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Biology Department Seminar Series
Seminar schedule for the Biology Department
Seminars are held on Fridays at 4pm. For the spring 2026 semester, our seminar series was a hybrid between in-person (ISC 1221) and remote seminars with a mix of invited speakers and informal presentations from current faculty.The schedule can be found below.
Stay tuned for the fall 2026 seminar series.
Spring 2026 Seminars
W&M Department of Biology
Location: ISC 1221
Contact the listed faculty host [in brackets] for more information or to meet with the speaker.
- Feb. 6 [Murphy]
"Will climate change bring new infectious disease?" 1pm, ISC 1127 - Feb. 13 Geoff Zahn (W&M Applied Science) [Leu]
Building a better holobiont: toward reproducibility in microbiome coalescence - Feb. 20 [Leu]
Why don't the best competitors win? Tailocins and the limits of competitive
dominance - Feb. 27 No Seminar – Space Available!
- Mar. 6, 13 SPRING BREAK
- Mar. 20 [Forsyth]
Pixels and Probes: A tour through digital and molecular pathology - Mar. 27 [Scheerer]
WALKING FISH & THE ROLE OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS IN THE AGE OF GENOMICS - Apr. 3 ) [Chambers]
Ecological remote sensing research in progress - African savannas - Apr. 10 [Nesbitt]
From baboons to birds: behavioral influences on long-term microbiome dynamics - Apr. 17 [Forsyth]
Understanding mechanisms and repurposing drugs for skeletal dysplasias - Tuesday, April 21st at 4:00PM in ISC 1221 [Allen] Using functional genomics to explore the evolution and ecology of cnidarian venom systems-Mangum Lecture
For more information, contact Dr. Kurt Williamson.