February 22, 2023
Monica Dus; Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. “Nutrigenomic regulation of plasticity and disease.”

April 3, 2019
Susan Strome, Distinguished Professor of Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz. “Fishing, luck, and janitors.” Download flyer

March 22, 2017
Emily Bernhardt, Professor of Biogeochemistry, Department of Biology, Duke University. “The remaking of Appalachian ecosystems by mountaintop removal coal mining.” Download flyer | IU Science Blog

March 2, 2016
Bronwyn Heather Bleakley, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology, Stonehill College. “The company you keep matters: Exploring the evolutionary genetics of guppy cooperation at a teaching-intensive undergraduate institution.” Download flyer

March 11, 2015
Susana Lopez, Ph.D., Professor of Genetics and Molecular Biology, Institute of Biotechnology, National Autonomous University of Mexico. “Rotavirus interactions with its host cell: An arms race.” Download flyer

March 31, 2014
Rachel J. Dutton, Ph.D., Bauer Fellow, FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University. “Food for thought: Combining the right ingredients for an exciting career in science.” Download flyer

September 11, 2013
Margaret McFall-Ngai, Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Adventures in Pioneering a Model System of Symbiosis.” Download flyer

March 7, 2012
Kimberly D. Tanner, Associate Professor of Biology and Director of the Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory, San Francisco State University. “Beyond Assessing Knowledge—Card Sorting, Superheroes, and Moving Towards Measuring Biological Expertise among Undergraduates.” Download flyer

March 30, 2011
Tracy Lawhon, Chief Pharmaceutical Development Officer, Tragara Pharmaceuticals. “The Path Not Well Traveled: From Scientist to Entrepreneur.” Download flyer

October 21, 2009
Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of the Center for Structural Biology, University of Florida. “Structural studies of Adeno-associated viruses towards improved gene delivery applications.” Download flyer

March 25, 2009
Maria A. Schumacher, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. “Structural mechanisms of multidrug resistance and multidrug tolerance.” Download flyer

March 26, 2008
Tania A. Baker, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Remodeling Proteins and the Proteome by AAA+ Unfolding Machines.” Download flyer

October 3, 2007
Jamie L. Stalker, M.D., Medical Director of Argonne National Laboratory. “Flexibility and the Fickle Finger of Fate: A Peculiar Path from Musician to Medical Director.” Download flyer. | IU news release

April 4, 2007
Nicole King, Ph.D., 2005 MacArthur Fellow and Assistant Professor of Genetics and Development at the University of California at Berkeley. “Finding My Way: Fossils, Choanoflagellates, and Motherhood.” Download flyer

February 15, 2006
Donna Cragle, Ph.D., Director of Basic and Applied Research and Director of the Center for Epidemiologic Research for the Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education. “Epidemiology: Wonderful Career Choice or Secret Society?” Download flyer

September 22, 2005
Eugenie Scott, Ph.D., Director of the National Center for Science Education. “Tracking Those Incredible Creationists: Adventures as a Public Scientist.” Download flyer.

March 23, 2005
Gail Vance, M.D., Professor, Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. “Genetics, the Right Decision.” Download flyer.

March 4, 2004
Anne Ephrussi, Ph.D., Group Leader and Senior Scientist, Developmental Biology Programme, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). “Maternal Effect Genes and Passion: A View from Posterior Pole of the Drosophila Oocyte.” Download flyer

March 26, 2003
Susan Gottesman, Ph.D., Chief, Biochemical Genetics Section, National Institutes of Health. “Growing Up with DNA: Reflections on a Career in Molecular Biology on the 50th Anniversary of the DNA Structure.” Download flyer

October 10, 2002
Sharon Y. Strauss, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis. “How Understanding Ecological Communities Gives Us a Better Understanding of Individual Species.” Download flyer

March 20, 2002
Ricki Lewis, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, Genetic Counselor, Science Writer, Textbook Author. “From Science to Science Writing: What a Long Strange Trip It’s Been.”

March 28, 2001
Petra H. Belady, M.D., Professor, Department of Obstetrics, Indiana University, and Maternal/Fetal Specialist at Aegis Women’s Healthcare. “Maternal-Fetal Medicine: One Woman's Career Path.”

March 8, 2000
Sara Via, Professor, Departments of Biology and Entomology, University of Maryland. “How Does It Work: From Binocular Vision to Genetics of Herbivory?”

March 31, 1999
Virginia Walbot, Professor, Departments of Biological Sciences and Cell & Molecular Biology, Stanford University. “Jumping Genes of Corn.”

November 18, 1998
Della Collins Cook, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University. “Did Columbus Bring Disease to the New World?”

March 11, 1998
Patricia Pukkila, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Reflections on Scientific Discovery.”

November 12, 1997
Jennifer Kopczynski, Senior Research Scientist, Exelixis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. “Biotechnology: Model Organism Genetics and Human Disease.”

April 9, 1997
Virginia Zakian, Ph.D., Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University. “Telomeres: Beginning to Understand Chromosomal Ends.”

October 16, 1996
Esther Thelen, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, Indiana University. “Why’s a Nice Biologist Like You Studying Babies?”

April 3, 1996
Ernestina H. Saxton, M.D., Ph.D., Clinical Professor of Neurology, UCLA. “Migraines in Medicine and Academia.”

November 8, 1995
Kathy D. Schick, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, Indiana University, and the Co-Director of Center for Research into the Anthropological Foundations of Technology (C.R.A.F.T.). “Pursuits of the Past: In Search of Human Origins.”

March 29, 1995
Kathryn A. Koch, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Florida College of Medicine. “Alpha & Omega: The Beginning & End of Life.”

March 30, 1994
Louise Brandau Preer, Ph.D., Emeritus Senior Scientist of Biology, Indiana University. Elizabeth C. Raff, Ph.D., Professor of Biology, Indiana University. Alice B. Wood, M.D., Obstetrician, Aegis Women's Healthcare. “Personal Perspectives: Three Women in Science.”

December 8, 1992
Kimberly A. Quaid, Ph.D., Director, Indiana University Huntington Disease Presymptomatic Testing Project. “The New Astrology: Genetics and Predictive Medicine.”

April 15, 1992
Lucille Shapiro, Ph.D., Professor of Developmental Botany, Stanford University. “The Complex Life of Women in Science: A Rich Brew.”

September 20, 1991
Wendy Farmer Boss, Ph.D., Professor of Botany, North Carolina State University. “The Joy of Science: Branching out into Plant Research.”

March 26, 1991
Barbara Fruehling Gambill, Senior Counsel, Cinergy Services, Inc. “Women in Environmental Law.”

November 28, 1990
Catherine G. Palmer, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, Dept. of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine. “Human Genetics: A Career of Possibilities.”