Biology Colloquium Fall 2023
Department of Biology
Mondays 12:00 - 12:50 p.m.
**New location**: Stevenson Hall, Room 1300
Date/Host | Speaker/Title of Presentation |
Aug 21 | Wendy St. John, Introduction to Spring 2023 Colloquium |
Aug 28 Hua |
Jemery (Jem) Morales, Sonoma State University Biology Graduate Program. “Chromosome Organization in Human Adult Cells” |
Sep 4 | Labor Day, Campus Closed |
Sep 11 Hua |
Dr. Sean Burgess, Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis. “Meiotic Chromosome Dynamics in Zebrafish” |
Sep 18 Rawlins (CEI) |
Curtis Ewing, CalFIRE. “The Good, the Bad, and the Bugly: Invasive Insects and Disease” *presenting virtually - details to come |
Sep 25 St. John |
Dr. Sean Place, Chair, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University. "Advising for Biology Majors" |
Oct 2 Rank |
Dr. Dan Levitis, Sonoma Ecology Center, “Meiosis is a Primary Cause of Death in Young Plants and Animals.” |
Oct 9 Hua |
Maxwell Coyle, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Berkeley. “Choanoflagellate Transcriptional Networks: Towards the Origin of Animal Cell Types” |
Oct 16 Kopel |
Lynette Lyon, CEO, The Lyon Ranch and Rebecca Kopel, SSU Biology Graduate Student. "Citizen Science: Making Science Accessible & Working with Animals" |
Oct 23 Hua |
Harold Marin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, San Francisco. “Tethering of H3K9me2 Chromatin to the Nuclear Periphery in Mammals” |
Oct 30 St. John |
Dr. Mingfei Chen , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “Biofilm Benefactors: Unveiling the Role of Biofilms in Subsurface and Plant Rhizosphere Microbial Communities" |
Nov Hua |
Dr. Coral Zhou, University of California, Berkeley. “Mechanisms of Genome Scaling During Embryogenesis and Evolution” |
Nov 13 | TBA |
Nov 20 St. John |
TBA |
Nov 27 St. John |
Dr. Reid Psaltis, CSU Monterey Bay. “Paleoart and Scientific Illustration” |
Dec 4 Girman |
Beth Sabo, Sonoma State University Biology Graduate Program. "Abiotic Factors Affecting Egg Deposition Site Selection & Early Larval Development of Two Local Lotic Amphibians" |