# Past Events Sort & Filters close ## Filters Events expand\_more - Academic Calendar (23) - Public Lectures (9) - Colloquium Lectures (66) - Dissertation Defenses (17) - Julia Booms Lectures (6) Research expand\_more - Behavioral Bio & Cultural Evolution (4) - Evolution & Anatomy (3) - Genetics & Genomics (5) - Physiology (1) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 156 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by Alphabetical A-ZChronological sort list grid\_view ## 156 results [### Dissertation Defense: "High-Quality Diets and Endurance Russing as Ecological Drivers that Shape Human Gut Microbial Structure and Function" ](/event/dissertation-defense-high-quality-diets-and-endurance-russing-ecological-drivers-shape-human)May 7, 2026 | 11:00AM - 12:00PM EDT | DeVore Room Hybrid HEB grad student Emily Venable will defend her dissertation entitled "High-Quality Diets and Endurance Russing as Ecological Drivers that Shape Human Gut Microbial Structure and Function". Summary: My dissertation studies gut microbiome responses to two... ![Emily Venable defense poster](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Screenshot%202026-04-30%20101330.png?h=e68d1fc4&itok=KCgpptPL) [### HEB Spring 2026 Colloquium Series: Dr. Franck Polleux ](/event/heb-spring-2026-colloquium-series-dr-franck-polleux)April 30, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT | Haller Hall In Person Dr. Franck Polleux is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University in the Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind, Brain, Behavior Institute. Throughout his career, Dr Polleux has focused on the identification of the molecular mechanisms... ![FranckPolleux](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2026-03/portrait_FranckPolleux_medium%20%281%29.jpg?itok=9-2bj3bP) [### (Rescheduled) HEB Spring 2026 Colloquium Series: Dr. Carrie Mongle ](/event/rescheduled-heb-spring-2026-colloquium-series-dr-carrie-mongle)April 23, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT | Haller Hall In Person This talk is cancelled, however, we will be rescheduling for Fall! Dr. Carrie Mongle is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Turkana Basin Institute at Stony Brook University. Her research aims to reconstruct the major trends and... ![Carrie Mongle and dog](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Carrie%20Mongle%20photo.jpg?h=76f2671c&itok=O2NgT-NZ) [### Dissertation Defense: "A Canine Window into Human Evolution: Brain Morphology, Asymmetry, and Plasticity" ](/event/dissertation-defense-canine-window-human-evolution-brain-morphology-asymmetry-and-plasticity)April 16, 2026 | 9:00AM - 10:00AM EDT | Haller Hall Hybrid HEB grad student Sophie Barton will defend her dissertation entitled "A Canine Window into Human Evolution: Brain Morphology, Asymmetry, and Plasticity". Abstract: A central challenge in evolutionary neuroscience is understanding how selection on behavior... ![Barton Dissertation Flyer 4-16-26.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Barton%20Dissertation%20Flyer%204-16-26.png?h=d3d6ebf7&itok=BcpPIJ0b) [### HEB Julia Booms Memorial Lecture: Dr. Kate Clancy ](/event/heb-julia-booms-memorial-lecture-dr-kate-clancy)April 9, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT | Haller Hall In Person Talk title: Period: The Real Story of Menstruation Roughly half the world will spend a large percentage of their lives menstruating. And yet menstruation is poorly understood and often stigmatized, largely erased from public life and polite conversation... ![photo of Kate Clancy](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-04/Kate%20Clancy%204348_0.jpg?itok=S-uR7pNp) [### Harvard Anthropology Roundtable Discussion ](/event/harvard-anthropology-roundtable-discussion)April 6, 2026 | 1:00PM EDT | Tozzer Rm. 203 In Person **Changing the Landscape of Archaeological Publishing -** The current issue of *Current Anthropology* includes an article co-authored by four current members of the Department of Anthropology and HEB, as well as some other former department members. Given the... ![current anthropology journal cover](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_scale_small/public/2026-03/ca.jpg?itok=sVyEbSZk) [### HEB Spring 2026 Colloquium Series: Dr. Jonathan H. Epstein ](/event/heb-spring-2026-colloquium-series-dr-jonathan-h-epstein)March 26, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM EDT | Haller Hall In Person Dr. Jonathan H. Epstein , a veterinarian and epidemiologist, is a global leader in developing strategic partnerships among government, private sector, NGO and academic research institutions. For over 25 years, he has applied an evidence-based... ![Epstein headshot 2025](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Epstein%20headshot%202025.jpg?h=4fb5906d&itok=08sPcOij) [### Visiting Speaker: Tyler Kukla, CarbonPlan ](/event/visiting-speaker-tyler-kukla-carbonplan)March 24, 2026 | 12:00PM - 1:00PM EDT | Geo Museum 375 In Person This conversation will also have a focus on providing grad students and postdocs an example of applied research in the earth sciences that is aimed at addressing climate change. This is an informal talk open to the EPS and HEB departments. All are welcome... ![Harvard-EPS-talk-flyer-Tyler-Kukla](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Harvard-EPS-talk-flyer-Tyler-Kukla-1-1024x791.png?h=8a8fe466&itok=_1qV-K8a) [### HEB Spring 2026 Colloquium Series: Dr. Rachna Reddy ](/event/heb-spring-2026-colloquium-series-dr-rachna-reddy)February 26, 2026 | 3:00PM - 4:00PM EST | Haller Hall In Person Dr. Rachna Reddy is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Utah and current Radcliffe Fellow. Talk Title: The Nature of Adolescence Abstract: Humans have a multi-year life stage that begins with pubertal onset and ends with a shift into... ![Rachna Reddy](/sites/g/files/omnuum1771/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2026-03/Reddy%20Headshot.JPEG?itok=yBAC4zfd) [### HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Janet Song ](/event/heb-spring-2024-colloquium-series-dr-janet-song)February 22, 2024 | 3:00PM - 4:30PM EST | Bio Labs 1080 In Person Janet Song is a HHMI Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Christopher Walsh at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She received her Ph.D. in Genetics with Dr. David Kingsley at Stanford University and her A.B. in Chemical and... event [### HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Ipsita Agarwal ](/event/heb-spring-2024-colloquium-series-dr-ipsita-agarwal)February 15, 2024 | 3:00PM - 4:30PM EST | Bio Labs 1080 In Person Ipsita Agarwal earned her Ph.D. in Biological Sciences at Columbia University,and is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Statistics at the University of Oxford. Her research aims to understand the processes by which germline mutations... event [### HEB Spring 2024 Colloquium Series: Dr. Richard She ](/event/heb-spring-2024-colloquium-series-dr-richard-she)February 12, 2024 | 3:00PM - 4:30PM EST | Geo 102- Haller Hall In Person Richard She is a postdoctoral fellow in Jonathan Weissman's lab at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Science. 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