Department of Biology
Seminars and Events
Fridays 3:00-4:00 PM in MCL161 (unless otherwise noted)
All talks are open to the public. Upcoming speakers and their topics are listed below. Please click on the seminar titles for further details. If you have any questions or comments, please email the coordinator or call the Department of Biology at 559•278•2001. For other public science lectures, please check out the Central Valley Café Scientifique.
Date | Speaker | Topic | Institution |
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01/20/23 | --- | Introduction & Orientation | --- |
01/27/23 |
Candidate Seminar |
Broken clocks and racing thoughts: mechanisms regulating sleep and wake | --- |
02/01/23 | Candidate Seminar | Fish Scale Development: A novel and exceptionally tractable model system for Investigating Cell Signaling and Morphogenesis | --- |
02/03/23 | Dr. Alija Mujic & Danielle Sublett |
Cortinarius and Conservation: An exploration of fungal diversity in the Sierra Nevada Foothills |
Fresno State University |
02/10/23 | Dr. Ryan Holly | Enabling the next generation of drug discovery: Tools to assess degrader efficiency and the functional consequences of protein degradation | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
02/15/23 | Candidate Seminar | Understanding the regulation and function of RNA tailing in reproductive and developmental biology | --- |
02/17/23 | Candidate Seminar | BRCA2, One Small Step for DNA Repair, One Giant Protein Purified | --- |
02/22/23 | Candidate Seminat | Evolution at the interface of host microbe interactions | --- |
02/24/23 | Candidate Seminar | Understanding microbial community function in plant and human hosts: A focus on fungi and the mycobiome | --- |
02/27/23 | Candidate Seminar | Thyroid Hormone Synthesis in Thyroglobulin: Physiology and Disease | --- |
03/01/23 | Candidate Seminar | Microbe-Metal Interactions: Life in a Nuclear Waste-Contaminated Subsurface Environment | --- |
03/03/23 |
Javier Almaguer |
Caltrans |
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03/06/23 | Candidate Seminar | Next-Generation Antibiotics: Innovative Ways to Fight Bacteria | --- |
03/10/23 | Dr. Joel Slade & Esther Fernandez | The role of parasites and migratory behavior on songbird immunogenetics | Fresno State University |
03/17/23 | Dr. Lisa Whitenack | Sharks & Recreation: The links between shark science and pop culture | Allegheny College |
03/24/23 | Dr. Hwan Youn & Marcus Carranza | cAMP activation of the cAMP receptor protein, a model bacterial transcription factor | Fresno State University |
03/31/23 | Cesar Chavez Holiday | ||
04/07/23 | Spring Break | ||
04/14/23 | Dr. Kevin Amses (Uehling Lab) | Oregon State University | |
04/21/23 | Dr. Alison Gould | California Academy of Sciences | |
04/28/23 | Dr. Katherine Xue (Relman & Petrov) | Standford University | |
05/05/23 | Dr. Katherine Waselkov & Kristine Fajardo | Fresno State University |
Graduate students in the Biology and Biotechnology Masters programs present their thesis research in a culminating Thesis Exit Seminar to the department's faculty and students.
Date | Speaker | Title | Time & Location |
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02/06/23 | Zita Sarkozi | Using CRISPR to test gene products as possible targets of chalcones in Caenorhabditis elegans |
2:00 PM |