| Date | Speaker | Title | Faculty and Graduate Student Hosts |
| 1/9/2009 | Jay W. Fox Ph.D. Professor of Microbiology, Assistant Dean for Research University of Virginia School of Medicine | Host-Tumor Communication and Consequences in the Melanoma Microenvironment | Jocelyn Krebs / Keiko Kishaba |
| 1/16/2009 | Lee W. Cooper, Research Professor Chesapeake Biological Laboratory University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science | Potential ecosystem impacts of the decline of seasonal sea ice in the Arctic | Loren Buck / Linnea Pearson |
| 1/23/2009 | CANCELLED | Branched chain amino acids and muscle protein synthesis | Tim Hinterberger / James Willacker |
| 1/30/2009 | Dr. Jeffrey Olsen, Conservation Genetics Lab, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service | "The influence of hydrographic structure and seasonal run-timing on genetic diversity and isolation-by-distance in chum salmon (Oncorhychus keta)" | Lil Alessa / Veronica Padula |
| 2/6/2009 | Jocelyn Krebs | INBRE Seminar | Jocelyn Krebs / Justin Fulkerton |
| 2/13/2009 | Stewart Grant, UAA Biology Department | "The Big Freeze and the Evolution of Cod Populations in the North Pacific Ocean" | Khrys Duddleston / Steve Humpal |
| 2/20/2009 | CANCELLED | | Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson / Cory Stantorf |
| 2/27/2009 | Lilian Alessa | Abandoning Hype: What a seaweed teaches us about adapting to climate change. | Lil Alessa / Kalb Stevenson |
| 3/6/2009 | Andrew Kulmatiski | A long-awaited resolution to the two-layer hypothesis: how plants share water. | / David Robinson |
| 3/13/2009 | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK | SPRING BREAK |
| 3/20/2009 | Dr. David Driscoll, new Director of UAA's Institute for Circumpolar Health Studies | Seeing the Forest: the social ecology of human health in the circumpolar north | Martha Hatch / Sandra Pence |
| 3/27/2009 | Ward Testa, Affiliate Professor NMFS/AFSC/NMML | Use of ultrasonography to assess reproductive rates of a declining population of northern fur seals. | Ward Testa / Emily Lescak |
| 4/3/2009 | Dr. Gaius R. Shaver | Heterogeneity and change in the carbon balance of tundra landscapes | Bjartmar Sveinbjornsson / Leah Kenney |
| 4/8/2009 | WWAMI: Dr. Abhay R. Satoskar | Denying Access to Safe Havens to Prevent Insurgency: A Novel Strategy for Treating Infections | / Paul Cotter |
| 4/15/2009 | Tyrone Hayes, UC Berkeley | Thousand Eyed Giants and Feathered Frogs: what do amphibian declines tell us about public health? | Frank von Hippel / Ron Spatz / Sean Cahoon |
| 4/24/2009 | Kalb Stevenson | PhD Thesis Defense: The Seasonality of Reproduction, Body Composition, and Energy Expenditure in Northern Red-Backed Voles (Myodes Turilus) | Ian Van Tets / Julie Reynolds |
| 5/1/2009 | | Department Graduation Celebration | Jerry Kudenov |