Fall 2025
Seminars on Fridays from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm, in-person at Michael Smith Laboratories auditorium, MSL 102, unless indicated.
This series is organized by Colin Brauner, Doug Altshuler, Ben Matthews, and Ben Negrete
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
| Sep 19 | Gosline Lecture: Alan Wilson | Royal Veterinary College | Muscles and tendons: mechanics of athleticism in humans, racehorses and cheetahs | Altshuler |
| Sep 26 | Kenji Sugioka | UBC Zoology | Mechanisms translating chiral cell surface dynamics into embryonic left–right patterning | Richards |
| Oct 03 | Claude Fortin | INRS | Dissolved organic matter: a challenging key parameter in metal ecotoxicology | Wood |
| Oct 10 | Sarah Alderman | Guelph U | Stress and neurogenesis: how, when, and why? | Brauner |
| Oct 17 | Stacey Skortetz | UBC Audiology and Speech Sciences | A comparative approach to the mammalian aerodigestive tract: advancing swallowing rehabilitation across species | Shadwick |
| Oct 24 | Elva Vidya* | McGill U | Regulation of mRNA decapping in C. elegans embryonic development | B. Matthews |
| Oct 31 | Lauren Zink | UBC Zoology | Effects of natural dissolved organic carbon on trout olfaction | Wood |
| Nov 7 | Hoar Memorial Lecture: Brent Sinclair | Cornell U | Overwintering insects: cold, dry, and hungry (but thriving anyway) | Shadwick |
| Nov 14 | Arthur Woods | University of Montana | Evolution of the insect tracheal system driven by spatially varying limitation of oxygen and carbon dioxide transport | P. Matthews |
| Nov 21 | Raúl Suárez | UBC | How mitochondria work in vivo: insights from birds and bees | Brauner |
| Nov 28 | David Randall Memorial Seminar: Jonathan Wilson | Wilfrid Laurier U | A journey from the gills to gut of ionoregulatory research in fishes | Brauner |
| Dec 05 | Yvonne Dzal** | Simon Fraser University” | From bat noses to mole-rat skin — How physiology can save imperiled wildlife: tools, tolerance, and turning science into conservation solutions | Milsom |
* in Biosci 4223
** Beaty Biodiversity auditorium
Spring 2026
| Date | Speaker | Affiliation | Title | Host |
| Jan 09 | Ethan Greenblatt | Faculty of Medicine, UBC | Marshall | |
| Jan 16 | Kyle Wellband | Fisheries and Oceans, Canada | DNA methylation in hatchery salmon: toward a better understanding of proximate causes and ultimate consequences | B. Matthews |
| Jan 23 | Erika Eliason | DFO | Beating the heat: cardiac clues to fish resilience | Schulte |
| Jan 30 | Michael Phelps | Washington State University | Whole genome duplication and the regulation of skeletal muscle growth in rainbow trout | Brauner/B.Matthews |
| Feb 06 | Dan Marigold | SFU | Determinants of gaze and walking decisions | Altshuler |
| Feb 13 | Hochachcka Memorial Lecture: Charles Darveau | UofOttawa | Diversity and evolution of insect flight energetics: connecting functional morphology and biochemical adaptation | Schulte |
| Feb 20 | No Seminar, Reading break | |||
| Feb 27 | ||||
| Mar 06 | Andy Cavagnetto | Washington State University | Kalas | |
| Mar 13 | Hannes Bauman | University of Connecticut | A grouper on its way north: how experiments and ocean models predict changing migration patterns in black sea bass on the Northwest Atlantic shelf | Frommel |
| Mar 20 | Julie Nati | University of Texas | Eisenberg | |
| Mar 27 | Greg Goss | University of Alberta | It’s O “K+”- a role for potassium in ion regulation for fish living in acidic waters | Brauner |
| Apr 03 | Easter Friday- No seminar | |||
| Apr 10 | Bradley Dickerson | Princeton | Altshuler |