\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Dr. Del Negro \n\n\n\nVisiting From: William & Mary \n\n\n\nTopic: Breathing matters! The sites\, cells\, and ion channels that underlie respiration \n\n\n\nHost: Carlos Aparecido da Silva Junior \n\n\n\n\nBreathing behavior is important and interesting. Breathing supports us physiologically\, and its control and modulation underlie important cultural practices like singing\, athletic performance\, and mind-body practices (e.g.\, meditation). Breathing begins in the brain with an underlying neural rhythm and motor output pattern. Respiratory rhythm emanates from a brainstem site called the preBötzinger complex (preBötC) whose core microcircuit consists of Dbx1-derived excitatory interneurons. In those core Dbx1 neurons\, the rhythmogenic mechanism depends on excitatory synaptic interactions\, whose collective activity creates inhale-related burst output via mixed cationic TRPM4 ion channels. There are important roles for sodium channels of the SCN8A isoform\, which influence development and control of excitability. In addition to helping us understand normal function\, our knowledge of the preBötC and its constituent Dbx1-derived core neurons can explain the pathology of opioid drug depression of breathing and other dysfunctions of breathing. Neuroscience seeks to explain behaviors (pathologies) based on elemental building blocks of the nervous system: with breathing we are almost there.    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis seminar will be held in person and shared through Microsoft Teams. Parking is available in the McIver Street Parking Deck. \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 253 382 510 075 2 \n\n\n\nPasscode: Jt756LG6 \n\n\n\nOur Seminars cover a broad range of topics from various fields of Biology and are open to the public! For accessibility accommodations\, contact bio@uncg.edu \n\n\n\nAffiliates may contact Akira Terui for information (a_terui@uncg.edu).
URL:https://biology.uncg.edu/event/breathing-matters-the-sites-cells-and-ion-channels-that-underlie-respiration/
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SUMMARY:Cell adhesions as integrators and actuators during collective epithelial migration
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Katy Rothenberg \n\n\n\nVisiting From: University of Iowa \n\n\n\nTopic: Cell adhesions as integrators and actuators during collective epithelial migration \n\n\n\nHost: Nick Ader \n\n\n\n\nIn my lab we study the mechanisms epithelial cells use to migrate together\, a process that sculpts tissues during development but also allows the spread of metastatic cancer. We aim to understand the role of cell adhesions\, the connections cells make with their neighbors and the extracellular environment. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLearn more about Katy Rothenberg by clicking this link. \n\n\n\nThis seminar will be held in person and shared through Microsoft Teams. Parking is available in the McIver Street Parking Deck. \n\n\n\nMeeting ID: 297 403 505 037 1 \n\n\n\nPasscode: iP3nK6kT \n\n\n\nOur Seminars cover a broad range of topics from various fields of Biology and are open to the public! For accessibility accommodations\, contact bio@uncg.edu. \n\n\n\nAffiliates may contact Akira Terui for information (a_terui@uncg.edu).
URL:https://biology.uncg.edu/event/cell-adhesions-as-integrators-and-actuators-during-collective-epithelial-migration/
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