David C. Lahti, Ph.D., biology professor at Queens College, CUNY, will be discussing his bird song research at the Department of Biological Science's weekly colloquium. Refreshments to follow.

J. Alan Clark, Ph.D., J.D., of Fordham's Department of Biological Sciences, will speak about his research on penguin social behavior and applications to conservation. All are welcome. Refreshments to follow.

Speaker: James Curley, PhD, assistant professor of psychology at Columbia University, will present “Social Plasticity and Flexibility in Mouse Social Networks.”

Speaker: Francis S. Lee, MD, PhD, professor of psychiatry at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, will present “Sensitive Periods in Affective Development: Nonlinear Maturation of Fear Learning.”

Speaker: Claudia Wultsch, PhD, postdoctoral research scientist with Panthera.org, will talk about the use of sniffer dogs to help monitor jaguars and other wild cats in Central America.

Speaker: Eric Nestler, MD, PhD, Nash Family Professor and Chair of Neuroscience and director of the Friedman Brain Institute at the Ichan School of Medicine, will present “Transcriptional and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Depression.”

Speaker: Suzanne Macey, PhD, science editorial fellow for the Networks of Conservation Educators and Practitioners and biodiversity scientist at the American Museum of Natural History, will present “Bog Turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) Nesting Ecology: Implications for Conservation and Management.”

Speaker: Michael Tessler, doctoral candidate at the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History, will present “Microcomputed tomography as a tool for Leech Taxonomy.”

Speaker: Julie Herbstman, PhD, assistant professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University, will present “DNA Methylation and the Challenge of Linking Prenatal Exposures to Neurodevelopment.” Refreshments will follow.