SOLS Seminar Series
The School of Life Sciences Seminar Series is a weekly opportunity to hear from our own faculty as they share their latest research, ideas and expertise. Each Friday, two different SOLS faculty members will present a talk highlighting their work and its broader impact in the life sciences. Please refer below for the upcoming speakers.
Fall 2026
Speakers
| Aug. 14, 2026 | Arianne Cease, Christos Katsanos, Miyeko Mana |
| Aug. 28, 2026 | Noah Snyder-Mackler, Why We Age Differently Jon Harrison, How Insects Breathe |
| Sept. 4, 2026 | NO SEMINAR: Holiday weekend |
| Sept. 11, 2026 | Candace Lewis, Shaping Mental Health Across the Lifespan: From Early Adversity to Neuroplastogens Yize Li, The A- and Z- Form Double Stranded RNA Stimulated Innate Immune Response and Cell Death |
| Sept. 18, 2026 | Leah Gerber, Understanding Pathways of Knowledge to Action in Biodiversity Conservation Krijn Paaijmans, Bridging Ecology, Engineering, and Public Health to Improve Mosquito-Borne Disease Control |
| Sept. 25, 2026 | Stephen Pratt, Collective Cognition in Insect Societies Ian Hogue, The Ins and Outs of Herpesviruses in the Nervous System |
| Oct. 2, 2026 | Angelia Seyfferth, Wim Vermaas |
| Oct. 9, 2026 | NO SEMINAR: Fall break |
| Oct. 16, 2026 | Adrian Fisher, Jui-Heng Tseng, The Many Faces of Tau: From Neuronal Function to Neurodegeneration |
| Oct. 23, 2026 | Arvind Varsani, Sylvie Huijben, Managing Insecticide Resistance in Mosquitos |
| Oct. 30, 2026 | Masmudur Rahman, Jeffrey Kordower |
| Nov. 6, 2026 | Ted Pavlic, Cheryl Nickerson |
| Nov. 13, 2026 | Emilia Martins, When Signals Shift: Multimodal Communication and Sensory Ecology in a Changing World Doug Lake, Bringing a New Valley Fever Test from Bench to Bedside |
| Nov. 20, 2026 | Yixin Shi, Esther Borges Florsheim |
| Nov. 27, 2026 | NO SEMINAR: Holiday weekend |
Details
SOLS Seminars take place in LSE 104 on Fridays at 2 p.m.
For more information on upcoming talks, visit our events page.