2014-2015 Series
Departmental Seminar Series
Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 PM, Regents 239
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.
Fall term 2014
Fall term 2014 seminar series speakers include:
Oct. 10, 2014
Dr. Jedd Wolchok
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cancer Immunotherapy: The End Of The Beginning
Hosted by: Dr. Steven Singer
Oct. 16, 2014
Dr. Ian Gallicano
Department Of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology, Georgetown University Medical Center
How Do Micrornas Affect Development?
Hosted by: Dr. Heidi Elmendorf
Oct. 30, 2014
Dr. Aaron Mitchell
Carnegie Mellon University
Rules Of Engagement – Pathogen Response To The Environment Of Invasive Infection
Nov. 6, 2014
Dr. Damien O’Hallora
George Washington University
Mechanisms Of Neural Plasticity: From Genes To Behavior
Nov. 13, 2014
Dr. Mollie Manier
George Washington University
Evolutionary Genetics Of Post-Copulatory Sexual Selection In Drosophila
Special Seminar Series
These are seminars that happen at days or times outside of the weekly Thursday departmental seminar
Oct. 10, 2014
Dr. Jedd Wolchok, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cancer Immunotherapy: The End of the Beginning
host: Dr. Steve Singer
Nov. 3, 2014, at 2:00 pm, Copley Formal Lounge
Dr. John Gabrieli, MIT Professor of Cognitive Science and Principal Investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research
“Intersections Between Human Cognitive Neuroscience and the Study of Intelligence”
Nov. 17, 2014, at 3:30 pm in White-Gravenor, room 311
Dr. Peter Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine
“Neglected Tropical Diseases and Blue Marble Health”
hosts: Dr. Anne Rosenwald and the Biology of Global Health Senior Seminar Students
Departmental Seminar Series
Thursdays, 12:30-1:30 PM, Regents 239
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.
Spring Semester
Spring term 2015 speakers include:
Jan. 15, 2015
Dr. Erik Aschehoug
North Carolina State University
Biodiversity, species interactions, and plant community structure
Jan. 22, 2015
Dr. Leslie Ries
University of Maryland
Big science for little insects
Jan. 29, 2015
Dr. Haldre Rogers
Rice University
What is the fate of a silent forest? The importance of avian pollination, seed dispersal, and predation in plant communities
Feb. 5, 2015
Columbia University
Community demography reveals drivers of diversity and ecosystem function
Feb. 12, 2015
Dr. Stephen Hovick
Ohio State University
Functional trait variation and invasion success in plant communities
Feb. 19, 2015
Dr. Matthew Helmus
VU University Amsterdam
Biodiversity Science in the Anthropocene
Mar. 5, 2015
Canceled due to the weather; rescheduled to April 9
Mar. 19, 2015
Ian Carroll, Postdoctoral Fellow
Georgetown University
Does livestock market self-reporting fill the data gap on potentially disease transmitting cattle shipments?
Apr. 2, 2015
Rachel Horak, Postdoctoral Education Fellow
American Society for Microbiology
Using biogeochemistry, microbial physiology, and the “omics” to understand the changing nitrogen cycle of the Pacific Ocean
Apr. 9, 2015
Kathleen Maguire-Zeiss
Georgetown University
Neurodegenerative Disorders: The Role of Microglia and Astrocytes
Special Seminar Series
These are seminars that happen at days or times outside of the weekly Thursday departmental seminar
None Occurred during Spring 2015
During the summer semester there are
Summer 2015
Summer term 2015 speakers include:
June 15, 2015, at 10:30 am in Reiss Science Building 283
Dr. Jacob Crawford, NIH Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Theoretical Evolutionary Genomics, University of California at Berkeley
“Speciation and adaptive introgression: A genomic view from Anopheles malaria mosquitoes”
August 24, 2015, at 4:00 pm in Regents Hall, room 551
Dr. Vinayak Mathur, University of Pennsylvania
“Genome expression plasticity and its role in climatic adaptation”