Sonoma State University
Abbey D giving Colloquium presentation

Spring 2026 Biology Department Colloquium Series

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

Mar
16
Joe Jackson
Novel Career Pathway: Research to Regulation
Joseph Jackson

Environmental Compliance Inspector, Central San, Contra Costa County

Mar
30
David Ensminger
The Transgenerational Impacts of Stress in a Wild Caught Lizard
Dr. David Ensminger

Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, San Jose State University

Apr
6
Dino Sbardellati
Phage, Antibiotics, and the Bee Gut: Ecology, Resistance, and Synergies
Dino Sbardellati

Ph.D. Candidate, Microbiology Graduate Group, Vanette Lab, UC Davis

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Joseph Jackson Environmental Compliance Inspector, Central San, Contra Costa County Novel Career Pathway: Research to Regulation
Dr. David Ensminger Assistant Professor, Biological Sciences, San Jose State University The Transgenerational Impacts of Stress in a Wild Caught Lizard
Dino Sbardellati Ph.D. Candidate, Microbiology Graduate Group, Vanette Lab, UC Davis Phage, Antibiotics, and the Bee Gut: Ecology, Resistance, and Synergies
Dr. Louie H. Yang Professor, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis Why Study Insect Ecology in the Field?
Ellie Slick Fisheries Biologist, United Anglers Casa Grande High School, Petaluma, CA Student-led Conservation of Steelhead Trout in the Petaluma Watershed
Maria Velazquez Greater Farallones Association/Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary Shifting Forests: Examining the Ecological Effects of Kelp Forest Loss and Restoration
Dr. Bijoya Sen Postdoctoral Researcher, Hansen Lab, The Buck Institute The Role of Autophagy in Aging and Age-Related Neurodegeneration

Past Colloquium Speakers

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
Dr. Durell Kapan Senior Research Fellow, Entomology and Center for Comparative Genomics, California Academy of Sciences Regenerating Nature: Reweaving the Web of Life One Species at a Time — The Extinct Xerces Blue Skies Project
Dr. Mitsunori Nomura Buck Institute Ketone Metabolism in Brain Aging
Campus Closed September 2, 2024 - Labor Day
Gabriel Quintero Plancarte, M.S. Sonoma State University Biology Graduate Program Live Imaging Analysis of Chromosome Movement Along a Centrosome, and Apical-Basal Axis During Metaphase to G1 Interphase
Dr. Lorraine Ling Stanford University Aiptasia: A Model for Cnidarian-algal Symbiosis, Sheds Light on Coral Bleaching
Dr. Chris Lowe Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University Molecular Evidence of Anteroposterior Patterning in Adult Echinoderms or, Are Sea Stars All Head With No Body?
Dr. Andrew DeVogelaere Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: The Research program in General and Specifics Related to Deep-Sea Science
Dr. Barbara Panning University of California, San Francisco Counting X Chromosomes
Dr. Arina Favilla University of California, Santa Cruz Movement Ecophysiology of Northern Elephant Seals: From Fine-Scale Thermoregulation to Population-Level Foraging Behavior
Cesar Chavez Day Cesar Chavez Day
Dr. Takashi Mikawa Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California San Francisco The Fidelity or Mechanism of Chromosome Encapsulation into a Single Nucleus
Enjoy! Spring Break!

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