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"