Upcoming Seminars
Friday seminars during the 2025-26 academic year will be located in Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390 and begin at 12:00 pm unless otherwise noted.
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Fall 2025
November 21, 2025
Sebastian Stockmaier, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Ecology andEvolutionary Biology University of Tennessee, Knoxville &Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Merging behavioral and disease ecology: Insights from vampire bats
This seminar explores how animal behavior is both influences and is shaped by infections. Drawing on research from our lab, we’ll examine how infections affect social relationships, pathogen manipulation of hosts, and how cross-species interactions could drive disease dynamics between vampire bats and livestock.
Hosted by: Amanda Gibson, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390 | Add to Calendar
December 5, 2025
J. Andrew Hardaway, PhD
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology | University of Alabama at Birmingham
Hosted by: Ali Guler, Phd
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390 | Add to Calendar
Spring 2026
February 6, 2026
Ken Poss, PhD
Morgridge Institute for Research | University of Wisconsin
Hosted by: David Parichy, PhD
February 27, 2026
Joshua Weitz, PhD
Professor of Biology | University of Maryland, College Park, MD
Hosted by: Nicholas Landry, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
March 13, 2026
Aaron Quinlan, PhD
Professor and Chair of Human Genetics | University of Utah
Hosted by: Jenny Guler, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
March 20, 2026
Bernard Kim, PhD
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Princeton University
Hosted by: Alan Bergland, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
March 27, 2026
Elena Gracheva, PhD
School of Medicine - Cellular and Molecular Physiology | Yale University
Hosted by: Tracy Larson, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
April 3, 2026
Graduate Research Symposium
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
April 10, 2026
Cathryn Cadwell, MD, PhD
University of California - San Francisco
Hosted by: John Campbell, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
April 17, 2026
Molly Schumer, PhD
Department of Biology | Stanford
Hosted by: Katja Kasimatis, Phd
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
April 24, 2026
Austin Keeler
Department of Biological Sciences | University of Delaware
Hosted by: Christopher Deppmann
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
May 1, 2026
Nikhil Sharma, PhD
Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Department of Systems Biology | Columbia University
Hosted by: Christopher Deppmann, Phd
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390