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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- Sept6
"Segregation Distorter and satellite DNA regulation in Drosophila melanogaster"
Xiaolu Wei, University of Rochester
- Date
- Tuesday, September 6, 2022
- Time
- 9 a.m.
- Place
- G-9425 Class of '62 Auditorium
The Department of Biomedical Genetics
Ph.D. Thesis Defense
Advisor: Amanda Larracuente
- Sept9
“The reshuffling of pigmentation genes leads to rapid phenotypic evolution in a finch radiation”
Dr. Leonardo Campagna, Cornell University
- Date
- Friday, September 9, 2022
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Place
- Hutchison Hall - Room 316
Hybrid seminar. Click here to attend via Zoom.
- Sept16
SEMINAR CANCELLED
Dr. Gaelen Burke, University of Georgia
- Date
- Friday, September 16, 2022
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Place
- Hutchinson Hall - Room 316
- Sept19
“Systemic control of cell stress response pathways”
Dr. Veena Prahlad, University of Iowa
- Date
- Monday, September 19, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140
- Sept23
“Ancestral cross-wiring of tergal and pleural gene regulatory networks may have facilitated the dual-origin of insect wings”
Dr. Kevin Deem, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, September 23, 2022
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Place
- Hutchinson Hall - Room 316
- Sept26
“Single molecule detection of pseudouridine modifications in the human transcriptome”
Dr. Sara Rouhanifard, Northeastern University
- Date
- Monday, September 26, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140
- Sept30
“Natural selection on sympatric Monkeyflower species: Variation over space and time”
Dr. Kathleen Ferris, Tulane University
- Date
- Friday, September 30, 2022
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Place
- Hutchinson Hall - Room 316
- Oct3
“Engineering across the tree of life: Standardized genetics for proteobacteria”
Dr. Eric Young, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Date
- Monday, October 3, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140
- Oct7
“Cross species incompatibility between a DNA satellite and a DNA satellite-associated protein poisons germline genome integrity”
Dr. Cara Brand, University of Pennsylvania
- Date
- Friday, October 7, 2022
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Place
- Hutchinson Hall - Room 316
- Oct14
“The dual role of parental conflict in speciation”
Dr. Jennifer Coughlan, Yale University
- Date
- Friday, October 14, 2022
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Place
- Hutchinson Hall - Room 316
- Oct17
“Birds, yeast, worms, snails, fish: One path to biotech”
Dr. Jeremy Rabinowitz, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
- Date
- Monday, October 17, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140
1:00-1:45 p.m.
Q & A session with Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows
- Oct21
“Queen polymorphism in Leptothorax ergatogyneous: Discovery of a novel social chromosome?”
Dr. Samuel Arsenault, Harvard University
- Date
- Friday, October 21, 2022
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Place
- Hutchinson Hall - Room 316
- Oct24
“From genes to speciation: How ecological divergence causes reproductive isolation”
Dr. Catherine Linnen, University of Kentucky
- Date
- Monday, October 24, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140
- Oct31
“Quantifying protein and cell lifetimes in vivo to understand (pathological) aging”
Dr. Abigail Buchwalter, University of California, San Francisco
- Date
- Monday, October 31, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140
- Nov7
“The role of adaptation in speciation: A comparative and integrative approach”
Dr. Rebecca Safran, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date
- Monday, November 7, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140
- Nov14
“Genetic evolution caught on the butterfly wing”
Dr. Arnaud Martin, George Washington University
- Date
- Monday, November 14, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140
- Nov21
"How to start a biotech startup"
Dr. Tony Kulesa, Pillar VC, Principal & Co-founder of Petri
- Date
- Monday, November 21, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140
The webinar will be broadcast live in Lander Auditorium for those who wish to watch in a seminar setting.
- Nov28
“From the physics to the cell biology of lipid droplets”
Dr. Abdou Rachid Thiam, CNRS/Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, France
- Date
- Monday, November 28, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Virtual location
The webinar will be broadcast live in Lander Auditorium for those who wish to watch in a seminar setting.
- Dec5
“Investigating molecular mechanisms of microcephaly: What the fruit fly can tell us about human disease”
Dr. Todd Schoborg, University of Wyoming
- Date
- Monday, December 5, 2022
- Time
- Noon
- Place
- Lander Auditorium - Hutchinson 140