Spring 2026
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 |
| 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 | Sweta Agrawal | UBC | Moving through uncertainty: neural circuits of adaptive motor control | B Matthews |
| 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 | Functional organization of haltere feedback for Drosophila flight control | Altshuler |