Mondays at 3:10 p.m.
Plant Bioscience Building (PBB), Room 108 

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Previous Seminars

Fall 2026 Schedule


Date
In Person or Virtual
Speaker
Affiliation
Title / Topic 
08/31/2026
In person

Roland Hatzenpichler
Montana State University

Welcome to the EBI & Announcement of EBI fellowship competition
09/07/2026
Virtual

Cybele Collins

University of Rhode Island

Carbon cycling in a serpentinizing groundwater system
09/14/2026
In person
John Spear
Colorado School of Mines

Life on the Edge of a Yellowstone Hotspring = Life On Early Earth?
09/21/2026
Virtual
Amanda Bendia

Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

Hot life in Antarctica
09/28/2026
Virtual

Sarah Gonzalez Henao

Michigan State University

Exploring Habitability and Life Detection: Insights from Microbial Biofilms in Serpentinizing Environments
10/05/2026
Virtual

Luis Valentín Alvarado

Monash University, Australia

Evolutionary conflicts involving nucleic acid enzymes
10/12/2026
Virtual
Rafael Laso Pérez

Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain

Antimicrobial Resistance by metaGenomics Overview in a Sewage system (ARGOS)
10/19/2026
Virtual
Tristan Caro

Caltech

Dissolved inorganic carbon supports robust anabolism and methanogenesis in actively serpentinizing rocks
10/26/2026
Virtual
Reinier Egas

Radboud University, The Netherlands

Carbon monoxide and mobile genetic elements redefine metabolic flexibility in ANME archaea
11/02/2026
Virtual
Robin Rower

University of Texas

Real-time bacterial evolution in a 20-year lake time series
11/09/2026
In person
Jeremy Dodsworth

CSU San Bernardino

Insights into novel thermophiles from US Great Basin hot springs
11/16/2026
In person
George Schaible

UC Santa Barbara

Life in the fast lane: ultrafast motility and collective behavior in Thiovulum
11/30/2026
In person
Sylvia Nupp

Montana State University

PhD defense
12/07/2026
Virtual
Matti Zbinden

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Who meets whom, where, how often, and what results from it? Quantifying microbial interactions by a look through the encounter perspective
12/14/2026
In person
TBI fellows

Montana State University

EBI-funded research in fall 2026

For speaker suggestions, contact Roland Hatzenpichler