The Department invites scholars in Biology to present their research on most Thursdays throughout the academic year. The seminars are followed by a Q&A session.
Join us Thursdays 12:30-1:45 PM, at Regents 239.
Keith Crandall, George Washington University
Professor, Director of Computational Biology Institute,
Director or Genomics Core, Courtesy Appointment:
Office of the Dean
Talk Title: “Mechanisms of speciation: insight from herbivorous specialist gall-forming insects.”
Host: Matthew Hamilton
Ethan Hughes, University of Colorado School of Medicine
Associate Professor, Ph.D.
Talk Title: “Oligodendroglia: Implications for adult CNS regeneration.”
Host: BOGS
Tovi Lehmann
Ecology of Disease Vectors Program (EDVP)
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research, NIAID, NIH
Talk Title: “All abroad! Mosquito and pathogen travelers on high-altitude winds connect epidemiology, invasion biology, and disease control.”
Host: Peter Armbruster
Dr. Carolina Palavicino-Maggio
Director, Neurobiological Mechanisms of Aggression Laboratory at McLean Hospital
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School
Talk Title: “From Neurons to Behavior: Sex Differences in Aggression Circuitry”.
Host: SACNAS-GU
Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor
Talk Title: “Concentration matters: Determinants of ribosome homeostasis.”
Host: Ronda Rolfes
Linyi Zhang, George Washington University (GWU)
Assistant Professor Department of Biological Sciences, Columbian College of Arts & Sciences
Talk Title: “Mechanisms of speciation: insight from herbivorous specialist gall-forming insects.”
Host: Martha Weiss
Glenn Turner, Janelia Farms HHMI
Group Leader and Director, GENIE Project Team
Unit on Cell Specification and Differentiation
Talk Title: “Learning rules that underlie foraging in Drosophila.”
Host: Isaac Cervantes-Sandoval
Elly Nedivi, MIT
William R. (1964) & Linda R. Young Professor of Neuroscience
Investigator in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Professor, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Professor, Department of Biology
Talk Title: “Synaptic heterogeneity across individual neurons..”
Host: Haiyan He
Lars Dietrich, Columbia University
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
Talk Title: “Bacterial biofilms, pigments and javelins”
Host: Tiffany Zarrella
David Hendrixson, UT Southwestern Med Ctr
Professor of Microbiology
Talk Title: “Mechanisms of Intestinal Metabolite Sensing by Campylobacter jejuni”
Host: Shaun Brinsmade
Amy Gladfelter, Duke
Professor of Cell Biology
Talk Title: “TBA”
Host: Mark Rose
Kathleen Hunt, George Mason University
Assistant Professor
Talk Title: “TBA”
Host: Janet Mann
Anyi Mazo-Vargas, Duke University
Assistant Professor
Talk Title: “TBA.”
Host: BOGS
Dr. Jen White, University of Kentucky
Insect Ecology
Professor
Talk Title: “TBA.”
Host: Gina Wimp
Dr. John Carlos Garza, University of California Santa Cruz and NOAA
The Genomics of Migration in Salmonid Fishes
Talk Title: “TBA.”
Host: Peter Armbruster
Michael Reiser, Janelia Farms HHMI
Group leader at HHMI’s Janelia Research Campus
Talk Title: “Inside the fly eye: adventures in understanding structure & function.”
Host: Isaac Cervantes-Sandoval
