Seminar Series Archive
The following are Seminar Series from previous semesters.
Spring 2024
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2024 | Understanding the DNA damage response in HIV replication and Cure strategies | Dr. Oliver Fregoso, UCLA |
| April 25, 2024 | Organelle Dynamics During Mitosis: Pathway for the Generation of Cellular Diversity | Dr. Blake Riggs, San Francisco State University |
| April 18, 2024 | Glycopolymers as Broad-Spectrum Anti-Viral Drugs | Dr. Katherine McReynolds, CSU Sacramento |
| April 11, 2024 | The Neurobiology of Female Aggression: A Study in Drosophila Melanogaster | Dr. Caroline Palavicino Maggio, Harvard University |
| March 28, 2024 | Targeting Neuroinflammation and Brain Infiltrating Macrophages to Modulate Seizures in a Mouse Model of Viral-Induced Epilepsy | Dr. Ana Beatriz DePaula-Silva, University of Utah |
| March 21, 2024 | Development of Novel Mono and Bivalent Nanobodies Against EGFR for Targeted Cancer Therapy | Diana Carolina Aguilar Cortes, Ph.D. student at University of Buenos Aires |
| March 14, 2024 | Elastic Movements in Nature | Dr. Mark Ilton, Harvey Mudd College |
| March 7, 2024 | Helping Communities Coexist with Cougars | Korinna Domingo, Cougar Conservancy |
| February 29, 2024 | Why Recognize Protein When Fats Taste so Good! | Dr. Dequina Nicholas, UC Irvine |
| February 22, 2024 | The Evolutionary and Ecological Consequences of Agricultural Expansion: Insights from Bird Communities in Southeast Asia and California | Dr. Elizabeth Scordato, Cal Poly Pomona |
| February 15, 2024 | Adapting to Changing Landscapes - Studying Behavior in the Streets and in the Classroom | Dr. Karina Sanchez, University of New Hampshire |
| February 8, 2024 | CRISPR/Cas9 – A Cut Above the Rest: Gene Editing Protocols for Monogenic Diseases | Dr. Jennifer Johnston, San Jose State University |
| February 1, 2024 | Mangroves of the U.S. Virgin Islands: Growing Research, Restoration, Outreach and Education Opportunities | Dr. Kristin Grimes, University of Virgin Islands |
Fall 2023
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| December 7, 2023 | Prying Into the Private Lives of Mussels and Oysters | Dr. Luke Miller, San Diego State University |
| November 30, 2023 | Armed from Tip to Tail: The Multifunctionality of Armor in Fishes | Dr. Cassandra Donatelli, Chapman University |
| November 16, 2023 | Exploring the Evolution of Fluid-Structure Interactions in Biology | Dr. Lindsay Waldrop, Chapman University |
| November 9, 2023 | IL-12-mediated T-bet-dependent Innate Immunity Against Toxoplasma gondii | Dr. Americo López-Yglesias, Indiana University |
| November 2, 2023 | Peeling Back the Layers: Anatomical and Molecular Characterization of the Zebrafish Meninges | Dr. Marina Venero Galenternik, University of Utah |
| October 26, 2023 | Multicellular Signaling Cascades and Mechanisms of Metastasis in Solid Tumors (pre-recorded) | Dr. Jonathan Kelber, Baylor University |
| October 19, 2023 | Zooming in: species diversity, parasites, and microbes in western chipmunks | Dr. Kayce Bell, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County |
| October 12, 2023 | Inter-organ communication through plasma lipid signaling | Dr. Judith Simcox, University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| October 5, 2023 | Using high-tech tags to reveal new insights into pelagic fish ecology | Dr. Ryan Logan, CSU Long Beach |
| September 28, 2023 | From mucus-maker to virus-maker: how astrovirus hijacks goblet cells and disrupts gut homeostasis | Dr. Valerie Cortez, UC Santa Cruz |
| September 21, 2023 | Science for the Management of Environmental Contaminants in California Waters | Dr. Leah Thornton Hampton, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project |
| September 14, 2023 | Capturing the diversity of complex motions during fish feeding | Dr. Chris Martinez, UC Irvine |
| September 7, 2023 | What fruit flies can tell us about bisphenols as environmental risk factors for neurodevelopmental disorders | Dr. Kimberly Mulligan, CSU Sacramento |
| August 31, 2023 | HMGB2 Regulates the Differentiation and Stemness of Exhausted CD8+ T Cells During Chronic Viral Infection and Cancer | Dr. Roberto Tinoco, UC Irvine |
Spring 2023
