Biology Department Seminar Series

Seminar schedule for the Biology Department

Seminars are held on Fridays at 4pm in person in ISC 1221. The schedule can be found below.

Stay tuned for the spring 2027 seminar series.

Fall 2026 Seminars
W&M Department of Biology
Location: ISC 1221
Contact the listed faculty host [in brackets] for more information or to meet with the speaker.

Dates, Speaker & Topic, and Faculty Host
Date	Speaker and Topic	Faculty Host
Sept. 11	(VIMS) Trick or Treat? Controls on Contaminant and Nutrient Flux from Emerging Aquatic Insects	[Cristol]
Sept. 18	(UNC-Wilmington) Stealthy squirrels & feathered felons: Red squirrel middens keep an endangered mammal safe and birds fed	[Leu]
Sept. 25	Nick Sutton (W&M) *Escaping from threats: the roles of past experience and internal state in white-tailed deer cognition*
Oct. 2	(Yale) *What is driving the re-emergence of vaccine-targeted serotypes of pneumococcus?*	[Forsyth]
Oct. 9	Fall Break
Oct. 16	(Pacific Northwest National Lab) From Detection to Dynamics: Understanding Soil Viruses Across Scales.	[Williamson]
Oct. 22 (Thurs.)	(University of Wisconsin-Madison) *Space, place, and pace: three tales from the mouths of plants*	[Leu]
Oct. 30	(Villanova) *Big wigs and small wigs: Size and sex-based aggression in the maritime earwig*	[Allen]
Nov. 6	TBD
Nov. 13	TBD

For more information, contact Dr. Sarah Anderson

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