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Coming Soon: Spring 2026 Biology Department Colloquium Series

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12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Darwin Hall 103

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That's a wrap for the Fall 2025 Biology Colloquium Series!
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Past Colloquium Speakers

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Russell Huddleston Ecologist Water Division, Wetlands & Oceans Section, Environmental Protection Agency Ecology and Conservation of Vernal Pools in the California Floristic Province
Campus Closed for Spring Break Spring Break
Lizzie Roeble PhD Candidate, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Etienne group - Theoretical and Evolutionary Community Ecology, University of Groningen, Netherlands Asteraceae in Isolation: Island Biogeography of the Largest Plant Family
Nathan Cho PhD Candidate, Tetrad Graduate Program, Dumont Lab, University of California, San Francisco NuMA Mechanically Reinforces the Spindle Independently of its Partner Dynein
Christian Marsh, J.D. Downey Brand LLC Habitat Conservation Planning, a Legal Framework for Reconciling Development and Ecological Needs
Dr. Sean Reilly Rausser College of Natural Sciences, University of California, Berkeley Informing Better Forestry Management Techniques for Fire Hazard Mitigation Through Information and Tools that Managers Can Leverage in Real World Applications
Dr. Brad Balukjian Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences Hybrid Vigor: How to Chart a Career Path Doing What You Love, Studying Organisms Two-legged to Six
Dr. James Bagley Professor of Kinesiology, San Francisco State University Skeletal Muscle Cell Physiology, Plasticity, and Performance
Dr. Lisa Patrick Bentley Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University Colloquium Introduction
Dr. Benjamin Blonder Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley Why Do Plants Use Water?
Jack Hines SoundScape Ecologist and Science Communicator with Ear to the Wild, and GIS Specialist, Sonoma Ecology Center The Art and Science of Soundscape Ecology
Dr. Abby Buchwalter Cool Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco Exploring the Function and Dynamic Regulation of the Nuclear Lamina
Campus Closed November 11, 2024 - Veterans Day
Dr. Angelica Patterson Curator of Education and Outreach, Miller Worley Center for the Environment Seeing the Forest for the Trees: How Northeastern Temperate Trees Are Responding to a Changing Climate
Sahrye Cohen Environmental Protection Agency Government for the Greater Good: Working in Environmental Regulation
Shelby Hotz Sonoma State University Biology Graduate Program Effects of Thermal History and Biogeographic Location on the Heat Shock Response of Bull Kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) *This will be over Zoom*
Dr. Kari Herrington University of California, San Francisco, Center for Advanced Light Microscopy Paths of Light: Core Microscopes
Michael Thiele Apis Arborea Naturalized Honey Bees in the Americas: A 7-year Research Project at the Galbreath Wildlands Preserve
Dr. Tessa Hill Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences, UC Davis At Every Depth: Stories From Our Changing Ocean
Rebecca Nelson, Ph.D. Candidate Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy, University of California, Davis The Effects of Anthropogenic Global Changes on Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms in California Grasslands

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