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SUMMARY:Darwin Day at A-State Museum
DESCRIPTION:The Darwin Day activities at Arkansas State University kick off with an exhibit at A-State Museum\, located at 320 University Loop\, inside Dean B. Ellis Library. \nJONESBORO – This year\, the Darwin Day activities at Arkansas State University kick off with an exhibit at A-State Museum\, located at 320 University Loop\, inside Dean B. Ellis Library. \n“The exhibit will feature fossils and specimens of different plants and animals that no longer live in Arkansas\, and in some cases\, no longer live anywhere on earth\,” said Dr. Drew Sweet\, associate professor of evolutionary biology. \nSweet said that Arkansas once looked very different from what it does now\, and the exhibit will showcase how both plant and animal life have changed. \n“The exhibit will also focus on some plants and animals that are not extinct yet\, but are not doing very well. We still have time to save them\, but we need people to be aware\,” added Sweet. \nThe exhibit will be open from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday\, Feb. 9\, through Saturday\, Feb. 28. \nA panel discussion\, Darwin Day: Extinction and De-Extinction\, will be held from 4 – 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday\, Feb. 11\, in room 157 of A-State Museum. \n“Organisms have been going extinct at an increasingly faster rate over the last several centuries\,” Sweet continued. “One approach to counteracting high extinction rates is ‘de-extinction\,’ which seeks to use cutting-edge biotechnology to resurrect previously extinct species. However\, some approaches to de-extinction are controversial\, and it is important to have discussions about the ethics of these approaches.” \nThis panel discussion will feature experts from the A-State community\, including biologists and philosophers. \nOn Thursday\, Feb. 12\, the keynote speaker for the Darwin Day events will speak on “The Elephant from Heaven and the Chicken from Hell: Does De-extinction Make Sense?” This event will be held from 5 – 6:30 p.m. in the auditorium of A-State Museum. \nDr. Gregory Kaebnick\, director of the research department and editor of the Hastings Center Report at the Hastings Center for Bioethics\, will speak about ethical issues surrounding the resurrection of previously extinct species. \nThose who cannot attend the event in person can still attend online: https://RedWolv.es/DeExtinct.
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/darwin-day-at-a-state-museum/
LOCATION:Arkansas State University\,  101 North Caraway Road\, Jonesboro\, AR\, 72401\, United States
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SUMMARY:Darwin Week 2026
DESCRIPTION:This is a weeklong event where various biology-related events are organized such as\,\n1. Connections – this is a game type event related to biology\n2. Biology quiz – this is a themed biology quiz\n3. WHO-MUN – this is a mun taken WHO as its setting and Biological problems are the agenda\n4. treasure hunt – this is a campus wide treasure hunt which has questions having a biological twist to them\n5. guest talk – we have guest talk from an esteemed professor in india for the students\n6. movie screening – a movie is screened for the students which have a biological angle\n7. bio-hackathon – a hackathon is organized which have biological questions
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/darwin-week-2026/
LOCATION:Indian INstitute of Science Education and Research Mohali\, Sector 81 SAS Nagar Knowledge City\, Mohali\, Punjab\, 140306\, India
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SUMMARY:2026 Darwin Festival
DESCRIPTION:Salem State’s annual Darwin FestivalSM is a weeklong event that celebrates the work of Charles Darwin\, with sessions from leading researchers celebrating the field of biology and its impact on today’s world. \n2026 Darwin Festival\nThe 2025 Darwin FestivalSM will take place Tuesday\, February 10 through Friday\, February 13. \nAll in-person talks will be held in Vets Hall\, Ellison Campus Center\, North Campus. One talk is webinar only. Events are free and open to the public. \nStudents and guests who anticipate needing accommodations due to a disability or who have questions about access may contact the Center for Accessible Academic Resources at access@salemstate.edu or Ryan Fisher for more information. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuesday\, February 10\n\n\n\n10:50 am \n\nDavid Shiffman (webinar)\, Interdisciplinary marine conservation biologist\, David Shiffman Scientific and Environmental Consulting\, Washington\, DC  \n“Why everything you know about shark conservation is wrong: an interdisciplinary look at public misunderstanding of conservation science” \nSharks are some of the most ecologically important\, most threatened\, and most misunderstood animals on Earth. If we are to avoid extinction of animals that have been around since before trees existed on land\, strong conservation protections based on evidence and data are an urgent necessity. Fortunately\, more people care about the environment and want to help than ever before. Unfortunately\, ocean conservation discussions are plagued by misinformation\, pseudoscience\, and extremism. In this talk\, Dr. David Shiffman will present some key results from his decade of work trying to understand the causes and consequences of public misunderstanding of ocean conservation threats and their solutions. Where did so many people learn wrong information