Seminar Series

Fall 2025

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

Monday, September 1, 2025

  • TBD

Monday, September 8, 2025

Nathan Derstine, Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Richmond

  • Decoding Insect Signals: From Social Behavior to Invasive Species Management


Monday, September 15, 2025

Dr. Lawrence Mahan, OB Pharmaceuticals

  •  TBD

Monday, September 22, 2025

Megan Riel-Meehan, Ph.D., Allen Institute for Cell Science

  •  TBD

Monday, September 29, 2025

Dr. Laura Williams, Director of Undergraduate Research, Georgia Tech

  • What Makes a Good Killer? Phenotypic and Genomic Variation Among Predatory Bacteria

Monday, October 6, 2025

Zachary Geisterfer, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Duke University

  • TBD

Monday, October 20, 2025

Dr. Steven Monfort, Executive Director, University of California Natural Reserve System

  •  TBD

Monday, October 27, 2025

Dr. Lisa Kronstad, Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, Midwestern University

  • Natural Killers, Dendritic Cells, and T Cells: Decoding Influenza’s Genetic Strategies of Immune Modulation

Monday, November 3, 2025

Dr. Matt Koski, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Clemson University

  • Impacts of Global Change on Flower Color and Plant Reproduction

Monday, November 10, 2025

Joyce Thompson, Postdoctoral Researcher, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

  • Is Fate of the Primitive Endoderm Determined? Lessons Learned from Developing Mouse Embryos

Monday, November 17, 2025

Dr. Ximena Garcia Arceo, Postdoctoral Scholar, Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco

  •  TBD

Monday, December 1, 2025

  • TBD

Contact seminar series organizer Stacey Criswell with questions.