| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title & Abstract |
| 30 Aug | Wei Zhang | IIT Biology/ NCFST | Listeria |
| 6 Sep | Labor Day; no colloquium | ||
| 13 Sep | Adrian Gross | Northwestern Med | Ion Channels |
| 20 Sep | Janet Richmond | UIC Biology | Tomosyn |
| 27 Sep | Speaker had to cancel | ||
| 8 Oct | Sophia Ekengren | Botany Dept., Stockholm University | Plant Immunity |
| 11 Oct | Fall break; no colloquium | ||
| 18 Oct | Lara Pullen and Litjen Tan | Environ.Health Consult.; AMA | Scientific Story |
| 25 Oct | Laura Juszczak | Brooklyn College, CUNY | Tryptophan |
| 1 Nov | Petra Sierwald | Field Museum | Diplopoda |
| 8 Nov | Andy Mesecar | Purdue Cancer Center | structural biology |
| 15 Nov | Andrew Hipp | Morton Arboretum | plant systematics |
| 22 Nov | Ken Kemner | Argonne Biosciences | structural biology |
| 29 Nov | Jianjun Chen | University of Chicago | canceromics |