Previous Seminars
A searchable table with our previous seminars. If there is a seminar video available, click the link (external link, YouTube). To find seminars available on YouTube, type “watch” into the search bar below. Click on the name of the presenter for more information (external link).
| Speaker | Institution | Date | Topic | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Funston | Royal Ontario Museum | 2024 11/22 | Mammal & Dinosaur Phylogenies | 2024 Fall |
| Ken Catania | Vanderbilt University - Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences | 2024 10/30 | Halloween Spooktacular | 2024 Fall |
| Julien Louys | Griffith University | 2024 10/25 | Evolution of Fossil Mammals (Journal Club) | 2024 Fall |
| Anne Yoder | Duke University | 2024 09/25 | Biodiversity in the making: Madagascar’s mouse lemurs reveal surprising mechanisms of cryptic speciation | 2024 Fall |
| Lenn Goodman | Vanderbilt University - Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities | 2024 09/06 | Religion and Evolution (Journal Club) | 2024 Fall |
| Corinne Simonti | AAAS Science | 2024 04/19 | Visiting Alum & Publishing in AAAS | 2024 Spring |
| Sharon Strauss | University of California, Davis | 2024 04/17 | Earth Day | 2024 Spring |
| Carl Bergstrom | University of Washington | 2024 03/06 | J.T. Scopes Lecture - Misinformation in Science | 2024 Spring |
| Matthew Pennell | University of Southern California | 2024 03/01 | Visiting Researcher | 2024 Spring |
| Neil Shubin | University of Chicago | 2024 02/07 | Darwin Day | 2024 Spring |
| Anne Stone | Arizona State University | 2023 12/06 | TB and leprosy: insights into the evolutionary history of past (and present) mycobacterial pathogens using ancient DNA (Trainee-Invited Speaker) | 2023 Fall |
| Eyal Privman | University of Haifa | 2023 11/29 | Global Scholars in Residence Visitor (Journal Club) | 2023 Fall |
| Nikos Vakirlis | Alexander Fleming BSRC | 2023 11/10 | De novo yeast genes | 2023 Fall |
| Neil Kelley | Vanderbilt University | 2023 10/27 | It Came from Beneath The Sea: Fossil Sea Monster Facts and Fictions (Journal Club) | 2023 Fall |
| Prosanta Charkrabarty; Scott Egan; Jen Mandel | Louisiana State University; Rice University; University of Memphis | 2023 10/19 | ESI Retreat | 2023 Fall |
| Peter and Rosemary Grant | Princeton University | 2023 10/04 | Biodiversity Day: Biodiversity and the Evolution of Darwin’s Finches | 2023 Fall |
| Liz Barnes | MTSU | 2023 09/08 | Building Religious Cultural Competence for Effective and Inclusive Evolution Education | 2023 Fall |
| Gustavo Goldman | Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo | 2023 06/20 | Signal transduction in the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus (Global Scholars in Residence Visitor) | 2023 Summer |
| Graham Slater (Earth Day) | University of Chicago | 2023 04/19 | Predicting multivariate ecology of fossil taxa from morphological data | 2023 Spring |
| Owen Jones | Vanderbilt University | 2023 04/10 | An evolutionary approach to studying cognitive bias in humans and other primates (BSCI Seminar) | 2023 Spring |
| Scott Edwards (J.T. Scopes Lecture) | Harvard University | 2023 03/29 | Exploring bird diversity through genomics, museums and a two-wheeled cross-country adventure | 2023 Spring |
| Joan Strassman | Washington University in St. Louis | 2023 02/24 | Microbial experimental evolution: social behavior, mutualism, and predator-prey interactions | 2023 Spring |
| Richard Lenski (Darwin Day) | Michigan State University | 2023 02/08 | Time travel in experimental evolution | 2023 Spring |
| Trisha Wittkopp | University of Michigan | 2023 01/25 | Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression | 2023 Spring |
| Charles Smith | Western Kentucky University | 2023 01/20 | The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace | 2023 Spring |
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