Seminars

Biological Sciences Department faculty host three seminar series throughout the year. Please join us!

Oct 15 2026

2026 Comer Undergraduate Seminar - “Central Mechanisms of Nausea and Emesis” by Tito Borner (University of Southern California)

Thursday, 12:30 pm–1:45 pm
ARC 241
Oct 20 2026

E&E Seminar: Dave Tank (Michigan Sate University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Oct 21 2026

MCDB Seminar: "Rethinking the cellular response to heat shock" by Allan Drummond (University of Chicago)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1152
Nov 3 2026

E&E Seminar: "Peaks, forests, and unusual algorithms for phylogenetics" by Emma Goldberg (Los Alamos National Labs)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Nov 4 2026

MCDB Seminar: "How the nuclear-to-cytoplasmic ratio regulates zygotic genome activation and cell cycle slowing at the mid-blastula transition" by Amanda Amodeo (Dartmouth)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1152
Nov 5 2026

LIN Seminar: Laura Hurley (Indiana University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Nov 17 2026

E&E Seminar: Shannon O'Brien (Lincoln Park Zoo)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 am
SELE 4289
Nov 19 2026

LIN Seminar: "Toward a quantitative atlas of retinal waves: developmental trajectories and their perturbation" by Alex Tiriac (Vanderbilt University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Dec 1 2026

E&E Seminar: "Tracing Anthropogenic Pollution from Environment to Effect with Multiplatform Mass Spectrometry" by Kevin Tucker (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Dec 3 2026

LIN Seminar: "Extended Amygdala Neuropeptide Circuit Mechanisms in Stress, Addiction, and Sleep/Wake Dysregulation" by Will Giardino (Stanford University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Jan 26 2027

E&E Seminar: Patrick Zollner (Purdue University)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Feb 3 2027

MCDB Seminar: "From defense to courtship: repeated and ancient origins of biochemical innovation in butterflies" by Kathy Darragh (Indiana University)

Wednesday, 12:00 pm–1:00 pm
MBRB 1152
Feb 4 2027

LIN Seminar: Jason Sanchez (Northwestern University)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Feb 23 2027

E&E Seminar: Diego Santana (Field Museum)

Tuesday, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
SELE 4289
Mar 4 2027

LIN Seminar: Kaiwen Kam (Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 1 2027

LIN Seminar: Matt Hill (University of Calgary)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
SELE 4289
Apr 29 2027

LIN Seminar: Beatriz Luna (University of Pittsburgh)

Thursday, 4:00 pm–4:00 pm
SELE 4289