The Biology Department holds hour long seminars every Thursday at 4pm throughout the Fall and Spring semesters. Find flyers with more information on the second floor of DeGrace hall, sign up for the Biology Seminar emailing list biosem@case.edu, or contact Department Assistant Mikaela Libens (mxl1349@case.edu) with questions.
Spring 2023
| Name | Date | Institution | Title or Area of Research | Website | Host |
| Marie Dacke | January 26th | Lund University | “The Dynamic Nature of the Insect Compass System” | https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/marie-dacke | Gabriella Wolff |
| Viorel Popescu | February 2nd | Ohio University | “Challenges and Opportunities for Conserving Terrestrial Carnivores in Human-Dominated Landscapes” | https://vioreldpopescu.com/ | Michael Benard |
| Bradley Dickerson | February 9th | Princeton University | “Functionally Stratified Encoding in a Biological Gyroscope” | https://dickersonlab.princeton.edu/ | Gabriella Wolff |
| Andrew Dacks | February 16th | West Virginia University | “Stimulus Specific Modulation of Olfactory Coding by Serotonin” | https://www.dacksneuroscience.com | Gabriella Wolff |
| Judith Yanowitz | February 23rd | Magee-Womens Research Institute | “To Break or Not To Break: Initiation and Regulation of Meiotic Crossovers” | https://mageewomens.org/investigator/judith-yanowitz-ph-d | Nicole Crown |
| Timothy Mead | March 2nd | University Hospitals, CWRU School of Medicine | “Extracellular matrix optimization during embryogenesis” | Radhika Atit | |
| Stephanie Langel | March 9th | Case Western Reserve University | “What maternal antibody responses in pigs, ferrets, and mice teaches us about human biology” | https://langelresearchteam.com/the-team | Jessica Fox |
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Arvid Agren |
March 23rd | Cleveland Clinic | “Evolution of Within-Organism Conflicts” | https://arvidagren.com/ | Ryan Martin |
| Rachelle Adams | March 30th | The Ohio State University | “Integrative Evolution: The illumination of symbiotic and systems” | https://megalomyrmex.osu.edu/ | Gabriella Wolff |
| Tiffany Betras | April 6th | Case Western Reserve University | Plant Ecology | http://www.rzlab.pitt.edu/?page_id=1738 | Sarah Bagby and Michael Benard |
| Grant Yu | April 13th | Case Western Reserve University | “The roles of soil biota in plant defense in an ecological context” | Jean Burns | |
| Jordan Renna | April 20th | University of Akron | Neural Circuit Development | https://rennalab.uakron.edu/ | Gabriella Wolff |
| John Kopchick | April 27th | Ohio University | “Melanopsin Ganglion Cells: Critical players in visual system development” | Joseph Terry |
Fall 2022
| Name | Date | Institution | Title | Website | Host |
| Uli Steiner | September 8th | Individual heterogeneity and aging: on humans, plants and bacteria | https://sites.google.com/site/steinerbiodemographylab/home | Robin Snyder | |
| Oindrila De | September 13th | Septate junction proteins play non-occluding roles in Drosophila embryonic morphogenesis | https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Oindrila-De-2 | Rob Ward | |
| Luisa Hiller | September 22nd | The Pneumococcal Social Network | https://www.bio.cmu.edu/labs/hiller/index.html | Sarah Bagby | |
| Matthew Forister | September 29th | The Fast & the Fragile: How Many Butterflies will Survive the Anthropocene? | https://www.unr.edu/biology/faculty/matt-forister | Angie Lenard | |
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| Tiffany Betras | October 13th | Understanding the causes of biodiversity decline in temperate forests: Disentangling the impacts of browsing and nonnative species | http://www.rzlab.pitt.edu/?page_id=1738 | Sarah Bagby | |
| Rikesh Patel | October 20th | Path integration above and below the water’s surface | https://rickeshpatel.weebly.com/uploads/2/5/0/6/25066119/patel_rn_cv_2021.pdf | Gabriella Wolff | |
| Bruce Sullenger | October 27th | From the RNA World to the Clinic with RNA guides and aptamers | https://surgery.duke.edu/divisions/surgical-sciences/research/research-laboratories/cardiovascular-biology-laboratory | Yolanda Fortenberry | |
| Britton Sauerbrei | November 3rd | Cortico-Cerebellar Dynamics for Skilled Movement in the Mouse. | https://sauerbreilab.org/ | Hillel Chiel, Gabriella Wolff | |
| Michael Sheehan | November 10th | Ecology, evolution, and neuroscience of facial recognition in paper wasps | https://sheehanlab.weebly.com | Kris Lea | |
| Stephen Montgomery | November 17th | Rapid expansion and visual specialisation of learning and memory centres in Heliconiini butterflies. | https://www.shmontgomery.co.uk/index.html | Gabriella Wolff | |
