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Dr. Judith Smit, NOMIS-STRI postdoctoral fellow, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panamá will present a talk about her work entitled, 'Communication in changing environments: urban túngara frogs & vibrationally duetting treehoppers' The Abstract is as Follows: Animals have evolved elaborate sexual signals, …

Shan He, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin - Madison, will present a talk about her work entitled, 'Structure and regulation of the CO2-concentrating organelle, the pyrenoid' The Abstract is as Follows: Approximately one-third of global CO2 …

This year we will be holding our second annual "Battle of the Organisms". Members of the Biological Sciences Labs will create brief presentations about why their study organism/system is the best of the best. What makes an organism the best? It could be that it's adorable, has outrageously cool facts, or perhaps it has the most …

Dr. Dominique Alfandari, professor of developmental biology at UMASS Amherst, will present a talk about his work entitled "ADAMs in Motion: A Cellular Odyssey from Surface to Nucleus." The abstract is as follows: Cranial neural crest (CNC) cells are key …

Fatemeh Cheraghi, a PhD student in the De La Cova lab, will be presenting a talk about her work entitled "Investigation of RASopathy variants and Raf protein regulation." The abstract is as follows: RASopathies are a group of human developmental …

Dr. Alita Burmeister, professor of microbiology at 51����, will present a talk about her work entitled "Bio Sci Treehouse of Horror: The Grim Reaper is said to carry a scythe, but it’s seven times more likely that he carries tuberculosis." …

Colloquium this week will be a Q&A with the Graduate Rep, Gerlinde Hoebel.  Questions about grad school?  Suggestions to improve student life in the department?  Come chat with the Graduate Program Representative! The presentation will begin at 3:00 PM in …