Welcome to the PSU Biology Department Lester Newman Seminar Series. Seminars are Fridays from 1:30-2:35 PM in VSC 105 starting September 2026.
Please see this spreadsheet for past and future seminar topics.
Fall 2026
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Host |
|---|
| 10/2/2026 | Luis Ruedas | Portland State University | Evolution of Diversity in Rabbits, Leporidae | Ruedas |
| 10/9/2026 | J. Jeffrey Morris | University of Alabama at Birmingham | Helpers and Haters: Exploring the Social Networks of Marine Cyanobacteria | Thompson |
| 10/16/2026 | Arun Sethuraman | San Diego State University | Forbidden Sex and Sex Forbidden - On Strategies that Shaped Species | Ruedas |
| 10/23/2026 | Judit Pénzes | Texas A&M University | Cryo-EM as a Sequencing-Free Tool to Virus Discovery and Diagnostics | Stedman |
| 10/30/2026 | | | | |
| 11/6/2026 | Tony De Tomaso | University of California Santa Barbara | Transplantation, Regeneration and Parasitic Stem Cells- the Interesting lLife of an Invertebrate Chordate | Buckley |
| 11/13/2026 | Link Olson | University of Alaska—Fairbanks | TBA—Alaska poxviruses | Ruedas |
| 11/20/2026 | Melissa Hawkins | Smithsonian Institution | From Museum Drawers to Genomes: Integrating Museomics, Taxonomy, and Field Sampling to Advance Mammal Biodiversity and Conservation | Ruedas |
| 11/27/2026 | THANKSGIVING NO SEMINAR | | No Seminar | |
| 12/4/2026 | Oscar Sosa | University of Puget Sound | Microbial Networks of Phosphonate Metabolism to Explore the Ecological Role and Cycling of Dissolved Organic Matter in the Ocean | Thompson |