| Sangeet Lamichhaney | December 1st | Exploring adaptive evolution through the lens of modern genomics | Ryan Martin | ||
| Lydia Kisley | December 8th | Super-resolution imaging of protein dynamics within the extracellular matrix | https://www.kisleylab.science/ | Radhika Atit, Sarah Bagby |
Summer 2022
| Name | Date | Institution | Seminar title | Website | Host |
| Dr. Abdel Halloway | June 9, 2022 | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | “Rapid Eco-Evolutionary Feedbacks in Ecological Communities” | E-Co-Evo – Co-Evolution in Ecological Communities | Karen Abbott |
Spring 2022
| Name | Date | Institution | Seminar Title | Website | Host |
| Dr. Leila Rieder | March 3, 2022 | Emory University | “Nuclear body organization of the zygotic genome” | https://www.riederlab.org/ | Dr. Nicole Crown |
| Dr. Seyeon Chung | March 17, 2022 | Louisiana State University | “Mechanisms Underlying Epithelial Tube Formation” | https://faculty.lsu.edu/seyeonchunglab/ | Dr. Robert Ward |
| Dr. Alison Bennett | March 24,2022 | The Ohio State University | “Interactions among microbiomes: The bottom up and top down influences of soil and insect microbiomes” |
https://species-interactions.osu.edu/people.html | Dr. Jean Burns |
| Dr. Amanda Larracuente | March 31.2022 | University of Rochester | “Meiotic Drive and Satellite DNA in Drosophila Melanogaster” | http://blogs.rochester.edu/larracuente/ | Dr. Nicole Crown |
| Dr. Gerald Downes | April 7, 2022 | University of Massachusetts Amherst | “From Swimming to Seizures: Investigating hyperactive locomotor behavior in developing zebrafish” |
RESEARCH – Downes Laboratory | Dr. Jessica Fox |
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| Dr. Lauren Sullivan | April 21, 2022 | University of Missouri | “Ecological causes and consequences of dispersal in restored and native grasslands” |
sullivanplantecology.com | Amy Patterson |
Fall 2021
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Dr. Jessica Fox |
9/2/21 |
Case Western Reserve University |
“Combining sensory information for flexible behaviors at high speed” |
https://biology.case.edu/faculty/jessica-fox/
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Dr. Mark Willis Promotion seminar |
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9/9/21 |
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Dr. Basil el Jundi |
9/16/21 |
University of Wurzburg |
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http://www.insectnavigation.com/
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Dr. Jessica Fox |
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Dr. Emily Baird |
9/23/21 |
Stockholm University-Sweden |
“Some don’t like it hot: Assessing the effect of climate change on the morphology and behaviour of insect pollinators” |
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Dr. Jessica Fox |
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Dr. W. Seth Childer |
9/30/2021 |
University of Pittsburgh
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10/7/21 |
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Dr. Ankur Saxena |
10/14/2021 |
University of Chicago Illinois |
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?: Local Signaling Drives Continuous Olfactory Neurogenesis
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https://bios.uic.edu/profiles/saxena-ankur/
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Dr. Radhika Atit |
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Fall Break- no seminar. |
10/21/2021 |
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Dr. Giovanni Bosco
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10/28/2021 |
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine |
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Dr. Nicole Crown |
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Dr. Julijana Gjorgjieva |
11/4/2021 |
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research |
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Dr. Jessica Fox |
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Dr. Dan Bergstrahl |
11/11/2021 |
University of Rochester |
“Depth, not Breadth: How Do Epithelial Cells Organize in Z?” |
https://www.sas.rochester.edu/bio/people/faculty/bergstralh_daniel/index.php |
Dr. Nicole Crown |
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Dr. Kieran Samuk |
11/18/2021 |
University of California Riverside |
“The Evolution and Consequences of Recombination Rate Variation”
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Dr. Nicole Crown |
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No seminar- Thanksgiving Break |
11/25/2021 |
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Dr. Dylan Childs |
12/2/21 |