Seminar Series

Fall 2026

Our Biology seminar series take place in the Gottwald Science Center, the Auditorium (room A001) on most Mondays from 12-1 p.m. 

Monday, August 24

Geremy Lerma, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Life Sciences Education and Department of Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University

  • Modeling Genetic Modifiers of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Using Zebrafish

Monday, August 31

Linda Boland, Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Richmond

  • Can We Tune Ion Channel Gating from the Cell Surface?

Jory Brinkerhoff, Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Richmond

  • Research and Teaching in Vector-Borne Disease Biology, from Local to International

Monday, September 7

Efraín Rivera-Serrano, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biology, Biology Department, Elon University

  • Rolling the Dice: What Viruses Can Teach us About Succeeding in STEM

Monday, September 14

Lily Thompson, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Natural Resources, University of Missouri

  • Global Change Ecology at Local Scales

Monday, September 21

Edward Provencher, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State, Eberly College of Science

  • Quorum Sensing Adaptation in the Bacterial Symbiont Vibrio fischeri

Monday, September 28

Carlos R. Escalante, Ph.D., Professor, Cellular, Molecular and Genetic Medicine, School of Medicine Physiology and Biophysics, Virginia Commonwealth University

  • How to load DNA into a Virus: Studies of the Adeno-Associated Virus Packaging Motor

Monday, October 5

Esteban Miglietta, Ph.D., BioImage Analyst and Postdoctoral Associate, Cimini Lab, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

  • Beyond the Pretty Picture: Images as Quantitative Data and the Role of Bioimage Analysts

Monday, October 19

Logan Cohen, Ph.d. Student, University of Alabama

  • Same Genes, Different Story: Gene-by-Environment Interactions in Drosophila

Monday, October 26

Uri Manor, Ph.D.

  • TBD

Monday, November 2

Scott Sillett, Pd.D., Research Wildlife Biologist and Head of Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center, Institute

  • TBD

Monday, November 9

Nathan Morehouse, Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Director, Institute for Research in Sensing, University of Cincinnati

  • The Evolution of Looking and Seeing: New Insights from Colorful Jumping Spiders

Monday, November 16

Andrew Merrie, Ph.D., Research Liaison Officer, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University

  • TBD

Thursday, November 19

Nikolaos Mitsios, Research Specialist, Karolinska Institutet

  • A Comprehensive Multi-omics Approach to Delineate the Molecular Architecture of the Adult Human Brain
This seminar is part of Sweden Week and presented in partnership with the Office of Global Engagement.

Monday, November 30

Isaac Skromne, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, Department of Biology, University of Richmond

  • TBD

Monday, December 7

  • TBD

Contact seminar series organizer Stacey Criswell with questions.