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School of Biological Sciences RPT Faculty Seminar, Talia Karasov

TBA. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Tuesday, September 22, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

School of Biological Sciences RPT Faculty Seminar, Jon Wang

TBA. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Wednesday, September 23, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Susan Marqusee, UC Berkeley

TBA Host: Denise Dearing. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, September 24, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Kristen Hawkes, University of Utah, Anthropology

TBA Host: Denise Dearing. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, October 1, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Jessica Osterhout, Department of Neurobiology

 “From detection to recovery: How the brain orchestrates sickness” Host: Denise Dearing. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, October 8, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

Frontiers of Science Lecture featuring Martin Chalfie

Martin Chalfie, University Professor and former chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University. Full bio: https://chalfielab.biology.columbia.edu/people/martin-chalfie In 1939, the first director of the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Abraham Flexner, wrote an article in Harper's Magazine titled "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge." Flexner questioned whether our idea of usefulness had become too narrow for the wide-ranging, unpredictable nature of human curiosity, arguing that real discovery happens when scientists are free to explore without needing to justify usefulness in advance. Several Nobel Prizes have gone to discoveries that emerged sideways from what researchers originally set out to study. Chalfie will argue that "useless knowledge" is as necessary today as ever for improving human health and well-being, and will offer thoughts on how we can create space for the unexpected discoveries that drive future scientific breakthroughs. Campus Locations: Alumni House - Eccles (ALUMNI). Alternate Location: Cleone Peterson Eccles Alumni House. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, October 22, 2026, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Jennifer Funk, UC Davis

TBA Host: Eleinis Avila Lovera. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, October 29, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Hirosi A. Maeda, University of Wisconsin

TBA Host: Heejin Yoo. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, November 5, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Aaron Straight, Stanford University

"Epigenetic Control of Human Chromosomes" Host: Ofer Rog. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, November 12, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Jim Ehleringer, Univeristy of Utah

"Death in the desert? Encelia meets the megadrought" Host: Sandy Parkinson. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, December 3, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.

School of Biological Sciences Seminar, Noah Whiteman, UC Berkeley

TBA Host: Nicole Amedee. Event Categories: Seminars. Campus Locations: Skaggs Biology Building - Aline Wilmot (ASB). Room Name/Number: 210. Contact Name: April Mills. Contact Phone: 8015875882. Contact Email: aprilmills@bioscience.utah.edu. Campus Wide Event: Yes. Thursday, December 10, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM.