Fall 2025 Biology Seminars Series
All seminars are held in Life Sciences 185 from 3 - 4 p.m.
(unless otherwise noted).
September
Friday, September 5th
No Seminar - Chancellor Inauguration
Friday, September 12th
Mitochondrial Ribosome Signaling and Survival Mechanisms in Mitochondrial Disease
- Speaker: Conor Ronayne
- Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry/Pharmacy
- Hosted by: Dr. Jennifer Liang
Friday, September 19th
Faculty Lightning Talks
- Dr. Jennifer Liang - Sharing the Wonder of the Microscopic World: UROP - Project by Sabrina Segar
- Dr. Bill Perry - Going with the Flow: Morphological Plasticity in Rusty Crayfish (Faxonius rusticus) in Different Flow Regimes.
- Dr. Ron Moen - A Population Model for Minnesota's Moose
Friday, September 26th
Climate Change and Invasive Threats: Phenotypic Selection and Hybridization with Non-Native Congeners Among Minnesota’s Rare North Shore Arctic Relict Plants
- Speaker: Ryan Carlson
- Affiliation: IBS Student-Thesis Seminar
- Hosted by: Dr. Briana Gross
October
Friday, October 3rd
What Lakes Do In Winter
- Speaker: Dr. Ted Ozersky
- Affiliation: UMD Department of Biology
- Hosted by: Dr. Allen Mensinger
Friday, October 10th
No Seminar
Friday, October 17th
Skeletal Functional Morphology and Variation in Primates
- Speaker: Dr. Sharon Kuo
- Affiliation: UM Medical School Duluth
- Hosted by: Dr. Clara Shaw
Friday, October 24th
No Seminar
Friday, October 31st
Evaluating Competition Between Newly Sympatric Flying Squirrels (Glaucomys spp.) in Northern Minnesota
- Speaker: Katie Pfaff
- Affiliation: IBS Student-Thesis Seminar
- Hosted by: Dr. Michael Joyce
November
Friday, November 7th
Comparing Environmental Niche Within and Between Sexual and Apomictic Lineages of Myriopteris Feé (Pteridaceae)
- Speaker: Maxwell Botz
- Affiliation: IBS Student-Thesis Seminar
- Hosted by: Dr. Amanda Grusz
Friday, November 14th
Two Flying Squirrel Species Distributions and Habitat Associations Through Time in Minnesota
- Speaker: Anna Peterson
- Affiliation: IBS Student-Thesis Seminar
- Hosted by: Dr. Ron Moen & Dr. Michael Joyce
Friday, November 21st
Graduate Student 5 min Lightning Talks
Friday, November 29th
No Seminar
December
Friday, December 5th
TBD
Friday, December 12th
Fisher (Pekania pennanti) Ecology in an Area of Range Expansion and Recolonization
- Speaker: Adam Mortenson
- Affiliation: IBS Student-Thesis Seminar
- Hosted by: Dr. Ron Moen & Dr. Michael Joyce