The COS Speaker's Bureau is comprised of COS faculty who are willing to provide a brief informative talk to a general audience about a specific science topic.
The goal of the COS Speaker's Bureau is to help facilitate connections with friends in the community while also providing opportunities to inform the public about important scientific topics.
If you are interested in having a faculty member speak on one of the listed topics, please email sciences@utsa.edu for more information and scheduling.
Organized by department, faculty and their topics are listed below.
- Historical Changes in South Texas Vegetation
- Mentoring of STEM Students
- Monarch Butterflies and Milkweed
Steven Quezada
- Medicinal Cannabnoids / Texas Law
- Chemistry of Amino Acids in Biological Context
- Metalloenzyme-Mediated Oxidation Reactions
- Laboratory Studies of Planetary Materials, Including Meteorites that Formed in the Earliest Epochs of the Solar System, to Understand the Chemical Conditions Present on Early Earth as They Relate to the Origin and Evolution of Life on our Planet
- Use of Theoretical Models to Understand How the Orbits and Deep Interiors of Planetary Bodies Change over Time
- Decoding Vision Loss: The Math Behind Healthy Eyes and Metabolic Pathways
- Mathematics Teaching and Learning in Elementary Bilingual Classrooms
- How Bacteria Cause Disease, with a Particular Interest in Clostridioides difficile, a Leading Cause of Hospital-Acquired Infections
- Fungi and their Frenemies: How Interactions Between Fungi and Bacteria Impact Disease Outcomes
- How Early Respiratory Infections Shape Infant Health: What Every Child Caregiver Should Know
- Energy Metabolism and Vision Loss: Implications of Eye Diseases and Aging Eyes
- From Cellular Dynamics to Public Health: The Role of Energy Distribution in Vision Degeneration
- A Race Towards Alternative Energy: Maintaining Vision in Aging and Diseased Eyes
- Vision Decline: A Race to Harness Alternative Energy
- Epigenetic Editing—How Can We Use It?
- Epigenetics in Alzheimer's Disease
- Identifying Risk Genes through Epigenetic Studies of Obesity
- Gene Editing (CRISPR/Cas9)
- In Vitro Gametogenesis (making sperm and eggs in a dish)
- Reproductive Biology, Contraception, Infertility
- Covid-19 and Brain Development
- Is Alzheimer's a Developmental Disorder?
- Neurogenesis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- You Have Brains in Your Head, You Have Organoids in Your Dish, You Can Steer Yourself in Any Direction You Wish
- Epilepsy
- The Neural Basis for Some Interesting Animal Behaviors (e.g. bat echolocation, Pavlovian conditioning, cricket mating calls)
- Pain
- Gut-Brain Signaling
- Taste, Smell, Flavor, and Chemesthesis (e.g. spicy)
- Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) Disorders and Pain
- Computational Neuroscience, Learning and Memory
- Modeling of Cerebellar Function, Modeling Power-Law Behavior from Molecule to Behavior
- Genetics of Malignancy and Why to Cure Cancer Is a Lot Harder than to Land on the Moon
- How Genes are Packaged and Organized and Why It Matters
- Black Holes
- Habitable World's Observatory
- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)
- NASA's Next Generation Observatory
- Interacting Binary Stars
- Nearby Galaxies
- Stellar Astrophysics
- Supernovae
- X-ray or UV Astronomy
