Seminar Series

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).

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

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