| Date | 
        Speaker | 
    
    
        | August 26 | 
        Welcome, Town Hall Meeting | 
    
        
        | September 2  | 
        
           Grad student summer lab reports,  
           Claire, Kees, 
Cody, 
Keshav, 
Andy Liu, 
Julie, 
Alex, 
Tess, 
Hallie.           
         | 
    
    
        | September 9 | 
        Michael Werner, Biology, Utah
        "Epigenetic mechanisms of developmental plasticity"
        abstract
                  
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        | September 16 | 
          Carter Johnson, Math, Utah
        "Neuromechanical Mechanisms of Locomotion in C. elegans"
        abstract    | 
   
    
        | September 23
       Joint Seminar with  UBC | 
       
        
        Alexandria Volkening Northwestern University
        TBA
         | 
            
    
        | September 30 | 
          Jim Heys, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Utah
       How the brain keeps track of space and time 
        abstract    | 
                   
   
       
        | October 7 | 
         Mark Smithson  Math UofU Patterns of selection in metastatic breast cancer | 
 
             
    
  October 14
       Joint Seminar with  UBC | 
         Adrianne Jenner Universite de MontrealImproving oncolytic virotherapy using hybrid PDE/agent-based models and ODE systems | 
    
    
        | October 21 | 
          Niall Mangan  Northwestern UniversityData-driven methods for identifying mechanisms in complex biological systems
  abstract    | 
    
    
    
        | October 28
         Joint Seminar with  UBC | 
         Min Wu Worcester Polytechnic Institute
        The shape formation of tip-growing moss cells |  
        
        
        
         
        | October 30
        Seminar sponsored by  UBC | 
       
        
        Alexandria Volkening Northwestern University
        TBA
         | 
                      
  
    
       November 4
       Joint Seminar with  UBC | 
       Nessy Tania Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
      
        abstract
        
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        | November 11 | 
        Talia Karasov Biology, Utah
   "Tradeoffs and the maintenance of genetic diversity in host-pathogen interactions"  
        abstract
        
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        | November 18 | 
        Lotte de Vries  University of Amsterdam
 Life-history evolution under conflict (and cooperation)
        abstract
 |  
 
    
    
        | November 25 | 
         Thanksgiving: no talk | 
    
   
        | December 2 | 
        Eric Snyder Huntsman Cancer Institute
  Regulation of cellular identity in cancer 
        abstract | 
    
 December 9
         Joint Seminar with  UBC | 
         Daniel Coombs University of British Columbia
       TBA |