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.

Fall 2025

August 29, 2025

Richard Lang, PhD
University of Cincinnati
Department of Ophthalmology

Hosted by: Ignacio Provencio, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

September 5, 2025

To be announced.

September 12, 2025

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

September 19, 2025

Larry Zweifel, PhD
University of Washington
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Pharmacology

Hosted by: Ali Guler, PhD and Chris Deppmann, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

September 26, 2025

Sarah Siegrist, PhD
University of Virginia
Department of Biology

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

October 3, 2025

Lesley Weaver, PhD
Indiana University Bloomington
Department of Biology

Hosted by: Melanie Worley, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

October 10, 2025

Shweta Bansal, PhD
Georgetown University
Department of Biology

Hosted by: Nicholas Landry, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

October 17, 2025

Robin Hopkins, PhD
Harvard University
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology

Hosted by: Laura Galloway, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

October 24, 2025

Prash Rangan, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Department of Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology

Hosted by: Dan McIntyre, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

October 31, 2025

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

November 7, 2025

Aaron Quinlan, PhD
University of Utah
School of Biological Sciences

Hosted by: Jenny Guler, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

November 14, 2025

Thomas Maresca, PhD
University of Massachusetts – Amherst
Department of Biology

Hosted by: Keith Kozminski, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

November 21, 2025

Sebastian Stockmaier, PhD
University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Hosted by: Mandy Gibson

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

December 5, 2025

J. Andrew Hardaway, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurobiology

Hosted by: Ali Guler, Phd

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

Spring 2026

January 16, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

January 23, 2026

Michael Krashes, PhD
NIH National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)

Hosted by: John Campbell, PhD

January 30, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

February 6, 2026

Ken Poss, PhD
University of Wisconsin
Morgridge Institute for Research

Hosted by: David Parichy, PhD

February 13, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

February 20, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

February 27, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

March 13, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

March 20, 2026

Bernard Kim, PhD
Princeton University
Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Hosted by: Alan Bergland, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

March 27, 2026

Elena Gracheva, PhD
Yale University
School of Medicine - Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Hosted by: Tracy Larson, PhD

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

April 3, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

April 10, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

April 17, 2026

Molly Schumer, PhD
Stanford
Department of Biology

Hosted by: Katja Kasimatis, Phd

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

April 24, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390

May 1, 2026

To be announced.

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Gilmer Hall Auditorium 390