2009-10 Biological Science Colloquium Series
(listing updated 3 November 09)

Colloquia meet at 4:00 p.m. on Thursdays, in room 1024 King Life Sciences Building on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Florida. Colloquia are open to the public; faculty meetings and graduate-student orientation are not.

Fall 2009

  • September 3: Biological Science Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN

  • September 10: Biological Science Graduate-Student Orientation

  • September 17: Dr. Mark A. McPeek, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire
    Building biological communities with evolution
    Host: Casey terHorst

  • September 24: Dr. Adam G. Jones, Texas A&M University, College Station
    Hosts: Neil Aschliman and Kathleen Lotterhos

  • October 1: Biological Science Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., 208 BIO

  • October 8: Dr. Jae U. Jung, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
    Virus-induced cancer and cell death
    Host: Dr. Fanxiu Zhu

  • October 15: Casey terHorst, Department of Biological science, FSU
    Not dead yet: indirect interactions make community ecology relevant for ecological and evolutionary processes
    Host: Dr. Don R. Levitan

  • October 22: Dr. David P. Bazett-Jones, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
    Promyelocytic leukemia bodies: the DNA connection
    Host: Dr. David M. Gilbert

  • October 29: Kristal Tucker, Department of Biological science, FSU
    Roles of Kv1.3 in metabolism and olfaction: is there a link?
    Host: Dr. Debra Ann Fadool

  • November 5: Biological Science Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN

  • November 12: Dr. Craig Moritz, University of California, Berkeley
    Impact of past and future climate change on diversity in tropical rainforests
    Host: Dr. Emily C. Moriarty Lemmon

  • November 19: Dr. Songtao Jia, Columbia University, New York, New York
    PWWP domain proteins and epigenetic control of the genome
    Host: Junjie Lu

  • November 26: None scheduled (Thanksgiving holiday)

  • December 3: Biological Science Faculty Meeting, 3:30 p.m., 208 BIO

Spring 2010