Spring 2025 Biology Colloquium Schedule

  • Time: Fridays, 3-4 p.m.
  • Location: Olsen Hall Room 503

DateSpeaker and Topic
January 24Peter Gaines, Department Chair, UMass Lowell
Meeting with Graduate Students
January 31Asma Mesbahi (Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) / Harvard Medical School)
"Focal Adhesion Kinase and Aquaporin 2 trafficking"
February 7Andreas Bergmann (UMass Medical School)
"About Compensatory Proliferation and "Undead" Cells"
February 14Vicki Losick (Boston College)
"Wound-induced polyploidization: an adaptive healing strategy"
February 21Kate Woronowicz (Harvard Boston Children's)
"Uncovering the foundations of craniofacial proportion"
February 28Todd Dowery (Boston University)
"Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSC) based modeling of resiliency"
March 7Ruth Johnson (Wesleyan University) "Epithelial polarity and tissue patterning"
March 21
Alex Moffett (Northeastern University)
"Genetic context and the fate of duplicated genes"
March 28Andrea Martinez Unzulea (Harvard University)
"Microbiomes"
April 4Steven William Award Presentation
April 11Applied Biology Presentation
April 18Departmental Awards Ceremony
April 25Monday Class Schedule - No Colloquium