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The Department of Biology sponsors a weekly seminar series during the Fall and Spring semesters. Seminars are held each Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. in Biological Sciences Building East (BSBE), room 115. In addition to this weekly seminar series, the department hosts the Walker Endowed Lectureship. If you would like to be added to our weekly seminar e-mail reminder, please send your name and e-mail address to McKensie Le Fevre at mlefevre@bio.tamu.edu.

 

Biology Seminar Series

Emily and Robert Walker ’45 Lectureship in Biology

Originally formed as the Frontiers in Biology lecture series, the Departmental lectureship was established in 1984 as a mechanism to attract prominent scientists to Texas A&M University for an extended visit with our faculty and students. This program of formal seminars and relaxed one-on-one interactions has enabled faculty and students from our department as well as other departments on campus to hear first-hand about the forefront of biological research from the leading figures of various biological disciplines. In 2009, the Frontiers in Biology Lecture became the Emily and Robert Walker ’45 Endowed Lectureship in Biology.

 

Current Seminars

Fall 2024

Date Name Institution Title Host
8/20/2024 Angela Mitchell Department of Biology, Texas A&M University TBD Joe Sorg
8/27/2024 Daniel Paredes-Sabja Department of Biology, Texas A&M University TBD Joe Sorg
9/3/2024 Merilyn Beebe & Amy Tan Department of Biology, Texas A&M University TBD BioGSA
9/10/2024 M. Celestee Simon Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine TBD Tapasree Roy Sarkar
9/17/2024 Michael C. Abt Department of Microbiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania TBD Daniel Paredes-Sabja
9/24/2024 Kerwyn C Huang Departments of Bioengineering and Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University TBD Angela Mitchell
10/1/2024 Jen Dulin Department of Biology, Texas A&M University TBD Deshna Shah
10/8/2024 Fall Break      
10/15/2024 Svasti Haricharan Department of Biology, San Diego State University TBD Shogo Sato
10/22/2024 Beth Archie Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame TBD Courtney Fitzptrick
10/29/2024 Wenshe Liu Departments of Chemistry, Translational Medical Sciences, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Cell Biology & Genetics, and Pharmaceutical Sciences, TAMU TBD Deb Bell-Pedersen
11/5/2024 Anita Devineni Department of Biology, Emory University TBD Alex Keene
11/12/2024 Jeremy Rock David Rockefeller Graduate Program, Rockefeller University TBD Joe Sorg
11/19/2024 Harold Sontheimer Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia TBD Isabella Farhy-Tselnicker
11/26/2024 Jeffrey M Gross Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Texas at Austin TBD Jennifer Dulin

 

Previous Seminars

 

Faculty Chalk Talks

Where and When: The 3rd Friday of the month at 3:30 pm in Butler 103

Purpose: These talks are meant to be informal chalk talks covering what you are working on, what you are thinking about, what you plan to work on, etc. in order to get constructive feedback on your ideas. Everyone is responsible for finding an alternate speaker if you cannot talk on your scheduled date.

2021/2022 Chalk Talk Roster
Sept 24: Aref Zarin
Oct 15: Rene Garcia
Nov 19: Liz Brown (Keene Lab)
Dec 17: Deb Bell-Pedersen
Jan 21: Courtney Fitzpatrick
Feb 18: Angela Mitchell
March18 Jim Erickson
April 15: Ben Neuman
May 20: Tapasree Sarkar