Graduate Research Seminar 2024/2025

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”

November 15th, 2024

Dr. Phil Ryan, Office of Intramural Training and Education, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Title: “Cultivating Productive Mentor Interactions”

December 13th, 2024

Brady Thexton
Weiss Lab
Mentor: Dr. Martha Weiss
Title: “Shifting perspectives: assessing the use of a non-native plant by a native caterpillar” 

Spring 2025

January 10th, 2024

Muthu Malavika Sugumar
The Coate Lab
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Coate
Title: “The Function of CamKIV in Spiral Ganglion Neuron Development.” 

January 17, 2025

Emma Lederer
The Weiss Lab
Mentor: Dr. Martha Weiss
Title: “If you build it they will come: determinants of community assembly in lepidopteran-built leaf shelters”

January 24, 2025

Prachi Shah
The Cervantes-Sandoval Lab
Mentor: Dr. Isaac Cervantes-Sandoval
Title: “Burst of dopamine activity during anesthesia produces memory forgetting.”

January 31, 2025

Meredith MacQueeny
The Mann Lab
Mentor: Dr. Janet Mann
Title: Mother Knows Best: Cultural transmission of foraging techniques in bottlenose dolphins.” 

February 14, 2025

Verena Conkin
The Mann Lab
Mentor: Dr. Janet Mann

February 21, 2025

Danna Camelo
The Brinsmade lab 
Mentor: Dr. Shaun Brinsmade

March 21, 2025

Charli Minsavage-Davis
The Hamilton Lab
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Hamilton
Title: “Developing a coalescent model of asexual ancestry, feat. population genetics of the critical salt marsh grass Spartina patens“

March 28, 2025

Haeli Lomheim
The Silva Lab
Mentor: Dr. Elena Silva

April 4, 2025

Fabiana Malaga
The Brinsmade Lab
Mentor: Dr. Shaun Brinsmade

April 11, 2025

Emmanuel Olotu
The Rolfes Lab
Mentor: Dr. Ronda Rolfes 

April 25, 2025

Alp Demirhan
The Coate Lab
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Coate

May 2nd, 2025

Meghan Bullard
The Huang Lab
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Huang