Thermal Biology Institute Seminar Series
Mondays at 3:10 p.m.
Plant Bioscience Building (PBB), Room 108
If you’d like to receive email updates regarding TBI Seminars, please email tbi@montana.edu.
Spring 2026 Schedule
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Date
|
In Person or Virtual
|
Speaker
|
Affiliation
|
Title / Topic
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
01/26/2026
|
In person
|
Bill Inskeep |
Montana State University
|
The unified field theory |
|
02/02/2026
|
In person
|
Mircea Podar |
ORNL |
Reverse Genomics |
|
02/16/2026
|
Virtual
|
Jan Bruewer
|
U Marburg
|
Seeing is believing: SAR11 activity and phage infection in environmental samples |
|
02/16/2026
|
In person
|
Daniel Colman
|
Montana State University
|
Thermophiles in hot springs |
|
03/02/2026
|
In person
|
William Christian
|
Montana State University |
PhD defense |
|
03/30/2026
|
Virtual
|
Augustus Pendleton |
Cornell |
Using absolute abundance to compare microbial communities; a case study from Lake Ontario |
|
04/06/2026
|
In person
|
Stavros Trimmer |
Montana State University |
4th year seminar: Asgard archaea, the closest relative to Eukaryotes |
|
04/13/2026
|
In person
|
Alexandre Bisson
|
IU |
Halophilic archaea |
|
04/20/2026
|
Virtual
|
Tristan Caro
|
Caltech |
Dissolved inorganic carbon supports robust anabolism and methanogenesis in actively serpentinizing rocks |
|
04/27/2026
|
Virtual
|
Emily Paris
|
Stanford |
Single-cell analysis in hypersaline brines: implications for life on Earth and other ocean worlds |
|
05/04/2026
|
In person
|
Prince Asamoah and Brooke Binando
|
Montana State University |
Presentations by TBI Fellows |
For speaker suggestions, contact Roland Hatzenpichler