Seminars
Seminars are held in Hutchison Hall, on the River Campus. (campus map) Contact the Department of Biology at (585) 273-1139 at least three days in advance to request any special accommodations or if you would like to meet with an outside speaker. Refreshments provided.
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- Sept6
“Repetitive DNA and the origins of genome architecture”
Landen Gozashti, Harvard University
- Date
- Friday, September 6, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Sept13
~ SEMINAR CANCELED ~
Dr. Diego Salazar-Armoretti, Binghamton University
- Date
- Friday, September 13, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Sept16
“Accessing In vivo excited-state photochemistry with time and space-resolved spectroscopy”
Dr. Yishu Jiang, University of Rochester
- Date
- Monday, September 16, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Sept20
“Genotype representation graph: Enabling efficient statistical and evolutionary analysis of biobank-scale data”
Dr. April Wei, Cornell University
- Date
- Friday, September 20, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Sept23
"The ups and downs of protein expression regulation"
Dr. Christine Vogel, New York University
- Date
- Monday, September 23, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Sept30
“Establishing ceramide accumulation as a novel hallmark of aging”
Dr. Juan Pablo Palavicini, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Date
- Monday, September 30, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Oct4
"Two decades of fun with carpenter bees sheds new light on the evolution of sociality"
Dr. Miriam Richards, Brock University
- Date
- Friday, October 4, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Oct7
"Sex- and brain region-specific memory enhancement by acetate via epigenetic and transcriptional remodeling"
Dr. Gabor Egervari, Washington University in St. Louis
- Date
- Monday, October 7, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Oct11
"Mechanisms of fruit fly behavioral manipulation by the killer fungus Entomophthora muscae"
Dr. Carolyn Elya, Harvard University
- Date
- Friday, October 11, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Oct18
"Drosophila – Wolbachia interactions and consequences for speciation"
Dr. Kelly Dyer, University of Georgia
- Date
- Friday, October 18, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Oct21
"Annotation and evolution of the insect regulatory genome"
Dr. Marc Halfon, University of Buffalo
- Date
- Monday, October 21, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Oct25
"What is speciation? ... In Heliconius butterflies"
Dr. James Mallet, Harvard University
- Date
- Friday, October 25, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Oct28
"Gene-environmental regulation of post-mitotic neuronal maturation"
Dr. HaoSheng Sun, University of Alabama Birmingham
- Date
- Monday, October 28, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Nov1
TBA
- Date
- Friday, November 1, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Nov4
“T2T-scale genome assemblies: Shining a light on repeats, dynamic centromeres, and chromosome evolution”
Dr. Rachel O’Neill, University of Connecticut
- Date
- Monday, November 4, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Nov8
"Evolution of supergene-mediated social polymorphism in fire ants"
Dr. Brendan Hunt, University of Georgia
- Date
- Friday, November 8, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Nov11
“Timing is everything: Kinetic studies of mRNA decay”
Dr. J. Robert Hogg, NIH
- Date
- Monday, November 11, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Nov15
"Host plant specialization and toxin sequestration in monarch butterflies"
Dr. Micah Freedman, University of Toronto
- Date
- Friday, November 15, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Nov18
"Signals and blockers in nuclear-cytoplasmic transport"
Dr. Yuh Min Chook, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Date
- Monday, November 18, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Nov22
"The impacts of extreme sexual dimorphism and a parasitic lifestyle on the genomic architecture of Strepsiptera"
Dr. Juan Ferro, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, November 22, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D
- Nov25
"Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population"
Dr. Nancy Chen, University of Rochester
- Date
- Monday, November 25, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Dec2
"Peritoneal macrophages in homeostasis, infection, and cancer"
Dr. Nan Zhang, The Wistar Institute
- Date
- Monday, December 2, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall 140, Lander Auditorium
- Dec6
"The evolution of reproductive incompatibilities in Drosophila”
Dr. Yasir Ahmed-Braimah, Syracuse University
- Date
- Friday, December 6, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Dewey Hall, Room 2110D