FSU - Biological Science

Defenses
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Wednesday, 10th of June 2026	10:00 AM	1056 KIN	Dissertation Defense	Chromatin remodeling as a diagnostic marker and a driving mechanism of cancer progression	Mahdi Khadem
Tuesday, 23rd of June 2026	10:00 AM	1303 COM and Zoom	Biomedical Sciences Dissertation Defense	Deleting D2 receptors from developing cortical interneurons increases glutamatergic neurons and attenuates NMDA antagonist-evoked behavioral responses	Yasmeena Thabet

Colloquia and Seminars
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Wednesday, 10th of June 2026	12:00 PM	1302 COM and Zoom	Biomedical Sciences Seminar	How hepatocytes stay steatotic: YBX1, RNA control, and Fatty Liver Disease	Dr. James Jordan
Thursday, 11th of June 2026	11:00 AM	1030 IRCB	Chemical and Biomedical Engineering Special Seminar	Unmasking extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli: A fast and affordable biomimetic urothelial cell culture model	Professor Marjanca Erjavec
Friday, 26th of June 2026	12:00 PM	virtual	Decades of Advancing Coastal and Marine Science Seminar Series	with Florida State University
Thursday, 10th of September 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	TBA	Will Prinz
Thursday, 24th of September 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Integrative approaches to studying new frontiers of animal communication: from genes to brains to trees	Dr. Matthew Fuxjager

Miscellaneous
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Thursday, 3rd of September 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Faculty Meeting