
Seminar Series
Spring 2025
Below is our Spring 2025 seminar schedule which will be finalized by the end of January. Seminars are held on Mondays from 12-1 p.m. in Gottwald Auditorium, A001.
Monday, January 13, 2025
Dr. Kristine Grayson, Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of Richmond
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Rearing Invasive Forest Insects for Biocontrol and Spread Management
Monday, January 27, 2025
Dr. Eugene Wu, Associate Professor of Biology and Biochemistry, University of Richmond
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Stumbling onto a Potential Treatment for Pink Eye: Tales of Applying Basic Research
Monday, February 3, 2025
Dr. Kendra Sewall, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech
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Coping with Anthropogenic Change: How Song Sparrows Respond to Urbanization
Monday, February 10, 2025
Matt Cowan, PhD Candidate, Drexel University
- Exploring Differences in the Movement of Fibroblast and Glioma Cells in 3D Matrix
Monday, February 17, 2025
Dr. Dan Pierce, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
- Microbes to Monks: Lessons in Biological Communication
Monday, February 24, 2025
Dr. Deborah Thurtle-Schmidt, Assistant Professor of Biology, Davidson College
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What Regulates the Regulators? Investigating Determinants of Transcriptional Regulation
Monday, March 3, 2025
Devon Fitzgerald, PhD, TwinStrand Biosciences
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Advanced Sequencing Technology for Chemical Safety Testing
Monday, March 17, 2025
Saumya Jain, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech
- How Do Nature and Nurture Shape the Developing Brain?
Monday, March 24, 2025
Honors Student Presentation
- Chloe Ngo: Screening for Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in a Novel Invasive Grass Species
- Yulia Shatalov: The Interplay of Movement and Reward: An Investigation of the Effects of Enhanced Anticipation on Differently Motivated Responses in Rattus Norvegicus
Monday, March 31, 2025
Honors Student Presentation
- Rose Agarwala: Genetic Modification of Agrobacterium to Inhibit Plant Pathogenesis
- Kalynn Cheeks: Rats, Rears, and Research: A Comprehensive Study of Microbial Diversity, Environmental Influences, and Zoonotic Risks amongst Richmond’s Notorious Rodents
Monday, April 7, 2025
Honors Student Presentation
- Amy Jablonski: Genomic Analysis of the Lyme Disease Vector at a Spatial Expansion Front
- Ben Konigsberg: A cross-taxa comparison of avian telomere dynamics, age, and lifespan
- Adi Narayanan: Surveying the Neural Cellular Landscape in Wild and Laboratory Rats: Neuronal and Glial Profiles
Monday, April 14, 2025
Honors Student Presentation
- Emily Lekas: Substrate contrast is not correlated with skin pattern complexity in Callistoctopus furvus
- Lydia Wood
Contact seminar series organizer Stacey Criswell with questions.