Biology Department Seminar Series
Seminar schedule for the Biology Department
Seminars are held on Fridays at 4pm. This semester, our seminar series will be a hybrid between in-person (ISC 1221) and remote seminars. It will be a mix of invited speakers and informal presentations from current faculty. The schedule can be found below.
Fall 2024 Seminars
W&M Department of Biology
Location: ISC 1221
Contact the listed faculty host [in brackets] for more information or to meet with the speaker or to meet with the speaker.
- Sept. 6 Adam Coates (Virginia Tech) [Dalgleish]
Long-term effects of frequent fire on soil and water properties in Coastal Plain
pine forests - Sept. 13 Paul Rowley (University of Idaho, Moscow) [Murphy]
Exploring the Lethal Arsenal of Killer Yeasts for Biotechnology and Beyond - Sept. 20 Yee Mon Thu (Colby College) [Kerscher]
Genetic analyses to understand SUMO-regulated genome stability - Sept. 27 Jennifer Rahn (W&M Biology)
If a tree falls in the woods, who’s around to hear it? What camera trap data can
tell us about the College Woods ecosystem - Oct. 4 Mayank Chugh (W&M Biology)
Molecules, cells, and all that jazz - Oct. 11 Fall Break – No Seminar
- Oct. 18 Nkrumah Grant (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) [Murphy]
Exploiting natural competence to chart synthetic lethal landscapes in Vibrio
cholera - Oct. 25 Dylan Simpson (Chicago Botanic Garden) [Leu]
Landscape ecology of wild bees: Patterns, idiosyncrasies, and methods - Nov. 1 Priscilla Erickson (University of Richmond) [Puzey]
Tracking rapid evolution in invasive African fig flies - Nov. 8 CANCELLED Taylor Sloey (Old Dominion University) [Dalgleish]
Wetlands in the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration - Nov. 15 Gary Trubl (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) [Williamson]
Viral Foresight and Aftermath in Soil: Do All Predicted Activities Become Reality?
For more information, contact Dr. Kurt Williamson.
