Seminar Series – Spring 2026
| Date | Time | Where | Speaker, Title, and Host/Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mon, Jan 5 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Erin Wiese, SBS Pullman, PhD Exit Seminar Temperature and genetic effects on Oncorhynchus mykiss physiology Host: Dr. Pat Carter |
| Fri, Jan 9 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Tom Ebeling, WSU Environmental Health and Safety, BLunch Lab Safety Discussion |
| Mon, Jan 12 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Dr. Simona Picardi, UI Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences Fitness consequences of movement behavior in wildlife populations Host: Dr. Mark Dybdahl |
| Mon, Jan 19 | Martin Luther King Jr Day | ||
| Fri, Jan 23 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Erika Offerdahl, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Recognition: Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Recognition BLunch |
| Fri, Jan 30 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Vision Committee, SBS Faculty, The Research $ Landscape: an informal conversation, BLunch |
| Mon, Feb 2 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Dr. Kiwamu Tanaka, WSU Department of Plant Pathology Facing beauty and blemish challenges posed by an unusual protozoan pathogen Host: Dr. Hana Zand Karimi |
| Fri, Feb 6 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Doug Anderson, WSU Fire and Safety Compliance Officer: Fire Safety Training *Will Receive Training Credit BLunch |
| Mon, Feb 9 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Dr. Pedro Viadanna, UI Department of Fish and Wildlife Sciences Translating fish health intervention to outcomes, vision for a collaborative, sustainable, and innovative fish health research Host: Dr. Ryan Shartau |
| Fri, Feb 13 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Emily Corbridge, SBS Pullman Hellmann Lab, PhD Proposal BLunch |
| Mon, Feb 16 | President's Day | ||
| Fri, Feb 20 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | EH&S, Hazardous Waste Disposal BLunch |
| Mon, Feb 23 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Dr. David Stern, Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO Brewer Lecture: How Aphids Remote-Control Plants: Aphid effector proteins in plant gall induction Host: Dr. Michael Knoblauch |
| Mon, Mar 2 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Dr. Stephany RunningHawk Johnson , WSU Cultural Studies and Social Thought in Education Indigenous Knowledges, Place, and Relational Science in the Classroom Hosts: Katherine Gale and SBS Access & Opportunity Committee |
| Fri, Mar 6 | 12:10 | Abelson 306 | Elissa Schwartz AI/ML Conversation BLunch |
| Mon, Mar 9 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Dr. Laurel Lynch , UI Department of Soil and Water Systems Apex Scavenger Declines Drive Ecosystem Function: Insights from a disease-driven population gradient in Tasmania Hosts: Dr. Andrew Storfer and Dr. Marc Beer |
| Fri, Mar 13 | 12:10 | Abelson 306 | Baily McCulloch, Storfer Lab PhD Proposal Defense Disease-induced declines of an apex predator affect community population genomic structure. BLunch |
| Mon, Mar 16 | Spring Break | ||
| Mon, Mar 23 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Kourtnie Whitfield, SBS Pullman, PhD Exit Seminar Exploring mucociliary epithelial plasticity in Xenopus: environmental, functional, and translational insights Host: Dr. Erica Crespi |
| Fri, Mar 27 | 12:10 | Abelson 306 | Dick Mack and Walter Fertig "Botanizing across Baja" BLunch |
| Mon, Mar 30 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Jonas' Lecture Speaker: Dr. Bree Rosenblum, Professor of Global Change Biology at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management Title: You are the experiment: the risks of being a biologist Host: The Zoology Club |
| Tues, Mar 31 | 6:00 PM | Abelson 201 | Jonas' Lecture Speaker: Dr. Bree Rosenblum, Professor of Global Change Biology at UC Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management Title: Biophilogy: A new field for a new era Host: The Zoology Club |
| Fri, Apr 3 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Ellery Vincent, SBS Pullman, Bear Center Tour BLunch |
| Mon, Apr 6 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Lex Dulmage, SBS Pullman, PhD Exit Seminar Investigating connections between the environment, the gut microbiome, host immunity, and disease in larval amphibians Host: Dr. Erica Crespi |
| Fri, Apr 10 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Jarrett Dalia, SBS Pullman Zambrano Lab, MS Proposal Defense " "Assessing the long-term impacts of forest management treatments on shrub communities in a dry mixed-coniferous forest" BLunch |
| Mon, Apr 13 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Erin Keller, SBS Pullman, PhD Exit Seminar Translating virology into ecology: linking host and viral traits to virulence and pathogen evolution Host: Dr. Jesse Brunner |
| Fri, Apr 17 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Jessica Tir, SBS Pullman Conner Museum Collections Manager, "History and Development of the Conner Museum" BLunch |
| Wed, Apr 15 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Caroline Terry, SBS Pullman, PhD Exit Seminar A multi-level investigation of the mechanisms underlying cross-tolerance effects of salinity on heat tolerance in Tigriopus californicus Host: Dr. Wes Dowd |
| Mon, Apr 20 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | McKinley Nevins, SBS Pullman, PhD Exit Seminar "Integrating above and belowground perspectives to understand drivers of tree demography in the northwestern United States" Host: Dr. Jenny Zambrano |
| Fri, Apr 24 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Timilehin Jeje, SBS Pullman Wisecaver Lab, PhD Proposal Defense Investigation of cryptic phenotypic diversity in toxic bloom forming golden algae Blunch |
| Mon, Apr 27 | 3:10 PM | Todd 311 | Sarah Boothman, SBS Pullman, PhD Exit Seminar Maternal diet, milk lipids and the human milk microbiome: a global perspective Hosts: Dr. Kathy Beerman and Dr. Shelley McGuire |
| Fri, May 1 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Grace Salmon, SBS Pullman, Watts Lab, MS Proposal Defense Investigating modulation of antioxidant capacity in preparation for nomadic migration in red crossbills Blunch |
| Fri, May 8 | 12:10 PM | Abelson 306 | Lucie Krivska, SBS Pullman Knoblauch Lab, MS Proposal Defense Blunch |