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EVOxZankou Seminar
Featuring Felicity Meakins, University of Queensland
“Modeling Time and Space in the Emergence of New Dialects”
-Felicity Meakins, Professor of Linguistics, University of Queensland
Thursday, May 7, 2026
12:00pm-1:30pm
Chen 130
Thank you to our generous seminar sponsor, ZANKOU CHICKEN!
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Mark your calendar for upcoming Seminars!
Special Seminar
Thursday, May 21, 2026, 4:00pm-5:00pm
Chen 130
Florian Maderspacher, Senior Scientific Editor,
Current Biology
EZ
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Kian Faizi, BBE
EZ
Thursday, July 23, 2026
Viridiana Avila-Magaña, BBE
"Sweet Talk: Bacterial small RNAs as Key Mediators of Inter-Kingdom Communication in the Bobtail Squid"
Thomas Adamo-Schmidt, BBE
Passive drive: Harnessing evolutionary pressure as a non-transgenic method for removing conjugative virulent plasmids"
EZ
Thursday, August 20, 2026
Speakers TBD
Give a talk at EZ Seminar!
EVOxZANKOU Seminar is a monthly seminar series highlighting evolution research being done in labs across campus. EZ Seminar features Caltech faculty, postdocs, and students along with occasional guest speakers. For this informal talk series presentation of unpublished or preliminary work is encouraged. EZ Seminar is a forum for the discussion of ideas and findings, however provisional.
Please
email Leah
if you would like to give a talk at EZ!
Past CES Events
April 16, 2026
EVOxZankou Seminar, Camryn Lee and Kaihang Wang
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March 12, 2026
EVOxZankou Seminar, Carlos Taboada
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February 19, 2026
EVOxZankou Seminar, Megan Barkdull,
Assistant Curator, Entomology, Natural History Museum LA County
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January 21, 2026
Special seminar, Geerat Vermeij, The Nature of History: Chance, Contingency, and the Reality of Historical Principles
January 8, 2026
EVOxZankou Seminar, Lior Pachter, Conner Wells
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2025 Event Photos
Event List
December 11, 2025
EVOxZankou Seminar, Rory Coleman, NYU
November 20, 2025
EVOxZankou Seminar, Nikhila Swarna and Calvin Rusley
October 2, 2025
EVOxZankou Seminar, Jaeda Patton and Ling Loh
September 19, 2025
EVOxZankou Seminar, Catherine Felce and Stuart Bartlett
August 14, 2025
EVOxZankou Seminar, Philip Woods and Daniel Utter
July 17, 2025
EVOxZankou Seminar, Xiaoyu Shan and Duncan Chadly
June 26, 2025
EVOxZankou Seminar, Betty Hong and Arjuna Subramanian
May 8, 2025
EVOxZankou Seminar, Joani Viliunas and Martin Tran
April 7, 2025
EVOxZankou Seminar, Ben Matthews, UBC
March 13, 2025
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Jess Kanwal
February 12, 2025
Evolution of Organismal Systems Symposium
Jasmine Nirody, Matthew Fuxjager, Natasha Mhatre, Michael Dickinson
2024 Event Photos
Event List
December 12, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, John McCutcheon
November 14, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Hannah Way and Jan Stundl
October 3, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Frances Arnold
September 12, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Matt Pennell, USC and Joe Ouadah
June 6, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Haoyu Li, Georg Oberhofer and Michelle Johnson
May 31, 2024
Southern California Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics (SCaLE) Meeting
May 9, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Avi Flamholz and Joe Parker
April 11, 2024
EVOxZANKOU Seminar, Alex Cohen and Tom Naragon
CES Photo Archive
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