Fall 2026 Biology Colloquium Schedule

  • Time: Fridays, 3-4 p.m.
  • Location: Olsen Hall Room 503

DateSpeaker and Topic
September 4Peter Gaines, Department Chair, UMass Lowell
Meeting with Graduate Students
September 11Robert Brocklehurst (UMass Lowell)
Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution
September 18Julie Brill (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada)
Trafficking in Drosophila salivary gland cell
September 25Aarthi Venkat (Broad Institute)
Dissecting single-cell biology across contexts with geometric machine learning
October 2Saara Luna (Mass General / Harvard Medical)
Pharmacokinetics of Small-Molecule Drugs
October 9Gabriel Bever (Johns Hopkins University)
Vertebrate Comparative Evolutionary Biology
October 16Susan Smith (Mystic Aquarium / University of Connecticut)
Molecular Ecology of Protists
October 23Amelie Raz (Whitehead/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Germline stem cell regeneration
October 30James Dolgin (Tufts University)
Myosin in Cellular Agriculture
November 6Kiley Graim (University of Florida)
Integrating evolution to alleviate omics data biases
November 13Angela Zoumplis (Yale University) Microbial Ecology
November 20Jarrett Byrnes (UMass Boston) Coastal ecology
December 4Tyler Hill (Boston University) Olfactory coding strategies in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes