American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology meeting on “Evolution and core processes in gene expression” (June 2025)
Logan Brubaker Masters Thesis Defense and Celebration (April 11th, 2025)
2025 Crock Pot Cookoff Runner Up
2024, November 12th Careers Seminar visit by Dr. Luke Weinstein. His seminar was titled “My path from biology degrees to a career as a genomic scientist in the public health sector“


2024, 6AM in July. Starting the trip to Atlanta Georgia for the Society of Developmental Biology meeting in Atlanta Georgia. Traveling in the luxurious campus ministry van.

2024 University of Dayton Softball Outing




2024 Stander Symposium







2024 CROCK POT COOKOFF Champions





2023 Biocrawl, introduction to research opportunities in UD Biology

Jordan Vellky, lab alum, Careers in Biology Seminar (Fall 2023)


Williams Lab, Summer 2023

Mary List and Claire Konys, lab alums, Careers in Biology Seminars (Spring 2023)

2023 Stander Symposium, A Celebration of Student Scholarship



2016 Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology (Boston, Massachusetts)
Poster presentations given by Sumant, Alex, Victoria, Jesse, and Emily.



2016 Midwest Ecology and Evolution Conference (Oxford,Ohio)
Oral presentation given by PhD student Sumant Grover and Poster Presentation by undergraduate research assistant Jesse Hughes.


2015 Meeting of the Pan-American Society for Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Berkeley, California)
Oral presentation given by PhD student Eric Camino and a poster presented by PhD student Sumant Grover.

Caught up with Sean Carroll, my Post-Doc mentor and Evo-Devo celebrity


2015 Meeting of the Society for Developmental Biology (Snowbird, Utah)
Undergraduate students Alex, Jessica, Claire, and Maxwell each present a poster on their honors thesis research.




2015 University of Dayton Honors Student Symposium (March 20th, 2015)
From left to right: Claire Konys (Class of 2016), Tom Williams (Class of 1998 somewhere else), Mary List (Class of 2015), Sumant Grover (PhD Candidate), Eric Camino (PhD Candidate), and Emily Wey (Class of 2018).
From left to right: Claire Konys (Class of 2016), Mary List (Class of 2015), Tom Williams (Class of 1998 somewhere else), and Maxwell Roeske (Class of 2016).


2013 Honors Students Symposium (University of Dayton)
From left to right: Joe Salomone, Tom Williams, Connor McNamee, and Kaitlyn Francis





















