This academic year all Biology Seminars are happening on Zoom, as Zoom Webinars, followed by a Q&A session. This allowed us to invite speakers from afar, including lots of Bard alums, which is definitely a silver lining for these weird times!

Speakers for the Spring 2021 semester:

• Audrey Russel ’20, Isa Jones  – who both just finished their senior projects in December 2020
• Prof. Tom Cech, Nobel Prize Laureate, University of Colorado Boulder
• Molly McQuillan ’17, Brown University
• Dr. Min Kyung Shinn ’14, Washington University in St. Louis
• Dr. Caroline Bartman, Princeton U
• Shailab Shrestha ’16, Tufts
• Dr. Marta Shocket ’09, University of California, Los Angeles
• Dr. David George Haskell, author of “The Forest Unseen”; Sewanee University
• Dr. Carlita Favero, Ursinus College
• Dr. Sully Fernandez, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson
• Liz Miller ’18, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• sprojjes (tbc)

Speakers that we had the honor to host in the fall of 2020:

• Georgia Doing ’15, Dartmouth
• Nadia Russel ’20, Addie Finch ’20, Eli McClatchy ’20, Gabby Hartman ’20, who finished their senior project in May 2020
• Silas Busch ’16, U Chicago
• Dr. Erica Perez, Xavier U of Louisiana
• Dr. Parris Humphrey ’06, Harvard U
• Prof. Manu Prakash, Stanford
• Dr. Sara Andreotti, University of Stellenbosch
• Emma Kelsick ’17, AmeriCorps
• Prof. Scott Loss, U Oklahoma
• Prof. Mary Lou Guerinot, Dartmouth
• Dr. Melanie McReynolds, Princeton U
• Dr. Daniel Gonzales, Purdue