The Department of Biology’s Seminar Series features a diverse group of national and international scientists in the fields of Cell and Molecular Biology, Physiology, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Seminars are held on Mondays from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm (unless noted otherwise below).

Join Zoom Meeting: March 20th. Biology Seminar @ 12:30 pm:
https://yorku.zoom.us/j/97182848525?pwd=cGZkdk9MMzBoM0RHMlpHaDk4RXRFQT09
Meeting ID: 971 8284 8525
Passcode: 545524
Winter 2023 Seminar Schedule
DATE | HOST | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
---|---|---|---|
January 23 | Dr. Bridget Stutchbury | Dr. Lila Ma, York University | On the neural basis of behavioral flexibility |
January 30 | Dr. Chun Peng | Dr. Stephen Renaud, University of Western Ontario | Young at heart: OVO-like transcription factors and the placenta-heart axis |
February 20 *Family Day - no seminar* | - | - | - |
February 27 | Dr. Sapna Sharma | Dr. Joshua Culpepper, York University | The Response of Mountain Lakes to Environmental Change |
March 20 | Dr. Kathi Hudak | Dr. Gabriel Krivdova, University of Toronto | Elucidating the Functional Roles of microRNAs in Human Hematopoiesis and Leukemia |
Fall 2022 Seminar Schedule
DATE | HOST | SPEAKER | TOPIC |
---|---|---|---|
October 17 | Dr. Satinder Brar | Dr. Horváth, University of Boras | Anaerobic digestion - biochemical routes ? |
October 24 | Dr. Andy White | Dr. Beth Nicholson, University of Toronto | Mobile element integration reveals a chromosome dimer resolution system in the human pathogen Legionella pneumophila |
October 31 | Dr. Bridget Stutchbury | Dr. Shooka Karimpour, York University | Modeling the hydrodynamics of two-phase flows: application to microplastics and bubbly flows |
November 7 | Dr. Dasantila-Golemi Kotra | Dr. Santiago Ramón-Maiques, Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia | Structural biomedicine: nuts and bolts of molecular machines |
November 21 | Dr. Chun Peng | Dr. Zhengping Jia, University of Toronto | Molecular mechanisms of synaptic plasticity in health and disease |
November 28 | Dr. Jeffrey Schall | Dr. Patrick Cavanagh, York University | Illusions of position and art that reveal how the brain works |
