Seminars
Seminars are held in Hutchison Hall, on the River Campus. (campus map) Contact the Department of Biology at (585) 273-1139 at least three days in advance to request any special accommodations or if you would like to meet with an outside speaker. Refreshments provided.
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- Jan26
“The moment of truth: Hybridization in recently sympatric birds with neo-sex chromosomes”
Dr. Elsie Shogren, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, January 26, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Feb12
“Evolution of centromere composition in Drosophila”
Dr. Amanda Larracuente, University of Rochester
- Date
- Monday, February 12, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Feb19
“Emerging roles for tRNA modification in development and disease”
Dr. Dragony Fu, University of Rochester
- Date
- Monday, February 19, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Feb22
"Out of the woods: understanding how genomes shape and are shaped by macroevolutionary pattern and process"
Mark Hibbins, University of Toronto
- Date
- Thursday, February 22, 2024
- Time
- 3:30 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Computer Studies Bldg, Room 209
- Feb29
"The evolution of germline mutation rates in mammals"
Richard Wang, Indiana University
- Date
- Thursday, February 29, 2024
- Time
- 3:30 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Computer Studies Bldg, Room 209
- Mar11
"Integrating population genetic models with emerging functional genomic technologies to reveal the rules of proteome evolution"
Alexander Cope, Rutgers University
- Date
- Monday, March 11, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Mar14
"Population Genomic Footprints of Adaptation, Old and Young"
Xiaoheng Cheng, University of Chicago
- Date
- Thursday, March 14, 2024
- Time
- 3:30 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Computer Studies Bldg, Room 209
- Mar18
"From nucleotides to phenotypes: molecular evolution in extinct and extant seals"
Stephen Gaughran, Princeton University
- Date
- Monday, March 18, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Mar18
"Increased hyaluronan by naked mole-rat hyaluronic acid synthase 2 extends lifespan and enhances healthspan in mice"
Zhihui Zhang, University of Rochester
- Date
- Monday, March 18, 2024
- Time
- 12:50 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Bausch & Lomb, 109 Lecture Hall
Thesis Defense
- Apr1
“Pulling the plug on phage infection: the pore behavior CRISPR-Cas13 activated membrane effector proteins”
Dr. Mitchell O’Connell, URMC, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
- Date
- Monday, April 1, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Apr5
TBA
Rose Driscoll, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, April 5, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Apr11
"Folding, Oxidation and Processing of Nascent Polypeptides Probed by Mass Spectrometry"
Ruiyue Tan, University of Rochester
- Date
- Thursday, April 11, 2024
- Time
- 2 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Gavett Hall, 202
Thesis Defense
- Apr12
“Flashy feathers to microscopic mechanisms: How and why birds are colorful”
Dr. Allison Shultz, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
- Date
- Friday, April 12, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 473
- Apr15
“Geographic structure in genetic data and its implications for discovery of variants and trait associations”
Dr. John Novembre, University of Chicago
- Date
- Monday, April 15, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Apr19
TBA
Maria Castaño, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, April 19, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Apr22
“Vectorial appearance of polypeptide chains enhances protein folding yield”
Dr. Patricia Clark, University of Notre Dame
- Date
- Monday, April 22, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- Apr22
“Intranuclear Trafficking of Pol III Promoter Containing Plasmid and its Consequences”
Ningyang Gu, University of Rochester
- Date
- Monday, April 22, 2024
- Time
- 9 a.m.
- Offline Location
- Ryan Case Method Room, URMC 1-9576
Thesis Defense
- Apr26
TBA
Faye Romero, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, April 26, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- Apr29
“Organization of a multipartite bacterial genome”
Dr. Xindan Wang, Indiana University
- Date
- Monday, April 29, 2024
- Time
- Noon
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 140, Lander Auditorium
- May3
"The unicellular origins of cellular asymmetry, immortality, mortality, and biological aging"
Dr. Lin Chao, University of California San Diego
- Date
- Friday, May 3, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 473
- May6
“A partition function approach to modeling RNA optical melting curves”
Gang Hu, University of Rochester
- Date
- Monday, May 6, 2024
- Time
- 9 a.m.
- Offline Location
- URMC, Neuman Room 1.6823
Thesis Defense
- May10
TBA
Emiliano Marti, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, May 10, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316
- May17
TBA
Xiaomi Liu, University of Rochester
- Date
- Friday, May 17, 2024
- Time
- 3 p.m.
- Offline Location
- Hutchison Hall, Room 316