Seminars – Department of Biology

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	Reproductive Development		Nicole Crown
Patrick Bradley	March 2nd	The Ohio State University	Gene Function, gene regulation, and metabolism in the microbiome		Sarah
Stephanie Langel	March 9th	Case Western Reserve University	Mucosal Immunity	https://langelresearchteam.com/the-team	Jessica Fox
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
NO SEMINAR	October 6
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
	April 14, 2022
Dr. Lauren Sullivan	April 21, 2022	University of Missouri	“Ecological causes and consequences of dispersal in restored and native grasslands”	sullivanplantecology.com	Amy Patterson