Department of Biology Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2025-26
Faculty interested in hosting a seminar should use this Booking Form.
FALL 2025
Seminars take place in CTTC 4440Q at 2:30 p.m. unless otherwise specified.
| Date | Host | Speaker | Institution | Seminar Title | Recording | |||
| September | 5 | No Seminar | ||||||
| 12 | No Seminar | |||||||
| 19 | Hanna Lab | Dr. Rowenna Gryba | Inuit Circumpolar Council (ICC) | Understanding Arctic species through Indigenous Knowledge and animal movement | Recording: Dr. Gryba | |||
| 26 | Hepworth Lab | Dr. Jean-Sebastien Parent | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Naked Oat Laid Bare: The Genetic Underpinnings of Oat Floral Architecture |
This talk will not be recorded. | |||
| October | 3 | Hanna Lab | Dr. Andrew Tanentzap | Ecosystem Health from Molecules to Landscapes | Zoom Link | |||
| 10 | No Seminar | |||||||
| 17 | No Seminar | |||||||
| 24 | No Seminar | |||||||
| 31 | Dr. Karl Loeffler-Henry | Carleton University | Warning signals, deception, and when to bluff: the evolutionary ecology of information exchange between predators and prey | Zoom Link | ||||
| November | 5 | Cooke Lab | Dr. Len Hunt | Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Lakehead University | Using human dimensions research to help understand and reduce uncertainty in natural resource management | NOON on Wednesday Zoom Link |
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| 7 | Dr. Andrea Norris | Environment & Climate Change Canada | Weaving Indigenous science in conservation through healing our connections with the Land | ZOOM LINK | ||||
| 14 | Davy Lab | Dr. Sandra Klemet-N’guessan | University of Waterloo | Tous ensemble: adopting science equity and outreach for transformative impact in environmental sciences | 11 AM | |||
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| December | 5 |
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Dr. Wubishet Bekele | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Pangenomics Informed Cereal Breeding | ZOOM | ||
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| 26 | No Seminar | |||||||
WINTER 2026
Seminars take place in CTTC 4440Q at 2:30 p.m. unless otherwise specified.
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January |
2 | No Seminar | ||||||
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| 23 | Wong Lab |
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Integrating evidence to inform nutrition policy with a side of AI in evidence synthesis | Zoom Link | ||||
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| February | 6 | MacMillan Lab |
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Mechanisms and consequences of flight muscle remodelling in insects | Zoom Link | |||
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| 20 | No Seminar | |||||||
| 27 | Wong Lab |
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| 27 | MacMillan/Cooke Lab |
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| April | 3 | No Seminar | ||||||
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McCully Lecture | ||||||
Have a look at our previous seminars…
Department of Biology Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2024-25
Department of Biology Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2023-24
Department of Biology Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2022-23
Department of Biology Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2020-21
Department of Biology Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2019-20
Department of Biology Seminar Series Fall/Winter 2018-19