Sonoma State University
Colloquium Spring 2024

Fall 2025 Biology Department Colloquium Series

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

22
SEP
Dr. Nathan Rank
Insect Population Ecology in the Sierra Nevada - a 40 Year Perspective
Dr. Nathan Rank

Professor, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University

29
SEP
Abbey Dias
Diving for Science in Antarctica
Abbey Dias

UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory

6
OCT
Dr. Lindsay Dawson
The Roadmaps for Mammalian Joint Regeneration: Lessons Learned from Joint Development
Dr. Lindsay Dawson

Dept of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology, Texas A & M University

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Nathan Rank Professor, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University Insect Population Ecology in the Sierra Nevada - a 40 Year Perspective
Abbey Dias UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory Diving for Science in Antarctica
Dr. Lindsay Dawson Dept of Veterinary Physiology & Pharmacology, Texas A & M University The Roadmaps for Mammalian Joint Regeneration: Lessons Learned from Joint Development
Dr. Stefan Materna Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology, UC Merced Embryonic Endoderm Diversifies During Gastrulation
Dr. Hugo Tapia Associate Professor, CSU Channel Islands Biology Program Drying Without Dying: Using Yeast as a Model Organism to Study Desiccation Tolerance
Dr. Thomas Jenkinson Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, CSU East Bay Global Change and the Ecology of a Deadly Amphibian Disease
Dr. Elizabeth Dahlhoff Professor, Department of Biology, Santa Clara University Getting Chased Up the Mountain: Life at High Elevation in the Face of Environmental Change
Dr. Shiva Adhikari Process Development Scientist/Supervisor, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, LGC Biosearch Technologies An Introduction to Oligonucleotide Therapeutics
Dr. Edward Lyon Professor, and Single Subject Credential Program Coordinator, Sonoma State University Why Teach? Becoming a Middle or High School STEM Teacher
Dr. Jolene A. Saldivar Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis Investigating Plant-Butterfly Dynamics Across Changing Landscapes
Dr. Michael Cohen Organic Materials Management in Agri-Food Systems Advisor, UC Cooperative Extension: Agricultural and Natural Resources Redefining Organic 'Waste' as Valuable Resources Through Composting and Innovative Processing

Past Colloquium Speakers

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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
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