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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- Sept11
"Generating extreme intrasexual diversity: Y chromosomes and male morphs of Poecilia parae"
Dr. Ben Sandkam, Cornell University
- Date
- Monday, September 11, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Sept15
"Single-cell atavism reveals an ancient mechanism of cell type diversification in a sea anemone"
Dr. Leslie Babonis, Cornell University
- Date
- Friday, September 15, 2023
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Sept18
“Evolutionary genetics of opportunistic bacteria growing on surfaces or in hosts”
Dr. Vaughn Cooper, University of Pittsburgh
- Date
- Monday, September 18, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Sept22
"Mitochondrial evolution and mito-nuclear interaction"
Dr. Xu Wang, Auburn University
- Date
- Friday, September 22, 2023
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Sept25
"A tale of two checkpoints"
Dr. Needhi Bhalla, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Date
- Monday, September 25, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Sept29
“Gene duplication and the evolution of aphid wing dimorphisms”
Omid Saleh Ziabari, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, September 29, 2023
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Oct2
"Spatial transcriptomics and cell-free nucleic acids to profile host-microbe interactions"
Dr. Iwijn De Vlaminck, Cornell University
- Date
- Monday, October 2, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Oct6
“Shell development in the mud snail Tritia obsoleta: Contributions of the 2d micromere and the retinoic acid signaling pathway”
Thao Kim Dao, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, October 6, 2023
- Time
- 11:30 a.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
Thesis Defense - Oct13
"Genomics and the study of natural selection in wild plant populations"
Dr. John Kelly, University of Kansas
- Date
- Friday, October 13, 2023
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Oct20
“Linked-read genomic data improves the study of chromosome inversions and selective sweeps in an avian hybrid zone”
Dr. Daniel Hooper, American Museum of Natural History
- Date
- Friday, October 20, 2023
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Oct23
“Biodiversity and the evolution of Darwin’s Finches”
Drs. Peter and Rosemary Grant, Princeton University
- Date
- Monday, October 23, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Oct30
“Unraveling the consequences of bacteriophage-mediated DNA recombination”
Dr. Andrew Varble, URMC, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
- Date
- Monday, October 30, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Nov3
“Wiring up the brain during development: Coordination and propagation of cell fate choice in neural circuit assembly”
Dr. Yu-Chieh Chen, New York University
- Date
- Friday, November 3, 2023
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Nov6
"Unraveling mechanisms of protein phosphorylation through multi-omics analysis"
Dr. Tian Zhang, University of Virginia
- Date
- Monday, November 6, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Nov13
“Every amino acid matters: Histone variants in development and disease”
Dr. Laura Banaszynski, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Date
- Monday, November 13, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Nov17
"Ghost wolves of North America"
Dr. Bridgett vonHoldt, Princeton University
- Date
- Friday, November 17, 2023
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Nov20
"Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in time and space"
Dr. Howard Lipshitz, University of Toronto
- Date
- Monday, November 20, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Nov27
“T2T-scale genome assemblies: Shining a light on repeats, dynamic centromeres, and chromosome evolution”
Dr. Rachel O’Neill, University of Connecticut
- Date
- Monday, November 27, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Dec1
“The evolutionary consequences of crop domestication and the expansion of agriculture on pollinators”
Dr. Margarita López-Uribe, Pennsylvania State University
- Date
- Friday, December 1, 2023
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Dec4
“Coevolution as a potent(ial) tool for discovering protein interactions and function”
Dr. Jack Werren, University of Rochester
- Date
- Monday, December 4, 2023
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium