The Department of Biology’s Seminar Series features a diverse group of national and international scientists in the fields of Cell and Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Seminars are held on Tuesdays from 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm, in Room 306 Lumbers. (Unless noted otherwise below).
Next Biology Seminar - Dr. Arneet Saltzman - Tuesday April 28th., 2025 @12:30 pm. in Room 306 Lumbers.
Winter 2025 Seminar Schedule
| DATE | HOST | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, January 28@2 pm. | Dr. Yuqing Feng | Dr. Brian Kim, York University | Engineering Chimeric Protein Systems Toward Versatile Manipulation of the Genome in Living Cells |
| Tuesday, February 18@2 pm. | Dr. Yuqing Feng | Dr. Hyekyoung(Cindy) Sung, York University | Advancing Cardiometabolic Research: Adiponectin’s Role in Protecting Against Ischemic Heart Disease |
| Tuesday, March 18@2 pm. | Dr.Yuqing Feng | Dr. Ali Abdul-Sater York University | Breaking Bad: TRAF1/cIAP2 Edition – A New Way to Stop Inflammation and Combat Arthritis |
| Friday, March 28@12:30 pm. | Dr. Chun Peng | Dr. Qili Feng Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Insect Developmental Biology and Applied Technology, Institute of Insect Science and Technology, School of Life Sciences, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China | Gene transcription regulation by DNA advanced structures |
| Tuesday, April 22@2 pm. | Dr. Mark Bayfield | Dr. Arneet Saltzman University of Toronto | Two heterochromatin reader proteins regulate the duration of transgenerational epigenetic memory |
FALL 2024 Seminar Schedule
| DATE | HOST | SPEAKER | TOPIC/BIO |
|---|---|---|---|
Wednesday, September 18 @2 pm. | Dr. Jean-Paul Paluzzi | Dr. Luis Guerra, University of Southampton, UK | Topic: Neuronless but not neurotransmitter-less: Identification of neuropeptide receptors in Trichoplax adhaerens |
| Wednesday, October 23@2 pm. | Dr. Kohitij Kar | Dr. Eryn McFarlane, York University | Bio.: Dr. Eryn McFarlane did her Bsc and Msc at Guelph, her NSERC funded PhD at Uppsala University with Anna Qvarnström studying the metabolic rate of hybrid flycatchers, a Swedish Research Council post doc at University of Edinburgh with Josephine Pemberton studying introgression between native and introduced species of deer and a second postdoc at the University of Wyoming with Alex Buerkle simulating hybrid zones. Her current research seeks to combine the empirical with the theoretical to understand the processes underlying the patterns seen in replicate hybrid zones across a wide variety of taxa |
| Wednesday, November 13@2 pm. | Dr. Kohitij Kar | Dr. Gordon Fitch, York University | Topic: Sentinels of environmental change: Response of bee-plant interactions to urbanization and disease |
| Wednesday, December 4@2 pm. | Dr. Kohitij Kar | Dr. Ryan Schott, York University | The roles of ecology and ontogeny in the morphological, spectral, and molecular evolution of frog vision |
