Biology Seminar Series
When: Fridays, 12-1pm (unless otherwise indicated)
Where: CC2150 (unless otherwise indicated)
Every Friday during the academic year, the Department of Biology hosts an exciting seminar given by a guest speaker. Topics cover every aspect of biology, from whole organisms to molecular biology. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Feel free to bring your lunch. Coffee, tea and cookies will be provided. Please bring your own mug if possible, to help us reduce waste.
Upcoming Seminar:
Our seminar series has concluded for the year. Please check back in the fall for the new seminar schedule.
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2019-2020 Seminar Schedule
| Date | Room | Speaker / Title | Host | |
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| Sept 13 | CC2150 |
Dr.Rosalind L. Murray, UTMEcological immunity in insects Ms. Christine Palermo, UTM Metagenomic analysis of virus diversity and relative abundance in a eutrophic freshwater harbour |
Dr. Adriano Senatore | |
| Sept 20 | CC2150 |
Dr. Carly Ziter, Concordia UniversityThinking beyond the park: landscape structure, land-use history, and biodiversity shape urban ecosystem services |
Dr. Marc Johnson | |
| Sept 27 | CC2150 |
Dr. Heather L. Eisthen, Michigan State UniversityToxic relationships: Production, detection, and resistance to tetrodotoxin in rough-skinned newts |
Dr. Joel Levine | |
| Oct 4 | CC2150 |
Dr. Anthony G. Vecchiarelli, University of MichiganHomeostasis of a Bacterial Organelle |
Dr. Tim Westwood Dr. George Espie |
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| Oct 11 | CC2150 |
Dr. Clint D. Kelly, Université du Québec à Montréal Sexual selection and phenotypic diversity within and between the sexes in the Wellington tree weta |
Dr. Rosalind Murray Dr. Shannon McCauley |
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| Oct 25 | CC2150 |
Dr. Jennifer A. Mitchell, University of TorontoStable KLF4 protein in pluripotent stem cells overrides transcriptional control and blocks differentiation |
Dr. Ho-Sung Rhee | |
| Nov 1 | CC2150 |
Dr. Tariq A. Akhtar, University of Guelph
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Dr. Michael Phillips | |
| Nov 8 | CC2150 |
Dr. Marc Laflamme, University of Toronto MississaugaComplexity in the oldest animal communities Seminar Poster |
Dr. Adriano Senatore | |
| Nov 15 | CC2150 |
Dr. Paul Galpern, University of CalgaryThe merits of messy fields: bees, beneficials, and crop yields in the Canadian Prairies Seminar Poster |
Dr. Helene Wagner | |
| Nov 22 | CC2150 |
Dr. Andrew Lang, Memorial UniversityGene transfer agents: when bacteria catch phage and put them to work Seminar Poster |
Dr. Steven Short | |
| Nov 29 | CC2150 |
Dr. Eliana Gonzalez-Vigil, University of Toronto ScarboroughPeeling off the secrets of poplar cuticles Seminar Poster |
Dr. Katharina Braeutigam | |
| Dec 6 | CC2150 |
Dr. Gabriel Gellner, University of Guelph Diversity-Stability patterns resulting from biologically constrained food web models Seminar Poster |
Dr. Bailey McMeans | |
| Jan 10 | CC2150 |
Dr. Mingshan Xue, Baylor College of MedicineInhibitory dysfunction in neurodevelopmental disorders Seminar Poster |
Dr. Baohua Liu | |
| Jan 17 | CC2150 |
Dr. Natasha Mhatre, Western UniversityA tool to sing and an amplifier to hear: the O. henryi storySeminar Poster |
Dr. Darryl Gwynne | |
| Jan 24 | CC2150 |
Dr. Jannice Friedman, Queen's UniversityEcological genetics of life cycle variation in plants: the seed to succeed across spatial scales Seminar Poster |
Dr. Marc Johnson | |
| Jan 31 | CC2150 |
Dr. Gary Bader, University of TorontoSingle Cell Genomics Seminar Poster |
Dr. Adriano Senatore | |
| Feb 7 | CC2150 |
Dr. Yuhong He, University of Toronto MississaugaQuantifying Vegetation Stress from the Leaf to Landscape Scale Using Remote Sensing Seminar Poster |
Dr. Ingo Ensminger | |
| Feb 14 | CC2150 |
Dr. Konrad Lohse, The University of EdinburghDeconstructing the genomic lanscape of speciation in butterflies Seminar Poster |
Dr. Rob Ness | |
| Feb 28 | CC2150 |
Dr. David S. Goodsell, Scripps Research InstituteModeling and Visualizing the Molecular CellSeminar Poster |
Dr. Derek Ng | |
| Mar 6 | CC2150 |
Dr. Amanda Moehring, Western University Genetic and neural basis of female receptivity Seminar Poster |
Dr. Joel Levine | |
| Mar 13 | CC2150 |
Dr. John Inglis, Dr. Samantha Hindle, bioRxiv
Seminar Poster |
Dr. Joel Levine | |
| Mar 19 | IB235 |
Dr. Heather E. McFarlane, University of Toronto Sending the right signals for plant cell wall synthesis and remodelling Seminar Poster |
Dr. Ingo Ensminger | |
| Mar 26 | IB235 |
Dr. Howard Lipshitz, University of Toronto Regulation and function of mRNP complexes in Drosophila Seminar Poster |
Dr. Ted Erclik | |
| Apr 2 | IB235 |
Super Speaker: Dr. Steven Altschuler, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Organizing principles for complex tissues Seminar Poster |
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