The University of North Texas Department of Biological Sciences is dedicated to presenting students with the latest and most cutting-edge research being conducted locally and around the world. To that end, scientists are invited, every semester, to come and present their research to the student body and community. The BioFrontiers Seminars are held in Life Science A117 every Friday at 3:00 p.m. The entire UNT community is invited to come and experience the excitement of Tier One Research at its finest.

The spring 2023 lineup of speakers is as follows:

January 20

Dr. M. Danielle McDonald

The Role of Circulating Serotonin in the Control of the Toadfish Hypoxia Response

January 27

Dr. Jason Bohenek

Demographic Habitat Selection of Aquatic Colonists and their Perception of Risk and Reward

February 3

Dr. Justin Sprick

Mechanisms Contributing to Exercise Intolerance and Exaggerated Blood Pressure Reactivity During Exercise in Renal Disease

February 10

Dr. Jannon Fuchs

From Vestigial to Vital: The Evolution of Primary Cilia

February 17

Dr. Jane Marks

It's All About that Base, 'Bout that Food Base

February 24

Dr. Suzie Currie

The Social Environment and Natural Thermal Variation Affect How Fish Respond to Climate Warming: Lessons from an Amphibious Fish

March 3

Dr. Keith Keitz

Expanding Cellular Metabolism through Extracellular Electron Transfer

March 10

Dr. Ben Barst

Investigating Diet as a Driver of Mercury Exposure Using Amino Acid-Specific Stable Isotope Analyses

March 24

Dr. Donald Baird

DNA-Based Biodiversity Observation: Fake it till you Make it, or a Slow-Burning Process?

March 31

Dr. Adam Steinbrenner

Sounding the Alarm: Plant Immune Responses to Chewing Herbivores

April 7

Dr. Laura Russo

Pollinator Conservation in a Changing World

April 14

Dr. Robert Raguso (BGSA Research Symposium Keynote Speaker)

Flowers Contain Multitudes: The Hidden Sensory Niches of Floral Phenotypes

April 21

Dr. Feng Gu

Control of Epileptogenesis: Rebalancing Inhibition and Excitation

April 28

Dr. Kendra Rumbaugh

How the Infection Environment Influences Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pathogenesis