Biology Seminar Series

Fall Semester 2026

Fridays at 4 p.m. in Science B 135


Sept. 11	Gitte McDonald, San Jose State University Moss Landing Marine Laboratories	Behavioral and Physiological Responses to Disturbance in a Changing Ocean: Insights from Marine Mammals and Penguins
Sept. 18	Lily Khadempour, Rutgers University-Newark	Honeypot ants as a new model system for studying host-microbe symbiosis and convergent evolution
Oct. 9	Mihai Tomescu, Cal Poly Humboldt	Unassuming plant fossils of great consequence from the "stick world" of the Early Devonian
Oct. 16	Jasper Leavitt, Cal Poly Humboldt	Microbiomes as metacommunities: How much control does a host have over its microbiome?
Oct. 23	Faculty on Parade! Cal Poly Humboldt	Biological Sciences Faculty Feature - Allison Bronson, Karen Kiemnec-Tyburczy, and Pedro Peloso
~~Nov. 6~~	~~Geraldine Busquets, University of New Mexico~~	This talk has been moved to Nov. 13; we will have TWO talks on that day!
Nov. 13 at 4 p.m.	Fran Keller, Folsom Lake College	Trapdoor Spider Density in Two California Coastal Dune Ecosystems and Providing Authentic Learning and Research Experiences for Transfer Students In and Out of the Classroom
Nov. 13 at 12 p.m.	Geraldine Busquets, University of New Mexico	Gray whale ecological responses to environmental change during a prolonged mortality event revealed by baleen stable isotopes
Dec. 4	Grad Students on Parade! Cal Poly Humboldt	TBD
Dec. 11	Caroline Williams, UC Berkeley	Evolutionary physiology of flight in wing polymorphic crickets