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Biology is fundamental to our changing world. The 21st century challenge for our students, our scholars, and the greater society is to understand our place in this changing world and to create fundamental knowledge for informed policies, economies, and social structure.

Upcoming Events



Fundamentals of the second-order flows from synaptic excitability to neuronal circuitry and connectivity

Pilhwa Lee, Morgan State University
- | DRL 4C6 and via Zoom

Abstract: This talk covers some efforts to extend the formalism of informational flow from the first order and mono-layers to the second-order and double-layers, as well as symmetry and skew-symmetry…



2025 Telfer Lecture

Dr. Itai Yanai, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
- | Leidy 109 and Zoom

Title: Cellular plasticity in cancer and bacteria
Speaker: Itai Yanai

Bluesky: @itaiyanai.bsky.social

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The evolution of immunity and pathogenesis within environmental battlegrounds

Dr. Tera Levin, University of Pittsburgh
- | Leidy 109 and Zoom

Abstract; New infectious diseases routinely emerge from natural reservoirs, with sometimes devastating consequences on human populations. How does this happen? Specifically, what events within natural…