2025

Great Lakes Center Seminar: "Genetic tools to inform conservation of freshwater mussels"
May 12, 2025

Seminar: "Exploring Mimicry and Visual Communication in Woodpeckers: A Field Study Utilizing 3D-printed Models" and "Crayfish Fight Club: Winner-loser Effect as a Management Strategy Against Invasive Crayfish" on Monday, May 5
May 2, 2025

The Cow Paradox: An Exploration of the Human-Bovine Dynamic in India - Monday, April 28
April 25, 2025

Hotspots of Species Richness and Diversification Rate for Bees are the North American Deserts: Monday, April 21
April 18, 2025

Calling the Shots: How Vocal Roles Shape Collective Decisions in Disk-winged Bats - Monday, April 14
April 11, 2025

Conservation Conversations: Managing Invasive Species - Dr. Chris Pennuto
April 8, 2025

From Buffalo State through Nutrition Educator and Dietitian to Family Medicine – A Career Journey - Monday, April 7
April 4, 2025

'Impacts of Sex Ratio Meiotic Drive on Stalk Eyed Flies' - Monday, March 17
March 14, 2025

'Medicinal Plants: Biosynthesis and Ecology of Plant Natural Products' - Monday March 10
March 7, 2025

Great Lakes Faculty Scholars applications now being accepted for the Fall semester
March 3, 2025

'The Pelagic and Benthic Life of Mysis Diluviana, Native Mysid Shrimp of the Great Lakes' - March 3
 February 28, 2025

Seminar: 'Developing a Unique Live-Cell Imaging Analysis Technology for Microbiology' - February 24
February 21, 2025

Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology of Ticks and Tick-borne Disease in New York State: February 10
February 7, 2025

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Building Strong: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Career and Project Highlights,' February 3
January 31, 2025

Opportunities at the Great Lakes Center Field Station
January 13, 2025

Achievements: Lyubov Burlakova, Senior Research Scientist, and Alexander Karatayev, Director, Great Lakes Center
January 8, 2025

Achievements: Brian Haas, Field and Lab Research Technician, Great Lakes Center
January 8, 2025

2024

Environmental Monitor: Monitoring Lake Erie’s Eastern Basin: Building Long-Term Data and Real-Time Public Solutions
December 9, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar Today: 'Deflecting Succession: Repeated Manual Removal of Invasive Cattails Maintains Habitat Structure in Oswego County Intermediate Fen'
November 25, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Deflecting succession: Repeated manual removal of invasive cattails maintains habitat structure in an Oswego County (NY) intermediate fen' - November 25
November 21, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'New Dimensions of Cyanobacterial Genomics in the Era of Climate Change: Novel Ranges, Novel Metabolites, and the Need for Novel Solutions' - November 18
November 13, 2024

Great Lakes Center Newsletter: Issue 25
November 8, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Keep One Another Close: The Importance of Wildlife-Microbe Symbioses in a Changing World' - November 4
October 31, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Exploring the Habitat Needs of Three Large Woodpeckers in the Atlantic Forest of Argentina: Implications for Forest Management' - October 28
October 24, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Do You Know What the Biggest Threats Are to the NYS Cannabis Industry?' - October 21
October 17, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Environmental Influence and Genetic Control of Secondary Cell Wall Formation in Trees' - October 7
October 2, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Humanizing Biology to Promote Equity in STEM Higher Education' - September 30
September 25, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Thiamine Deficiency Complex in the Great Lakes Region' - September 23
September 18, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Deciphering the Role of Mutualism and Antagonism in Speciation' - September 16
September 11, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Exploring Mite-y Symbioses through Genomic and Ecological Lenses' - September 9
September 4, 2024

Great Lakes Center 2023-2024 Annual Report
September 4, 2024

Great Lakes Center Open House: September 6
August 6, 2024

Bring Your Child to Work Day 2024: Thank You!
May 7, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Beyond Love Canal' - April 29
April 24, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'An Empiricist's Guide to Using Ecological Theory' - April 22
April 18, 2024

Great Lakes Center Newsletter: Issue 24
April 16, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Examining Inequality in Aquatic Ecosystem Services: Evidence from Large-Scale Monitoring Programs' - April 15
April 11, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'The Null Matters: Using Realistic Models of Dispersal Resolves the Janzen-Connell Paradox' - March 18
March 14, 2024

Roundtable Discussion for Great Lakes Faculty Scholars Program: March 15
March 12, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Genomic and Ecological Divergence in Wood Warblers' - March 11
March 7, 2024

Great Lakes Faculty Scholars Program
March 6, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Functioning in a Stressed World: Understanding the Interaction between Anthropogenic Stressors and Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning' - March 4
February 29, 2024

