Biology Seminar
Unless noted otherwise, the seminars are 11:30am-12:30pm in the Damen Student Center Cinema.
Upcoming Seminars
TBD
Past 2026 Seminars
Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Past 2025 Seminars
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 in Regis Hall Multipurpose Room
Wednesday, November 5, 2025
Changes in vertebrate communities of the Caribbean in the late Cenozoic shaped modern diversity: a tale of bones and stones
Dr. Lázaro Willian Viñola-López from the Field Museum
Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Local biodiversity depends on species co-existence: insights from phylogeny, ecology, and morphology of closely related wildflowers
Andrea Case from Michigan State University
Wednesday, October 1, 2025
Troublesome Taxonomy and Systematic Instability in Asian Horned Frogs
Dr. Stephen Mahony, Life Sciences Section, Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, USA, Department of Life Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Why are painted turtles painted? Studying longevity and pigments in a common species
Dr. Beth Reinke Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Northeastern Illinois University
Tuesday, April 22, 2025 in LSB 412
Old Data, Long-Term Data, and Bad Data: Using Hierarchical and Integrated Models to Make Better Decisions for Amphibian and Reptile Conservation
Dr. John C Maerz from the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Georgia
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Understanding plant invasions using a traits-based framework
Dr. Gabriela Nunez-Mir Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago
Past 2024 Seminars
Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2024 in Regis Hall MPR
Exploring the "noncoding" genome in Drosophila development: ribozyme-mediated RNA knockdown and a novel small peptide
Dr. Kevin Nyberg from Northwestern University
Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2024
Restoring tallgrass prairie through adaptive management and research
Dr. Elizabeth Bach from the Nature Conservancy
Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2024
Mechanisms of colonization by the antimicrobial-resistant superbug Acinetobacter baumannii
Dr. Lauren Palmer from the University of Illinois Chicago
Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024
The Intestinal Microbiome as a Pillar of 'One Health' Approaches
Dr. Pallavi Singh from Northern Illinois University
Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024
Evolutionary Genetics of Plant Biotic Interactions
Dr. Mike Grillo from Loyola University Chicago
Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2024
Bacteria, Phage, and The Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance
Alita Burmeister from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2024
Diana Rennison from the University of California San Diego
Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024
Benjamin Van Doren from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign