WiPS Schedule - Spring 2026
Work in Progress Seminars (WiPS) for Spring 2026
All WiPS seminars are at 12:00 P.M., MONDAY, in BPS Room 1425.
Seminar Coordinator: Amber Bedore
Please use this QR code to access the WiPS Evaluation form:
| Date | Speaker | Title | Faculty Evaluators |
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| Jan 12 | Zack Blount | ||
| Jan 19 | Martin Luther King Day - University Closed | ||
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Jan. 26 |
Maria Guzman Reguera Lab |
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| Sarah Gonzalez Henao Schrenk Lab |
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| Feb. 2 | Ira Zibbu Barrick Lab |
Chromosomal Rearrangements Over 75,000 Generations of a Long-Term Evolution Experiment with Escherichia coli | |
| Abdul-Halim Osman Giri Lab |
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| Feb. 9 | Kasumi Nakagawa Rowe Lab |
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| Pranesh Rao Barrick Lab |
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| Feb. 16 | James Zieba Sherrill-Mix Lab |
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| Han Wen Xi Lab |
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| Feb 23 | Chris Chavtur Rowe Lab |
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| Tyler De Jong Barrick Lab |
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| Mar. 2 | Spring Break - no WiPS | ||
| Mar. 9 | Kathleen Sotelo Barrick Lab |
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| Jess Hodgkins Milbrath Lab |
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| Mar. 16 | Sole Soverina Olive Lab |
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| Hazel McGuffin Parent Lab |
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| Mar. 23 | Kevin Santiago-Morales Lebeis Lab |
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| Sydney Chen Lebeis Lab |
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| Mar. 30 | Alex Demetros Lebeis Lab |
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| Leah Knorr Lebeis Lab |
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| Apr. 6 | Satya Kulkarni Contag Lab |
One Quasiorganelle to Rule Them All: Multifunctional Cancer Immunotherapy using Listeria monocytogenes | |
| Mashal Copperman Lebeis Lab |
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| Apr. 13 | Carrissa Hutchison Shames Lab |
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| Emily Perez Crosson Lab |
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| Apr. 20 | Vanessa Estrada Pestka Lab |
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Sarah VanDiepenbos |
Elucidating the Role of Lysolipid Dynamics in Coral Bleaching Resistance |
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| Apr. 27 | Adam Kibiloski Abramovitch Lab |
Combined lactate- and phosphate-dependent cytoplasmic acidification drive Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth arrest on lactate at acidic pH | |
| Jeannette Farnham Crosson Lab |
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