The Department of Biology’s annual seminar series brings world-renown researchers in all fields of biology to campus to interact with students and faculty and deliver a lecture.

Upcoming seminars

The influence of environmental stress, reproductive mode, and ploidy variation on life-history trait expression of an invasive snail promotional image

The influence of environmental stress, reproductive mode, and ploidy variation on life-history trait expression of an invasive snail

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 8:00am
Virtual
Briante Najev, a PhD candidate in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program, will be defending her dissertation on Tuesday, April 8, at 8:00am CDT in Room 158, Van Allen Hall (VAN), and via Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/94601487888?pwd=mqI2mMNZlGDQzOyUipLbLKSImQtHE5.1 (Meeting ID: 946 0148 7888; Passcode: bio). Briante’s mentors are Maurine Neiman, Professor of Biology; and Amy Krist, Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology and Physiology at the University of Wyoming. The seminar...

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Workshop: Nathan Mohar, Wallrath Lab

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Medical Education Research Facility
Nathan Mohar, Wallrath Laboratory PhD Candidate, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Genetics

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series - Priya Issuree, PhD

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building
Functional analysis of human orofacial clefting genes in Xenopus laevis promotional image

Functional analysis of human orofacial clefting genes in Xenopus laevis

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 1:00pm
Virtual
Sydney Arlis, a PhD candidate in the Integrated Biology (iBio) Graduate Program, will be defending her dissertation on Wednesday, April 9, at 1:00pm CDT in Room 106, Biology Building East (BBE), and via Zoom: https://uiowa.zoom.us/j/96257458746?pwd=2mfYbZb1MMKlRV9GusVrzV4PlpzOu0.1 (Meeting ID: 962 5745 8746; Passcode: 614928). Sydney's mentor is John Manak, Professor of Biology. The seminar is open to the public to attend.

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series - Joe Craft, MD

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Sara Stahley promotional image

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Sara Stahley

Thursday, April 17, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility
This event is open to the public. Cadherin regulation of planar cell polarity in the mammalian epidermis Sara Stahley, PhD Assistant Professor of Dermatology and of Cellular and Molecular Physiology Pennsylvania State University Cancer Institute Stahley Lab | https://sites.psu.edu/stahleylab/

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Workshop: Dr. Miles Pufall

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 12:30pm to 1:20pm
Medical Education Research Facility
Miles Pufall, PhD Associate Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series - Allison Didychuk, PhD

Tuesday, April 22, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series - Daphne Avgousti, PhD

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Kara Davis

Thursday, May 1, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility
This event is open to the public. Understanding Cellular Predictors of Relapse in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Kara Davis, PhD Stanford University

Department of Microbiology and Immunology Seminar Series - Andrew Bowman, DVM, PhD

Tuesday, May 6, 2025 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Bowen Science Building

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Douglas Kojetin

Thursday, May 8, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility
This event is open to the public. TBA Douglas Kojetin, PhD Vanderbilt University

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Patrick Oakes

Thursday, September 4, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility
This event is open to the public. TBA Patrick Oakes, PhD Loyola University Chicago

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Brad Webb

Thursday, October 9, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility
This event is open to the public.TBABradley Webb, PhDWest Virginia University Health Sciences Center

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Seminar: Dr. Shelley Minteer

Thursday, October 23, 2025 10:30am to 11:20am
Medical Education Research Facility
This event is open to the public. TBA Shelley Minteer, PhD Missouri University of Science and Technology
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