Fall 2025 Biology Colloquium Schedule

  • Time: Fridays, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
  • Location: Olsen Hall Room 503

DateSpeaker and Topic
September 5Peter Gaines, Department Chair, UMass Lowell
Meeting with Graduate Students
September 12Hatice Osmanbeyoglu (University of Pittsburgh)
"Decoding Tissue Microenvironment Dynamics through Integrative Omics"
September 19Ruth Johnson (Wesleyan University)
"Lessons on 3D cell architecture, from the Drosophila pupal eye"
September 26Chalis Bird (Mass Dept. Fish and Wildlife)
"DFW projects throughout the year and career path"
October 3Ben 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 10James Bernot (University of Connecticut)
"Copepod phylogenomics "
October 17Nagif 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 31Nikea Ulrich (UMass Lowell)
"Ecological adaptation in host-associated marine bacteria"
November 7Brittany Sprecher (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) "Molecular methods in protists"
November 14Andy Rhyne (Roger Williams University) "Marine ornamental trade (big data, CITES)"
November 21Sneha Suresh (UMass Amherst) "Molecular ecology and conservation"
December 5Andreas Bergman (UMass Medical School) "About Compensatory Proliferation and "Undead" Cells"