Spring 2025 Biology Department Colloquium Series
Most Mondays
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Darwin Hall 103
3
FEB
FEB
Dr. James Bagley
Professor of Kinesiology, San Francisco State University
10
FEB
FEB
Dr. Brad Balukjian
Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences
17
FEB
FEB
Dr. Sean Reilly
Rausser College of Natural Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. James Bagley | Professor of Kinesiology, San Francisco State University | Skeletal Muscle Cell Physiology, Plasticity, and Performance | |
| Dr. Brad Balukjian | Research Associate, California Academy of Sciences | The Insect Barcoding Initiative | |
| 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 | |
| Christian Marsh | Downey Brand LLC | Habitat Conservation Planning, a Legal Framework for Reconciling Development and Ecological Needs | |
| Nathan Cho | PhD Candidate, Tetrad Graduate Program, Dumont Lab, University of California, San Francisco | NuMA Mechanically Reinforces the Spindle Independently of its Partner Dynein | |
| 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 | |
| Campus Closed for Spring Break | Spring Break | ||
| Russell Huddleston | Ecologist Water Division, Wetlands and Oceans Section Environmental Protection Agency, Region 9 | Title TBA | |
| Campus Closed for Cesar Chavez Day | Cesar Chavez Day | ||
| Dr. Adrienne Correa | Associate Professor, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley | Title TBA | |
| Dr. Daniel Swezey | Director for Oceans and Aquaculture Kashia Band of Pomo Indians of Stewarts Point Rancheria | Title TBA | |
| Bill Keener | Cetacean Field Research Associate, The Marine Mammal Center | The Unusual Mating Behavior of Harbor Porpoises | |
| Emerson Herrmann | MS Candidate, Hua Lab, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University | Asynchronous Oscillation of the Ca2+-Dependent MLCK-Actomyosin System Defines the Flat Apical Geometry of a Steady State Epithelium | |
| Dr. Bruce Draper | Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis | Title TBA |
Past Colloquium Speakers
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 |