about these important topics\, and what can experts do to get things moving in the right way? \nSponsored by the Biology Department. \n  \n12:15 pm\nShaina Sadai (Geography and Sustainability Speaker)\, Climate Scientist and Critical Physical Geographer\, Five College Associate\, MA \n“Sea Level Rise and Multispecies Climate Justice” \nClimate change is causing sea levels to rise at an accelerating rate\, impacting shorelines around the world. The long-term impacts will occur over generations and will be highly spatially variable along coastlines. Sea level rise impacts and adaptation responses vary geographically and affect all who dwell in or move through coastal spaces. The emerging lens of multispecies climate justice allows us to look deeper into the interrelated ecologies of climate impacts by considering a broad assessment of interrelated beings and ecosystems. This talk will discuss research on the global impacts of sea level rise on nonhuman animals\, and implications for advancing multispecies climate justice. This work was a collaborative project with my former undergraduate students Ava Sharpe\, Rory Crisfield\, Libby Rankin\, and Caitlin Bolzan. \nSponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, February 11\n\n\n9:25 am\nJayne Yack (BioSociety Speaker–webinar)\, Professor\, Carleton University \n“The Final Frontier: Exploring the Vibratory Worlds of Insects” \nInsects live in a vibratory world\, where substrate-borne vibrations are a key component of their sensory ecology. Historically considered a private and specialized communication channel\, vibratory sensing and communication is now recognized as widespread and ecologically relevant to many organisms. Insects inhabit complex vibroscapes where they experience substrate-borne vibrations arising from multiple biotic and abiotic sources\, which together create a rich and dynamic vibratory landscape. I will talk about my laboratory’s research on the complex vibroscapes of birch trees\, and specifically\, their caterpillar residents. Although previously thought to be primarily deaf and mute\, we now have burgeoning evidence that caterpillars and other larval insects employ a wide range of complex sounds and vibrations in their daily activities. I will talk about how caterpillars use vibrations to engage in territorial ‘rap’ battles\, coordinate social activities\, and fend off enemies. I will also discuss unexpected insights we have gained from studying these unassuming creatures in their vibratory worlds\, including the evolutionary origins of animal communication signals and proximate mechanisms underlying sociality. It can be concluded that the vibroacoustic landscape of insects remains unchartered territory ripe for further exploration and discovery! \nSponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust. \n\n12:15 pm\nDana Reuter (Geological Sciences speaker)\, Visting Lecturer\, Department of Geological Sciences\, Salem State University\n“Investigating the influence of diet on mammalian evolution: are you what you eat?”\nDarwin well knew that climate and its effects on food availability in the environment played a major role in natural selection. In the almost 200 years since his writings\, we have learned much more about how an animal’s diet is linked to almost every other aspect of its ecology and evolution. As a paleontologist\, I use a variety of methods to test hypotheses about the ecological links among extinct taxa and their environment. By both looking at the fossil record and modern animals\, we can better understand the processes that govern organismal diet\, ecological diversity\, and changes in ecological communities. In this talk\, I will discuss insights from several projects that have aimed to answer the question: how has diet influenced mammalian evolution and extinction through time? \nSponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, February 12\n\n\n9:25 am\nLynn Fletcher\, Professor\, Department of Biology\, Salem State University \n“Evolving Worldviews and their Impacts: Bringing in Indigenous Perspectives” \nWorldviews shape our relationship to the life around us.  Today’s ecological crisis is primarily driven by human activity\, leaving us with the impression that humans inherently have a negative impact on the planet.  However\, indigenous cultures have persisted for millennia\, living in ways that promote biodiversity and create conditions of mutual thriving.  We’ll discuss some of the values held in Indigenous worldviews and see how humans can have a positive impact on the world around them! \nSponsored by the Charles Albert Read Trust. \n\n10:50 am\nLeigh Ann Henion (webinar)\, New York Times Bestselling Author\, Journalist & Award Winner\, Author of Night Magic \n“Appreciating the Magic of Natural Night” \nLeigh Ann Henion is the New York Times bestselling author of Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms\, Moon Gardens\, and Other Marvels of the Dark (2024) and Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer’s Search for Wonder in the Natural World (2015). Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post\, Smithsonian\, Backpacker\, Garden & Gun\, National Geographic\, Men’s Journal\, and a variety of other publications. Her essays and articles have been cited as notable in The Best American Essays\, The Best American Travel Writing\, The Best American Sports Writing\, and The Best American Science & Nature Writing. She is a former Alicia Patterson Fellow\, and her work has been supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. \nNight Magic was\, in part\, inspired by an article Henion wrote for The Washington Post Magazine about synchronous fireflies. After that piece ran\, many readers reached out to let her know that they’d started turning off their porch lights more often\, and she was amazed that her story had inspired real-world action that led to reduced light pollution. Henion subsequently spent several years in the company of owls\, moths\, salamanders\, and other nocturnal creatures to explore the importance of natural darkness in an age of increasing artificial light. \nThe Wall Street Journal called Night Magic\, “lovely…truly inspired…and very clever.” In a starred review\, Kirkus said\, “Henion writes with poetic grace.” And Publishers Weekly reported\, “Henion’s greatest gift is her ability to evoke the sense of wonder that follows from tuning in to the natural world. This will fill readers with awe.” Henion aims to continually inspire awe\, both in person and on the page. \nSponsored by the Biology Department\, the College of Arts and Sciences\, and the Charles Albert Read Trust. \n  \n1:40 pm\nErica Polleys\, Ph.D. (Sigma Xi Speaker) Assistant Professor of Bioengineering and Biotechnology\, Endicott College \n“A genomic threat: How repetitive DNAs cause DNA damage and mutations” \nSponsored by the Biology Department. \n  \nAlumni-Student Social\nPlease consider joining us for an alumni-student evening from 6:30-9 pm Thursday evening in the commuter lounge of the Ellison Campus Center. For questions and to RSVP\, please contact Ryan Fisher. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFriday\, February 13\n\n\n9:25 am\nLindsay Green-Gavrielidis\, Associate Professor\, Department of Biology\, Salem State University \n“Evolving Ecosystems: Seaweeds in a Changing Climate” \nWhen most people visit the seashore and decide to poke around to look at organisms\, they are typically focused on the animals and especially the ones they see moving. While seaweeds might be overlooked by many\, they form the base of most marine ecosystems. Habitat-forming seaweeds are those that form the three-dimensional structure of coastal habitats and include many species of rockweeds and kelps. Due to the combined effects of climate change\, especially increased sea surface temperature\, the abundance and distribution of habitat-forming seaweeds have been changing. These changes are likely to cause ripple effects through entire coastal marine ecosystems that may affect which species are present and in what quantities. In this talk\, Dr. Green-Gavrielidis will share research on how habitat-forming seaweeds in the northwest Atlantic are changing\, and offer a glimpse at what may be local adaptation in seaweed populations to changing conditions. Dr. Green-Gavrielidis will also highlight findings from other temperate regions and propose future research areas to better understand the complexity of the response of seaweeds to climate change stressors. \nSponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific. \n\n10:50 am\nJames Elliott (Alumni Speaker) Process Development Scientist\, New England Biolabs \n“Of Moose and Men: Evolutionary Threads in Wildlife Disease and Vaccine Manufacturing” \nMoose calves (Alces alces americana) in northern climates face substantial nutritional stress during winter\, and many carry extraordinary winter tick (Dermacentor albipictus) burdens—sometimes exceeding 90\,000 ticks per animal. To date\, nearly 400 collared calves and 51 adult cows in northern Maine have been examined for how co-infection with an uncharacterized Anaplasma bacteria and varying winter tick loads influences survival and fitness. Calves experiencing both Anaplasma blood infection and moderate to heavy tick loads showed a marked reduction in overwinter survival probability. Physiological indicators suggest that Anaplasma infection contributes to anemia and may alter immune function. These findings highlight how co-infecting parasites compound stress in a population already challenged by climate-driven tick proliferation\, underscoring the importance of genetic and ecological monitoring for a species of major cultural\, ecological\, and economic significance in Maine. \nThe second section part of the talk shifts to the molecular manufacturing landscape during the COVID-19 pandemic\, detailing an Alumni’s journey to being a part of how New England Biolabs mobilized to support Moderna’s mRNA vaccine program. I describe the rapid scaling and manufacturing process development of critical enzymatic reagents and the collaborative problem-solving required to maintain uninterrupted access to high-quality raw materials essential for vaccine production. This high level behind-the-scenes view illustrates how industrial biotechnology can respond with speed and precision when the stakes are global. \nSponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nFounded in 1980 by Philip A. DePalma and Virginia F. Keville. \nQuestions?\nStudents and guests who anticipate needing accommodations due to a disability or who have questions about access may contact the Center for Accessible Academic Resources at access@salemstate.edu. \nInterested in the 2025 Darwin FestivalSM? Contact Ryan Fisher for more information. \nPast Darwin Festival Recordings\nVideo recordings of Darwin FestivalSM presentations are available in the Salem State Digital Repository. \nThank You to Our Supporters\nMajor support for the Darwin FestivalSM comes from the Charles Albert Read Trust and Thermo Fisher Scientific.
