Charles Darwin
 
 
Biology Departmental Seminars are usually held on Fridays at 2 pm in Room 116 of the Supple (Science) Building, or as announced below. A brief Q&A period typically follows each seminar. After that, everyone (age 21 and over only) is welcome to attend a reception for the speaker in the courtyard of the Old Greenhouse, liquid refreshments provided. To find out more about the speakers, follow the links to their web pages, and check out the seminar (you never know what interesting person might be speaking). TBA indicates "to be announced" unless the date arrives and no seminar speaker has been scheduled at which point it means we do not have a seminar speaker for that day. Please check frequently.
 
 
Past Seminar Speakers
 

Fall 2025 Seminar Schedule 

Date  Presentation and Speaker 

Host

Summary Paper 
Sept. 05

“The Texas Eurycea, a Rising System for the Study of Evolutionary Developmental Biology (and the collaborative village behind it)”

Dr. Ruben Tovar

St. Mary’s University 

Dana Garcia

PDF

PDF

Sept. 12

"Evolutionary Neuroscience of Social Behavior"

Dr. Hans Hofmann

University of Texas, Austin

The Hofmann Lab (utexas.edu)

 

Tim BonnerPDFPDF
Sept. 19

“How Authentic Science Experiences Impact Student Learning”

Dr. Carrie Bucklin

Texas State University

https://www.bio.txst.edu/faculty-staff/carrie-bucklin.html

Peggy BigaPDFPDF
Sept. 26

“Symbiommunity: Understanding how host-microbe associations shape cnidarian immunity in a rapidly changing world”

Dr. Lauren Fuess

Texas State University

https://fuesslab.wp.txstate.edu/

Peggy BigaPDFPDF
Oct.   03

TBA

Dr. Craig Franklin

University of Queensland

https://environment.uq.edu.au/profile/21743/craig-franklin

Caitlin Gabor

PDF

PDF

Oct.   10

“Exploring the deep sea for the origin of eukaryotes”

Dr. Brett Baker

University of Texas, Austin

Brett Baker | Department of Marine Science (utexas.edu)

Morgan SobolPDFPDF
Oct.   17

“Wildlife Diseases and Molecular Diagnostics: Post-invasion dynamics of herpetofaunal mycoses in the New World”

Dr. David Rodriguez

Texas State University

https://drdz.wp.txstate.edu/

Peggy Biga

PDFPDF
Oct.   24

“K(Ch)romatin-Associated Nuclear Guide RNA Functions as a Sequence-Specific Transcription Activator”

Dr. Hong-Gu Kang

Texas State University

https://kang.wp.txstate.edu/

Peggy BigaPDFPDF
Oct.   31

TBA

Dr. Hannah Reich

State University of New York, ESF

https://phycosymbiosis.weebly.com

Lauren FuessPDFPDF
Nov.   07

“Novel mechanism for inflammatory protein-induced metastasis in breast cancer”

Dr. Cheryl Jorcyk

Boise State University

https://www.boisestate.edu/biology/faculty-and-staff/faculty/cheryl-jorcyk/

Micaela VargasPDFPDF
Nov.   14

TBA

Dr. Sunny Scobell

Southwestern University

Dr. Dana GarciaPDFPDF
Nov.   21    
     
     

 

Spring 2026 Seminar Schedule

Date  Presentation and Speaker HostSummary Paper 
Jan.  23

TBA

Dr. Anita Schudardt

University of Minnesota

https://cbs.umn.edu/directory/anita-schuchardt

Kristy DanielPDFPDF
Jan.  30    
Feb.  06    
Feb.  13

 

 

 

 

 

 

Feb.  20    
Feb.  27

 Biology Colloquium

   
Mar.  06   Texas
Mar.  20    
Mar.  27

TBA

Dr. Lamba Omar Sangaré

Texas A & M University, College Station

https://www.bio.tamu.edu/faculty-page-lamba-omar-sangare/

Sumit 

Mukherjee

PDFPDF
April 03    
April 10    
April 17    
April 24

Awards Day