Events and Seminars
Winter Seminar series
Winter 2025 Biology Seminar Speakers
4pm 158 MJ Science Complex
January 28:
Matt Cross, PhD
Conservation Biologist
Director of Vertebrate Conservation
Toledo Zoo & Aquarium
“Role of Zoos in Conservation”
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew-Cross
February 4:
Gillian Gainsley
Chief of Staff
Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy
“Interrupting the PFAS Cycle”
February 11:
Cara Shillington, PhD
Professor, Biology Department
Eastern Michigan University
“Tracking Tarantulas: Male Activity During the Mating Season in
Southeastern Colorado.”
h#ps://www.emich.edu/biology/faculty/c-shillington.php
February 18:
Junior West, PhD
Assistant Professor
MCDB, University of Michigan
“Barrier Breakdown: Pathways to Metastasis”
https://thewestlab.com/
March 4:
Anne Danielson-Francois, PhD
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
University of Michigan-Dearborn
“Down by the Riverside: Sex Role Reversal in a Water Walking
Riparian Spider.”
https://sites.google.com/umich.edu/danielson-francoislab/home
March 18:
Mary Skinner, MS
Research Lead
Taubman Nanobody Initiative-Truttmann Research Group
University of Michigan Medical School
“Nanobodies: How These Tiny Fragments Derived from Camelids
and Sharks Are Making Big Waves in Research and Therapeutics.”
https://taubman-nanobody-initiative.medicine.umich.edu/
March 25:
Peter Dijkstra, PhD
Associate Professor, Biology Department
Central Michigan University
“Social competition and stress influence sexual signaling in an
African cichlid fish.”
h#ps://sites.google.com/site/peterdijkstrausnl/home
April 15:
Marianne Azevedo-Silva, PhD and
Julia Boyle, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellows, Weber Lab
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan
“Taking a Lens to Defensive Mutualisms”
hTps://lsa.umich.edu/eeb/people/postdoctoral-fellows/marianne-azevedo-silva.html
https://juliaboyle249088957.wordpress.com/
Please contact Dr. Natalie Dove, biology department head, for more information about the events listed or if you would like to list an event of interest to the Biology Department.