Tell Students: Gender and STEM Panel Discussion - March 12
February 27, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'The Complexities of Human Error' - February 26
February 23, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Fatty Acid: Markers as Food Web Tracers in Inland Waters' - February 12
February 7, 2024

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Speciation and Gene Flow of Rainforest Birds' - February 5
January 31, 2024

2023

Great Lakes Center Newsletter: Issue 23
November 14, 2023

Buffalo State 2023 Faculty and Staff Recognition Ceremony
October 18, 2023

Buffalo State Faculty and Staff Members Recognized for Efforts
October 6, 2023

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Systematic Evaluation of Cotranscriptional RNA Folding Mechanisms Using an RNA Dependent DNA Partitioning Assay' - October 2
September 28, 2023

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'A Movement Unseen: Bird Migration in Action' - September 25
September 21, 2023

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Dynamic Hypoxia in the Central Basin of Lake Erie' - September 18
September 14, 2023

Great Lakes Center Newsletter: Issue 22
April 22, 2023

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Lake Ontario Coastal Wetlands' - March 20
March 15, 2023

CANCELED: Biology-GLC Seminar: 'A Recent Invader Finds Its Ecological Niche in the Great Lakes: Hemimysis anomala, the Bloody Red Shrimp' - March 13
March 13, 2023

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Evolution of High-Molecular-Mass Hyaluronic Acid Is Associated with Subterranean Lifestyle' - March 13
March 8, 2023

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Polymer-Based Drug-Delivery Systems for the Targeted and Controlled Release of Cancer Drugs in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer (TNBC) Treatment' - March 6
March 2, 2023

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Image-Based Treatment Planning for Interstitial Photodynamic Therapy of Locally Advanced Cancers' - February 27
February 23, 2023

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Exploring Careers in Environmental Education: Professional Pathways at New York State Parks' - February 13
February 10, 2023

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Tales of Ticks and Taq: Tick-Borne Pathogen Surveillance and Research in New York State' - February 6
February 3, 2023

2022

Great Lakes Center Newsletter: Issue 21
November 18, 2022

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Mitochondrial (Dys)function in Orthopedic Disease and Regenerative Medicine' - November 21
November 16, 2022

Great Lakes Seminar - 'The Benthic Nepheloid Layer in the Great Lakes: What Is It, and Where Did It Go?' - November 17
November 9, 2022

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Genetic and Environmental Reprogramming of the Cancer Epigenome' - November 14
November 9, 2022

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Life in the Trenches: The Biology of the Planet’s Deepest-Living Fishes' - November 7
November 2, 2022

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Mining Microbiome Biomarkers' - October 31
October 27, 2022

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Exercise and Cancer: Epidemiological Evidence and Public Health Message' - October 24
October 19, 2022

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Complementary Fish-Tracking Approaches Reveal Conservation and Management Opportunities' - October 17
October 13, 2022

Biology-GLC Seminar: ‘Catching a Great Lakes Killer: A Story of Genomics, Genealogy, and Modeling the Ecology of a Blood-Sucking Fish’ - October 3
September 28, 2022

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Evolution of a Fish-Adaptive Radiation in the Great Lakes' - September 19
September 16, 2022

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'A Sulfurous End for the Dinosaurs' - September 12
September 7, 2022

Great Lakes Center Open House: September 16
August 17, 2022

Volunteer Opportunity with WNY PRISM: August 20, September 10
August 10, 2022

Great Lakes Center Newsletter: Issue 20
April 20, 2022

Great Lakes Center Awarded $3 Million from EPA in Collaboration with Cornell University
April 3, 2022

Introducing the Huppuch Graduate Scholarship
March 2, 2022

2019

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Development and Application of a Robot-Assisted Computer Vision System to Support Ecological Monitoring in the Great Lakes' - December 2
November 26, 2019

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Using Physical Ecology to Understand the Complexity of Freshwater Mussels: Mass Transfer Relationships' - November 18
November 12, 2019

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Space, Time, and the Brain: How Do We Know When We Are?' - November 11
November 8, 2019

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Selection on Pigmentation Genes Leads to Rapid Phenotypic Evolution in a Finch Radiation' - November 4
October 30, 2019

Great Lakes Center Newsletter: Issue 15
October 31, 2019

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'The Genomics of Adaptation to Salt Marsh Habitats in Sparrows' - October 28
October 23, 2019

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'The Role of a Novel Myosin in Prostate Cancer Metastasis' - October 21
October 17, 2019

L.A. Photography Exhibit Spotlights Trip with Great Lakes Center Researchers
October 8, 2019

