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Our weekly seminar includes student research presentations, as well as alumni and other professionals talking about their work and life beyond NCC. Biology majors take:

  • BIOL 290 (0 cr; click for course information) once as a seminar participant/evaluator
  • BIOL 390 (2 cr) once, including seminar participation and career preparation
  • BIOL 490 (1 cr; click for course information) once as a presenter, capping off their research experience

Seminars are open to the campus community and you don't have to be in the course to attend.

28 Aug
Anthony Dominic
Univ. of Colorado
Building Mathematical Microscopes to Disentangle Protein Folding Problems
11 Sep
Jon Visick
North Central College
What makes a great seminar?
18 Sep
Thomas-Shadi Vosges & Maria Alvarado
North Central College
REUs and Off-Campus Research Experiences
18 Sep
Thomas-Shadi Vosges
North Central College
KPC Mouse Pancreatic Cells Demonstrate Thermal SensitivityClick to see seminar abstract
25 Sep
Allison Schneider
Charles River Laboratories
A Career as a Research Coordinator
2 Oct
Steve Johnston
North Central College
Using Yeast to Understand Leigh Syndrome PathologyClick to see seminar abstract
2 Oct
Jennifer Sallee
North Central College
How I found my way to fruit flies (and why they are so cool!)
9 Oct
Fernando Moreira
Loyola University Medical Center
Mosquito Salivary Protein(s) as Vaccine Targets Against Mosquito-Borne Viruses
23 Oct
The Galapagos Trip team
North Central College
TBA
30 Oct
No seminar
6 Nov
Justyn Salas
North Central College
Developing a Novel Method for Counting and Identifying Water Molds in Field SamplesClick to see seminar abstract
6 Nov
Angela Beniulyte
North Central College
Female preference for variation in male calling song in the cricket Gryllodes sigillatusClick to see seminar abstract
13 Nov
William Bozue
North Central College
Determining the protein-protein interactions between Drosophila singed and ck/MyoVIIAClick to see seminar abstract
13 Nov
Riley Lyons
North Central College
Quantifying the effects of mutant dusky-like and crinkled in Drosophila denticle morphologyClick to see seminar abstract
20 Nov
Raven Walton
North Central College
How does diet affect a female Gryllodes sigillatus’s mating behavior and reproductive effort?Click to see seminar abstract
20 Nov
Laura Krambeer
North Central College
The Use of Bomb Calorimetry in Caloric Quantification of G. sigillatus SpermatophylaxesClick to see seminar abstract
27 Nov
Mara Punke
North Central College
Using Drosophila denticle morphology to quantify the effects of the mutant gene inturnedClick to see seminar abstract
27 Nov
Ferris Handoklow
North Central College
Investigation of protein-protein interactions between ck/MyoVIIA and singed in DrosophilaClick to see seminar abstract
4 Dec
Kevin Thul
North Central College
Determining Diet effects on Female Receptivity and Male Calling Effort in the Gryllodes sigillatusClick to see seminar abstract
4 Dec
Ardis Roman
North Central College
Quantifying the Caloric Content of G. Sigillatus Spermatophylax using Bomb CalorimetryClick to see seminar abstract