September 5, 2025
Prachi Shah
Cervantes-Sandoval Lab
Mentor: Dr. Isaac Cervantes-Sandoval
“Anesthesia-triggered dopamine bursts cause active forgetting: a paradigm shift in understanding cold-shock amnesia.”
Graduate Research Seminar 2025/2026
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 2025
September 12, 2025
Bergeline Nguemwotentokam
Singer Lab
Mentor: Dr. Steven Singer
“Investigating Giardia proteases inducing barrier defects.”
October 3, 2025
Meghan Bullard
Huang Lab
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Huang
“Pathways in Parallel: Cellular signaling underlying amino acid dependent remyelination.”
October 10, 2025
Alp Demirhan
Coate Lab
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Coate
“The intersection of Alzheimer’s Disease and hearing loss: the role of APOE in auditory neuron survival.”
October 17, 2025
Charli Minsavage-Davis
Hamilton Lab
Mentor: Dr. Matthew Hamilton
“Testing for adaptation in the clonal salt marsh grass Spartina patens with DNA-sequence fingerprinting.”
October 24, 2025
Malavika Sugumar
Coate Lab
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Coate
“The Function of CaMKIV in Spiral Ganglion Neuron development.“
October 31, 2025
Haeli Lomheim
Silva Lab
Mentor: Dr. Elena Silva
November 7, 2025
Verena Conkin
Mann Lab
Mentor: Dr. Janet Mann
“Reproduction, Growth, and Demography in Tursiops erebennus.”
November 14, 2025
Paul Zhou
Coate Lab
Mentor: Dr. Thomas Coate
“Otic Mesenchyme Cells Might Promote Inner Ear Spontaneous Activity”.
November 21, 2025
Emma Lederer
Weiss Lab
Mentor: Dr. Martha Weiss
“The Magic Treehouse: Structural complexity at multiple levels shapes arboreal arthropod communities.”
December 5, 2025
Danna Camelo
Brinsmade Lab
Mentor: Dr. Shaun Brinsmade
Investigating MbcS-dependent membrane biogenesis in Staphylococcus aureus supported by cross-fed Enterococcus faecalis metabolites.
Spring 2026
January 16, 2026
Meredith MacQueeny
The Mann Lab
Mentor: Dr. Janet Mann
“Mother Knows Best: Reproductive timing, foraging development, and social learning in bottlenose dolphins.”
January 23, 2026
Fabiana Málaga
The Brinsmade Lab
Mentor: Dr. Shaun Brinsmade
“Exploring the regulation of MbcS activity in branched-chain fatty acid synthesis in Staphylococcus aureus.”
January 30, 2026
JEDI workshop
Conflict resolution: Joint CGSS/JEDI workshop on dealing with conflict featuring a presentation followed by a discussion led by Gina.
February 20, 2026
Emmanuel Olotu
The Rolfes Lab
Mentor: Dr. Ronda Rolfes
“IPK2 Is A Kinase That Has Both Canonical And Unexpected Catalytic Versatility In The Inositol Pyrophosphate Pathway In Candida albicans“
March 13, 2026
Vanessa Morales
Wimp Lab
Mentor: Gina Wimp
“Salt Marsh Community Response to Stressors in an Era of Human Driven Climate Change.”
March 20, 2026
Juliana Taube
Bansal Lab
Mentor: Shweta Bansal
“From proximity to pandemics: How human behavior and disease spread interact.”
March 27, 2026
Anngely Leeds
The Ries Lab
Mentor: Dr. Leslie Ries
“Multi-stressor impacts on an overlooked life stage of a temperate butterfly.”
April 10, 2026
Kenny Lee
The Huang Lab
Mentor: Dr. Jeffrey Huang
April 17, 2026
Grace Jeschke
The Ries Lab
Mentor: Dr. Leslie Ries