Biological Sciences Seminars

Wednesday, August 19, 2026

Title: "The Morphogenesis and Differentiation of a Career in Oral Biology"

Speaker: Sarah Peters, Ohio State University

Host: Mindy Larsen

 


 

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Title: "Eavesdropping on Cell Talk: Notch by Notch, When Stem Cells Talk Back"

Speaker: ChangHwan Lee, University at Albany

ChangHwan Lee Seminar

 


 

Thursday, September 3, 2026

Mini Workshop for Interaction and Scientific Collaboration (WISC)

Mini WISC 2026

WISCs are intended to bring faculty, graduate students, post-docs and professional staff together across the Life Sciences disciplines.

 


 

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Title: "Semi-Automated Anti-Epileptic Compound Screening in a Drosophila Model of Dup15q Syndrome"

Speaker: Larry Reiter, Tulane University

Host: Mindy Larsen

 


 

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Title: "Neuronal Underpinnings of Sleep and Sleep Disorders"

Speaker: Irma Rukhade, Albany Medical Center

Host:  Annalisa Scimemi
 


 

Thursday, September 24, 2026

Title: To be announced

Speaker: Ben Cowley, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Host: Max Turner

 


 

Thursday, October 8, 2026

Title: To be announced

Speaker: Sweta Vangaveti, University at Albany

 


 

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Title: "Large-Scale Mechanistic Models of Brain Circuits with Biophysically and Morphologically Detailed Neurons"

Speaker: Salvador Dura Bernal, SUNY Downstate

Host:  Annalisa Scimemi

 


 

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Title: "Gene Silencing Mechanicsms Safeguarding Cell Fate"

Speaker: Jongmin Kim, Cornell University

Host:  ChangHwan Lee

 


 

Thursday, November 5, 2026

Title: TBD

Speaker: Brian Cunniff, University of Vermont

Host: Benoit Boivin

 


 

Thursday, November 19, 2026

Title: To be announced

Speaker: Brian Daniels, Rutgers University

Host: Sharon Shaughnessy

 


 

Thursday, December 3, 2026

Title: To be announced

Speaker:  Lluis Ribas, IRB Barcelona

Host: Thomas Begley

 


 

Thursday, December 17, 2026

Title: To be announced

Speaker:  Alicia Mendoza

 


 

Thursday, January 28, 2027

Title: To be announced

Speaker:  Cheryl Andam

 


 

Thursday, March 25, 2027

Title: To be announced

Speaker:  Dae-Kyum Kim, McGill University