The Department of Biology Seminars are held at 4:00pm in DeGrace Hall room 312 (Unless otherwise noted).

To submit speaker nominations for the seminar series, please fill out this form:

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Fall 2019

Name Date Institution Seminar Title Website
Dr. Sarah Diamond 8/29/19 CWRU Department of Biology “Remodeling thermal physiology for the 21st century” https://biology.case.edu/faculty/sarah-diamond/
Dr. Ryan Martin 9/5/2019 CWRU Department of Biology “The importance of variation” https://biology.case.edu/faculty/ryan-martin/
Dr. Peter Zimmerman 9/12/19 The Center for Global Health and Disease, CWRU “Plasmodium vivax and Duffy Negativity”
Dr. Michael Donovan 9/19/19 Cleveland Museum of Natural History “Recovery of plant-insect associations in Patagonia, gentina after the end-Cretaceous extinction” http://www.cmnh.org/
Dr. Natalie Wright 9/26/2019 Kenyon College “The effects of ecology and evolution on bird morphology and flight” https://www.kenyon.edu/directories/campus-directory/biography/natalie-wright/
Dr. Christopher Cullis 10/3/2019 CWRU Department of Biology “Does flax ‘edit’ its genome in response to environmental stress?”
 https://biology.case.edu/faculty/christopher-cullis/
Dr. Shane Campbell Staton 10/10/2019 University of California, Los Angeles “Unnatural histories: Exploring genetic and regulatory mechanisms of anthropogenic evolution” https://socgen/ucla.edu/people/shane-campbell-staton
Dr. Andres Vidal-Gadea 10/17/2019 Illinois State University “Neuroethology of magnetic field detection and orientation by a nematode worm” https://about.illinoisstate.edu/avidal/pages/default.aspx
Dr. Noah T. Dunham 10/24/2019 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo “Lessons from the field: Behavior and feeding ecology of free-ranging primates informs management and care of zoo-housed conspecifics”
Dr. Lyndon Mitnaul 10/31/2019 Regeneron Pharmaceuticals TBA
Dr. Alejandro Sanchez-Alvarado 11/7/2019 Stowers Institute for Medical Research https://www.stowers.org/faculty/s%C3%A1nchez-lab
Dr. David Katz 11/14/2019 CWRU https://case.edu/medicine/neurosciences/people-research/faculty-name/david-m-katz
No seminar- Thanksgiving Break 11/28/2019
Dr. Jean-Michael Mongeau 12/5/2019 Penn State https://www.mne.psu.edu/department/directory-detail-g.aspx?q=jmm1175