Biology Seminar Series

Fall Semester 2025

Fridays at 4 p.m.
*All seminars this fall will be held exclusively in person, in Science B 135 (please note the change of venue from last semester)

Oct. 3	Terry McGlynn CSU Dominguez Hills	Infrared thermal reflectivity of animals promotes resilience to climate change
Oct. 10 - CANCELLED!	~~Ted Cranford~~ ~~San Diego State Univ.~~	~~Colossal ears? How baleen whales hear low frequency sound~~
Oct. 17	Gui Becker Pennsylvania State Univ.	Deforestation, droughts, and drivers of disease resistance in tropical wildlife
Oct. 24	Hannah Collins Vanderbilt Univ.	From myelin to microglia: defining glial-intrinsic mechanisms in brain health
Oct. 31 - CANCELLED!	~~Rosemary Sherriff~~ ~~Cal Poly Humboldt~~	~~Warming, disturbance and forest response in Southwest Alaska~~
Nov. 7	Ben Lemmond Univ. of CA Berkeley	Adventures in the fungal underworld: truffles, trees, and the ectomycorrhizal realm
Nov. 14	Michael Burns Oregon State Univ.	Old questions, modern tools: unraveling the evolution of global fish biodiversity
Dec. 5	Siobhan Braybrook Univ. of CA, Los Angeles	Seaweeds doing math - mathematical patterns in algal morphology (when, who, and how)
Dec. 12 *!Note: this talk will be held at noon in Scib 133	Brent Mishler Univ. of CA, Berkeley	Revisiting relationships among the bryophytes and vascular plants; a case study in difficult deep-time phylogenetic reconstruction