Sonoma State University
Colloquium Spring 2024

Fall 2025 Biology Department Colloquium Series

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

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AUG
Lisa Hua
Introduction to Fall 2025 Colloquium
Dr. Lisa Hua

Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University

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SEP
Dr. Bree Grillo-Hill
Dr. Bree Grillo-Hill
Dr. Bree Grillo-Hill

San Jose State University, Bridges Stem Cell Center

15
SEP
Vanessa Sanchez
Vanessa Sanchez
Vanessa Sanchez

Ph.D. Candidate, Quantitative Systems of Biology, UC Merced

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
Dr. Lisa Hua Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Sonoma State University Introduction to Fall 2025 Colloquium
Dr. Bree Grillo-Hill San Jose State University, Bridges Stem Cell Center Dr. Bree Grillo-Hill
Vanessa Sanchez Ph.D. Candidate, Quantitative Systems of Biology, UC Merced Vanessa Sanchez

Past Colloquium Speakers

Date Speaker Speaker Affiliation Lecture Title
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!
Dr. Lisa Hua Department of Biology, Sonoma State University Student-driven research in the Hua Lab: Understanding Chromosome Organization and its Implications in Human Disease
Jeff Alvarez and Jeff Wilcox The Wildlife Project and Sonoma Mountain Preservation Foundation Conservation & Ecology of the Red-legged Frog