Expand the section navigation mobile menu
Biology - Seminars Page Banner

Seminars

Departmental Seminars are open to the public. Please contact Renee Gabriel for more information. She may also be reached by calling (248) 370-3550.

Upcoming Seminars

James Noelker
Doctoral Dissertation Defense Seminar
Mentor: Thomas Raffel
Scaling temperature dependence of disease dynamics from individuals to populations
Monday, March 10, 2025
12:00-1:00 PM
127 Dodge Hall & Zoom

Olivia Sowa
Master's Thesis Seminar
Mentor: Nicole Wagner
Depth dependent drivers of lake ecosystem metabolism
Friday, March 14, 2025
12:00-1:00 PM
127 Dodge Hall

Email [email protected] for Zoom/Google Meet link.

Previous Seminars

Stephanie Castro Marquez
Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Seminar
Mentor: Taras Oleksyk
Leveraging genomics tools for conservation and agricultural impact.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
10:00-11:00 AM
229 Dodge Hall & Zoom

Elizabeth Parkinson
Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Seminar
Artificial Light at Night: Impacts on emergent aquatic insects and cross-ecosystem resource exchange
Friday, November 1, 2024
12:00-1:00 PM
172 Mathematics and Science Center
Mentor: Scott Tiegs PhD

Randal Westrick, PhD

Associate Professor
Faculty Promotion Seminar
Identification and functional analysis of genomic variants regulating hemostasis
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
12:00-1:00 PM
135 Dodge Hall
Host: A. Valance Washington, PhD

Fabia Battistuzzi, PhD
Associate Professor
Faculty Promotion Seminar
Evolutionary stories told by thousands of microbial genomes
Tuesday, September 17, 2024
12:00-1:00 PM
135 Dodge Hall
Host: Shailesh Lal, PhD

Kenneth Hilkert
Master's Thesis Seminar
Mentor: Taras Oleksyk
Detection and validation of structural variants in a human trio using Next-Generation Sequencing technologies
Thursday, June 13, 2024
12:00-1:00 PM
127 Dodge Hall

Todd Herron, PhD
Associate Research Scientist, Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan
Associate Research Scientist, Internal Medicine, U-M Medical School
Director of U-M Frankel Cardiovascular Regeneration Core Laboratory
Future Bio-manufacturing: AI guided patient specific cardiac cell for "Clinical trials in a dish"
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
12:00-1:00 PM
200 Dodge Hall
HOST: AHA-SURP

Bing Ye, PhD
Research Professor and Research Associate Dean, University of Michigan Life Sciences Institute
Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan Medical School
The assembly of a functional sensory neural network.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
12:00-1:00 PM
200 Dodge Hall

Siobhan Laken Branfield, MD
Doctoral Dissertation Defense
Mentor: A. Valance Washington
The delineation of the Fibrinogen/Triggering Receptor in Myeloid cells (TREM) like transcript-(TLT)-1 molecular interaction.
Tuesday, May 14, 2024
9:00-10:00 AM
127 Dodge Hall & Zoom

Department of Biological Sciences

Dodge Hall Rm 375
118 Library Dr
Rochester, MI 48309-4479
(location map)
(248) 370-3550
fax: (248) 370-4225