The host of this colloquium is Dr. Nathan E. Rank, SSU Department of Biology. Today’s speakers are Joanna Elmore, Sonoma State University presenting Transcriptional Responses to Heat Stress in a Montane Ectotherm, and Elliott Smeds, Sonoma State University presenting Genomic Basis of Thermal Adaptation in a Montane Insect. For more information about the biology colloquium series, please visit http://biology.sonoma.edu/colloquium. Contact the biology department with any questions at biology@sonoma.edu.