2026 Spring Seminar


Join us on the first Thursday of every month. For those that can’t make it, seminars will be recorded and be available on our website (link) and YouTube. Students are encouraged to stay on after the seminar for an extended Q&A with the speaker.

Click here to register for the seminar.

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Jan. 8th 1 PM EST

Jennifer Head, University of Michigan
The role of climate change, dust-generating events, and rodents in the emergence of Valley fever in California


Feb. 5th 1 PM EST

Sarah Olson
Wildlife Conservation Society

One Health in Action: Wildlife Conservation and Disease Prevention in a Changing World


Mar. 5th 1 PM EST

Ayesha Mahmud
University of California, Berkeley


April 2nd Time TBD

Rory Gibb, University College London

‘People and nature’ perspectives on climate
change, ecosystem, and infectious disease


May 7th 1 PM EST

Fletcher Halliday, Oregon State University


photo credits

  • Yellowstone: P Hudson