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| April 13, 2023 | Using Tags and Tech to Support Conservation and Management in a Dynamic Ocean | Dr. Danielle Haulsee, Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute |
| April 6, 2023 | Faith, trust, and a little bit of neutrophil dust - examining the role of neutrophil-derived extracellular vesicles | Dr. Mallary Greenlee-Wacker, Cal Poly SLO |
| March 23, 2023 | Fish out of water: a marine scientist's journey through urban environmental planning | Dr. Ian Kroll, Egis |
| March 16, 2023 | Cooperation and Competition for Xanthan Gum in Gut Microbiomes | Dr. Matthew Ostrowski, University of Michigan |
| March 9, 2023 | Monitoring for management: An ecosystem function-based approach to estuarine assessment | Dr. Jan Walker, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project |
| March 2, 2023 | What’s in a Host? The Impacts of Environmental Stress and Pollution on Host-Microbe Systems | Dr. Rachel Diner, UC San Diego |
| February 23, 2023 | Functional Morphology of Fin Rays in (Weird) Fishes | Dr. Natalia Taft, University of Wisconsin - Parkside |
| February 2, 2023 | Here Today-Gone Tomorrow: A Global Perspective of Seasonal Wetlands | Dr. Jamie Kneitel, CSU Sacramento |
Fall 2022
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| December 8, 2022 | Deletion of Neurexin-2 in Excitatory Neurons Leads to Spontaneous Seizures and Autism-Like Phenotype | Dr. Lulu Chen, UC Irvine |
| December 1, 2022 | Heads Up: Increasing Concussion Awareness in Sports | Dr. James Hicks, UC Irvine |
| November 17, 2022 | Developing Ultrafast Movement: using ontogeny to understand biological spring-latch mechanisms | Dr. Jacob Harrison, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| November 10, 2022 | There’s a time, not a place, for controversy: low-frequency coding in the mammalian inner ear | Dr. George Burwood, Oregon Health and Science University |
| November 3, 2022 | Baleen whale ABCs: Anatomy, Biologging, and Conservation | Dr. Shirel Kahane-Rapport, CSU Fullerton |
| October 27, 2022 | Joint mobility as a bridge between form and function | Dr. Armita Manafzadeh, Yale University |
| October 20, 2022 | Evolutionary form and function across ecological gradients | Jonathan Huie, Ph.D. candidate, The George Washington University |
| October 13, 2022 | From social threat to maternal isolation: How stress steers mothers away from infants | Dr. Danielle S. Stolzenberg, UC Davis |
| October 6, 2022 | Variation in ventilation: A potential reservoir of resilience against environmental stressors | Sarah Handy, Ph.D. candidate, Arizona State University West |
| September 29, 2022 | Protease discovery and characterization in Drosera capensis | Gemma Rose Takahashi, Ph.D. candidate, UC Irvine |
| September 22, 2022 | Two birds with one rock: engineering multi-activity enzymes for improved carbohydrate deconstruction | Dr. Renaud Berlemont, CSU Long Beach |
| September 15, 2022 | From Butterfly Sperm to Inclusive STEM Spaces: How Experiences in STEM Shape our Conceptions of Science | Dr. Desirée Forsythe, Chapman University |
| September 8, 2022 | External reflectance and thermal tolerance as intraspecific thermoregulatory adaptations in Centris pallida bees | Dr. Meghan Barrett, CSU Dominguez Hills |
Spring 2022
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| May 5, 2022 | The Origin of Human Blood Cancers | Dr. Nicholas Pannunzio, UC Irvine |
| April 28, 2022 | (Topic: Plastic Pollution) | Dr. Win Cowger, Moore Institute for Plastic Pollution Research |
| April 14, 2022 | Recovery of white sharks off California, a conservation success story and what this means for coastal communities | Dr. Chris Lowe, CSU Long Beach |
| April 7, 2022 | Hormones and Hierarchies: sex differences in social status resolution in a sex changing fish, Lythrypnus dalli | Dr. Devaleena Pradhan, Idaho State University |
| March 24, 2022 | The Social Genome | Dr. Jenny Tung, Duke University |
| March 17, 2022 | AutoTuna: A Robo-fish That Tunes Its Own Stiffness | Dr. Dan Quinn, University of Virginia |
| March 10, 2022 | Ecological and evolutionary consequences of flexible foraging behavior | Dr. Avery Russell, Missouri State University |
