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Speaker(s) / Presenter(s) Date
"Understanding the Sources of Regenerative Capacity in Animals" Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D. (Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecturer) | Host: Seminar Committee
"Orchestrating Mammalian Tissue Healing at the Organ Scale" Dr. Yvon Woappi | Host: Dr. Ashley Seifert
"Mom does it best: Parental Care as a Model Phenotype to Explore How Cell-Type Specific Changes in Gene Expression Influence Brain Activity and Animal Behavior" Dr. Brandon Logeman | Faculty Host: Dr. Doug Harrison
"Of Microbes and Microglia: Sex-Biased Immune Pathways in Stress and Mood Disorders" Dr. Georgia Hodes | Faculty Host: Dr. Jessica Santollo
"An Active Role for Vision Prior to Eye-opening in Neonates" Dr. Shane D'Souza | Faculty Host: Dr. Pete Mirabito
"Old and New: Trait Evolution in Natural Populations" Dr. Molly Schumer | Faculty Host: Dr. Catherine Linnen
"Adaptation in Arabidopsis through Space and Time" Dr. Jesse Lasky | Faculty Host: Dr. Nicholas McLetchie
"Using Ecological Network Theory to Inform Plant Species Selection for Conservation and Restoration Practice: a Case Study with Bee-plant Networks" Dr. Valerie Peters | Faculty Host: Biology Graduate Student Association
"Making a Migratory Monarch" Dr. D. Andre Green, II | Hosts: Drs. Richard and Shenoy, and the Biology Undergraduate Student Association
"Organismal Agency" Dr. Denis Walsh | Hosts: Ian (Fiona) Connelly and Dr. Ashley Seifert
"Evolution of Darwin’s Finches in the Galápagos Islands: Genomics Perspectives on Adaptation, Speciation, and Biological Invasion" Dr. Sangeet Lamichhaney | Faculty Host: Dr. Devraj Singh
"Tapeworm Tails: Signals that drive Stem Cell-dependent Regeneration in Hymenolepis diminuta" Dr. Tania Rozario | Faculty Host: Dr. Beth Duncan
"Neurogenetic Mechanisms Underlying Phenotypic Variation in the Songbird Brain and Behavior" Dr. Farrah Madison | Faculty Host: Dr. Jessica Santollo
"Glial Endozepines: Multifunctional Messengers in Glial-neuronal Metabolic Communication" Dr. Caroline Geisler
"Glial Control of C. elgans Behavior" Dr. Shai Shaham | Faculty Host: Dr. Beth Duncan
"Genetic and Genomic Mechanisms Underlying the Convergent Evolution of Pollination Syndromes in the Neotropical Radiation of Costus L. (Costaceae)" Dr. Chelsea Specht | Faculty Host: Dr. Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
"The Dual Role of Parental Conflict in Speciation: Lessons from Mimulus"" Dr. Jennifer Coughlan | Faculty Host: Dr. Catherine Linnen
"The Developmental Basis of Phenotypic Diversity" Dr. Ricardo Mallarino | Faculty Hosts: Drs. Catherine Linnen and Ashley Seifert
"Phylodynamic and Comparative Approaches for Reconstructing Major Evolutionary Transitions in Deep Time" Dr. Tiago Simões | Faculty Host: Dr. Philip Skipwith
“The Time of Your Life: How Circadian Clocks Promote Healthy Aging and Longevity” Dr. Joseph Takahashi, 15th Annual Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecturer | Faculty Host: Dr. Vincent Cassone
"Circadian Clocks and Their Impact on Metabolism, Aging and Longevity" Dr. Joseph Takahashi, 15th Annual Thomas Hunt Morgan Lecturer | Faculty Host: Dr. Vincent Cassone
"Evolution of Floral Disparity through Integration of Fossil and Extant Morphological Diversity" Dr. Susana Magallón Puebla | Faculty Host: Dr. Rosana Zenil-Ferguson
"Mechanisms of Development and Regeneration in Hydra" Dr. Celina Juliano | Faculty Host: Dr. Ashley Seifert
"The Missing Pieces: Lost Ecological Function following the Terminal Pleistocene Megafaunal Extinction" Dr. Felisa Smith | Faculty Host: Dr. Robbie Burger
"Prebiotic Chemistry and the Origin of Life: the 1953 Miller experiment" Dr. Antonio Lazcano Araujo | Host: BGSA