A searchable table with our previous seminars. If there is a seminar video available, click the link (external link, YouTube). To find seminars available on YouTube, type 鈥渨atch鈥� into the search bar below. Click on the name of the presenter for more information (external link).
| Speaker | Institution | Date | Topic | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greg Wilson Mantilla | University of Washington | 2026 04/15 | Earth Day | 2026 Spring |
| Tyrone B. Hayes | University of California, Berkeley | 2026 03/18 | J.T. Scopes Lecture | 2026 Spring |
| Michael Lynch | Arizona State University | 2026 02/18 | Darwin Day | 2026 Spring |
| Natasha Vitek | Stony Brook University | 2025 12/11 | ESI Retreat | 2025 Fall |
Jennifer Wisecaver | Washington State University | 2025 12/11 | ESI Retreat | 2025 Fall |
| John Gibbons | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | 2025 12/11 | ESI Retreat | 2025 Fall |
| Paul Koch | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2025 04/16 | Earth Day | 2025 Spring |
| Dickinson College | 2025 02/25 | J.T. Scopes Lecture | 2025 Spring | |
| Richard Dawkins | University of Oxford | 2025 02/11 | Darwin Day | 2025 Spring () |
| Jerome de Groot | 91吃瓜网 & the University of Manchester | 2025 01/17 | History and Genetics - Journal Club | 2025 Spring |
| Antonis Rokas | 91吃瓜网 - ESI Director | 2025 01/13 | Celebrating the Centennial of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial at 91吃瓜网 | 2025 Spring |
| Royal Ontario Museum | 2024 11/22 | Mammal & Dinosaur Phylogenies | 2024 Fall | |
| 91吃瓜网 - Stevenson Professor of Biological Sciences | 2024 10/30 | Halloween Spooktacular | 2024 Fall | |
| Griffith University | 2024 10/25 | Evolution of Fossil Mammals (Journal Club) | 2024 Fall | |
| Duke University | 2024 09/25 | Biodiversity in the making: Madagascar鈥檚 mouse lemurs reveal surprising mechanisms of cryptic speciation | 2024 Fall | |
| 91吃瓜网 - Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities | 2024 09/06 | Religion and Evolution (Journal Club) | 2024 Fall | |
| AAAS Science | 2024 04/19 | Visiting Alum & Publishing in AAAS | 2024 Spring | |
| University of California, Davis | 2024 04/17 | Earth Day | 2024 Spring | |
| University of Washington | 2024 03/06 | J.T. Scopes Lecture - Misinformation in Science | 2024 Spring | |
| University of Southern California | 2024 03/01 | Visiting Researcher | 2024 Spring | |
| University of Chicago | 2024 02/07 | Darwin Day | 2024 Spring | |
| 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) | 2023 Fall | |
| University of Haifa | 2023 11/29 | Global Scholars in Residence Visitor (Journal Club) | 2023 Fall | |
| Alexander Fleming BSRC | 2023 11/10 | De novo yeast genes | 2023 Fall | |
| Neil Kelley | 91吃瓜网 | 2023 10/27 | It Came from Beneath The Sea: Fossil Sea Monster Facts and Fictions (Journal Club) | 2023 Fall |
| ; ; | Louisiana State University; Rice University; University of Memphis | 2023 10/19 | ESI Retreat | 2023 Fall |
| and Grant | Princeton University | 2023 10/04 | Biodiversity Day: Biodiversity and the Evolution of Darwin鈥檚 Finches | 2023 Fall |
| MTSU | 2023 09/08 | Building Religious Cultural Competence for Effective and Inclusive Evolution Education | 2023 Fall | |
| Gustavo Goldman | Ribeir茫o Preto, University of S茫o Paulo | 2023 06/20 | Signal transduction in the human pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus (Global Scholars in Residence Visitor) | 2023 Summer |
| (Earth Day) | University of Chicago | 2023 04/19 | Predicting multivariate ecology of fossil taxa from morphological data | 2023 Spring |
| 91吃瓜网 | 2023 04/10 | An evolutionary approach to studying cognitive bias in humans and other primates (BSCI Seminar) | 2023 Spring | |
| (J.T. Scopes Lecture) | Harvard University | 2023 03/29 | Exploring bird diversity through genomics, museums and a two-wheeled cross-country adventure | 2023 Spring |
| Washington University in St. Louis | 2023 02/24 | Microbial experimental evolution: social behavior, mutualism, and predator-prey interactions | 2023 Spring | |
| (Darwin Day) | Michigan State University | 2023 02/08 | Time travel in experimental evolution | 2023 Spring |
