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Friday: Comparative Physiology Invited Speaker Seminar

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

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