Seminar Series Summer 2023 through Spring 2024
We are really excited for our upcoming 
seminars. Unless otherwise indicated, seminars begin at 3:30pm CST. Below is a table of speakers with external links. Recordings will be made available when possible. To join our mailing list for speaker updates and other evolutionary studies content go to this page and follow the instructions for joining. The first table is upcoming talks, the second table is talks that have already occurred. Note: the list below is subject to change and may not be final.
Registration links will be made available up to 1 week in advance of a seminar. Links can be found in the table below, by following us on Twitter, or by subscribing to our Newsletter.
| Speaker | Institution | Date | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gustavo Goldman | Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo | 2023 06/20 | Signal transduction in the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus (Global Scholars in Residence Visitor) |
| Liz Barnes | Middle Tennessee State University | 2023 09/08 | Building Religious Cultural Competence for Effective and Inclusive Evolution Education (Journal Club) |
| Peter and Rosemary Grant | Princeton University | 2023 10/04 | Biodiversity Day: Biodiversity and the Evolution of Darwin’s Finches |
| Prosanta Charkrabarty; Scott Egan; Jen Mandel | Louisiana State University; Rice University; University of Memphis | 2023 10/19 | ESI Retreat |
| Neil Kelley | Vanderbilt University | 2023 10/27 | It Came from Beneath The Sea: Fossil Sea Monster Facts and Fictions (Journal Club) |
| Nikos Vakirlis | Alexander Fleming BSRC | 2023 11/10 | De novo yeast genes |
| Eyal Privman | University of Haifa | 2023 11/29 | Global Scholars in Residence Visitor (Journal Club) |
| Anne Stone | Arizona State University | 2023 12/06 | TB and leprosy: insights into the evolutionary history of past (and present) mycobacterial pathogens using ancient DNA (Trainee-Invited Speaker) |
| Neil Shubin | University of Chicago | 2024 02/07 | Darwin Day |
| Matthew Pennell | University of Southern California | 2024 03/01 | Visiting Researcher |
| Carl Bergstrom | University of Washington | 2024 03/06 | J.T. Scopes Lecture - Misinformation in Science |
| Sharon Strauss | University of California, Davis | 2024 04/17 | Earth Day |
| Corinne Simonti | AAAS Science | 2024 04/19 | Visiting Alum |