| March 3, 2022 | Seabirds, Sentinels, and Sensory Ecology: an ecological model for understanding changing marine ecosystems | Dr. Brian Hoover, Chapman University |
| February 24, 2022 | Whether feast or famine, the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa relies on enhancer-binding proteins to coordinate its metabolism with the production of virulence factors in the host environment | Dr. Benjamin Lundgren, The College of New Jersey |
| February 21, 2022 | Fighting climate change with microbes, metals, and molecular genetics | Dr. Joseph Groom, University of Washington |
| February 17, 2022 | Antibiotic Resistance: Evolution in Action | Dr. Portia Mira, UCLA |
| February 10, 2022 | The Acoustic World of Bats: Jamming, Stealth and Silence | Dr. Aaron Corcoran, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs |
| February 3, 2022 | Annotation and Characterization of Human Protein-Coding Small Open Reading Frames | Dr. Thomas Martinez, UC Irvine |
Fall 2021
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| December 9, 2021 | Watching it live: how neurons regenerate dendrites after injury in vivo | Dr. Katherine Thompson-Peer, UC Irvine |
| December 2, 2021 | Evolutionary genomics for conservation: assessing vulnerability, resilience, and response in a changing world | Dr. Tanya M. Lama, SUNY Stony Brook |
| November 18, 2021 | From the Mountains to the Sea: Comparative Genomics of Mechanisms Underlying the Physiological Response to Low Oxygen | Dr. Allie Graham, University of Utah |
| November 4, 2021 | Appealing the "Sweet Tooth:" A Role for Glucosensing in Sugar Taste | Dr. Lindsey Schier, USC |
| October 28, 2021 | If a Bacterium Fits, Does it Sit? Surface sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Dr. Lindsey Yoder, University of Washington |
| October 21, 2021 | The Kids Are (Not) alright: Environmental effects on spermatogenesis | Dr. Tegan Horan, Cornell University |
| October 14, 2021 | The genetic and evolutionary origin of convergent color patterns in Phyllobates poison-dart frogs | Dr. Roberto Marques Pizano, University of Michigan |
| October 7, 2021 | Beyond Jaws: A Journey into the Bellies of Beasts | Dr. Samantha Leigh, CSU Dominguez Hills |
| September 30, 2021 | Why are Fish: Morphological Mechanisms & Bioinspiration | Dr. Brooke Flammang, New Jersey Institute of Technology/Rutgers University - Newark |
| September 23, 2021 | How fishes save energy: exploring biomechanical and physiological performance of locomotion | Dr. Valentina Di Santo, Stockholm University |
| September 16, 2021 | Abnormal Placentation after In Vitro Fertilization: Insights from a Mouse Model | Dr. Lisa Vrooman, Oregon Health and Science University |
| September 9, 2021 | Tracking Crabs with Drones: Seasonal Distribution of King Crabs in Bristol Bay | Dr. Leah Zacher, Alaska Fisheries Science Center |
| September 2, 2021 | Bugs on the brain: What studying arthropods can tell us about brain evolution | Meghan Barrett, Ph.D. Candidate, Drexel University |
Spring 2021
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| April 29 | Comparative genomic and transcriptomic analyses of three different adaptive radiations of fishes in North America | Dr. Joseph Heras, CSU San Bernardino |
| April 22 | Control of Breathing and Airway Defense | Dr. Bill Milsom, University of British Columbia, and Dr. Graham Scott, McMaster University |
| April 15 | Interdisciplinary approaches to investigate plankton population dynamics | Dr. Darcy Taniguchi, CSU San Marcos |
| April 8 | Heart failure is characterized in part by the inability of the myocardium to relax effectively | Alex Salomon, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Pennsylvania |
| March 25 | Insects in the Saltmarsh: What they tell us about natural and technological disasters | Dr. Linda Bui, Louisiana State University |
| March 18 | Natural and unnatural controls on biodiversity distribution and ecosystem function in the Andes-Amazon | Dr. Miles Silman, Wake Forest University |
| March 11 | Sea urchin larvae provide a systems-level model for understanding innate immunity in the gut | Dr. Kate Buckley, Auburn University |
| March 4 | Cellular neuroscience goes wild: remembering how to breath after a winter's long apnea | Dr. Joseph Santin, University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
