Biology Department Seminar Series

Seminar schedule for the Biology Department

Seminars are held on Fridays at 4pm. For the fall 2025 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 Spring 2026 seminar series.

Fall 2025 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.

• Sept. 5 VincentTagliabracci (UT Southwestern Medical Center) [Hinton]
  “Expanding the Kinome”

• Sept. 12 Heather Broughton (W&M Institute for Integrative Conservation) [Swaddle]
  “From apex predator to pathogen prey: The role of confection dynamics for disease
  outcomes in African lions”
• Sept. 19  CANCELED Charles Thompson (Novogene) [Williamson]
  “Billions of Bases, One Story - The Evolution of Sequencing Technologies and their
  Impact on Biology”
• Sept. 26 Indranath Mitra (W&M Applied Science)
  "Toward Translational Therapies for Disc Degeneration in Type 2 Diabetes"
• Oct. 3 Mark Radosevich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) [Williamson]
  “The soil virosphere: abundance, diversity, and participation in soil biogeochemical
  cycles”
• Oct 16* THURSDAY- Zac Elmore (Lucidigm) [Kerscher]
  “Engineered Immunoglobulin Cleaving Enzymes for Gene Therapy, Organ Trans-
  plantation and Autoimmune Disease”
• Oct 24 CANCELED Morgan Thompson (University of Maryland) [Leu]
  “Linking mechanisms to multitrophic consequences of plant defense against insect
  herbivory”
• Oct 30* THURSDAY- Paul Offit (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) [Williamson]
  “The War Against Vaccines”
• Nov 7 Connor White (University of Virginia) [Allen]
  “Moving beyond the lab to capture the swimming behavior of fishes”
• Nov 14 CANCELED Orna Cohen-Fix (NIH-NIDDK) [Shakes]
  “The Centriculum: a membrane reticulum that affects centrosome structure and
  function”
• Nov 21 Kara Phipps (NY State Dept. of Health) [Anderson]
  “When worlds collide: working at the intersection of research, public health, and
  clinical microbiology”

For more information, contact Dr. Kurt Williamson.