Previous Seminars
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 “watch” into the search bar below. Click on the name of the presenter for more information (external link).
| Speaker | Institution | Date | Topic | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø & the University of Manchester | 2025 01/17 | History and Genetics - Journal Club | 2025 Spring |
| Antonis Rokas | ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø - ESI Director | 2025 01/13 | Celebrating the Centennial of the Scopes "Monkey" Trial at Vanderbilt | 2025 Spring |
| Royal Ontario Museum | 2024 11/22 | Mammal & Dinosaur Phylogenies | 2024 Fall | |
| ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø - 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’s mouse lemurs reveal surprising mechanisms of cryptic speciation | 2024 Fall | |
| ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø - 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 | ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø | 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’s Finches | 2023 Fall |
| MTSU | 2023 09/08 | Building Religious Cultural Competence for Effective and Inclusive Evolution Education | 2023 Fall | |
| Gustavo Goldman | Ribeirão Preto, University of São 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 |
| ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½¹ÙÍø | 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 σ–(c-di-GMP)–anti-σ 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 São 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 | Vanderbilt | 2021 04/07 | The intertwined immune and circulatory systems of insects | 2021 Spring |
| Vanderbilt | 2021 04/07 | Distribution of the superfamily DNA Glycosylase AlkZ in Streptomyces gene clusters | 2021 Spring | |
| Laura R. Novick | Vanderbilt | 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 | ||
| Vanderbilt | 2021 03/03 | 2021 Spring | ||
| Vanderbilt | 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 | Vanderbilt | 2021 02/03 | 2021 Spring | |
| Vanderbilt | 2021 02/03 | 2021 Spring | ||
| Jada Benn-Torres | Vanderbilt | 2021 01/27 | 2021 Spring | |
| Vanderbilt | 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 CataniaÌý&²¹³¾±è;ÌýLarisa DeSantis | Vanderbilt | 2020 10/28 | 2020 Fall | |
| University of Cal, Berkeley | 2020 10/14 | 2020 Fall | ||
| Vanderbilt | 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 | |
| Vanderbilt | 2020 09/30 | 2020 Fall | ||
| Jacob Steenwyk | Vanderbilt | 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 | Vanderbilt | 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 | Vanderbilt | 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 | Vanderbilt | 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 | Vanderbilt | 2019 11/13 | Shock and awe - The astonishing abilities of electric eels | 2019 Fall |
| Nicole Creanza | Vanderbilt | 2019 11/6 | Learning to evolve: The role of learned behaviors in evolution | 2019 Fall |
| EVOST | Vanderbilt | 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 | Vanderbilt | 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 | Vanderbilt | 2019 09/18 | Immune system optimization in a variable world | 2019 Fall |
| Suzana Herculano-Houzel | Vanderbilt | 2019 09/11 | Whatever works: A new framework to understand evolution, humans, and society | 2019 Fall |
| Antonis Rokas | Vanderbilt | 2019 09/04 | Evolutionary Studies at Vanderbilt: What? Why? Who? How? | 2019 Fall |