2025 Bodega Marine Laboratory Seminar Recordings

These are recordings of previous seminars. View upcoming seminars here.

"Negative biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships in the context of microbial community assembly"

Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler - Associate Professor, Cal Poly Humboldt September 24th, 2025

"Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolutionary Innovation"

Holly Moeller - Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara - September 17th, 2025

"Warming seawater and disease in iconic crustacean fisheries"

Maya Groner - Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences - September 3rd, 2025

“Dynamic Seascapes: Feedbacks Between Habitat-Forming Species and the Communities They Host”

Adrian Stier - Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara August 27th, 2025

“Oxylipin chemical signaling across trophic levels and ecosystems”

Bethanie Edwards - Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley - August 13th, 2025

“Does the thermal environment induce transgenerational plasticity in the porcelain crab, Petrolisthes cinctipes?”

Jonathon Stillman - Professor & Adjunct Professor, San Francisco State University & UC Berkeley  - August 6th, 2025

“Causes and consequences of variation in fish movement strategies”

Hank Baker - Postdoc, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley - July 30th, 2025

"Understanding how diverse and productive freshwater habitats contribute to species resilience in the Anthropocene"

Rob Lusardi - Assistant Professor, Dept of Wildlife Fish and Conservation Biology, UC Davis June 18th, 2025

“Integrating New Tools and Approaches into an Environmental Monitoring Program in California”

Bushra Khan - Project Scientist, UC Davis Marine Pollution Studies Laboratory at Granite Canyon June 11th, 2025

“Unraveling the Eelgrass Microbiome: From Controlled Lab Experiments to Field-Scale Patterns”

Dr. Gina M. Chaput - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of California Davis June 4th, 2025

"Advancing Realistic Chemical Risk Assessment: Evaluating Relevant Mixtures and Soil Test Species for Environmental Protection"

Kayode Jegede - Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension for Agric Toxicology, UC Davis May 28th, 2025

“Sabotaging Gatekeeper Proteins: Revealing the Molecular Mechanisms of Seafood Contamination by Legacy Pollutants”

Sascha Nicklisch - Assistant Professor, UC Davis - Department of Environmental Toxicology May 21st, 2025

“Observing the open to coastal ocean with profiling floats and underwater gliders” 

Speaker: Yui Takeshita - Scientist, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) April 30th, 2025 
 

“Lagrangian observations of the biological carbon pump” 

Speaker: Melissa Omand - Associate Professor, University of Rhode Island, Graduate School of Oceanography May 7th, 2025