Colloquium

Name

Affiliation

Talk title

Jennifer Alexander

University of Pennsylvania

Balancing cellular repair and regeneration in aging and disease

Erika Bach

New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine

Stem cell competition and aging: lessons from the Drosophila testis

Merry Camhi

Wildlife Conservation Society

Sharks and we: Safely sharing the sea

Shana M Caro

Adelphi University

How birds think: Real-world complexity and consequences shape decision making in wild birds

Kerin Claeson

Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

From sabers to spikes: Giant extinct salmon and the weapons they wield

Cagney Coomer

University of Michigan

Decoding neural connections: advances in transsynaptic tracing using zebrafish

Allison Edgar

New Jersey Institute of Technology

The more things change: the ctenophore Mnemiopsis and the evolution of animal life histories

Daniel Friedman

Active Inference Institute

Inference about foraging & foraging as inference

Meredith Gore

University of Maryland College Park

Exploring conservation crime in the context of global environmental change

Kirsty Graham

Hunter College

Every body communicates: Ape gestures, display, and posture

Kris Gunsalus

NYU

Two short stories: Genome evolution and parthenogenesis / New approaches to combat parasitic nematodes

Mark Hauber

CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)

The neural basis of species recognition in brood parasitic birds and their hosts

Ye He

CUNY-ASRC

MALDI mass spectrometry imaging: spatial metabolomics for neuroscience research and beyond

Valerie Horsley

Yale University

Cellular communication in tissue repair

Claudia Igler

University of Manchester

Exploring the biophysical constraints of gene regulatory design

Margaret Macneil

York College

Targeting Mitochondria to Protect Vision: HDAP2 and Neuroprotection in a Mouse Model of Glaucoma

Pratyusha Mandal

Lehman College

Cell death programs, necessary evils of mammalian immunity

Hollie Marshall

University of Leicester

DNA methylation as a driver for genomic adaptation across evolutionary timescales

Hector Mendoza

Loyola University Chicago

Surveying sex determination from the perspective of a binary switch protein

Mark Moffett

Smithsonian Institution

Comfort around strangers: The turning point in human prehistory that made huge societies possible

Monica Mowery

York College

Shifts in species interactions during invasive range expansion

Stephen Redenti

Lehman College

Exosomes released during retinal development and disease

Carsten Schulte

University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

A tour de force through cellular mechanobiology in health and disease

Lesley Weaver

Indiana University

Inter-organ regulation of germline stem cell lineages in Drosophila females

Name

Affiliation

Talk title

Sebastian Alvarado

Queens College

Behavioral and morphological plasticity in an African cichlid, Astatotilapia burtoni

Merry Camhi

Wildlife Conservation Society

Swimming with sharks: realities & misperceptions

Pablo Castillo

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Presynaptic protein synthesis & synaptic plasticity

Yu-Chieh David Chen

New York University (NYU)

Wiring up the brain during development: Coordination and propagation of cell fate choice in neural circuit assembly

Peter Compo

DuPont Ventures

Recognizing natural selection as a dynamical law: key to understanding creativity and evolution in culture

Vanessa Ezenwa

Yale University

Helminth-microbe coinfection: insights from a natural system

Ian Fish

Plum Island Animal Disease Center

FMDV superinfection promotes hybrid progeny viruses

Herminia Gomez

US Department of Agriculture

Federal employment opportunities for bio majors

Anke Kloock

NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Rictor regulates the growth of germline stem cells non-autonomously

Robert Kozol

St. John’s University

Investigating novel behaviors in the blind Mexican cavefish: How evolution shapes neural circuits in a dark and nutrient-poor environment

Melina Giakoumis

American Museum of Natural History

Population genomics ecology & conservation of Asterias sea stars in the North Atlantic

Stephen Gosnell

Baruch College

Environmental & cultural impacts of oyster restoration in New York & next steps

Austin Gray

Virginia Tech

Origin, fate, and impact of microplastics in freshwater ecosystems

Rabindra Mandal

Hunter College

Exploring gut bacteroides in severe malaria anemia: challenges and way forward

Dan McCloskey

College of Staten Island

The calming effect of social behavior in African mole-rats

Néva Meyer

Clark University

Worms do it differently: Dual autonomous and conditional neural specification in annelids

