Our Biology Seminar Series continues in Fall 2025! We will host seminars on a wide range of biology topics. Seminars are on Tuesdays at 4:10 p.m. in Schimmel/Conrades Science Center 163. As always, there will be snacks and drinks!

Dr. Molly Womack

September 2, 2025
"The Skin and Bones of Frog Evolution"

Assistant Professor at Cornell University

 

See the Womack Lab Website

Dr. Jennifer Bennett

September 16, 2025
"Mutant Messages: Characterizing New Genes in Streptomyces Bacteria"

Associate Professor at Otterbein University

See more about Dr. Bennett's Research

Josh Pletcher '21

October 28, 2025
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Host: Integrating Parasite Phylogenies Reveals Waves of Intercontinental Migration in Pikas"

Master's Student, Northern Michigan University

Dr. Samantha Fontaine

***Postponed to Spring 2026***
"Small but Mighty: The Role of Microbes in the Biology of Amphibians and Reptiles"

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Kent State University

Learn more about Dr Fontaine's Research

Department Contact Info

Location

Schimmel/Conrades Science Center 201
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware, OH 43015

P 740-368-3907
F 740-368-3999
E almoore@owu.edu

Department Contacts

Chair: Dustin Reichard
Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences
Schimmel/Conrades Science Center 312
740-368-2890 |  dgreicha@owu.edu

Academic Assistant: Angela Moore
Schimmel/Conrades Science Center 201
740-368-3907 | almoore@owu.edu