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The Department of Biology sponsors a weekly seminar series during the Fall and Spring semesters. Seminars are held each Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. in Biological Sciences Building East (BSBE), room 115. In addition to this weekly seminar series, the department hosts the Walker Endowed Lectureship. If you would like to be added to our weekly seminar e-mail reminder, please send your name and e-mail address to McKensie Le Fevre at mlefevre@bio.tamu.edu.

 

Biology Seminar Series

Emily and Robert Walker ’45 Lectureship in Biology

Originally formed as the Frontiers in Biology lecture series, the Departmental lectureship was established in 1984 as a mechanism to attract prominent scientists to Texas A&M University for an extended visit with our faculty and students. This program of formal seminars and relaxed one-on-one interactions has enabled faculty and students from our department as well as other departments on campus to hear first-hand about the forefront of biological research from the leading figures of various biological disciplines. In 2009, the Frontiers in Biology Lecture became the Emily and Robert Walker ’45 Endowed Lectureship in Biology.

 

Current Seminars

Spring 2025

Date Name Institution Title Host
1/14/2025 Jorden Holland, Gillian Imrie Department of Biology, Texas A&M University

Astrocytic store-released calcium signaling regulates cortical synapse development and function

Identifying the Transcription Factors that Mediate the Immediate Response to Fibroblast Growth Factor (Fgf)

Haley Bennett
1/21/2025 Karen  Maxwell -- CANCELLED Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto

Exploring the Dark Matter of Phage Genomes and Its Role in Antiviral Defense

Gillie Brown
1/28/2025 Karine Gibbs Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Social dynamics in swarming colonies of the bacterial pathogen Proteus mirabilis

Michael Debrah
2/04/2025 Todd Streelman School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Tech Cellular Profiling of a Recently-Evolved Social Behavior in Cichlid Fishes Rachel Moran
2/11/2025 Roman Giger Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, University of Michigan

Characterization of Immune Cells and Molecules that Promote and Suppress CNS Axon Regeneration

Dylan McCreedy
2/18/2025 Harini Iyer Department of BioSciences, Rice University

Illuminating the Cell Biology of Microglia in Development and Neurodegeneration

Alex Keene
2/25/2025 Bruce McClane Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh With a Little Help From My Friends: Clostridium perfringens Quorum Sensing Joe Sorg
3/04/2025 Chris Doe HHMI and Department of Biology, University of Oregon Development of Motor Circuits in Drosophila Aref Zarin
3/11/2025 Spring Break      
3/18/2025 Jerry Troutman Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina Charlotte Potential Roles of Polysaccharide Variants in Vibrio cholerae Angela Mitchell
3/25/2025 Paul Turner Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University Developing Phage Therapy Against Antimicrobial Resistant Bacterial Infections Jolene Ramsey
4/01/2025 Karl Clark Department of Animal Science, Texas A&M University Genome Engineering and Zebrafish Behavioral Genetics Matt Sachs
4/08/2025 Ken Lohmann Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill TBD Christine Merlin
4/15/2025 Jie Xiao Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine TBD Beiyan Nan
4/22/2025 Patricia Wittkopp Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan Molecular and Evolutionary Processes Generating Variation in Gene Expression Mahul Chakraborty

 

Previous Seminars

 

Faculty Chalk Talks

Where and When: The 3rd Friday of the month at 3:30 pm in Butler 309

Purpose: These talks are meant to be informal chalk talks covering what you are working on, what you are thinking about, what you plan to work on, etc. in order to get constructive feedback on your ideas. Everyone is responsible for finding an alternate speaker if you cannot talk on your scheduled date.

2025 
Jan 17: Angela Mitchell
Feb 21: Beiyan Nan
March 21: Heath Blackmon
April 18: Joe Sorg
May 16: Bella Farhy
June 20: Jolene Ramsey
July 18: Deb Bell-Pedersen
Aug 15: Dylan McCreedy
Sept 19: Larry Griffing
Oct 17: Jen Dulin
Nov 21: Asha Rao
Dec 19: Hongmin Qin