Monte Neate-Clegg

University of California Los Angeles

Explaining variation in responses of birds to global change

Elena Paredo

Rochester Institute of Technology

Habitat transitions as drivers of evolution in plants

John Patton

Indiana University Bloomington

Replication of the Rotavirus genome: secrets revealed by reverse genetics

Christopher Rongo

Rutgers University

Using C. elegans to understand the role of mitochondria in aging

Jennifer Salerno,

George Mason University

Mark Stoeckle

Rockefeller University

Mid-Atlantic fishing with environmental DNA (eDNA): successes and challenges

Mariana Torrente

Brooklyn College

New targets in neurodegenerative disease: focus on histone post-translational modifications

Monica Trujillo

Queensborough Community College

Elucidating the biology of bacterial lifestyles using continuous cultures

Lei Xie

Hunter College

Omics, AI, and systems medicine

Name

Affiliation

Talk title

Nihal Altan-Bonnet

National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute

What viruses do to infect you!

Betty Diamond

Northwell Health

A panel discussion of pathways to biomedical research

Eleonora Gianti

Queens College

Biomedical discovery enabled by molecular simulation and computer-aided drug design

Ruben Gonzalez

Columbia University

From fluctuations to function: The role of dynamics in the mechanism and regulation of translation

Marcelo Magnasco

Rockefeller University

Animal cognition: dolphins and octopuses

Arnaud Martin

George Washington University

Genetic evolution caught on the wing of butterflies

Xue Mei

St. John’s University

The molecular basis of sperm-egg interactions in C. elegans

Jeff Podos

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Ecological speciation in Galapagos finches

Juergen Polle

Brooklyn College

Exploring microalgal metabolism: from primary to secondary metabolism

Douglas Portman

University of Rochester

Food vs. Sex: Dynamic modulation of neural circuits and behavior in C. elegans

Mansi Srivastava

Harvard University

The mechanisms and evolution of regeneration

Jessica Ware

American Museum of Natural History

Insect molecular and morphological evolution: insights on dragonflies

Christine Wilkinson

University of California, Berkeley

Harnessing interdisciplinarity for human-carnivore coexistence

Name

Affiliation

Talk title

Irina Arkhipova

University of Chicago, Marine Biological Laboratory

Bacterial N4-methylcytosine as an epigenetic mark in eukaryotic DNA

James Carlton

Williams College

The Age of Invasions meets Age of Plastics: How tsunamis, megarafting, coastal development & climate change may be related

Lauren Chapman

McGill University

Hypoxia in a warming world: fish response to environmental stressors in African inland waters

Elizabeth Clare

York University

Environmental DNA in the air – cutting edge tools for biodiversity science

Joanna Coleman

Queens College

Bat conservation – where are we and where do we go from here?

Peter Djikstra

Central Michigan University

Filial cannibalism and managing the oxidative cost of reproduction in a mouthbrooding cichlid fish

Alexander Dityatev

German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases

Extracellular matrix and neuroplasticity

Deborah Gordon

Stanford University

The ecology of collective behavior

Chris Harvey-Clark

Dalhousie University

North Atlantic trifecta: Greenland shark, torpedo ray & great white shark- new insights into the changing abundance of three large elasmobranch species

Ankur Jain

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

RNA aggregation in neurodegenerative disease

Darcy Kelley

Columbia University

Underwater songs

Svetlana Komarova

McGill University

Purinergic signaling in bone mechanobiology

Peri Kurshnan

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Revisiting the role of cell-adhesion molecules in presynaptic assembly

Eugene Lien

NYC Office of Chief Medical Examiner

Forensic DNA analysis

Douglas Nixon

Weill Cornell

How do exogenous and endogenous viruses interact?