| February 25 | Along the Speciation Continuum from North to South | Jessica (Jess) McLaughlin, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Oklahoma |
| February 18 | (canceled) | (canceled) |
| February 11 | A Valentine's special: seeing butterflies and "Love Spots" | Dr. Michael Perry, UC San Diego |
| February 4 | Multiple stressors and time-lags complicate invasion dynamics in tidal marsh | Dr. Rachel Wiggington, UC Davis |
| January 28 | Why Not Help? Proximate Mechanisms Influencing Individual Variation in Cooperative Behavior | Dr. Jessica A. Cusick, Indiana University |
| January 21 | Becoming an Addiction Neuroscientist as a Low-Income First-Gen Daughter of Immigrants | Angeline J. Dukes, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Irvine |
Fall 2020
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| December 10 | In the beginning, there was an ecosystem: the origin of life as a chemical ecological problem | Lena Vincent, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| December 3 | Weird and Wonderful Extinct Animals | Dr. Alexis Mychajliw, University of Oklahoma |
| November 19 | The Evolution of Air Breathing from things that don't Breathe | Dr. Michael B. Harris, CSU Long Beach |
| November 12 | The role of sex chromosomes to cause sex differences in disease | Dr. Xuqi Chen, UCLA |
| November 5 | Evolution In a Flask: Stress & Transformation | Dr. Phoebe Lostroh, Colorado College |
| October 29 | Experimental Studies in Evolutionary Dynamics | Dr. Michael Wiser, Michigan State University |
| October 22 | Bats: Keystone Taxa for Forest Regeneration and Preventing the Next Pandemic | Dr. Susan Tsang, American Museum of Natural History |
| October 15 | Cut Once, Mature Twice – Exploring the Proteolytic Events of Neurodevelopment and Neurodegeneration | Dr. Timothy J. Mosca, Thomas Jefferson University |
| October 8 | Investigating the drivers of foraging behavior of a tropical seabird | Jenny Howard, Ph.D. Candidate, Wake Forest University |
| October 1 | Words For Nerds: How To Share Your Work With The Media (and other real people) | Dawn Fallik, University of Delaware |
| September 24 | The ecology and evolution of primate cognition | Dr. Alexandra Rosati, University of Michigan |
| September 17 | The Epithelial Unknown: novel mechanisms of rapidly adjusting epithelial ion transport | Dr. Dennis Kolosov, CSU San Marcos (Jan. 2021) |
| September 10 | Shining a light on glial contributions to sleep and sleep regulation | Dr. Ashley M. Ingiosi, Washington State University |
| September 3 | Managing and planning our academic workloads using the Everything Workload | Dr. Raul Pacheco-Vega, Flacso Mexico |
Spring 2020
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| May 7 | Deconstructing visual signals in social butterflies | Dr. Susan Finkbeiner, Pepperdine University |
| April 30 | The silent forests of Guam: the historical and ongoing impacts of one of the world's most invasive predators on an insular avifauna | Dr. Henry Pollock, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne |
| April 23 | Counting fish from Alaska to the Falkland Islands: using marine biology to inform stock assessments | Dr. Thomas Farrugia, Monterey Bay Aquarium |
| March 5 | Sensitivity and exposure to climate change across life stages of marine invertebrates | Dr. Lauren Pandori, UC Irvine |
| February 27 | Quantification and ecosystem drivers of blue carbon in Pacific coast tidal wetlands | Dr. Christopher Janousek, Oregon State University |
| February 20 | Defining skin cancer heterogeneity and drug resistance | Dr. Scott Atwood, UC Irvine |
| February 13 | Causes and consequences of temporal changes in the vaginal microbial flora | Dr. Jose Miguel Ponciano, University of Florida |
| February 6 | The dual role of complement in atherosclerosis | Dr. Deborah Fraser, CSU Long Beach |
| January 30 | The past, present, and future of America's forest birds | Dr. Morgan Tingley, University of Connecticut |
Fall 2019
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| September 5, 2019 | Negative regulation of age-related developmental leaf senescence by the IAOx pathway, PEN1 and PEN3 | Dr. Judy Brusslan, CSU Long Beach |
| September 12, 2019 | Bird paddling and ant bouldering: using robotics and high-throughput tracking to understand how animals move in natural environments | Dr. Glenna Clifton, UC San Diego |
| September 19, 2019 | Unraveling the drivers of coral diversity: from the deep sea to deep time | Dr. Andrea Quatrinni, Harvey Mudd College |
| September 26, 2019 | When I was your age there was only one estrogen receptor... | Dr. Kevin Sinchak, CSU Long Beach |
| October 3, 2019 | Brain dendritic cells critically modulate protective immune responses during WNV encephalitis | Dr, Douglas Durrant, CalPoly Pomona |
| October 10, 2019 | Leeches as models for integrating studies in evolution, development, cell fate specification, and behavior | Dr. David Weisblat, UC Berkeley |
| October 17, 2019 | On microbial safari in coastal waters | Dr. Cameron Thrash, USC |
| October 24, 2019 | Changes in the transition zone – early warning of climate driven ecosystems shifts | Dr. Ryan Freedman, UC Santa Barbara |
| October 31, 2019 | Sparks and shocks: What Frankenstein tells us about the nature of life | Dr. Michael Harris, CSU Long Beach |
| November 14, 2019 | Genetic and epigenetic regulation of cell death in nervous system development | Dr. Kristin White, Harvard University |
| November 21, 2019 | Estrogen-sensitive hypothalamic neurons that regulate body temperature in mice | Dr. Stephanie Correa, UCLA |
| December 5, 2019 | Detection and use of geo-magnetic fields in shark orientation and navigation behaviors | Dr. James Anderson, CSU Long Beach |
Spring 2019
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| May 2, 2019 | Role of the RB/E2F pathway on the control of epigenetic processes during cancer development | Dr. Claudia Benavente, UC Irvine |
| April 25, 2019 | Using Drosophila to study the immunity and biology of macrophages | Dr. Catherine Brennan, CSU Fullerton |
| April 18, 2019 | The Hippo pathway in growth control and cancer development | Dr. Wenqui Wang, UC Irvine |
| April 11, 2019 | APOE, diet, and hormone interactions in aging and Alzheimer's disease | Dr. Amy Christensen, USC |
| March 28, 2019 | Orosensory cues involved in calorie-dense diet intake | Dr. Yada Treesukosol, CSU Long Beach |
| March 21, 2019 | Physical insecticides-bioinspiration from the action of bean leaves on bed bugs | Dr. Catherine Loudon, UC Irvine |
| March 14, 2019 | TBA | Dr. Ellis R. Levin, UC Irvine and Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center |
| March 7, 2019 | The weird and wonderful world of hagfishes | Dr. Douglas Fudge, Chapman University |
| February 28, 2019 | Feed a cold but starve a fever? Evolutionary epidemiology illustrates why appetite during illness matters | Dr. Jessica Hite, University of Nebraska |
| February 14, 2019 | Quantifying ecological and demographic dynamics of Cayo Santiago rhesus macaques | Dr. Raisa Hernandez Pacheco, University of Richmond |
| February 7, 2019 | The ecological consequences of organismal responses to anthropogenically-altered aquatic environments | Dr. Paul Bourdeau, Humboldt State University |
| January 31, 2019 | Nitrogen deposition and rainfall effects on grassland plants and animals | Dr. Joshua Grinath, Middle Tennessee State University |
Fall 2018
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| December 6, 2018 | Physical insecticides-bioinspiration from the action of bean leaves on bed bugs | Dr. Catherine Loudon, UC Irvine |
| November 29, 2018 | Ecological responses to connectivity between sandy beach and kelp forest ecosystems | Dr. Jenny Dugan, Marine Science Institute, UC Santa Barbara |
| November 8, 2018 | Ocean food webs from phytoplankton to tuna: Invisible and unusual trophic links through the zooplankton | Dr. Michael Landry, Scripps Institute Oceanography |
| November 1, 2018 | The slipper snail, Crepidula, as a model for evolutionary developmental biology | Dr. Deirdre Lyons, Scripps Institute Oceanography |
| October 25, 2018 | Aging and locomotor systems | Dr. Angela Horner, CSU Santa Barbara |
| October 18, 2018 | Introducing "WormBeat": coding away the tedium to better understand neuromuscular patterning in C. elegans | Drs. Michael Harris & Renaud Berlemont, CSU Long Beach |
| October 11, 2018 | Responses of aquatic invasive plant species to climate warming | Dr. Morgane Gillard, UC Davis |
