August 31, 2023
Rebekah Evans, Georgetown University
Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Talk Title: “Midbrain circuity connecting exercise to motor learning.”
Host: Haiyan He
Seminar Series 2023/2024
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.
Fall 2023
September 7, 2023
Karl Thompson, Howard University
Associate Professor
Department of Microbiology
Talk Title: “Small protein effectors of an alternative sigma factor in S. aureus.”
Host: Shaun Brinsmade
September 14th
Christopher Krupenye, Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor
Talk Title: Social knowledge and decision-making in chimpanzees and bonobos
Host: Janet Mann
October 5, 2023
José Lemos, University of Florida
Associate Professor
Department of Oral Biology
October 12, 2023
Seth S. Margolis, Johns Hopkins University
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry
November 2nd, 2023
Jeffrey Allen Farrell, NICHD/DIR
Stadtman Investigator
Unit on Cell Specification and Differentiation
November 9, 2023
Anna Phan, University of Alberta
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Science – Biological Sciences
November 30, 2023
Denise Akob, USGS
Research Microbiologist
Spring 2024
January 18, 2024
Mayra Vidal, UMass Boston
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor
March 21, 2024
Teresita Padilla-Benavides, Wesleyan University
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry
March 28, 2024
Michael Johnson, University of Arizona
Associate Professor, Immunobiology
Member, BIO5 Institute
Member, Valley Fever Center for Excellence
Member, Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center
Director of Graduate Studies, Industrial Microbiology Track, Applied Bioscience Program
Director of the National Summer Undergraduate Research Project (NSURP)
April 11, 2024
Vanessa Ezenwa, Yale
Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
April 25, 2024
Christine Jacobs-Wagner, Stanford University
Dennis Cunningham Professor, Professor of Biology and of Microbiology and Immunology