Graduate Research Seminar 2024/2025

Graduate Research Seminars and Graduate Development Workshops
Fridays, 3:30-4:45 pm

Join us every Friday for graduate research discussions! Graduate students showcase their exciting research at our departmental seminars, followed by an interactive Q&A session. Graduate students learn from peers’ presentations and Q&A sessions, gaining perspectives that can inform and refine your own research.

Fall 2024

September 6th, 2024

Mia Cozart
Huang Lab
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Huang
Title: “Investigating the Role of the T cell Amino Acid Transporter, Slc7a5, in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis.”

September 13th, 2024

Henry Stevens
Marra Lab
Mentor: Dr. Peter Marra
Title: ” Understanding past, present, and future migratory connectivity for a long-distance migratory bird”

September 20th, 2024

Workshop Title: “Passport to New Frontiers: Exploring Alternative Science Careers”
Presenter: Martin Sabandal, PhD, Associate Project Manager, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH)

September 27, 2024

Zeeba Manavi
Huang Lab
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Huang
Title: Neuroinflammation and repair in mouse model of multiple sclerosis.

October 4th, 2024

Grace Jeschke
Ries Lab
Mentor: Dr. Leslie Ries
Title: “How hot is too hot? Larval development and survival of silver-spotted skippers.”

October 11th, 2024

Sam Sturiale
Armbruster Lab
Mentor: Dr. Peter Armbruster
Title: “The Relative Contributions of Two Plastic Processes, Diapause and Cold Acclimation, to Cold Stress Tolerance in Aedes albopictus“.

October 18, 2024

Juan Carlos Martinez Cervantes
Cervantes-Sandoval Lab
Mentor: Dr. Isaac Cervantes-Sandoval
Title: “A dopaminergic pathway for learning suppression”.

October 25, 2024

Emily Williams
Marra Lab
Mentor: Dr. Peter Marra
Title: “Patterns and drivers of intraspecific variation in migration in the American Robin.”

November, 1st, 2024

Marcelle Ferreira
Brinsmade Lab
Mentor: Dr. Shaun Brinsmade
Title: “Investigating the transcriptional regulation and the evolutive role of mbcS in Staphylococcus aureus”