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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Friday, January 24, 2020
Dr. Laurence Packer, York University
“The biogeography of extreme bees in extreme environments”
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Friday, February 7, 2020
Dr. Felix Beaudry, University of Toronto
“Patterns in sex chromosome evolution: Insights from plants”
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Friday, February 14, 2020
Dr. Robert DeSalle, American Museum of Natural History
“What’s wrong with the base of the tree of metazoa?”
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, February 17, 2020
Dr. Robert DeSalle, American Museum of Natural History
“The accidental homo sapiens”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Monday, February 24, 2020
Dr. Shawn Christensen, University of Texas at Arlington
"Completion of non-LTR-Retrotransposon integration involves an open ‘4-way’ branched DNA intermediate"
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, February 28, 2020
Dr. Corrie Moreau, Cornell University
“Piecing together the puzzle to understand the evolution of the ants: Macroevolution to Microbiomes”
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, March 2, 2020
Dr. Steve Horvath, UCLA
“Epigenetic clock studies in mammals”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, March 6, 2020
Dr. Emily Josephs, Michigan State University
“The evolutionary forces shaping quantitative trait variation in wild and domesticated plants”
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, March 9, 2020
Dr. Benjamin Blackman, University of California, Berkeley
“Trackers and guides: The genetics of natural variation in heliotropism and pollinator attraction”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, March 13, 2020
Xiaolu Wei, University of Rochester
TBA
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, March 16, 2020
Dr. Karine Gibbs, Harvard University
“How bacteria can use a local sense of identity to shape community assembly and movement”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, March 20, 2020
Emery Longan, University of Rochester
TBA
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Friday, March 27, 2020
Nilima Walunjkar, University of Rochester
TBA
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, March 30, 2020
Dr. J. Robert Hogg, NIH
"Beyond sense and nonsense: The challenge of telling right from wrong in a complex transcriptome"
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, April 3, 2020
Zoë De Corte, University of Rochester
TBA
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, April 6, 2020
Dr. Ulrich Tepass, University of Toronto
“The rise and fall of the epithelial phenotype”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, April 10, 2020
Jeremy Summers, University of Rochester
TBA
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, April 13, 2020
Dr. Nancy Moran, University of Texas at Austin
“Bacterial life inside insects”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, April 17, 2020
Rose Driscoll, University of Rochester
TBA
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, April 20, 2020
Dr. David Queller, Washington University in St. Louis
“Evolutionary conflict and rapid evolution”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, April 24, 2020
Lauren Gregory, University of Rochester
TBA
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, April 27, 2020
Dr. Andrew Gordus, Johns Hopkins University
“Untangling the web of behaviors produced by orb-weaving spiders”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, May 1, 2020
Omid Saleh Ziabari, University of Rochester
TBA
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, May 4, 2020
Dr. Hyun Youk, Delft University of Technology
“At the cusp of life and death”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon