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Spring 2021 Seminars in the Pittsburgh Area
| Date | Time | Location | Speakers | Title | Series |
| February 8 | 11:00 AM | Zoom | Gil Rosenthal, Texas A&M |
“Mate choice and its consequences for speciation and hybridization” | Biological Sciences |
| February 10 | 11:40 AM – 12:30 PM | Online | Anum Azam Glasgow, University of California, San Francisco |
“Building dynamic, functional proteins to understand and treat disease” | CMU Biological Sciences |
| February 10 | 12:10 PM | Zoom | Rachel Vannette, University of California, Davis |
“Ecology and evolution of flower-inhabiting microbes and their effects on pollinators” | Biological Sciences |
| February 11 | 7:00 PM | Zoom | Michael Worobey, University of Arizona |
“Darwin Day Talk: Trees and Disease – Evolutionary insights into viral pandemics” | Duquesne Biological Sciences |
| February 12 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 5607 Baum Boulevard, Room 407A | Shilpa Garg, University of Copenhagen, Denmark |
“Advanced Computational Approaches for Understanding Complex Diseases” | Biomedical Informatics |
| February 15 | 11:00 AM | Zoom | William Prinz, NIH/NIDDK |
“Organelle biogenesis and membrane contact sites” | Biological Sciences |
| February 17 | 12:10 PM | Zoom | Tanisha Williams, Bucknell University |
“Conserving Biodiversity: From South Africa to Australia” | Biological Sciences |
| February 19 | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | 5607 Baum Boulevard, Room 407A | Ryan Mills, University of Michigan Medical School |
“New Technologies for Identifying and Characterizing Genomic Repetitive Elements” | Biomedical Informatics |
| February 22 | 11:00 AM | Zoom | Markus Babst, University of Utah |
“Plasma membrane stress response includes fusion with the ER” | Biological Sciences |
| February 26 | 2:00 PM | Online | Anne Burrows, Duquesne University |
“The Evolutionary story of the human face” | Duquesne Biological Sciences |
| March 1 | 11:00 AM | Zoom | Dana Hawley, Virginia Tech University |
“Why bite the hand that feeds you? An integrative approach to studying virulence evolution in a songbird” | Biological Sciences |
| March 12 | 2:00 PM | Online | Louisa Hiller, Carnegie Mellon University |
“Dancing on the Edge: How the Pneumococcus Adapts to Stress during Infection” | Duquesne Biological Sciences |
| March 15 | 11:00 AM | Zoom | Jean-Ju Chung, Yale School of Medicine |
“New insights into molecular architecture and function of CatSper channels” | Biological Sciences |
| March 22 | 11:00 AM | Zoom | Judith Mank, University of British Columbia |
“Male ornamentation, mate choice and sex chromosome evolution in guppies” | Biological Sciences |
| March 29 | 11:00 AM | Zoom | Arohan Subramanya, University of Pittsburgh |
“WNK Kinases: Molecular Crowding Sensors that Regulate Cell Volume via Phase Separation” | Biological Sciences |
Spring 2020 Seminars in the Pittsburgh Area
| Date | Time | Location | Speakers | Title | Series |
| January 13 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Steve Hovic, Ohio State University |
“The evolutionary ecology of biological invasions” | Biological Sciences |
| January 22 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | James Whitney, Harvard |
“Therapeutic development for HIV-1 and emerging diseases” | MMG |
| January 24 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Chandra Nath Roy, University of Pittsburgh |
“Codon optimization improves HIV-1 Reporter Expression for Imaging Infection in Humanized Mice” | MMG |
| January 29 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 219B Langley Hall | Nancy Chen, University of Rochester |
“Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population” | Ecology and Evolution |
| January 31 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall | Matthew Nicotra, University of Pittsburgh |
“Hydractinia Allorecognition: How a cnidarian distinguishes self from non-self” | Duquesne |
| February 3 | 11:00 AM–12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Emily Rauschert, Cleveland State University |
“Meadow Restorations: What do we actually get out of them?” | Biological Sciences |
| February 3 | 12:00 AM–1:00 PM | A115 Public Health Bldg. | Danielle M. Tufts, Columbia University |
“The ecological and genetic drivers of vector-borne disease emergence and transmission” | Pitt Public Health |
| February 3 | 5:00 PM–6:00 PM | Cooper Conference Room C, Shadyside | Adrian Lee, University of Pittsburgh |
“Genomic evolution in breast cancer metastasis to brain” | Human Genetics |
| February 6 | 7:00 PM–8:00 PM | Charles J Dougherty Ballroom, Duquesne Power Center | May Berenbaum, University of Illinois |
“Unnatural selection: How humans affect insect evolution without even realizing it” | Duquesne |
| February 7 | 12:00 PM–1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Katrina Harris, University of Illinois |
“How does growth in a structured environment alter the evolution of pseudomonas aeruginosa populations” | MMG |
| February 10 CANCELED |
11:00 AM–12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Tom Sharpton, Oregon State University |
“Linking the gut microbiome to vertebrate ecology and evolution” | Biological Sciences |
| February 10 | 12:00 AM–1:00 PM | Earth Theater Carnegie Museum of Natural History | Felisa Smith, University of New Mexico |
“The crucial role of temperature on the ecology and evolution of mammals” | Carnegie Museum of Natural History – The R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar 106 |
| February 12 | 12:00 AM–1:00 PM | 219B Langley Hall | Lewis Bartlett, University of Georgia |
“Where there’s honey, there’s bees: scientific cross-pollination between EEID and Apidology” | Ecology and Evolution |
| February 14 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Douglas Fischer, University of Pittsburgh |
“Permeability of the HIV-1 capsid to small molecules modulates capsid stability and viral DNA synthesis” | MMG |
| February 14 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall | Louis Calistro Alvarado, University of Pittsburgh |
“Male aging and testosterone decline among smaller scale societies” | Duquesne |
| February 17 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Mellon Institute, 348 Conference Rm. 4400 Fifth Avenue |
Erin Gloag, Ohio State University |
“Evolution and adaptation of pseudomonas aeruginosa during chronic infections” | CMU Biological Sciences |
| February 21 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall | Miler Lee, University of Pittsburgh |
“Transcriptional reprogramming in the developing embryo” | Duquesne |
| February 24 | 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Earth Theater, Carnegie Museum of Natural History | Daniel Hughes, Carnegie Museum of Natural History |
“Biodiversity research from Africa to North America” | Carnegie Museum of Natural History – The R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar 107 |
| February 28 | 12:00 PM-1:20 PM | Posner Hall, 100 | Rajiv McCoy, Johns Hopkins University |
“Functional and fitness effects of human genetic variation” | CPCB |
| March 9 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Angela DePace, Harvard Medical School |
“Precision and Plasticity in Animal Transcription” | Biological Sciences |
| March 13 CANCELED |
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall | Moriah Szpara, Penn State University |
“The individual human scale of herpes simple virus persistence, and its impacts on viral diversity and evolution” | Duquesne |
| April 3 CANCELED |
3:30 PM-4:30 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room 328 | Wook Kim, Duquesne University |
TBA | PAMP |
| May 1 CANCELED |
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room 328 |
Daria van Tyne, University of Pittsburgh |
TBA | PAMP |
2019 Seminars in the Pittsburgh Area
| Date | Time | Location | Speakers | Title | Series |
| September 4 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Martha Munoz, Yale University |
“Behavior is a motor and a brake for evolution” | Ecology and Evolution |
| September 6 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall |
Jan Janecka, Duquesne University |
“Snow Leopard Evolution and Adaptation to High Altitude via the HIF-1 Signaling Pathway” |
Duquesne |
| September 9 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Michael Gilson, University of California, San Diego |
“Are all enzymes molecular motors?” | Biological Sciences |
| September 13 | 12:00 PM-1:20 PM | BST S100A | Dennis Kostka, University of Pittsburgh |
“Computational Genomics Yields Insights into Developmental Gene Regulation” | CPCB |
| September 16 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Annette Ostling, University of Michigan |
“Species trait clusters as a signature of niche differentiation: from theory to observed patterns on Barro Colorado Island” | Biological Sciences |
| September 20 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 219B Langley Hall | Brittany Sutherland, University of Arizona |
“Ancient duplications to instant speciation: How polyploidy influences plant evolution” | Ecology and Evolution |
| September 20 | 2:00 PM–3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall |
Sarah Carnahan-Craig, Penn State University |
“Leveraging child growth trajectories to establish an early-life, polygenic risk score for childhood obesity” | Duquesne |
| September 23 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Cori Richards-Zawacki, University of Pittsburgh |
“A fungus among us: Insights into the ecology and evolution of amphibian susceptibility to chytridiomycosis” | Biological Sciences |
| September 27 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Abigail Matela, University of Pittsburgh |
“Evolving STEM: An Evolution-in-Action Laboratory for High School Biology Students that Stimulates Bacterial Adaptation During Infections” |
MMG |
| October 2 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Jacob Scott, Cleveland Clinic |
“Controlling disease evolution: mathematical models and experiments to understand time-scales, trajectories and outcomes” | MMG |
| October 4 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Zhou Zhong, University of Pittsburgh |
“The Roles of CPSF6 and CypA in HIV-1 Pre-Integration Complex Trafficking to the Nucleus” | MMG |
| October 16 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Paul Turner, Yale University |
“Phage therapy to combat infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria” | MMG |
| October 21 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Karen Lewis, Texas State University |
“Structural and functional insights from a fish homolog of the RNA-binding protein LaRP6” | Biological Sciences |
| October 23 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 219B Langley | Rachel Penczykowski, Washington University St. Louis |
“Ecology of wild plant-pathogen interactions across spatial and temporal scales: from individual hosts in the growing season to regional dynamics over winter” | Ecology and Evolution |
| October 25 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall |
William Murphy, Texas A&M University |
“Sex chromosomes and speciation: lessons from cats” | Duquesne |
| November 1 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Katrina Harris, University of Pittsburgh |
TBA | MMG |
| November 6 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 219B Langley | Swanne Gordon, Washington University St. Louis |
“Sex, Genes, and Environment: Integrating multiple determinants of color polymorphisms in nature” | Ecology and Evolution |
| November 8 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Nicholas Cooley, University of Pittsburgh |
TBA | Bioinformatics |
| November 8 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall |
Damian Wilburn, University of Washington |
“Direct and indirect sexual selection drive rapid sperm protein evolution” | Duquesne |
| November 13 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 219B Langley | Andy Moeller, Cornell University |
“The evolution of the mammalian gut microbiota” | Ecology and Evolution |
| November 13 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Daria Van Tyne, University of Pittsburgh |
“Friend turned foe: Adaptation of multidrug-resistant enterococci during bloodstream infection” | MMG |
| December 13 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Jenny Jones, University of Pittsburgh Andrew Beckley, |
“The Puzzle of Packaging: Predicting Influenza Virus Genomic Assembly Order from Evolutionary History” “Can Cycling Between |
MMG
Bioinformatics |
Spring 2019 Seminars in the Pittsburgh Area
| Date | Time | Location | Speakers | Title | Series |
| January 9 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Karie Altman, University of Pittsburgh | “Thermal biology of amphibian parasitism” | Ecology and Evolution |
| January 9 | 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | 1195 Starzl BST | Anthony Richardson, University of Pittsburgh | “Immunometabolism and Staphylococcus Aureus Infections” | Microbiome Center |
| January 10 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Scaife Hall, Auditorium 5 | Martin Flajnik, University of Maryland | “Emergence of Adaptive Immunity: The Answer to Everything” | Immunology |
| January 14 | 11:00 AM –11:50 AM | 169 Crawford Hall | Evan Siemann, Rice University | “Biotic interactions and the success of invasive plants” | Biological Sciences |
| January 25 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 300 South Craig | Iman Hajirasouliha, Weill Cornell Medicine | “Novel algorithms and applications of Linked-Read genomics and metagenomics” | CPCB |
| January 25 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall |
Julia Halo, Bowling Green State University |
“Evolution and functional impact of transposable element variants through comparative population genomics” | Duquesne |
| January 30 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Andrea Fetters, University of Pittsburgh | “The pollen virome: viral discovery and diversity” | Ecology and Evolution |
| January 31 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room (328) | Mark Rebeiz
Matt Nicotra |
“Evo-devo of something”
“The Amazing Allorecognizing Hydractinia” |
MELD |
| February 1 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Michelle Scribner, University of Pittsburgh | TBA | MMG |
| February 1 | 3:30 PM-4:30 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room (328) | Matthew Culyba, University of Pittsburgh | TBA | PAMP |
| February 5 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | 219A Langley | Emile-Gluck Thaler, Ohio State University | “The architecture of resistance: fungal gene clusters adapted to degrade plant defenses” | Ecology and Evolution (Special Seminar) |
| February 6 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Kimberly Howell, University of Pittsburgh | “Does color vision contribute to mate preference divergence in a polymorphic poison frog?” | Ecology and Evolution |
| February 13 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Veronica Saenz, University of Pittsburgh | Effects of simulated climate change on the development of immune defenses | Ecology and Evolution |
| February 15 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Alfonso Lopez, University of Pittsburgh | The roles of history, chance and adaption in the evolution of antibiotic resistance | MMG |
| February 22 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Ann Donnelly, University of California-Berkeley | “First-Step Mutations Reveal a Multitude of Evolutionary Pathways to Antibiotic Resistance” |
Bioinformatics |
| February 25 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Britt Koskella, University of California-Berkeley | “Phriends, Phoes, and Phages in the Phyllosphere” | Biological Sciences |
| February 27 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Yusan Yang, University of Pittsburgh | “Sexual selection on an aposematic signal: Elucidating drivers of phenotypic divergence and reproductive isolation in a polymorphic poison frog” | Ecology and Evolution |
| February 28 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room (328) | Avery Russell, University of Pittsburgh
Joel McManus, University of Pittsburgh |
“How flower microbes disperse and shape bee preferences”
“Function and evolution of yeast 5′ UTRs and uORFs” |
MELD |
| March 1 | 3:30 PM-4:30 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room (328) | Richardson Lab, University of Pittsburgh | TBA | PAMP |
| March 4 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Gill Rosenthal, Texas A&M | “Mate-choice mechanisms and the evolutionary process” | Biological Sciences |
| March 4 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Earth Theater Carnegie Museum of Natural History |
Kristi Curry Rogers, Macalester College |
“Deciphering dinosaur lives: from microscopes to Madagascar” | Carnegie Museum of Natural History – The R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar |
| March 6 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Sebastian Echeverri, University of Pittsburgh | “Towards an ontogeny of anuran color vision” | Ecology and Evolution |
| March 15 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall Mellon Hall |
Maureen Donnelly, Florida International University | “Amphibian conservation in the new century: mitigation of disaster” | Duquesne |
| March 18 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Nelson Hairston, Cornell University | “Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics meets Hydrodynamics: Linking internal waves and internal phosphorus-loading to rapid Daphnia evolution via cyanobacterial blooms” | Biological Sciences |
| March 20 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Joel Sachs, UC Riverside | “Rapid evolutionary shifts from mutualist to cheater in plant-associated bacteria” | Ecology and Evolution |
| March 27 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Luisa Hiller, Carnegie Mellon University | TBA | MMG |
| March 28 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room (328) | Miler Lee, University of Pittsburgh
Andreas Pfenning, CMU |
“Early embryonic gene regulation”
“Regulatory element evolution” |
MELD |
| March 29 | 11:00 AM-12:00PM | BST3 6014 | Dennis Vitkup, Columbia University | TBA | CPCB |
| April 3 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Pleuni Pennings, San Francisco State University | TBA | MMG |
| April 3 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Mellon Institute 348 Conference Room 4400 Fifth Avenue |
Mansi Srivastava, Harvard University | “A new model system for studying the evolution of regeneration and development” | CMU Biological Sciences |
| April 3 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Melissa Plakke, University of Pittsburgh | “Butterfly Reproduction, Novelty, and Allopatry” | Ecology and Evolution |
| April 4 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Scaife Auditorium 5 | Mihal Netea, Radboud University | “Trained immunity: a memory for innate host defense” | Immunology |
| April 5 | 3:30 PM-4:30 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room (328) |
Hiller Lab, University of Pittsburgh | TBA | PAMP |
| April 5 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Chandra Nath Ray, University of Pittsburgh | TBA | MMG |
| April 10 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | 1195 Starzl BST | Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, University of Pittsburgh | “Proto-genes and De Novo Gene Birth” | Microbiome Center |
| April 10 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Eden McQueen, University of Pittsburgh | “Dissecting the shared and divergent genetic architectures of a novel male genital structure and a novel female genital structure” | Ecology and Evolution |
| April 10 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Mellon Institute 348 Confrence Room 4400 Fifth Avenue |
Michael Shapiro, University of Utah | “Fancy features and a checkered past: genetics of diversity in the rock pigeon” | CMU Biological Sciences |
| April 17 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Geoff Findlay, College of the Holy Cross | “The roles of newly evolved genes in male Drosophila reproduction” | Ecology and Evolution |
| April 24 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Mellon Institute 348 Conference Room 4400 Fifth Avenue |
Gloria Barr, University of California, Berkeley | “Regulated transcript toggling and protein degradation set meiotic protein levels” | CMU Biological Sciences |
| April 24 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Mandy Gibson, University of Virginia | “Relentless evolution: parasite adaptation in heterogeneous host populations” | Ecology and Evolution |
| April 25 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room (328) |
Maria Redbolleda-Gomez, University of Pittsburgh
Mitra Eghbal, University of Pittsburgh |
“Antibiotic resistance in spatial structure /or/ Evolution of floral microbiomes to UV stress”
“The role of mutational |
MELD |
| April 26 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside Point 2 | Richa Divivedi, University of Pittsburgh | “HIV-1 Infection is Inhibited by Knockdown of Nesprins” | MMG |
| April 29 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Carnegie Museum of Natural History – The R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar | Sarah Shelley, University of Edinburgh | “The Rise of Mammals after the End-Cretaceous Mass Extinction” | |
| May 1 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Andrea Fetters, University of Pittsburgh | “The pollen virome: viral discovery and diversity” | Ecology and Evolution |
| May 3 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | BST3 6014 | Oana Carja, Carnegie Mellon University | CANCELED | CPCB |
| May 30 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Mellon Institute Social Room (328) |
Ann Donnelly, University of Pittsburgh Katrina Harris, University of Pittsburgh |
“First step mutations in the evolution of antibiotic resistance” “Pseudomonas evolution, likely mutators” |
MELD |
Fall 2018 Seminars in the Pittsburgh Area
| Date | Time | Location | Speakers | Title | Series |
| September 5 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, University of Pittsburgh | “On biological individuality from a microbial point of view” | Ecology and Evolution |
| September 7 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Maurice Falk Lecture Hall, Mellon Hall | Wook Kim, Duquesne University | “From conflict to cooperation and dysbiosis: the molecular anatomy of microbial sociality” | Duquesne |
| September 12 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Ximena Bernal, Purdue University | “Ornaments, Enemies and Sensory Filters in the Evolution of Communication Systems” | Ecology and Evolution |
| September 19 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Michel Ohmer, University of Pittsburgh | “TBA” | Ecology and Evolution |
| September 20 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside II | Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | “Molecular arms races between host and viral genomes” | MMG |
| September 21 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A115 Public Health | Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, PhD, University of Pittsburgh | “Proto-genes and de novo gene birth” | Human Genetics |
| September 21 | 2:00 PM-3:00 PM | A219B Langley | Harmit Malik, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | “Genetic conflicts shape meiosis, centromeres and species” | |
| September 27 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | Lecture Rm 6 Scaife | Hopi Hoekstra, Harvard University | “The Genetic Basis of Parental Care” | |
