Moncie Wright

Our next Baylor University WISE Graduate Student Seminar Speaker is Moncie Wright. Moncie Wright is working on her PhD with Dr. Ryan King in the Biology Department here at Baylor University. Her talk is entitled “It’s a small, invisible world: Exploring the toxicity of nanoparticles to stream algae and bacteria.”

Summary: So much of our world is invisible to the naked eye and requires instruments for detection and measurement. Our knowledge and understanding of a human-impacted natural world is limited by our inability to visualize phenomena. What does contaminant exposure look like? What does it look like when algal or bacterial communities change in response to contaminant exposure? These questions are already complicated, but when the contaminant of focus is nano-sized (smaller than a virus!), how do scientists study toxicity? The goal of this presentation is to introduce people to the world of ecotoxicology and demonstrate how ecologists study microscopic and sub-microscopic organisms and their response to nanoparticle exposure.

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