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Speaker(s) / Presenter(s) Date
"Behavioral Disease Ecology Across Scales from Individuals to Populations" Dr. Nick Keiser | Faculty Host: Dr. Jacob Ferguson
"Space Medicine and the Future of Human Exploration" Dr. Afshin Beheshti | Faculty Host: Dr. Ann Morris
“The Evolution of Gestation Length in Mammals” Dr. Antonis Rokas | Faculty Host: Dr. Ashley Seifert
"Orchestrating Mammalian Tissue Healing at the Organ Scale" Dr. Yvon Woappi | Host: Dr. Ashley Seifert
"Mom does it best: Parental Care as a Model Phenotype to Explore How Cell-Type Specific Changes in Gene Expression Influence Brain Activity and Animal Behavior" Dr. Brandon Logeman | Faculty Host: Dr. Doug Harrison
"Of Microbes and Microglia: Sex-Biased Immune Pathways in Stress and Mood Disorders" Dr. Georgia Hodes | Faculty Host: Dr. Jessica Santollo
"An Active Role for Vision Prior to Eye-opening in Neonates" Dr. Shane D'Souza | Faculty Host: Dr. Pete Mirabito
"Old and New: Trait Evolution in Natural Populations" Dr. Molly Schumer | Faculty Host: Dr. Catherine Linnen
"Adaptation in Arabidopsis through Space and Time" Dr. Jesse Lasky | Faculty Host: Dr. Nicholas McLetchie
"Using Ecological Network Theory to Inform Plant Species Selection for Conservation and Restoration Practice: a Case Study with Bee-plant Networks" Dr. Valerie Peters | Faculty Host: Biology Graduate Student Association
"Organismal Agency" Dr. Denis Walsh | Hosts: Ian (Fiona) Connelly and Dr. Ashley Seifert
"Evolution of Darwin’s Finches in the Galápagos Islands: Genomics Perspectives on Adaptation, Speciation, and Biological Invasion" Dr. Sangeet Lamichhaney | Faculty Host: Dr. Devraj Singh
"Tapeworm Tails: Signals that drive Stem Cell-dependent Regeneration in Hymenolepis diminuta" Dr. Tania Rozario | Faculty Host: Dr. Beth Duncan
"Bee Biodiversity and Natural History Collections" Dr. Katja Seltmann | Faculty Host: Dr. Ann Morris
"Genetic and Genomic Mechanisms Underlying the Convergent Evolution of Pollination Syndromes in the Neotropical Radiation of Costus L. (Costaceae)" Dr. Chelsea Specht | Faculty Host: Dr. Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
"The Dual Role of Parental Conflict in Speciation: Lessons from Mimulus"" Dr. Jennifer Coughlan | Faculty Host: Dr. Catherine Linnen
"Phylodynamic and Comparative Approaches for Reconstructing Major Evolutionary Transitions in Deep Time" Dr. Tiago Simões | Faculty Host: Dr. Philip Skipwith
"Evolution of Floral Disparity through Integration of Fossil and Extant Morphological Diversity" Dr. Susana Magallón Puebla | Faculty Host: Dr. Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
"Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration in Hydra" Dr. Celina Juliano | Faculty Host: Dr. Ashley Seifert
"The Missing Pieces: Lost Ecological Function following the Terminal Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction" Dr. Felisa Smith | Faculty Host: Dr. Robbie Burger
"Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life: the 1953 Miller experiment" Dr. Antonio Lazcano Araujo | Host: BGSA
"Life by a Thousand Cuts: Archaea as a Model for Evo-Devo Mechanosensing" Dr. Alex Bisson | Faculty Host: Dr. Ashely Seifert
"The Role of Oxytocin Signaling Pathways in the Neuroimmune Response to Mate Bond Dissolution" Dr. Erica Glasper | Faculty Host: Drs. Jessica Santollo and Eve Schneider
"The Problem of Time in Climate Change Ecology" Dr. Elizabeth Wolkovich | Faculty Host: Dr. Jake Ferguson
"The Molecular Circadian Clock and the Impact of Disrupted Rhythms and Sleep on Health and Disease" Dr. Fred Turek | Faculty Host: Dr. Vincent Cassone