HHMI Summer Seminar Series
Summer 2017Seminars begin at 4:00 pm on Wednesdays, and rotate between Mudd, Pomona and Keck campuses.
Thursday, June 1: Opening mixer at Keck.
Wednesday, June 7: Jeff Nessler and Shawn Newcomer Dept. Kinesiology, California State University, San Marcos Title: Science of surfing Location: Burns Lecture Hall, Keck Science Wednesday, June 14: Robert Gunsalus Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics, UCLA Title: Genomic, Proteomic and Structural analysis of the methanogen, Methanospirillum hungatei Location: HMC, Shanahan 1430
Wednesday, June 21: Maria Rivera Dept. of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University Title: The gut microbiome: host genetics and environmental factors Location: Pomona Seaver North auditorium
Wednesday, June 28: Russell Schwartz Depts. of Biological Sciences and Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University Title: Phylogenetic analysis of cell-to-cell variation in tumor evolution Location: HMC, Shanahan 1430
Wednesday, July 5: Paul Sternberg Biology Division, California Institute of Technology Title: Sleep: worms, and jellyfish Location: Pomona Seaver North auditorium
Wednesday, July 12: Heather Brooks Dept. Mathematics, University of Utah Title: How movement creates pattern: Turing mechanisms for intracellular transport. Location: Burns Lecture Hall, Keck Science
Wednesday, July 19: HHMI summer poster session in the Green room at HMC.
Harvey Mudd College Biology Colloquium
Fall 2017Colloquium starts at 4:15 pm on Wednesdays in Big Beckman Auditorium.(Beckman 126, in the basement below the central stairway in the Olin Building) * Indicates a speaker who is part of the consortium-wide Claremont Colleges Distinguished Speaker Series in the Biological Sciences. These talks are held in Shanahan 1430.
Wednesday, September 13: Pamela Ronald* Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center, UC Davis Title: TBA Location: Shanahan 1430
Wednesday, November 8: Cori Bargmann* Department of Neurosciences and Behavior, The Rockefeller University Title: TBA Location: Shanahan 1430
Harvey Mudd College Biology Colloquium
Spring 2018Colloquium starts at 4:15 pm on Wednesdays in Big Beckman Auditorium.(Beckman 126, in the basement below the central stairway in the Olin Building) * indicates a speaker who is part of the consortium-wide Claremont Colleges Distinguished Speaker Series in the Biological Sciences. These talks are held in Shanahan 1430.
Wednesday, February 7: Harmit Malik* Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and HHMI Title: TBA Location: Shanahan 1430
Wednesday, March 28: Drew Harvell* Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University Title: TBA Location: Shanahan 1430
Harvey Mudd College Biology Colloquium
Fall 2016
Colloquium starts at 4:15 pm on Wednesdays* in Big Beckman Auditorium.
(* except where noted)
(Beckman Auditorium is Beckman B126, in the basement opposite the central stairway in the Olin Building)
August 31:
Introduction to senior thesis
September 7:
Biology mixer
September 14:
All about graduate school
September 21:
Dr. Sonia Rowley (Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, University of Hawaii)
Title: "Gorgonian coral responses to environmental change"
September 28:
October 5:
Christina Frieder (Marine and Environmental Biology, USC)
October 12:
October 19:
Senior thesis proposal presentations (Annisa Dea, Deniz Korman, Nga Nguyen)
October 26:
Senior thesis proposal presentations (Aaron Friend, Alice Szeliga, Philip Woods)
November 2:
Erin Wilson-Rankin (Department of Entomology, UC Riverside)"Interactive effects of invasive rats and native Hawaiian birds on arboreal food webs"
November 9:
Prof. Andrew Bean
Departments of Neurobiology & Anatomy and Pediatrics
The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston
"The in’s and out’s of endocytic trafficking"
November 16:
Prof. Hendrik Szurmant
College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific
Western University of Health Sciences
"The Secret Language of Proteins Revealed!"
November 23:
No colloquium--Thanksgiving
November 30:Findley Finseth (Keck Science Department)
"Genomic consequences of genetic conflict in yellow monkeyflowers"
December 7:
Dr. Georgios Tsounis (CSU Northridge)
"Octocoral success in degrading reefs: A case study in St John, US Virgin Islands"
Harvey Mudd College Biology Colloquium
Spring 2017
Colloquium starts at 4:15 pm on Wednesdays* in Big Beckman Auditorium. (* except where noted) (Beckman Auditorium is Beckman 126, in the basement below the central stairway in the Olin Building)
January 18: No colloquium
January 25:2017 Summer Research Opportunities in the Biology Department
February 1:
February 8:
Please attend the Math Department colloquium, same time, Shanahan B460:
Prof. Scott McKinley
Department of Mathematics, Tulane University
Sensing and Decision-Making in Animal Search
February 15: Prof. Rory Spence Keck Joint Science Department February 22: Dr. Hollis Woodard Department of Entomology, UC Riverside "The secret life of (bumble) bees: novel insights into queens across their life cycle"
March 1: Dr. Helen Bermudez Foley Department of Biology, Caltech “Life in the Upper Intertidal: the Stress of Being a Copepod”
March 8: Dr. Brian Duistermars
Department of Biology and Bioengineering, Caltech
March 22:
Please attend Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences Colloquium:
Shanahan B460, 4:15pm (refreshments at 3:45pm)
Prof. Courtney Davis
Assistant Professor of Mathematics
Pepperdine University
"Saving California Newts Two Models at a Time"
March 29: Prof. Audrey Chen
Keck Joint Science Department
April 5:Dr. Andrea Quattrini Department of Biology, Harvey Mudd College
"The Role of Environmental Gradients in Coral Diversity: From Deep Time to the Deep Sea"
April 12:April 19:Cheryl Doughty
Department of Geography, UCLA
"How will mangrove expansion impact coastal wetlands?: A look at carbon storage and coastal protection"
April 26:
Prof. Shana K. Goffredi
Department of Biology, Occidental College
"The Symbiotic Universe Below: Explorations of Life in the Deep Sea"May 1-3: |
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