Lester Newman Seminar Series

Welcome to the PSU Biology Department Lester Newman Seminar Series. Seminars are Mondays 4-5pm in SRTC Room 247.

Please see this spreadsheet for past and future seminar topics.

DateSpeakerInstitutionTitleHost

9/30/2024

Andrew Niesley Black

Purdue & Oregon State

Leveraging genomics in conservation: A cocktail of animal case studies

Ruedas

10/7/2024

Brittany Barker

Oregon State University

Monitoring pests, their crop hosts, and their natural enemies

Cruzan

10/14/2024

Tyler Coale

UC Santa Cruz

Beyond Symbiosis: Reframing Of The UCYN-A Marine N2-fixing Partnership

Thompson

10/21/2024

Marek Boroviec

Colorado State University

Using deep learning to study biodiversity

Kautz

10/28/2024

 

 

 

 

11/4/2024

Anderson Feijo

Field Museum

The build-up of Asian mammal faunas

Ruedas

11/11/2024

VETERAN'S DAY

UNIVERSITY CLOSED

 

 

11/18/2024

Todd Gillis 

University of Guelph

Cardiac remodeling in fish: strategies to maintain heart function during temperature change

 

11/25/2024

Scott Gilbert

Streeling University at Swarthmore College

We never were individuals:
Symbiosis and holobiont development

Podrabsky

12/2/2024

Brian Kraatz

Western University of Health Sciences

Evolutionary morphology of the rabbit skull

Ruedas