News & Events

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
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
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

Seminars

"Generating extreme intrasexual diversity: Y chromosomes and male morphs of Poecilia parae"

"Single-cell atavism reveals an ancient mechanism of cell type diversification in a sea anemone"

“Evolutionary genetics of opportunistic bacteria growing on surfaces or in hosts”

"Mitochondrial evolution and mito-nuclear interaction"

"A tale of two checkpoints"

"Spatial transcriptomics and cell-free nucleic acids to profile host-microbe interactions"

“Shell development in the mud snail Tritia obsoleta: Contributions of the 2d micromere and the retinoic acid signaling pathway”

"Genomics and the study of natural selection in wild plant populations"

“Biodiversity and the evolution of Darwin’s Finches”

“Unraveling the consequences of bacteriophage-mediated DNA recombination”

“Wiring up the brain during development: Coordination and propagation of cell fate choice in neural circuit assembly”

"Unraveling mechanisms of protein phosphorylation through multi-omics analysis"

“Every amino acid matters: Histone variants in development and disease”

"Ghost wolves of North America"

"Post-transcriptional control of gene expression in time and space"

“T2T-scale genome assemblies: Shining a light on repeats, dynamic centromeres, and chromosome evolution”

“The evolutionary consequences of crop domestication and the expansion of agriculture on pollinators”

“Coevolution as a potent(ial) tool for discovering protein interactions and function”