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Department of Invertebrate Zoology
No Bones Lunch Seminars
IZ's No Bones Lunch Seminars are a series of casual presentations designed for speakers to share their expertise and foster discussion of some of our favorite topics concerning invertebrates! Seminars begin at 12 P.M. EST on Tuesdays and are available via Zoom broadcast. Please use the form below to request the Zoom link for seminars and indicate in your message if you would like your email added to the weekly reminder distribution list.
2025 Seminars
| 21-Jan-25 | Igor Adameyko | Complexity of surface hydrodynamics in reef-building corals |
| 28-Jan-25 | Arianna Lord | Velvet worm Biogeography |
| 4-Feb-25 | Raisa Rizzi | Integrative taxonomy of Calcareous Sponges |
| 11-Feb-25 | Lara Beckmann | From Old Specimens to Reproductive Secrets: Insights into the Biology of Alaskan Deep-Sea Sponges and Corals through Museum Samples |
| 18-Feb-25 | Eduardo Hajdu | The Discovery Coast (Bahia) - disasters, faunistics, sponges & discoveries |
| 25-Feb-25 | Claeb Butler | A Tale of Two Systems: Contrasting Patterns of Specificity in Coral-Algal Mutualisms |
| 4-Mar-25 | Antonio Marques | Biodiversity research in Latin America and Brazil |
| 11-Mar-25 | Héctor Torrado | Coral population genomics in the Mariana Islands |
| 18-Mar-25 | Melissa Betters | Taxonomy and biogeography of deep-sea gastropods from chemosynthesis-based ecosystems |
| 25-Mar-25 | Anna Clark | microCT Analysis of Strange Midwater Hyperiids |
| 1-Apr-25 | Ella Frigyik | Organismic and Evolutionary Biology |
| 8-Apr-25 | Marianela Gastaldi | Ecosystem services of sponges |
| 15-Apr-25 | John Fornshell | Pycnogonid Developmental Biology |
| 22-Apr-25 | Veronica Radice | Biodiversity big data - NMNH collections (GBIF) |
| 29-Apr-25 | Allan Carrillo-Baltodano | Formation of the body axes in annelids |
| 13-May-25 | Vanessa Fernandez Rodriguez | Strangers in the House: A Genetic Study of Invasive Serpulid Worms in a Subtropical Estuary |
| 20-May-25 | Marc Mapalo | How to become a tardigrade? Combining paleontology and developmental biology to understand tardigrade body plan evolution |
| 27-May-25 | Sam Vohsen | Mining Corals for their Microbial Menageries |
| 3-Jun-25 | Mayanne Aline | Microbiomes of Antarctic and Sub-antarctic Sponges |
| 17-Jun-25 | Marissa F. Nuttall | Habitat Use and Connectivity of Native and Invasive Mesopredators in Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary |
| 24-Jun-25 | Andrea Corral | Sponges as natural samplers of environmental DNA |
| 1-Jul-25 | Paula Rodriguez | Mesophotic and deep-benthic decapods in coral ecosystems: Insights from morphology, DNA, and ecology |
| 8-Jul-25 | Will Ballentine | TBD |
| 15-Jul-25 | Collin Gross | Biogeography of community assembly in eelgrass epifauna |
| 2-Sep-25 | Chloé Fourreau | Diversity and evolution of polychaetes associated with black corals |
| 23-Sep-25 | Gabrielle Ellis | Community Ecology and Spatio-temporal patterning of abyssal invertebrates in the Clarion Clipperton Zone |
| 30-Sep-25 | Steve Auscavitch | Cruise Report: Exploration of deep-sea environments in the Marshall Islands Archipelago |
| 7-Oct-25 | Katherine Turk | Priapulid neoichnology and applications to Ediacaran-Cambrian paleobiology |
| 28-Oct-25 | Jiabao Li | Co-creating with more-than-humans |
| 9-Dec-25 | Amy Freestone | TBD |
Past No Bones Presentations
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