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/2026-darwin-festival/
LOCATION:Salem State University\, 352 Lafayette Street\, Salem\, MA\, 01970\, United States
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SUMMARY:Darwin Days 2026
DESCRIPTION:Darwin Days 2026 explores the marvelous world of mollusks\, evolution education\, and more!\nFebruary 10th – 14th\nDarwin Day is an annual\, international commemoration of the birthday and ideas of Charles Darwin\, a British naturalist born February 12\, 1809\, and author of the seminal book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. \nThe first organized Darwin Day events took place in 1995\, and were organized by the Humanist Community of Palo Alto\, California. The years since have seen Darwin Day celebrations around the world increasing annually at a steady rate. \nIn 2006\, the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth\, in collaboration with Cornell University and Ithaca College\, celebrated the first official Darwin Days in Ithaca\, New York\, with a five-day series of panel discussions\, film screenings\, speakers\, and workshops\, aimed at increasing awareness of Darwin’s theory and its relevance today\, in the Ithaca community and beyond. \nJoin us this year from February 10- 14 to celebrate the work of Charles Darwin and the study of evolution. In 2026\, Darwin Days dives into the remarkable story of mollusk evolution\, inspired by PRI’s special exhibition at the Museum of the Earth\, Marvellous Mollusks: The Secret World of Shells. \nFrom film and conversation to hands-on family fun\, join us as we explore how these extraordinary animals have adapted\, diversified\, and thrived for hundreds of millions of years.
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/darwin-days-2026/
LOCATION:Paleontological Research Institution\, 1259 Trumansburg Road\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Paleontological Research Institution":MAILTO:marketing@priweb.org
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SUMMARY:Evolution Day 2026 at the Essig Museum
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the Essig Museum celebrates the birthdays of Charles Darwin (February 12th\, 1809)\, Alfred Russel Wallace (January 8th\, 1823)\, and Henry Bates (February 8th\, 1825) with special behind-the-scenes tours of our collection in the Valley Life Sciences Building (VLSB). Join us for a special look at our collections featuring beetles collected by Darwin during his Voyage of the Beagle. We will also take a closer look at adaptations – traits that evolved over millions of years to help insects obtain food\, avoid predators\, and find mates. \nMuseum Tours will begin at 12pm\, 1pm\, 2pm\, 3pm\, and 4pm from the foot of the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in VLSB. \nWe will be limiting the number of people in our small exhibit space\, so reserve your free tickets with Eventbrite. Note: There are multiple tour times – check the Select Date and Time options on Eventbrite to choose a time slot.
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/evolution-day-2026-at-the-essig-museum/
LOCATION:UC Berkeley Essig Museum\, 1170 Valley Life Science Building\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Darwin Day: Wehner Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a day celebrating the life of Charles Darwin. There will be a keynote address\, student talks and posters. More information as the event approaches! Students interested in presenting can submit their information through the Darwin Day: Wehner Research Symposium Participation form (to be posted soon). \nSchedule of Events – Coming Soon \nMore information can be found on the symposium website.
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/darwin-day-wehner-research-symposium/
LOCATION:Montclair State University\, 1 Normal Ave.\, Montclair\, NJ\, 07043\, United States
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SUMMARY:Darwin Day 2026: Innovations In Science
DESCRIPTION:Innovations in Science\nThe Department of Biological Sciences and the Jurica-Suchy Nature Museum at Benedictine University present:\nInnovations in Science – An Educational One-Day Lecture Event Highlighting Science Innovations \nFaculty Speakers:\nDr. Phil Novack-Gottshall\nDr. Rob McCarthy\nDr. Cheryl Heinz \nThe Dr. Alfred Martin Distinguished Keynote Address:\nThomas Sanger\, PhD\, Associate Professor of Evolutionary and Developmental Biology\, Loyola University Chicago\n“The Hidden (and not so hidden) world of Sexual Diversity” \n*Sponsored by the Father Cyprian Tomecko Endowment for Natural Science Lectures
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/darwin-day-2026-innovations-in-science/
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SUMMARY:Darwin Day with Dr. Matthew Morris
DESCRIPTION:Darwin famously wrote “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed\, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous\, successive\, slight modifications\, my theory would absolutely break down.” This risky prediction generated two different sorts of debate: the first among biologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who debated whether Darwin’s claim was correct – must evolution be gradual? – and the other from present-day creationists who argue that certain complex traits refute Darwin’s claim. Yet a partial solution to both was already hinted at by Darwin: organismal bodies are flexible. Phenotypes can change under different environmental stimuli\, and this can happen rapidly\, dramatically\, and in a coordinated fashion. Dr. Morris will introduce the concept of phenotypic plasticity\, the capacity of a single genotype to produce multiple environmentally determined phenotypes\, and suggest that some modern critiques of Darwin can be put to rest through an understanding of what Darwin called that “most perplexing subject.” \n 
URL:https://darwinday.org/event/darwin-day-with-dr-matthew-morris/
LOCATION:St Mary’s University\, 14500 Bannister Road\, Calgary\, Alberta\, T2X 3J3\, Canada
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