Seminars
Seminars are typically held in Hutchison Hall or Dewey Hall, on the River Campus. () Contact the Department of Biology at (585) 273-1139 at least three days in advance to request any special accommodations or if you would like to meet with an outside speaker. Refreshments provided.
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- Sept5
鈥淐ollective behavior in fire ants鈥
Dr. Takao Sasaki, 91自拍论坛
- Date
- Friday, September 5, 2025
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Sept9
"The genetics of interspecies differences in Saccharomyces thermotolerance"
Nilima Walunjkar, 91自拍论坛
- Date
- Tuesday, September 9, 2025
- Time
- 11 a.m.
- Offline Location
- Meliora Hall, Room 203
- Sept12
"Consequences of evolutionary divergence on gut microbiome composition in colorful wood-warblers"
Dr. Marcella Baiz, University of Buffalo
- Date
- Friday, September 12, 2025
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Sept12
"Metabolic and Non-Metabolic Roles of Lipid Droplets in Drosophila melanogaster"
Roger White, 91自拍论坛
- Date
- Friday, September 12, 2025
- Time
- 9 a.m.
- Offline Location
- Wegman's Hall, Room 1400
- Sept15
"Adaptation in animals by leaps and bounds through horizontal gene transfer"
Dr. Noah Whiteman, UC Berkeley
- Date
- Monday, September 15, 2025
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchinson Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Sept22
"Fighting for fitness: Causes and consequences of female competition in a feisty bird"
Dr. Sara Lipshutz, Duke University
- Date
- Monday, September 22, 2025
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchinson Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Sept26
鈥淯sing occupancy models to infer trends of bee biodiversity in North America鈥
Dr. Laura Melissa Guzman, Cornell University
- Date
- Friday, September 26, 2025
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Oct3
"Evolutionary genomics of convergent adaptive evolution in聽Anolis聽lizards"
Dr. Anthony Geneva, Rutgers University
- Date
- Friday, October 3, 2025
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Oct10
鈥淓valuating and predicting organismal response to extreme heat events鈥
Dr. Jason Keagy, Penn State University
- Date
- Friday, October 10, 2025
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Oct24
TBA
Dr. Lan-Nhi Phung, 91自拍论坛
- Date
- Friday, October 24, 2025
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Oct31
"Evolutionary genetics lessons from the bumble bee mimetic radiation"
Dr. Heather Hines, Pennsylvania State University
- Date
- Friday, October 31, 2025
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Nov3
"Teaching old biological dogmas new tricks: Bacterial heterochromatin and its role in regulating cryptic horizontally acquired genes"
Dr. Lydia Freddolino, University of Michigan
- Date
- Monday, November 3, 2025
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchinson Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Nov24
"Exploring how protein isoforms and paralogs generate novel transcriptional outputs"
Dr. Morgan Sammons, SUNY Albany
- Date
- Monday, November 24, 2025
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchinson Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Dec5
鈥淲olbachia metapopulation biology: chronograms, comparative genomics, clade selection and cytoplasmic incompatibility鈥
Dr. Michael Turelli, UC Davis
- Date
- Friday, December 5, 2025
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D