November

Dr. Marie-Odile Fortier, Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Construction "Deep decarbonization targets are shallower than they appear. What do we do now?"

October

Dr. Drew Peltier, Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"What do trees remember? or: how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb-spike.鈥

September

Dr. Raul Roman, Postdoctoral Scholar, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Hidden Artists: How Desert Microbes Change Soil Colors and How We Detect Their Presence"

August

Dr. Sujung Lim, Postdoctoral Scholar, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Breathing rocks, gasps of nitrous oxide: microbial lessons from the High Arctic"

June

Dr. Darrin H. Brager, Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大- School of Life Sciences
"The Plastic Brain"

May

Dr. Joshua Island, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Physics and Astronomy
"From a Pencil to a Quantum Computer"

April

Dr. Holly Martin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Nevada State University Department of Physical and Life Sciences
"Arms Race Against Antibiotic Resistance: Strategies for Winning the Battle"

March

Dr. Chandrabali Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"mRNA Nanomedicine: The Next-Generation Therapeutics"

February

Dr. Andrew Martin, Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Geoscience
"An Oasis in the Deep: Exploring Beneath the Waves for Deep-sea Mineral Deposits"

November

Dr. Chandrabali Bhattacharya, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
"mRNA Nanomedicine: The Next-Generation Therapeutics"

October

Dr. Nicole Pietrasiak, Associate Professor of Sustainable Arid Lands, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"The Enigmatic World of Biological Soil Crusts"

September

Dr. Dan Gerrity, Principal Research Microbiologist, Southern Nevada Water Authority
"Poops (and Urine) Don鈥檛 Lie: Wastewater Surveillance of Illicit Drugs in Southern Nevada"

June

Dr. Matthew Meiselman, Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
鈥淗ow Insects Survive the Winter: Using Fruit Flies to Map the Neural and Behavioral Signatures of Dormancy鈥

May

Dr. Beiyu Lin, Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Computer Science
"Machine Learning and its Applications Based on Sensor Data"

April

Dr. Louisa Messenger, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Public Health
"'Resistance is Futile': the next-generation of malaria vector control tools"

March

Dr. Carrie Tyler, Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Geoscience
"Marine Food Webs: Lessons from the Ancient Past."

February

Dr. Simon Jowitt, Associate Professor of Economic Geology, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Geoscience
"Climate change mitigation and mining; a key relationship?"

December

Dr. Martin Jastroch, Associate Professor of Molecular Mammalian Physiology, Department of Molecular Biosciences, The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University
"Brown Fat: Our Secret Weapon Against Obesity"

November

Dr. Samantha John, Assistant Professor 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Brain Health, School of Integrated Health Sciences
"Unequal Risk, Unequal Representation: Alzheimer's Disease Disparities鈥

October

Dr. Prasun Guha, Assistant Professor 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences, NIPM
"New evidence in mice that cocaine makes brain cells cannibalize themselves"

September

Dr. Kristen Averyt, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Research Professor
"What's up with Lake Mead?"

August

Dr. Kenneth McKenna, Visiting Assistant Professor, 51吃瓜网万能科大
"Morphological Murals: The development and evolution of butterfly color patterns"

July

Dr. Erick Bandala, Assistant Research Professor at Desert Research Institute
"Engineered technologies for the separation and degradation of microplastics in water"

June

Dr. Mark Buttner, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health
"The 51吃瓜网免费App Airborne Pollen Monitoring Program"

May

Dr. Justin Conner, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Do kidneys still function at lower temperatures?"

April

Dr. Amy Stone, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology at Touro University Nevada
"COVID-19 Antibodies - how they matter for Clark County"

March

Dr. Brian Labus, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
"Living with COVID, or just giving up?"

February

Dr. Matthew Medeiros, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Hawaiian Flies and their Gut Microbes"

December

Dr. Merrill Landers, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Physical Therapy
"A vicious cycle of fear of falling avoidance behavior in people with Parkinson's disease"

November

Dr. Dustin Hines, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Psychology
"Back to the Future: Psychedelics as Therapeutic Agents"

October

Dr. Carla Madelaire, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Resilience under challenge conditions: a physiological and epigenetic approach"

September

Dr. Marike Palmer, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Modern Explorers: Discovering, Understanding, and Naming Microbial Biodiversity

August

Dr. James Raymond, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Ice-Binding Proteins Allow Microorganisms to Live in Ice and Snow"

July

Dr. Rochelle Hines, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Psychology
"Building a Brain, It鈥檚 a Big Deal"

June

Dr. Brian Schilling, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences
"Human Performance in the Modern Military"

May

Dr. John Mercer, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Kinesiology and Nutrition Sciences
"Physics and Physiology of Endurance Sport: Swim, Bike, and Run"

April

Dr. Sarah Harris, 51吃瓜网万能科大 Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
"Robotics, Processors, and Human Interfaces"

March

Dr. Josh Greenwood, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Examining "Desiccation Tolerance in Mosses: Or How Mosses Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dryness"

February

Dr. Jeffrey L. Ebersole, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Dental Medicine
"Longevity and Aging: Precision Oral Health Sciences for the 21st Century"

December

Dr. Michael Treat, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Hibernators Healing Humans: Potential Biomedical Lessons from Mammalian Hibernators"

November

Dr. Donald Price鈥, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"Hawaiian Drosophila: How to Evolve 1,000 Species in Just 25 Million Years"

October

Dr. Edwin Oh, Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at 51吃瓜网万能科大
"Using Human Diagnostic and Wastewater Samples to Track COVID-19 Progression in Nevada"

September

Dr. Erick Bandala, Desert Research Institute
"Exposure to Extreme Heat in 51吃瓜网免费App: What are the Effects on our Health?"