| University of Michigan | 2023 01/25 | Molecular and evolutionary processes generating variation in gene expression | 2023 Spring | |
| Western Kentucky University | 2023 01/20 | The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace | 2023 Spring | |
| Brown University | 2022 11/11 | Challenges at the intersection of population and statistical genetics | 2022 Fall | |
| Stanford University | 2022 10/26 | Evolutionary dynamics in the human gut microbiome | 2022 Fall | |
| (Earth Day) | Vrije Universiteit | 2022 04/20 | Underground economics: Quantifying trade in plant-fungal networks | 2022 Spring (Virtual) |
| Arizona State University | 2022 04/06 | Mid-Pliocene hominin diversity: the fossil evidence and why it matters | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| Tel Aviv University | 2022 03/30 | Evolutionary Origin of Consciousness | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| University of California, Berkeley | 2022 03/23 | The origin of animal cell biology | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| Editor at Nature, Author | 2022 03/16 | A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| (J.T. Scopes Lecture) | Independent Scientific Integrity Investigator | 2022 03/02 | The Dark Side of Science: Misconduct in Biomedical Research | 2022 Spring (Virtual) |
| Uppsala University | 2022 02/23 | The Gene's-eye View of Evolution | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| Cornell University | 2022 02/16 | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | ||
| (Darwin Day) | University of California, Santa Cruz | 2022 02/09 | Climate change and the blending of species | 2022 Spring (Virtual) |
| The Rockefeller University | 2022 01/31 | Exploring the interface between CRISPR-Cas systems and bacterial evolution | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| Carlos Taboada | Duke University | 2022 01/27 | Hidden in the canopy: novel biochemical and vascular adaptations for camouflage in leaf-dwelling neotropical frogs | 2022 Spring (Virtual) |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2022 01/20 | The Emergence and Evolution of Metabolic Networks | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| Gianni Castiglione | Johns Hopkins School of Medicine | 2022 01/13 | Exploring Protein Biochemistry in Evolution and Disease | 2022 Spring (Virtual) |
| Harvard University | 2022 01/12 | From Soma to Germ Line: Birth, Growth, and Transformation of a Novel Gene | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| University of Montreal | 2022 01/10 | Evolution of a 蟽鈥�(c-di-GMP)鈥揳nti-蟽 switch | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| UT Southwestern | 2022 01/06 | Choanoflagellates and the origin of animal immunity | 2022 Spring (Virtual) | |
| Duke University | 2021 05/19 | 2021 Spring | ||
| University of S茫o Paulo, Brazil | 2021 04/21 | 2021 Spring | ||
| National Geographic | 2021 04/14 | Endless forums most beautiful: Evolution, science journalism, and me | 2021 Spring | |
| Yan Yan | 91吃瓜网 | 2021 04/07 | The intertwined immune and circulatory systems of insects | 2021 Spring |
| 91吃瓜网 | 2021 04/07 | Distribution of the superfamily DNA Glycosylase AlkZ in聽Streptomyces聽gene clusters | 2021 Spring | |
| Laura R. Novick | 91吃瓜网 | 2021 03/31 | Why psychology matters for biology education: Perceptual grouping, evolutionary misconceptions, and reasoning from cladograms | 2021 Spring |
| University of New South Wales, Australia | 2021 03/24 | Paleoconservation: Learning from the past, to understand the present, to better conserve the future | 2021 Spring | |
| University of Nevada, Reno | 2021 03/10 | 2021 Spring | ||
| 91吃瓜网 | 2021 03/03 | 2021 Spring | ||
| 91吃瓜网 | 2021 03/03 | 2021 Spring | ||
| Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | 2021 02/24 | Recycling and the Fossil Record: A Unifying Concept for Ecology and Paleobiology | 2021 Spring | |
| VU Medical Center | 2021 02/17 | 2021 Spring | ||
| University of Maryland | 2021 02/10 | 2021 Spring | ||
| Michael P. Vandenbergh | 91吃瓜网 | 2021 02/03 | 2021 Spring | |
| 91吃瓜网 | 2021 02/03 | 2021 Spring | ||
| Jada Benn-Torres | 91吃瓜网 | 2021 01/27 | 2021 Spring | |