| September 28 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 407A Offices at Baum | Maria Chikina, PhD | “Exploiting the latent structure of gene expression data” | Biomedical Informatics |
| October 3 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Michael Travisano, University of Minnesota | “TBA” | Ecology and Evolution |
| October 3 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 348 Mellon Institute | William Hanage, PhD, Harvard School of Public Health | “Population genomics of bacterial pathogens – evolution and epidemiology” | CMU Biological Sciences |
| October 12 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 407A Offices at Baum | Roni Rosenfeld, PhD | “Forecasting Epidemics” | Biomedical Informatics |
| October 18 | 11:00 AM-12:00PM | Alumni Hall, Auditorium, 7th Floor. | Bonnie Bassler, Princeton | “Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria” | Science 2018 Dickson Prize |
| October 19 | 11:00 AM-12:00PM | Alumni Hall, Auditorium, 7th Floor. | Feng Zheng, Broad Institute of MIT | “Development of CRISPR-Cas Systems for Genome Editing” | Science 2018 Mellon Lecture |
| October 19 | 2:00PM-3:40 | Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center | Vaughn Cooper, Nathan Clark, Dennis Kostka, Matthew Nicotra, Erik Wright | “Evolutionary Biology Meets Medicine” (CEBaM Panel and Launch) | Science2018 |
| October 19 | 4:00-5:00PM | Alumni Hall, Auditorium, 7th Floor. | Paul Turner, Yale University | “Using Viruses To Select for Reduced Virulence of Bacterial Pathogens in Human Patients” | Science 2018 Hofman Lecture |
| October 22 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 169 Crawford Hall | Dr. Kat Milligan-Myhre, University of Alaska Anchorage | “From the field to the bench: Adapting an evolutionary model for host-microbe studies” | Biological Sciences |
| October 24 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Jiaqi Tan, University of Pittsburgh | “TBA” | Ecology and Evolution |
| October 24 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside II | Katherine Lemon, Harvard Medical School,The Forsyth Institute | “TBA” | MMG |
| October 25 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | A219B Langley | Aaron Wacholder
Amanda Kowalczyk |
“The clash of the functions (or how loci can be essential and unconstrained at the same time)”
“Molecular Evolution Underlying Lifespan in Mammals” |
MELD |
| October 31 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Mercedes Burns, University of Maryland, Baltimore County | “The paradox of sex: maintenance of sexual reproduction through conflict” | Ecology and Evolution |
| October 31 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside II | Michael Otto, NIAID NIH | “TBA” | MMG |
| November 7 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 348 Mellon Institute | Rori Rolhfs, PhD, San Francisco State University | “TBA” | CMU Biological Sciences |
| November 9 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 407A Offices at Baum | Erik Wright, PhD | “First-step mutations reveal a multitude of evolutionary pathways to antibiotic resistance” | Biomedical Informatics |
| November 14 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Gavin Rice, University of Pittsburgh | “TBA” | Ecology and Evolution |
| November 14 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 348 Mellon Institute | Robert Britton, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine | “TBA” | CMU Biological Sciences |
| November 16 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 407A Offices at Baum | Barbara Methe, PhD | “TBA” | Biomedical Informatics |
| November 29 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | Scaife Hall, Auditorium 5 | Peter Parham, Stanford University | “TBA” | Immunology |
| November 29 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | A219B Langley | Vaughn Cooper
Dannie Durand and Maureen Stolzer |
“Recombinogenic parasites drive bacterial adaptation during infections”
“Phylogenomic something” |
MELD |
| November 30 | 11:00 AM-12:00 PM | 407A Offices at Baum | Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis, PhD | “Proto-genes and de novo gene birth” | Biomedical Informatics |
| December 5 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Jennifer Sheridan, Carnegie Museum | “TBA” | Ecology and Evolution |
| December 12 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | A219B Langley | Zakee Sabree, Ohio State University | “TBA” | Ecology and Evolution |
| December 12 | 12:00 PM-1:00 PM | 503 Bridgeside II | Caitlin Pepperell, University of Wisconsin-Madison | “TBA” | MMG |
| December 20 | 4:00 PM-5:00 PM | A219B Langley | Wynn Meyer
Surya Aggarwal |
“Dietary adaptation in mammals”
“Stressed Pneumococci” |
MELD |