Spring 2026 Biology Colloquium Schedule
- Time: Fridays, 3-4 p.m.
- Location: Olsen Hall Room 503
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
| January 24 | Peter Gaines, Department Chair, UMass Lowell
Meeting with Graduate Students |
| January 30 | Andrew D. Jones III (Duke University/ Broad Institute)
"The role of biofilms in infections and disease" |
| February 6 | John Young (Simmons University)
"Hind limb development in Xenopus" |
| February 13 | Winston Hide (Harvard University)
"From Signatures to Molecular Mechanisms: A Systems Biology View of Resilience to Disease" |
| February 20 | Lucas Ward (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals)
"Biobank-scale discovery of disease genetics" |
| February 27 | Jose Fernando Robledo (Bigelow Laboratory)
"Protist genetics " |
| March 6 | Fjodor Merkuri (Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School)
"Metabolism in neural crest development" |
| March 20 | Shelly Wannamaker (University of Washington)
"Marine invertebrate epigenetics" |
| March 27 | Stephanie Grainger (Van Andel Institute )
"Wnt You Thought You Knew About Wnt Signaling" |
| April 3 | Prashanth Rangan (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai)
"Inheritance of genetic and cellular information through the germline" |
| April 10 | Steven William Award Presentations |
| April 17 | Applied Biology II Student Presentations |
| April 24 | Department Awards Ceremony |