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Untangling the Evolutionary Dynamics of Complex Traits' - October 7
October 3, 2019

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Disruption of the Molecular Circadian Clock in Cancer' - September 23
September 19, 2019

GLC's Field Station Creates Habitats for Local, Migrating Birds
September 6, 2019

Great Lakes Center Open House: September 13
August 28, 2019

GLC Seminar - 'Freshwater Bivalves: Distribution, Food, and Conservation' - May 16
May 8, 2019

GLC Seminar: 'Sediment Geochemistry and Nutrient Dynamics in the Upper Great Lakes' - April 23
April 16, 2019

Great Lakes Center Newsletter: Issue 14
April 16, 2019

GLC Seminar: 'Varied Response of Macrobenthos to Recurring and Abated Environmental Stressors' - April 18
April 10, 2019

2018

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'Daphnia's Challenge: Strategies to Survive and Reproduce under Limiting Environmental Conditions' - December 3
November 29, 2018

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Sex and Contaminant in Fish: Hot Spots, Big Testes, and High Activity Males' - November 26
November 20, 2018

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Linking Physiological and Ecological Drivers of Plant Responses to Global Change' - November 19
November 13, 2018

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Regulation of Body Temperature by Autonomic and Behavioral Thermoeffectors' - November 12
November 9, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'Long-Term Change in the Great Lakes Lower Food Web: The Importance of Deep Chlorophyll Maxima' - November 5
October 31, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Nitrogen Cycling in Stream Ecosystems' - October 29
October 25, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Biomechanics of Establishing Asymmetries during Embryo Development' - October 22
October 19, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'Causes and Consequences of Social Evolution in Certain Birds and Ants' - September 17
September 13, 2018

Great Lakes Center Open House: September 7
August 20, 2018

CANCELED: GLC-Biology Seminar - 'Overeating, Overdrinking, and Compulsion: The Brain's Role in Loss of Control' - May 7
May 2, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'Use of Molecular Genetics for the Conservation of Species of Concern' - April 30
April 25, 2018

GLC-BIO Seminar: 'The Great Lakes Aquatic Habitat Framework: A Spatial Framework, Ecological Classification, and Tools to Meet the Needs of Great Lakes Management and Research' - April 23
April 18, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'Using the Past to Manage for the Future: A Historic Approach to Conservation of the Eastern Hellbender' - April 16
April 11, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'Think Local, Understand Global: Using Biology to Build Confidence in Projected Global Carbon Cycle Climate Feedbacks' - April 9
April 4, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminars: 'Attached Algae as Indicators of Stream Ecosystem Function in the Headwaters of the Lake Erie Watershed' and 'Estimates of Depth-Specific Benthic Primary Productivity in Lake Erie and Lake Huron' - March 19
March 14, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Emerald Shiners as a Bioindicator of Urban Water Pollution in the Upper Niagara River' - March 12
March 7, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Ripple Effects of Invasive Species' - March 5
February 28, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Applying GIS Technology to Local Environmental Problems: Erie County, NY, Examples' - February 26
February 21, 2018

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Ecosystem Resilience to Global Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot' - February 12
February 7, 2018

2017

GLC Seminar - 'Patterns of Long-Term Dynamics of Aquatic Communities and Water-Quality Parameters in the Great Lakes: Are They Synchronized-' - December 13
December 7, 2012

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'Deadly Pile-Ups on Neuronal Highways: Motor-Cargo Complexes and Transport Defects in Neurodegenerative Disease' - November 27
November 22, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Harnessing Yeast Genetics for Understanding G-protein-Coupled Receptor Function and for HIV Vaccine Development' - November 20
November 16, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Disentangling Dreissena Mussel Effects on Larval Fish Distribution, Density, Growth, and Potential Recruitment in Lake Michigan' - November 13
November 8, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Give Me That Candy Bar! The Physiological and Psychological Effects of Eating Comfort Food' - November 6
November 1, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Land Cover Types as Predictors of Wetland Vegetation Quality' - October 30
October 25, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Mechanisms Governing Spindle Positioning' - October 23
October 18, 2017

Great Lakes Center Celebrates Successful Year
October 17, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Restoration of the Buffalo River' - October 16
October 11, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Upwelling and Downwelling Dynamics Influence Spatial Patterns of Hypoxia and Nearshore Hypoxia Events in the Central Basin of Lake Erie' - October 2
September 27, 2017

Great Lakes Center Open House: October 12
September 27, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Defining WNY's Climate Zones and Exploring Local Climate Trends' - September 18
September 13, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Scajaquada Creek Shoreline Buffer and Wetland Restoration Project' - September 11
September 6, 2017