August

Dr. Christina Demopoulos, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Dental Medicine
"The Mouth is Part of the Body Too"

July

Dr. Duane Moser, Desert Research Institute
"Life at the Edge: from the Deep Biosphere to Deep Space"

June

Ted Hartwell, Desert Research Institute
鈥淎 Study of the Impact of Problem Gambling in Nevada Tribal Communities, and an Update on Impacts of COVID-19 to Tribal Gaming鈥

March

Dr. Brittany Kruger, Assistant Research Scientist, Desert Research Institute
鈥淎strobiology: What life underground can teach us about life on other planets鈥

February

Dr. Veronique Demers-Mathieu, Senior Research Scientist, Medolac Laboratories
"How do human milk antibodies help to protect the immature gut in preterm infants against infections?"

December

Dr. Sean Neiswenter, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"RATS! A Tale of Conservation in a Human Modified Landscape"

November

Dr. Paul Schulte, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"How does water climb tall trees?"

October

Dr. Jef Jaeger, 51吃瓜网万能科大 School of Life Sciences
"A Primer on the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in Southern Nevada"

September

Dr. David Lee
"Run, Walk, or Crawl to the Pub: At What Cost?"

August

Dr. Boo Shan Tseng
"How Bacteria Build Strong Communities"

July

Dr. Allyson Hindle
"Southern Exposure: Science at the Bottom of the World"

June

Dr. Matthew Petrie
"Will we have forests in the future? An overview of declining tree regeneration in the western United States"

May

Dr. Mo Weng
"How Mechanical Force Sculptures an Embryo"

April

Dr. Ernesto Abel-Santos
"A New Strategy for the Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infections"

March

Dr. Alexis Billings
"It's not what you said, but how you said it": Animal communication across sensory systems"

February

Dr. Aude Picard
"Mining, Minerals and Microbes"

December

Dr. Arpita Basu
"Gestational Diabetes: Increasing Prevalence but Decreasing Solutions"

November

Dr. Erica Marti
"Water Reuse: Providing Water that is Dependable and Drinkable"

October

Dr. Nora Caberoy
鈥淎lzheimer鈥檚 Disease: The Race to Finding a Cure鈥

September

Dr. Ross Newman
"How Do Clinical Trials Really Work?"

August

Dr. Haroon Stephen
"How is Spatial Reasoning Supported by GIS?"

June

Dr. Elizabeth Stacy
鈥淲hy Are There so Many Tree Species?鈥

May

Dr. Jefferson Kinney
"Investigations of Alzheimer's disease pathology and potential therapeutics"

April

Dr. Allen Gibbs
"Survival of the Fattest: Evolving Flies to Study Obesity"

March

Dr. Libby Hausrath
"What causes pink snow?: Interactions of snow algae, minerals and microorganisms in low-nutrient snowy environments"

February

Michael R. Schwemm, Ph.D.
"Importance of perennial springs in the evolution and conservation of arid land fishes"

December

Dr. Lawrence R. Walker
"Disasterology: The Science of Ecosystem Recovery"

November

Dr. Eduardo Robleto
"Bacterial Antibiotic Resistance: The Power of Evolution"

October

Dr. Ashkan Salamat
"Journey to the Center of the Earth"

September

Dr. Andrew Andres
"Steroids and Salivary Glands: Why Tissues Respond Differently to Hormones"

August

Dr. Matthew Lachniet
鈥淎 Climate Scientist in the Era of Alternative Reality鈥

July

Dr. Christy Strong
鈥淯sing molecular scissors to perform HIV genome surgery鈥

June

Dr. Lynn Fenstermaker
鈥淓stimating Water Use from Satellite Observations鈥

May

Dr. Henry Sun
"Marble decay at the Forbidden City Mausoleum: Why the chemists may have got it wrong"

April

Dr. David Choate
"Cougars and their drinking problems? Living on the edge creates a predator-prey shell game in the northern Mojave Desert"

March

Dr. Daniel Thompson
"Why is the Mount Charleston Blue Butterfly Only on Mount Charleston?"

February

Dr. Philippos Tsourkas
"Bacteriophages: My Parasite鈥檚 Parasite is my Ally"

December

Dr. Stanley Hillyard
"The Devils Hole Pupfish: A Canary in the Coal Mine of Global Climate Change"

November

Dr. Steve Rowland
鈥淩econstructing Life Histories of Ice Age Elephants of 51吃瓜网免费App Valley"

October

Dr. Brenda Buck
"Naturally Occurring Asbestos: An Emerging Health Hazard"

September

Dr. Brian Villmoare
"Hunting Fossil Humans in Deserts of East Africa"

August

Dr. Stan Smith
"Climate Change and the West"

July

Dr. Helen Wing
"Evolution of a Bacterial Pathogen: Hijacking, Silencing, and Toxic Effects"

June

Dr. Brian Hedlund
"Exploring Biodiversity in a Microbial World"

May

Dr. Jason Steffen
"Exoplanets"

April

Dr. Cheryl Radeloff
"Syphilis: The Science and Art of Diagnosis"

March

Dr. Arya Udry
"Martian Geology: New Discoveries From Rover, Orbiter, and Meteorite Data"

February

Dr. Frank van Breukelen
"Hibernation: Life Below Zero"

December

Dr. Martin Schiller
"Personal Genome Sequencing, Human Genetic Variation, and Health"

November

Dr. Scott Abella
"The Causes of the Carpenter Fire"