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Biology Departmental Seminars are usually held on Fridays at 2 pm in Room 116 of the Supple (Science) Building, or as announced below. A brief Q&A period typically follows each seminar. After that, everyone (age 21 and over only) is welcome to attend a reception for the speaker in the courtyard of the Old Greenhouse, liquid refreshments provided. To find out more about the speakers, follow the links to their web pages, and check out the seminar (you never know what interesting person might be speaking). TBA indicates "to be announced" unless the date arrives and no seminar speaker has been scheduled at which point it means we do not have a seminar speaker for that day. Please check frequently.
 
 
Past Seminar Speakers
 

Fall 2026 Seminar Schedule 

Date  Presentation and Speaker 

Host

Summary Paper 
Sept. 04

“Organismal response to environmental stressors: From tree frogs to watersnakes”

Dr. Analisa Shields-Estrada

Texas State University

People | David Rodriguez, Ph.D.

David Rodriguez

PDF

 

Sept. 11

"Intraspecific niche partitioning in bottlenose dolphins across fluctuating environments"

Dr. Vivienne Foroughirad

Texas A&M University at Galveston

https://foroughiradlab.github.io

Lauren FuessPDFPDF
Sept. 18

“Old Dogmas, New Tricks: Rethinking Mitochondrial Biology in the Age of Multi-Omics,  Artificial Intelligence, and De-extinction”

Dr. Mike Sandel

Mississippi State University

https://www.sandellab.org/home

Peggy BigaPDFPDF
Sept. 25

“The niches of witches: bat population and community dynamics across continents”

Dr. Sarah Fritts

Texas State University

Sarah Fritts : Department of Biology : Texas State University

Peggy BigaPDFPDF
Oct.   02

 Cancelled due to potential bad weather.

Rescheduled on Feb 5th, 2027

 

 

 

Oct.   09

Fall Break

   
Oct.   16

“Building Resilient Agroecosystems in a Changing Climate: Linking Soil, Water, Crop Responses, and Ecosystem Function”

Dr. Srinivasulu Ale

Texas A& M university, College Station

https://baen.tamu.edu/people/ale-srinivasulu/

Somsubhra

Chattopadhyay

 

PDFPDF
Oct.   23

“Enforcement of female-specific parenting behavior in cichlid fish by pheromone and androgen signaling”

Dr. Scott A. Juntti

University of Maryland

https://biology.umd.edu/people/scott-juntti

Mar HuertasPDFPDF
Oct.   30

“The Rules of Crossing: What Membrane Transporters Teach Us About Life, Disease, Adaptation and Evolution”

Dr. Elena Bossi

University of Insubria, Italy.

https://www.xenbase.org/xenbase/community/viewPerson.do?method=display&personId=1975

Mar HuertasPDFPDF
Nov.   06

“University partnerships to engage students in biodiversity-focused citizen/crowd-sourced science”

Dr. Stephen Witzig

University of Massachusetts

https://www.umassd.edu/directory/switzig/

Kristy DanielPDFPDF
Nov.   13

TBD

Dr. Allison Veach

University of Texas, San Antonio

https://sciences.utsa.edu/faculty/profiles/veach-allison.html

Morgan SobolPDFPDF
Nov.   20

“Time of day shapes plant responses to environmental cues”

Dr. Kathleen Greenham

University of Minnesota

https://cbs.umn.edu/directory/kathleen-greenham

Nihal

Dharmasiri

PDFPDF
Nov.   27

Thanksgiving

   
     

 

Spring 2027 Seminar Schedule

Date  Presentation and Speaker 

Host

Summary Paper 
Jan.  29    
Feb.  05

“Plasma Membrane Blebbing Initiates a Morphologically Encoded Survival Signaling Pathway in Metastatic Cancer Cells”

Dr. Andrew Weems

University of Texas at Austin

https://molecularbiosci.utexas.edu/directory/andrew-d-weems

Dana GarciaPDFPDF
Feb.  12

Darwin Day

   
Feb.  19

TBD

Dr. Robert Espinoza

California State University, Northridge

https://www.espinozalab.com/people.html

 

Joseph

Veech

 

PDF

PDF

Feb.  26

TBD

Dr. Daniel Allen

Pennsylvania State University

https://www.allenlab.org

Somsubhra

Chattopadhyay

PDFPDF
Mar.  05

 

   
Mar.  12 

 

 

 

  
Mar.  i9

Spring break

   
Mar.  26

 

   
April 02    
April 09    
April 16    
April 23 

 

  
April 30

Awards Day