Great Lakes Center Continues to Monitor, Study Great Lakes Ecosystems
May 14, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'Behaviour, Migration, and Life History Shifts at the Front: A Tale of Two Invasive Fishes' - May 1
April 26, 2017

Great Lakes Center Open House: May 10
April 19, 2017

Biology-GLC Seminar - Linking Physiology to Biogeography: From Individuals to Populations' - April 24
April 19, 2017

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Expression and Localization of Heat Shock Protein 110 during Drosophila Development: Clues to Its Roles in Embryonic Development' - April 17
April 12, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Walleye Movement and Management in Lake Erie' - April 10
April 5, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Benthic Life in the Dead Zone of Central Lake Erie' - April 3
March 29, 2017

Biology-GLC Seminar - 'Gap Junctions in Cancer: Growth, Migration, and Oxidative Stress' - March 27
March 17, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Bringing Landscape Ecology into the Great Lakes' - March 13
March 8, 2017

Biology-GLC Seminar: 'Invasion! A Niche Perspective' - March 6
March 1, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Using GIS to Uncover the Secrets of Your Data' - February 27
February 22, 2017

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'The Battle for Lake Ontario: Native and Invasive Species Interactions in the Great Lakes' - Today
January 30, 2017

2016

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Signaling Mechanisms of the Fast Block to Polyspermy in Xenopus laevis' - December 5
November 30, 2016

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Population Dynamics of Mayfly Nymphs in Lake Erie' - November 28
November 22, 2016

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Dynamics of Caribbean Gogonian Communities' - November 14
November 8, 2016

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Shhh...Listen Up! Signals That Regulate Small RNA-Induced Silencing in Caenorhabditis elegans' - November 7
November 2, 2016

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Lessons from Invasions and the Role of Fish in Stream Ecosystem Functions' - October 31
October 25, 2016

GLC-Biology Seminar - 'The Maumee River: A Fish-Eye View' - October 17
October 11, 2016

Today: GLC-Biology Seminar 'New York's Rare and Endangered Plant Program'
October 3, 2016

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'How Is Your Ecosystem Doing- Developing Scientifically Based Report Cards' - September 30
September 19, 2016

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'New York's Rare and Endangered Plant Program' - October 3
September 27, 2016

GLC-Biology Seminar: 'Mission Accomplished or Mission Impossible: Predicting the Biological Impacts of Climate Change' - September 26
September 21, 2016

In the News: Great Lakes Center Emerald Shiner Study
May 20, 2016

Celebrating Buffalo State's Contribution to Great Lakes Research
April 22, 2016

President's Blog: 50th Anniversary of the Great Lakes Center
April 21, 2016

GLC Seminar: "Listening In on Lake Sturgeon in the Buffalo Harbor' - March 29
March 11, 2016

Great Lakes Center 50th Anniversary: Celebration April 15
March 1, 2016

GLC Seminar: 'Dreissenid Mussel Population Trajectories and Associated Patterns in Mussel Growth and Condition' - March 3
February 25, 2016

Great Lakes Seminar: Coastal Biota and Anthropogenic Stress in the Great Lakes - January 21
January 15, 2016

2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar: 'The Role of Seabed Dynamics in Structuring an Estuarine Macrobenthic Community' - December 4
December 1, 2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar: 'Evolutionary Trends and Ecological Drivers of Eye Reduction in Parasites' - November 20
November 13, 2014

Great Lakes Center Graduate Seminar: Habitat Restoration in the Niagara River - October 27
October 27, 2014

Great Lakes Center Open House: November 7
October 24, 2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar: 'Where There's a Gill, There's a Way - Parasitism by Freshwater Mussels'
October 16, 2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar: 'Ghosts of Cultivation Past - Native American Dispersal Legacy Persists in Tree Distribution'
September 30, 2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar: 'Science and the Spirit in Research with Turtles: A Native American Connection with and Learning from Turtles'
September 30, 2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar: 'Recent Changes in the Lower Food Webs of the Great Lakes'
September 15, 2014

President's Blog: Preserving, Protecting, and Exploring Our Waterways
September 15, 2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar Introduces Students to Local Environmental Research, Projects
September 5, 2014

Senator Mark Grisanti, President Conway-Turner Announce Funding for Great Lakes Center Field Station
September 4, 2014

Great Lakes Center Field Station Open House: May 15
April 29, 2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar: 'Soil and Vegetation Indices for Wetland Quality: A Predictive Modeling Approach'
April 1, 2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar: 'Habitat Effects on the Space Use and Growth of Reef-Oriented Fish in the Gulf of Mexico'
March 10, 2014

Great Lakes Center Seminar: Benthos Powers Lake Dynamics
February 3, 2014