Fall 2025 Biology Department Colloquium Series
Most Mondays
12:00 pm - 12:50 pm
Darwin Hall 103
Nov
10
10
Dr. Shiva Adhikari
Process Development Scientist/Supervisor, Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, LGC Biosearch Technologies
Nov
17
17
Dr. Edward Lyon
Professor, and Single Subject Credential Program Coordinator, Sonoma State University
Nov
24
24
Dr. Jolene A. Saldivar
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis
| Date | Speaker | Speaker Affiliation | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 |
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