Diana Padilla

Stony Brook University

Lessons learned from the ongoing invasion of the zebra mussel, Dreissena polymorpha

Weigang Qiu

Hunter College

Jenner’s Dilemma and how to win evolutionary arms races against microbial pathogens

Christian Rocheleau

McGill University

C9orf72/SMCR-8 negatively regulates C. elegans EGFR signaling via the Arf6 GTPase

Dustin Rubenstein

Columbia University

Causes and consequences of sociality

Monica Trujillo

Queensborough Community College

SARS-CoV-2 surveillance & evolutionary history through the lens of NYC wastewater

Paul Forlano

Brooklyn College

Dopamine modulates sensitivity of the inner ear for reproductive communication in a vocal fish

Andrew Reinman

CUNY Advanced Sciences Research Center & Hunter College

Interactive effects of forest fragmentation & climate change on forest carbon sequestration

Phillip Staniczenko

Brooklyn College

Predictive community ecology: Putting networks to work

Michael Stokesbury

Acadia University

Movement, migration, & habitat partitioning of western & eastern origin Atlantic bluefin tuna tagged off Port Hood, Nova Scotia

Yaowu Yao

University of Connecticut

Development & evolution of self-organizing pigmentation patterns in monkeyflowers

Soojin Yi

University of California, Santa Barbara

Evolution of human brain: Cells, DNA methylation & gene expression

Name

Affiliation

Talk title

Clarice Aiello

University of California (UC) Los Angeles

From nanotech to living sensors: Unraveling the spin physics of biosensing at the nanoscale

Erol Akçay

University of Pennsylvania

Daniel Bernard

McGill University

Stephane Boissinot

New York University (NYU), Abu Dhabi

Ten years of research in Ethiopia: Adaptations to high elevation in frogs & other stories

Molly Cummings

University of Texas Austin

Testing how social complexity and conflict lead to developmental differences in behavioral syndromes and social cognition in swordtail fishes

Pilar Domingo-Calap

University of Valencia

Epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater

Collin Ewald

ETH Zurich

Mechanotransduction coordinates inter-tissue extracellular matrix protein homeostasis promoting longevity in C. elegans

Jessica Feldman

Stanford University

Stanley Gehrt

Ohio State University

Extreme urban ecology of an apex predator: Coyotes in Chicago

Terry Hebert

McGill University

Tracking GPCR signaling- from the single cell to the living brain?

David Held

Auburn University

Ecological considerations for the management of crape myrtle bark scale

Lydia Joubert

Stanford University

Marcella Kelly

Virginia Tech University

An ecologist’s path toward studying carnivore co-existence across ecosystems

Jason Knouft

St. Louis University

Climate change, hydrology, & freshwater fishes

Lesley MacNeill

McMaster University

Cuticle collagen expression is regulated in response to environmental stimuli by the GATA transcription factor ELT-3 in Caenorhabditis elegans

George Pess

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration

Ecosystem response to the removal of the elwha river dams

Dominique Pritched

Howard University

Circuit mechanisms for associative learning in the cerebellum

Stacy Rosenbaum

University of Michigan

The relationships among early life experiences, social bonds, & adult health in wild savannah baboons

Joshua Rosenthal

University of Chicago, Marine Biological Laboratory

Rewriting the cephalopod neural transcriptome by editing mRNAs

Juan Santos

St. John’s University

Evolution, ecophysiology and bioinformatics: Complex phenotypes, transcriptomics & biodiversity of amphibians and lizards in a changing world

Philippe Séguéla

McGill University

Functional interrogation of genetically-defined sensory neurons in pain and itch pathways

Kenneth B Storey

Carleton University

Living dead: Metabolic arrest and the control of biological time

David Wagner

David Wagner

Insect decline in the Anthropocene

Isaac Wirgin

NYU Langone Medical Center

Evolutionary responses of urban fishes to toxicant exposure

Deborah Yelon

University of California, San Diego

Molecular mechanisms regulating cardiac architecture in zebrafish

Mason Youngblood

Max Planck Institute

Ji Zhang

McGill University

Inflammation and chronic pain