Fall 2026 Biology Colloquium Schedule
- Time: Fridays, 3-4 p.m.
- Location: Olsen Hall Room 503
| Date | Speaker and Topic |
|---|---|
| September 4 | Peter Gaines, Department Chair, UMass Lowell Meeting with Graduate Students |
| September 11 | Robert Brocklehurst (UMass Lowell) Major Transitions in Vertebrate Evolution |
| September 18 | Julie Brill (Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada) Trafficking in Drosophila salivary gland cell |
| September 25 | Aarthi Venkat (Broad Institute) Dissecting single-cell biology across contexts with geometric machine learning |
| October 2 | Saara Luna (Mass General / Harvard Medical) Pharmacokinetics of Small-Molecule Drugs |
| October 9 | Gabriel Bever (Johns Hopkins University) Vertebrate Comparative Evolutionary Biology |
| October 16 | Susan Smith (Mystic Aquarium / University of Connecticut) Molecular Ecology of Protists |
| October 23 | Amelie Raz (Whitehead/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Germline stem cell regeneration |
| October 30 | James Dolgin (Tufts University) Myosin in Cellular Agriculture |
| November 6 | Kiley Graim (University of Florida) Integrating evolution to alleviate omics data biases |
| November 13 | Angela Zoumplis (Yale University) Microbial Ecology |
| November 20 | Jarrett Byrnes (UMass Boston) Coastal ecology |
| December 4 | Tyler Hill (Boston University) Olfactory coding strategies in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes |