Spring 2025 Seminars

Our seminars are held Mondays from 12:00 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. in the Trani Center for Life Sciences, room 0253 or 0151. ALL students, faculty, and biology fans are welcome!

Date	Room	Speaker	Topic
2/10	Trani 253	Karen Barnard-Kubow (James Madison University)	Exploring plant speciation and aquatic community ecology through sequencing in the classroom.
2/17	Trani 253	Kelly McDonald (California State University, Sacramento)	Getting SiRIUS about STEM Education Reform: Transforming Learning Through Course-Based Undergraduate Research Experience
2/24	Trani 253	Xandra Evans (U.S. Geological Survey)	Remote Sensing for Coastal Resources and Landscape Change
3/3	Trani 151	Maj. Molly Kent (Virginia Military Institute Center for Undergraduate Research)	TBD
3/17	Trani 253	Meredith Palmer (Conservation Scientist, Yale University)	Conservation technology: Emerging tools to monitor biodiversity at scale
3/24	Trani 253	Salvator Agosta (VCU Center for Environmental Studies)	The Persistent Biosphere, and What it Means for Parasites and Emerging Disease in a Period of Global Change
3/31	Trani 151	Emily Van Syoc (Penn State)	The Fungus Among Us: How evolution and host genetics influence the human gut fungal microbiome
4/7	Trani 253	Pricilla Erickson (University of Richmond)	TBD