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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Monday, September 9, 2019
Dr. Isidore Rigoutsos, Thomas Jefferson University
“Linking microRNA isoforms, tRNA fragments, repetitive elements, sex, race, disparities, and cancer”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Co-hosted by the Center for RNA Biology
Friday, September 13, 2019
Dr. Amy Goldberg, Duke University
"Short-term evolutionary dynamics in human populations”
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, September 16, 2019
Dr. Mark Peifer, UNC Chapel Hill
“Building the animal body: The miracle of morphogenesis”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Dr. Brian J. Altmann, University of Rochester Medical Center
"Health around the clock: human circadian rhythm in health and disease"
Rochester Science Cafe7 p.m.
Pittsford Barnes & Noble Store
Friday, September 27, 2019
Dr. Marc Branham, University of Florida
"TBA"
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, September 30, 2019
Dr. Erica Larson, University of Denver
“The evolution of polymorphic hybrid male sterility in house mice”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Monday, October 7, 2019
Dr. Kate O'Connor-Giles, Brown University
"Genetic dissection of synapse formation, function, and plasticity"
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, October 11, 2019
Dr. Robert Minckley, University of Rochester
"TBA"
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, October 14, 2019
Dr. Joshua Shaevitz, Princeton University
“Self-driven phase transitions in bacterial populations”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, October 18, 2019
Dr. Andrew Moeller, Cornell University
“The evolution of the mammalian gut microbiome”
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, October 21, 2019
Dr. Dragony Fu, University of Rochester
“Targets and Functions of RNA modification enzymes”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Dr. Anne S. Meyer, University of Rochester
"Bacterial seashells: How to build your environment using bacteria"
Rochester Science Cafe7 p.m.
Pittsford Barnes & Noble Store
Monday, October 28, 2019
Dr. Celina Juliano, UC Davis
“Mechanisms of development and regeneration in Hydra”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, November 1, 2019
Dr. Andrew McAdam, University of Guelph
"Evolution in a social context: Lessons from a long-term study of wild red squirrels"
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, November 4, 2019
Dr. Stephanie Weber, McGill University
"No membrane, no problem: Condensing bacterial organelles"
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, November 8, 2019
Dr. Chelsea Specht, Cornell University
“Genetic diversity and the evolution of form and function: Exploring the monocots from Allium to Zingiber”
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, November 11, 2019
Dr. Heather Hundley, Indiana University
“Regulation and impacts of RNA editing on the neural transcriptome”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Friday, November 15, 2019
Dr. Beatriz Navarro Dominguez, University of Rochester
TBA
Hutchison 3163 p.m.
Monday, November 18, 2019
Dr. Mia Levine, University of Pennsylvania
“Intragenomic conflict shapes telomere evolution”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Tuesday, November 26, 2019
Dr. Edmund Lalor, University of Rochester
“Perceptionas controlled hallucination”
Rochester Science Cafe7 p.m.
Pittsford Barnes & Noble Store
Monday, December 2, 2019
Dr. Xin Li, URMC, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
“The piRNA pathway in genome defense and fertility”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon
Monday, December 9, 2019
Dr. Nicole Crown, Case Western Reserve University
“The effects of local inversion heterozygosity on genome-wide recombination rates”
Lander Auditorium - Hutchison 140Noon