{"id":10428,"date":"2022-03-21T12:44:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T16:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.4.100.129\/academics\/bio\/?page_id=10428"},"modified":"2026-08-28T11:46:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:46:16","slug":"colloquium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/bio\/colloquium\/","title":{"rendered":"Colloquium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;16px|||||&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][dsm_text_divider header=&#8221;Colloquium&#8221; text_alignment=&#8221;left&#8221; color=&#8221;#E71939&#8243; divider_position=&#8221;flex-end&#8221; divider_weight=&#8221;5px&#8221; admin_label=&#8221;Title = Colloquium&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.16&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; header_font=&#8221;Open Sans|600|||||||&#8221; header_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; header_font_size=&#8221;30px&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;][\/dsm_text_divider][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;intro text&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.4&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Open Sans||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Open Sans|600|||on||||&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|||||&#8221; text_orientation_tablet=&#8221;left&#8221; text_orientation_phone=&#8221;&#8221; text_orientation_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>In the regular academic years, we host a weekly colloquium (seminar with Q&amp;A by an invited speaker). Colloquia are <strong>Wednesdays<\/strong>, starting at <strong>11.10am <\/strong>in <strong>Room D139 <\/strong>in the <strong>Science Building<\/strong>. Weekly colloquium announcements are distributed to the BioAll listserv; to be added to this email list, please email <a href=\"mailto:joanna.coleman@qc.cuny.com\">Dr Joanna Coleman<\/a>. Please direct other related queries to Profs <a href=\"mailto:cathy.savagedunn@qc.cuny.edu\">Cathy Savage-Dunn<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:john.waldman@qc.cuny.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Waldman<\/a>, who run the series in the Fall and Spring semesters, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;schedule&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; text_font=&#8221;Open Sans||||||||&#8221; text_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; header_4_font=&#8221;Open Sans|600|||on||||&#8221; header_4_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; text_orientation_tablet=&#8221;left&#8221; text_orientation_phone=&#8221;&#8221; text_orientation_last_edited=&#8221;on|phone&#8221; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/bio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/317\/2026\/08\/Biology-Colloquium-Fall-2026.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12315\">Biology Colloquium Fall 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_accordion open_toggle_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; open_toggle_background_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; closed_toggle_background_color=&#8221;#FFFFFF&#8221; icon_color=&#8221;#E71939&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;Past colloquia&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; toggle_text_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243; toggle_font=&#8221;Open Sans|600|||||||&#8221; toggle_font_size=&#8221;18px&#8221; body_font=&#8221;Open Sans||||||||&#8221; body_font_size=&#8221;16px&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; border_color_all=&#8221;#000000&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_accordion_item title=&#8221;Departmental colloquia in the past five years&#8221; open=&#8221;on&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.27.7&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; global_colors_info=&#8221;{}&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Info on older colloquia are available upon request; please email Dr Joanna Coleman, our <a href=\"mailto:joanna.coleman@qc.cuny.edu\">Webmaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2026 COLLOQUIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 576px;border-style: solid;width: 900px\" width=\"945\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px\">\n<td style=\"height: 28px;width: 137px\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 28px;width: 172px\"><strong>Affiliation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 28px;width: 591px\"><strong>Talk title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 137px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Maureen Barr<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Rutgers University<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Cilia, extracellular vesicles, modeling human disease in <\/span><em><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">C elegans<\/span><\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 137px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Gerald Carter<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Princeton University<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Cooperative relationships in vampire bats<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 137px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Rafael D\u2019Andrea<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Stony Brook University<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Species interactions as drivers of coexistence &amp; ecosystem function: Case studies from plant &amp; microbial communities<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 137px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Carolyn Hall<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Freelance <\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Finding connection through science communication<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 137px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Saille Caia Murray<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Queens College<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Library research in the age of AI<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 137px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Emily Sessa<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">The New York Botanical Garden<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">From spores to forests: Climate change and the hidden life of ferns<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 137px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Joshua Shaevitz<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Princeton University<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Steps, states, and structure: From movement to meaning in animal behavior<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 23px\">\n<td style=\"width: 137px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Oliver Shipley<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Stony Brook University<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px;height: 23px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Don&#8217;t discard old samples! Forty years of the Hudson River food web using biological collections of striped bass scales<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 10px\">\n<td style=\"width: 137px;height: 10px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Tinatin Tkemaladze<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px;height: 10px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Tbilisi University<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px;height: 10px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Orchestrating genetics and epigenetics from a clinical perspective: Lessons from Rubinstein Taybi &amp; Cornelia de Lange Syndromes<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Katie Turo<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Fordham University<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Forest bees: High value pollinators in overlooked habitats<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Deepika Vasudevan<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">University of Pittsburgh<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Understanding the role of stress response signaling in homeostatic fat tissue function<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 137px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Chester Zarnoch<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 172px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Baruch College<\/span><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 591px\"><span class=\"a_GcMg font-feature-liga-off font-feature-clig-off font-feature-calt-off text-decoration-none text-strikethrough-none\">Importance of species interactions within Nature-based solutions for water quality &amp; coastal resilience<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>2025 COLLOQUIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 1568px;border-style: solid;width: 945px\" width=\"945\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 28px\">\n<td style=\"height: 28px;width: 139.473px\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 28px;width: 176.934px\"><strong>Affiliation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 28px;width: 607.617px\"><strong>Talk title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Jennifer Alexander<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">University of Pennsylvania<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Balancing cellular repair and regeneration in aging and disease<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 99px\">\n<td style=\"height: 99px;width: 139.473px\">Erika Bach<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 99px;width: 176.934px\">New York University (NYU) Grossman School of Medicine<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 99px;width: 607.617px\">Stem cell competition and aging: lessons from the <em>Drosophila <\/em>testis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px\">\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 139.473px\">Merry Camhi<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 176.934px\">Wildlife Conservation Society<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 607.617px\">Sharks and we: Safely sharing the sea<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Shana M Caro<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">Adelphi University<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">How birds think: Real-world complexity and consequences shape decision making in wild birds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px\">\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 139.473px\">Kerin Claeson<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 176.934px\">Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 607.617px\">From sabers to spikes: Giant extinct salmon and the weapons they wield<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Cagney Coomer<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">University of Michigan<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Decoding neural connections: advances in transsynaptic tracing using zebrafish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px\">\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 139.473px\">Allison Edgar<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 176.934px\">New Jersey Institute of Technology<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 607.617px\">The more things change: the ctenophore <em>Mnemiopsis <\/em>and the evolution of animal life histories<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 103px\">\n<td style=\"height: 103px;width: 139.473px\">Daniel Friedman<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 103px;width: 176.934px\">Active Inference Institute<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 103px;width: 607.617px\">\n<p>Inference about foraging &amp; foraging as inference<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px\">\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 139.473px\">Meredith Gore<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 176.934px\">University of Maryland College Park<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 607.617px\">Exploring conservation crime in the context of global environmental change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Kirsty Graham<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">Hunter College<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Every body communicates: Ape gestures, display, and posture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px\">\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 139.473px\">Kris Gunsalus<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 176.934px\">NYU<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 607.617px\">Two short stories: Genome evolution and parthenogenesis \/ New approaches to combat parasitic nematodes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px\">\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 139.473px\">Mark Hauber<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 176.934px\">CUNY Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC)<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 607.617px\">The neural basis of species recognition in brood parasitic birds and their hosts<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Ye He<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">CUNY-ASRC<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">MALDI mass spectrometry imaging: spatial metabolomics for neuroscience research and beyond<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Valerie Horsley<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">Yale University<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Cellular communication in tissue repair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Claudia Igler<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">University of Manchester<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Exploring the biophysical constraints of gene regulatory design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px\">\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 139.473px\">Margaret Macneil<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 176.934px\">York College<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 607.617px\">Targeting Mitochondria to Protect Vision: HDAP2 and Neuroprotection in a Mouse Model of Glaucoma<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Pratyusha Mandal<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">Lehman College<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Cell death programs, necessary evils of mammalian immunity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Hollie Marshall<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">University of Leicester<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">DNA methylation as a driver for genomic adaptation across evolutionary timescales<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Hector Mendoza<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">Loyola University Chicago<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Surveying sex determination from the perspective of a binary switch protein<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px\">\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 139.473px\">Mark Moffett<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 176.934px\">Smithsonian Institution<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 607.617px\">Comfort around strangers: The turning point in human prehistory that made huge societies possible<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Monica Mowery<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">York College<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Shifts in species interactions during invasive range expansion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Stephen Redenti<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">Lehman College<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Exosomes released during retinal development and disease<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px\">\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 139.473px\">Carsten Schulte<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 176.934px\">University of Strathclyde, Glasgow<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 75px;width: 607.617px\">A tour de force through cellular mechanobiology in health and disease<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 51px\">\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 139.473px\">Lesley Weaver<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 176.934px\">Indiana University<\/td>\n<td style=\"height: 51px;width: 607.617px\">Inter-organ regulation of germline stem cell lineages in <em>Drosophila <\/em>females<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>2024 COLLOQUIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"945\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Affiliation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"624\"><strong>Talk title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Sebastian Alvarado<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Queens College<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Behavioral and morphological plasticity in an African cichlid, <em>Astatotilapia burtoni<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Merry Camhi<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Wildlife Conservation Society<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Swimming with sharks: realities &amp; misperceptions<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Pablo Castillo<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Albert Einstein College of Medicine<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Presynaptic protein synthesis &amp; synaptic plasticity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Yu-Chieh David Chen<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">New York University (NYU)<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Wiring up the brain during development: Coordination and propagation of cell fate choice in neural circuit assembly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Peter Compo<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">DuPont Ventures<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Recognizing natural selection as a dynamical law: key to understanding creativity and evolution in culture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Vanessa Ezenwa<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Yale University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Helminth-microbe coinfection: insights from a natural system<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Ian Fish<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Plum Island Animal Disease Center<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">FMDV superinfection promotes hybrid progeny viruses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Herminia Gomez<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">US Department of Agriculture<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Federal employment opportunities for bio majors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Anke Kloock<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">NYU Grossman School of Medicine<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Rictor regulates the growth of germline stem cells non-autonomously<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Robert Kozol<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">St. John\u2019s University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Investigating novel behaviors in the blind Mexican cavefish: How evolution shapes neural circuits in a dark and nutrient-poor environment<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Melina Giakoumis<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">American Museum of Natural History<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Population genomics ecology &amp; conservation of <em>Asterias<\/em> sea stars in the North Atlantic<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Stephen Gosnell<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Baruch College<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Environmental &amp; cultural impacts of oyster restoration in New York &amp; next steps<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Austin Gray<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Virginia Tech<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Origin, fate, and impact of microplastics in freshwater ecosystems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Rabindra Mandal<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Hunter College<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Exploring gut bacteroides in severe malaria anemia: challenges and way forward<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Dan McCloskey<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">College of Staten Island<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">The calming effect of social behavior in African mole-rats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">N\u00e9va Meyer<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Clark University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Worms do it differently: Dual autonomous and conditional neural specification in annelids<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Monte Neate-Clegg<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">University of California Los Angeles<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Explaining variation in responses of birds to global change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Elena Paredo<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Rochester Institute of Technology<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Habitat transitions as drivers of evolution in plants<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">John Patton<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Indiana University Bloomington<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Replication of the Rotavirus genome: secrets revealed by reverse genetics<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Christopher Rongo<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Rutgers University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Using<em> C. elegans<\/em> to understand the role of mitochondria in aging<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Jennifer Salerno,<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">George Mason University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Mark Stoeckle<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Rockefeller University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Mid-Atlantic fishing with environmental DNA (eDNA): successes and challenges<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Mariana Torrente<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Brooklyn College<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">New targets in neurodegenerative disease: focus on histone post-translational modifications<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Monica Trujillo<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Queensborough Community College<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Elucidating the biology of bacterial lifestyles using continuous cultures<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Lei Xie<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Hunter College<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Omics, AI, and systems medicine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>2023 COLLOQUIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"945\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"180\"><strong>Affiliation<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"624\"><strong>Talk title<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Nihal Altan-Bonnet<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">What viruses do to infect you!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Betty Diamond<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Northwell Health<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">A panel discussion of pathways to biomedical research<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Eleonora Gianti<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Queens College<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Biomedical discovery enabled by molecular simulation and computer-aided drug design<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Ruben Gonzalez<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Columbia University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">From fluctuations to function: The role of dynamics in the mechanism and regulation of translation<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Marcelo Magnasco<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Rockefeller University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Animal cognition: dolphins and octopuses<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Arnaud Martin<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">George Washington University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Genetic evolution caught on the wing of butterflies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Xue Mei<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">St. John\u2019s University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">The molecular basis of sperm-egg interactions in <em>C. elegans<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Jeff Podos<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">University of Massachusetts, Amherst<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Ecological speciation in Galapagos finches<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Juergen Polle<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Brooklyn College<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Exploring microalgal metabolism: from primary to secondary metabolism<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Douglas Portman<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">University of Rochester<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Food vs. Sex: Dynamic modulation of neural circuits and behavior in <em>C. elegans<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Mansi Srivastava<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Harvard University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">The mechanisms and evolution of regeneration<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Jessica Ware<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">American Museum of Natural History<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Insect molecular and morphological evolution: insights on dragonflies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Christine Wilkinson<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">University of California, Berkeley<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Harnessing interdisciplinarity for human-carnivore coexistence<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>2022 COLLOQUIA<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"945\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\"><strong>Name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td 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science<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Joanna Coleman<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Queens College<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Bat conservation \u2013 where are we and where do we go from here?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Peter Djikstra<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Central Michigan University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Filial cannibalism and managing the oxidative cost of reproduction in a mouthbrooding cichlid fish<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Alexander Dityatev<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">Extracellular matrix and neuroplasticity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Deborah Gordon<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Stanford University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">The ecology of collective behavior<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"142\">Chris Harvey-Clark<\/td>\n<td width=\"180\">Dalhousie University<\/td>\n<td width=\"624\">North Atlantic trifecta: Greenland shark, torpedo ray &amp; great white shark- new insights 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