Fall 2025 Biology Colloquium Schedule
- Time: Fridays, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
- Location: Olsen Hall Room 503
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
| September 5 | Peter Gaines, Department Chair, UMass Lowell
Meeting with Graduate Students |
| September 12 | Hatice Osmanbeyoglu (University of Pittsburgh)
"Decoding Tissue Microenvironment Dynamics through Integrative Omics" |
| September 19 | Ruth Johnson (Wesleyan University)
"Lessons on 3D cell architecture, from the Drosophila pupal eye" |
| September 26 | Chalis Bird (Mass Dept. Fish and Wildlife)
"DFW projects throughout the year and career path" |
| October 3 | Ben Ewen-Campen (Harvard Medical School)
"How the fruit fly maintains the gut in the face of tissue damage and aging: lessons from the proventriculus" |
| October 10 | James Bernot (University of Connecticut)
"Copepod phylogenomics " |
| October 17 | Nagif Alata Jimenez (Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School) "DNA methylation and neural crest cell differentiation" |
| October 24
| Jason Ramsay (Rhode Island College)
"Shark, skate, and ray functional morphology and biomech" |
| October 31 | Nikea Ulrich (UMass Lowell)
"Ecological adaptation in host-associated marine bacteria" |
| November 7 | Brittany Sprecher (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) "Molecular methods in protists" |
| November 14 | Andy Rhyne (Roger Williams University) "Marine ornamental trade (big data, CITES)" |
| November 21 | Sneha Suresh (UMass Amherst) "Molecular ecology and conservation" |
| December 5 | Andreas Bergman (UMass Medical School) "About Compensatory Proliferation and "Undead" Cells" |