Biology Department Seminar Series

Seminar schedule for the Biology Department

Seminars are held on Fridays at 4pm. For the spring 2026 semester, our seminar series was a hybrid between in-person (ISC 1221) and remote seminars with a mix of invited speakers and informal presentations from current faculty. The schedule can be found below.

Stay tuned for the fall 2026 seminar series.

Spring 2026 Seminars
W&M Department of Biology
Location: ISC 1221
Contact the listed faculty host [in brackets] for more information or to meet with the speaker.

• Feb. 6 Arturo Casadevall (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) [Murphy]
  "Will climate change bring new infectious disease?" 1pm, ISC 1127
  
• Feb. 13 Geoff Zahn (W&M Applied Science) [Leu]
  Building a better holobiont: toward reproducibility in microbiome coalescence
• Feb. 20 Talia Backman (W&M Applied Science) [Leu]
  Why don't the best competitors win? Tailocins and the limits of competitive
  dominance
• Feb. 27 No Seminar – Space Available!
• Mar. 6, 13 SPRING BREAK
• Mar. 20 Samuel Harvey (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine) [Forsyth]
  Pixels and Probes: A tour through digital and molecular pathology
• Mar. 27 Prosanta Chakrabarty (Louisiana State University) [Scheerer]
  Title TBA
• Apr. 3 Sam Kean (Independent Writer) [Bestman]
  Title TBA
• Apr. 10 Laura Grieneisen (Old Dominion University) [Nesbitt]
  Title TBA
• Apr. 17 Carlos Ferreria (National Inst. of Child Health & Human Development) [Forsyth]
  Understanding mechanisms and repurposing drugs for skeletal dysplasias
• Apr. 2X Anna Klompen (Stowers Institute for Medical Research) [Allen]
  Mangum Lecture – Title TBA

For more information, contact Dr. Kurt Williamson.