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Speaker(s) / Presenter(s) Date
"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
"Genetic, Social, and Developmental Drivers of Within-population Behavioral Variation" Dr. Kate Laskowski | Faculty Host: Dr. Dave Westneat
"Be Fruitful and Multiply: How Reproductive Capacity Evolves" Dr. Cassandra Extavour | Faculty Host: Dr. Catherine Linnen
"Cells and Molecules for Touch, Pain and Interoception" Dr. Alexander Chesler | Faculty Host: Dr. Eve Schneider
"Leveraging Animal Behavioral Interactions to Learn About Cognition & Social Dynamics" Dr. Elizabeth Hobson | Faculty Host: Dr. Jeremy Van Cleve
"Overwintering in the Arctic: Animal Strategies for Surviving the Long, Cold, and Dark" Dr. Brian Barnes | Faculty Host: Dr. Devraj Singh
"Highlights from 57 Years of Studying the Ecology, Biogeography and Evolution of Seed Dormancy and Germination" Dr. Carol Baskin | Host: Biology Seminar Committee
"The Evolution of Cell Types in the Cerebral Cortex" Dr. Maria Antonietta Tosches | Faculty Host: Drs. Jeramiah Smith and Nataliya Timoshevskaya
CANCELLED | "Dissecting Ciliopathies: From Molecular Mechanism to Potential Treatments" Dr. Samantha Brugmann | Faculty Host: Drs. Elizabeth Duncan and Ashley Seifert
"Planarian Stem Cells: A Model for Limitless Regeneration and Renewal" Dr. Carrie Adler | Faculty Host: Dr. Elizabeth Duncan
14th Annual Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecture: "Human Evolution and Adaptation in Africa" Dr. Sarah Tishkoff
Thomas Hunt Morgan Annual Lecture 2023: "African Integrative Genomics: Implications for Health and Disease" Dr. Sarah Tishkoff
"Mountains as Biodiversity Hotspots through Time: Integrating Fossils with Tectonics and Climate" Dr. Tara Smiley | Faculty Host: Dr. Robbie Burger
“Behavioral Syndromes: Evolutionary Constraints and Adaptive Explanations” Dr. Ned Dochtermann | Faculty Host: Dr. Dave Westneat
"Calculating Collapse and Stability of Food Webs Based on Consumption Constraints, Body Size, and Changing Temperature" Dr. Van Savage | Faculty Hosts: Dr. Robbie Burger and Dr. Jeremy Van Cleve
"Metabolic Regulation of the Male Germline Stem Cell Niche" Dr. Rafael Demarco | Faculty Host: Dr. Doug Harrison
"Ribosomes in Gene Regulation: Controlling the Diversity of Proteins Made in Specific Cells, Tissues, and Organisms" Dr. Maria Barna | Faculty Host: Dr. Ann Morris
"Human Origins and Dispersals: Fossil and Genomic Perspectives" Hugo Reyes-Centeno
"The Dark Side of Development: When Mentoring is Problematic & What to Do About It" Dr. Erin Dolan
"Progress Toward Understanding the Genetic Variation Spurring Phenotypic Diversity in Columbines" Dr. Evangeline Ballerini
“Neural Circuitry for Interactive Communication” Dr. Michael Long
"Cold-blooded and Nowhere to Go: How Insects Survive the Winter" Dr. Nicholas Teets