Biology Department Seminar Series
Seminar schedule for the Biology Department
Seminars are held on Fridays at 4pm. This semester, our seminar series will be a hybrid between in-person (ISC 1221) and remote seminars. It will be a mix of invited speakers and informal presentations from current faculty. The schedule can be found below.
Fall 2022 Seminars
Department of Biology
Location: ISC 1221
Contact the listed faculty host [in brackets] for more information or to meet with the speaker.
- Sept. 16: Lloyd Trotman (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Hinton] - CANCELLED
- Sept. 23: Dan Barshis (Old Dominion University) [Williamson]
Corals in Hot Water: the mechanics of coral climate change resilience and susceptibility - Sept. 30: Kirsten Guckes (Pennsylvania State University) [Forsyth]
Quorum sensing negatively regulates interbacterial warfare in the beneficial bacterium Vibrio fischeri - Oct. 7: Penny Mahoney Abbaszadeh (Vir Biotechnology) [Allison]
Varied approaches to antibacterial therapeutic discovery - Oct. 21: Hui Zong (University of Virginia) via ZOOM [Habersham]
Revealing distorted cell-cell relationships in brain tumors: the hope for cure - Oct. 28: Isabella Taylor (W&M Chemistry)
Targeting PqsE as an antimicrobial strategy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Nov. 4: James Tumulty (W&M Biology)
The evolution and consequences of social recognition: lessons from poison frogs and paper wasps - Nov. 11: Gamze Bulut (W&M Biology)
Illuminating, profiling and manipulating perivascular plasticity - Nov. 18: Elizabeth Ables (East Carolina University [Wawersik]
Steroid signaling and the control of oocyte production - Dec. 2: Michael Burns (Loyola University Chicago) [Soto]
Microbial changes in human cancers and responses to common
For more information, contact Dr. Kurt Williamson.
