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
October 10, 2025
Shweta Bansal, PhD
Department of Biology | Georgetown University
The Hidden Architecture of Disease: How Animal Behavior Shapes Infectious Disease Transmission
Host social behavior represents a major gap in our understanding of infectious disease dynamics, from emergence to forecasting to elimination. In this talk, I'll use a comparative analysis across 70+ animal species to demonstrate the opportunities and constraints provided by social networks for infectious disease transmission. I'll conclude with a case study of bottlenose dolphins, demonstrating how integrating social and spatial network data can predict individual disease vulnerability and optimize wildlife surveillance strategies.
Hosted by: Nicholas Landry, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390 | Add to Calendar
October 17, 2025
Robin Hopkins, PhD
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University
Evolution of Mate Choice in Plants
My research program incorporates findings from ecological research in the field, quantitative genetics research in the greenhouse, molecular genetics research in the laboratory, population genetic modeling, and computational genomics to understand how the forces of selection, mutation, and gene flow interact during the evolution of mate choice in plants. I will present two case studies of our work investigating the genetic and ecological mechanisms underlying the evolution ofplant-pollinator mate choice and pollen-pistil mate choice. My research centers on the Phlox wildflower system, for which I have integrated cutting edge tools for genetic and genomic studies with abundant knowledge of natural history and ecology for field-based organismal studies.
Hosted by: Laura Galloway, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390 | Add to Calendar
October 24, 2025
Prash Rangan, PhD
Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology | Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Hosted by: Dan McIntyre, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
October 31, 2025
Tera Levin, PhD
Department of Biological Sciences | University of Pittsburgh
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
November 7, 2025
TBD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
November 14, 2025
Thomas Maresca, PhD
Department of Biology | University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Hosted by: Keith Kozminski, PhD
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
November 21, 2025
Sebastian Stockmaier, PhD
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | University of Tennessee
Hosted by: Mandy Gibson
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390
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
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