Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Week Seminars
The annual seminar is sponsored by Virginia Tech’s Department of Biological Sciences in the College of Science, which invites internationally renowned scientists who can present their work to the broader scientific community at Virginia Tech as well as express the importance of diversity and the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in their own research and experience. The event is part of a weeklong series celebrating King at Virginia Tech.
Friday 24 January 2025
Dr. Gentry N. Patrick
“A Tale of Neuroscience and Social Justice: How Separate Journeys Became One"
Friday 20 January 2023
Dr. C. Brandon Obugnu
"Living, Learning, & Adaptive Landscapes: How Evolutionary Biology Can Help us Navigate it All"
Friday 21 Jan 2022
Dr. Karine Gibbs
"Micro-crowdsourcing: How swarming bacteria integrate signals to build communities"
Friday 22 Jan 2021
Dr. Bryan Dewsbury
“Intelligence plus character – Education as Force for Liberation”
Friday 25 January 2010
“Harnessing virus biodiversity to develop new therapies against multi-drug resistant bacteria”
Friday 19 January 2018
"Genes or Gene Regulation? Understanding the Evolutionary Genetics of Flightlessness in Birds"
Friday 20 January 2017
"From Silent Spring to Silent Night: A Tale of Toads and Men"
Thursday 21 January 2026
"Dissecting the Molecular Mechanisms of Vocal Learning and Spoken Language: A Personal Journey from a Diversity Perspective"
Drs. Sharon and Craig Ramey
Thursday 22 January 2015: "Poverty, Biology, and Health: Will the Circle be Unbroken?"
Friday 23 January 2015: "The Civil Rights of Health, Education, and Biology: MLK's Enduring Legacy"
Dr. Yvonne Reid
Thursday 23 January 2014: "HeLa cells and Biomedical Research: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly"
Friday 24 January 2014: "Misidentification of Animal Cell Lines: Impact on Research"
Thursday 24 January 2013
"Genomic Medicine: Views from the Mountain Top and the Valley"
Thursday 19 January 2012
"The Color of the Land - The Search for African-American Land Ethic in South Carolina and Beyond"