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