| October 4, 2018 | The effect of prey, predators, and sociality on cheetah hunting behavior | Dr. Anne Hilborn, UC Riverside |
| September 27, 2018 | Using coral cell cultures to understand calcification | Dr. Jeana Drake, UCLA |
| September 20, 2018 | 'X' marks the spot: science and conservation in the largest and deepest world heritage site | Dr. Randi Rotjan, Boston University |
| September 13, 2018 | Draxin: a novel player in the molecular control of the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition in the embryonic neural crest | Dr. Erica Hutchins, Cal Tech |
Spring 2018
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2018 | Bioinformatics and Biology | Dr. Renaud Berlemont, CSU Long Beach |
| April 19, 2018 | Screening for risks associated with calcium signaling disruption | Dr. Erika Holland, CSU Long Beach |
| April 12, 2018 | Vaquita: The world's most endangered marine mammal | Mr. David Bader, Aquarium of the Pacific |
| April 5, 2018 | Collision of marine and anthropogenic halopyrroles on ryanodine receptor signaling | Dr. Isaac Pessah, UC Davis, Depart Molecular Biosciences |
| March 22, 2018 | Walking the dog(ma) in low oxygen: From DNA to RNA to protein synthesis in response to and recovery from hypoxia | Dr. Travis Lee, Salk Institute |
| March 15, 2018 | Temperature and scale in elastically powered movements | Dr. Jeff Olberding, UC Irvine |
| March 8, 2018 | Stem cell techniques for modeling and treating vision disorders | Dr. Melissa Jones, UC San Diego |
| March 1, 2018 | Eavesdropping influences the realized niche of neotropical mixed-species bird flocks | Dr. Ari Martinez, Museum of Comparative Zoology, UC Berkeley |
| February 22, 2018 | Identifying triggers of biodiversity loss: spanning borders by bridging concepts | Dr. Shawn McCracken, Texas State University |
| February 15, 2018 | Within-individual variation in behavior and physiology: integrating stress, signals, sex, and senescence | Dr. Conor Taff, Lab of Ornithology, Cornell University |
| February 8, 2018 | The story of the strike: feeding ecology and morphology of mantis shrimp and other interesting invertebrates | Dr. Maya deVries, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| January 25, 2018 | Understanding the causes and consequences of phenotypic variation in terrestrial vertebrates | Dr. Loren Merrill, IL Natural History Survey, Urbana-Champaign |
Fall 2017
| Date | Title | Speaker and Affiliation |
|---|---|---|
| November 30, 2017 | Opportunities and challenges from the sea: Exploring linkages between oceans and human health | Dr. Amro Hamdoun, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| November 16, 2017 | Sanctuary no more? How the massive Mud Creek slide in Big Sur impacts endangered black abalone | Dr. Steve Lonhart, NOAA/Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary |
| November 9, 2017 | Using autonomous platforms to understand bio-physical interactions: from the Antarctic to the equator | Dr. Megan Cimino, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| November 2, 2017 | A day in the life of a cyanobacterium | Dr. Susan Cohen, CSU Los Angeles |
| October 26, 2017 | The evolution of offspring size: linking life-history theory and metabolic theory | Ms. Amanda Pettersen, Monash University, Victoria, Australia |
| October 19, 2017 | Ecological factors shaping collective behavior in spotted hyenas and ground squirrels | Dr. Jennifer Smith, Mills College, Oakland |
| October 12, 2017 | The role of microglia in brain rewiring by early-life stress | Dr. Jessica Bolton, UC Irvine |
| October 5, 2017 | The story of the strike: feeding ecology and morphology of mantis shrimp and other interesting invertebrates | Dr. Maya deVries, Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
| September 28, 2017 | Crop protection for algal-based food and fuel | Dr. Ryan Simkovsky, UC San Diego |
| September 21, 2017 | Restoring salt marshes in the XXI Century | Dr. Jesús M. Castillo, Universidad de Sevilla |
| September 14, 2017 | How did they do that?; Structures responsible for power amplification in animals | Dr. Benjamin Perlman, UC Irvine |
| September 7, 2017 | Linking microbial ecology to biotechnology using bioinformatics | Dr. Renaud Berlemont, CSU Long Beach |
