Biology

Jewell Stillman, ESBI

“The Effects of Salinity on Vermont Freshwater Fish Traits” 

Forensic Anthropology & The Art of Making the Dead tell their Tales - Solving a 3,000 year old Mystery

Public Lecture: The Fats of Life - The Metabolic Origins of Neurodegeneration 

Bio: Dr Corthalis is an associated professor and multidisciplinary researcher with a broad and extensive background in biomedical science and biological/forensic anthropology. This expertise is unique and encompasses a wide range of research areas, with a specific focus on the critical connection between neurodegeneration, cell stressors, and the metabolism of carbohydrates and lipids. 

“Thinking locally while acting globally: community forest conservation in Mexico’s Yucatán”

All are welcome to attend poster presentations as the culmination of the 2026 Limno-STOICH Database Conference supported by midd.data and the National Science Foundation. Aquatic ecologists from a range of institutions and Middlebury College students enrolled in BIOL 304 Aquatic Ecology will present on database-driven research they have done related to the field of ecological stoichiometry in aquatic ecosystems. Light refreshments will be provided.

More information here.

Mishal Lalani
“Saving Smiles One Protein at a Time: Targeting SloR in S. mutans”

Anabell Cloney
“Proteins have a Social Life: What is SloR’s relationship with the Streptococcus mutans Clp proteasome?”

Ryan Mauney
“Development of Electroporation and Fluorescent Live-Cell Imaging in the Chytrid Fungus Allomyces macrogynus”

Elly Tuffey
“An Assessment of Mercury Accumulation in Different Forest Types”

Sarah Case
“Determining the regulatory role of Tre6P in nectar production in Arabidopsis thaliana.”

Jordan Gardener
“The Effects of Testosterone on Place & Response Learning and BDNF Signaling”

Anna Cerveny
“Distribution and Morphology of Chemosensory Hairs in a Model Butterfly”

Isabel Pentony
“Molecular Mechanisms of Plant-Pollinator Interactions in Cucurbita pepo.”

Ariel Zhang
“Testing the island rule using an introduced population of muskrats in the Gulf of Maine”

Claire Ellerbrook
“Using stable isotope analysis to assess carnivore diet in the northeast”

Asha Kannan
“Optimizing Bryophytes and Biocrusts in a Dryland Carbon Cycling Model”

Lauren Marsala
“Impacts of cyanobacteria symbiosis on desiccation and ecophysiological stress tolerance of Syntrichia caninervis.”

Please join the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth and Climate Sciences, Geography, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Neuroscience, Physics, and Psychology for a reception celebrating graduates in these disciplines. 

The following departments invite grads and their guests to join them in the locations listed below.

Biology | Great Hall | 2:00-3:15 pm
Chemistry | Great Hall | 2:00-3:15 pm
Molecular Biology and Biochemistry | Great Hall | 2:00-3:15 pm

Earth and Climate Sciences | MBH 417 | 2:30-3:15 pm

Geography | Great Hall | 3:45-5:00 pm
Neuroscience | Great Hall | 3:45-5:00 pm
Physics | Great Hall | 3:45-5:00 pm
Psychology | Great Hall | 3:45-5:00 pm