| 91吃瓜网 | 2021 01/27 | 2021 Spring | ||
| Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil | 2021 01/19 | 2021 Spring | ||
| Independent Science Journalist | 2021 01/13 | 2021 Spring | ||
| University of Cal, LA | 2020 11/18 | Developmental origins and evolution of bats | 2020 Fall | |
| Monash University | 2020 11/11 | A universal power law for the growth and form of teeth, horns, shells and thorns | 2020 Fall | |
| University of British Columbia | 2020 11/04 | 2020 Fall | ||
| Ken Catania听&补尘辫;听Larisa DeSantis | 91吃瓜网 | 2020 10/28 | 2020 Fall | |
| University of Cal, Berkeley | 2020 10/14 | 2020 Fall | ||
| 91吃瓜网 | 2020 10/07 | Evolution of the oldest macroscopic eukaryotes: perspective from fluid mechanics | 2020 Fall | |
| Illinois State Museum | 2020 10/07 | The last of ice age giants: climate change as an unlikely driver of Late Pleistocene proboscidean extinctions and extirpations | 2020 Fall | |
| 91吃瓜网 | 2020 09/30 | 2020 Fall | ||
| Jacob Steenwyk | 91吃瓜网 | 2020 09/30 | 2020 Fall | |
| Washington University, St. Louis | 2020 09/23 | 2020 Fall | ||
| Natl Center Sci Education | 2020 09/16 | 2020 Fall | ||
| East Tennessee State University | 2020 09/09 | 2020 Fall | ||
| Ann Tate | 91吃瓜网 | 2020 08/31 | Immune system optimization in a variable world | 2020 Fall |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | 2020 08/26 | 2020 Fall | ||
| Arizona State University | 2020 04/08 | Evolutionary approaches to the big questions in cancer | 2020 Spring | |
| University of Minnesota | 2020 04/01 | Rapid evolution in silence: Adaptive signal loss in Pacific field crickets | 2020 Spring | |
| Penn State University | 2020 02/26 | Taking astrobiology from the test tube to investigations of other worlds | 2020 Spring | |
| Jennifer Larson | 91吃瓜网 | 2020 02/19 | Not just guilty pleasures: How gossip and social networks facilitate cooperation | 2020 Spring |
| (Darwin Day) | Washington University, St. Louis | 2020 02/12 | Using experiments in nature to study evolution in real time: Research on lizard adaptation in the Bahamas | 2020 Spring |
| Harvard Medical School | 2020 02/03 | Understanding human evolutionary processes through ancient and modern genomes | 2020 Spring | |
| Princeton University | 2020 01/30 | Integrating field-based data and genomic tools: an evolutionary approach to human health | 2020 Spring | |
| University of Cal, LA | 2020 01/27 | Reconstructing Medieval History using Ancient DNA | 2020 Spring | |
| University of Cal, Berkeley | 2020 01/23 | Adaptation and constraint through the lens of genome-wide association studies | 2020 Spring | |
| Penn State University | 2020 01/13 | Evolutionary genomics, environmental change, and epigenomics in humans and non- human primates | 2020 Spring | |
| Steven Hollon | 91吃瓜网 | 2019 12/04 | Does cognitive behavioral therapy have an enduring effect or are antidepressant medications iatrogenic? | 2019 Fall |
| Natl Center Sci Education | 2019 11/20 | Twists and turns in teaching evolution over the years | 2019 Fall | |
| Ken Catania | 91吃瓜网 | 2019 11/13 | Shock and awe - The astonishing abilities of electric eels | 2019 Fall |
| Nicole Creanza | 91吃瓜网 | 2019 11/6 | Learning to evolve: The role of learned behaviors in evolution | 2019 Fall |
| EVOST | 91吃瓜网 | 2019 10/30 | Halloween Special | 2019 Fall |
| Maine Medical Center | 2019 10/16 | What state policies on teaching evolution do and do not accomplish in Tennessee classrooms | 2019 Fall | |
| Tony Capra | 91吃瓜网 | 2019 10/09 | My ancestor was a neanderthal. Should I see a doctor? | 2019 Fall |
| McMaster University | 2019 10/02 | Physician, know thy evolutionary histroy: How depression helps physicians learn from their mistakes and failures | 2019 Fall | |
| University of North Carolina | 2019 09/25 | The evolutionary history of common genetic variants influencing the human cortex | 2019 Fall | |
| Ann Tate | 91吃瓜网 | 2019 09/18 | Immune system optimization in a variable world | 2019 Fall |
| Suzana Herculano-Houzel | 91吃瓜网 | 2019 09/11 | Whatever works: A new framework to understand evolution, humans, and society | 2019 Fall |
| Antonis Rokas | 91吃瓜网 | 2019 09/04 | Evolutionary Studies at 91吃瓜网: What? Why? Who? How? | 2019 Fall |