2023-2024 Biological Science Colloquium Series
Colloquia meet at 4:00 p.m. on Thursdays, via Zoom. Meeting links are distributed by department email list; FSU members, subscribe at Bio-Everyone list management; non-FSU members, BioNotes. To request an individual link without subscribing to a mailing list, contact that talks host.
Fall Series
- August 23:
TBA
Host: To be announced - September 14: Dr. Gavin Naylor, Director, Florida Program for Shark Research, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Why are there so many forms of life?
Host: Ashley Dawdy - September 21: Dr. Mark Hauber, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign IL
Species recognition in avian hosts and their brood parasites: from hormones to coevolution
Host: Dr. Emily H. DuVal - September 28: Dr. Jonathan (Joff) Silberg, Rice University, Houston, TX
Using synthetic biology to program model microbes and environmental consortia for bioelectronics
Host: Dr. M. Elizabeth Stroupe - October 26: Dr. Kristy Koeker, University of California, Santa Cruz CA
Ecological change in dynamic environments: insights from ocean global change biology
Host: Laurel Field - November 9: Dr. Yi Zhang, Harvard Medical School and Boston Childrens Hospital, Boston, MA
My journey in epigenetics
Host: Dr. Fanxiu Zhu - November 16: Ally Dubel (EE), Cecilia Bouaichi (CMB), Ashley Loeven (Neuro)
Student Research Showcase
Host: To be announced - November 30: Dr. Valerie McKenzie, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Taming an amphibian pathogen with purple rain
Host: Dr. Sarah Lester
Spring Series
- January 25: Dr. Seth Blackshaw, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
The retina in time: a single-cell view of development, regeneration, and aging
Host: Jacob Dilliplane - February 8: Dr. Patrick Lusk, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
Autophagy and the ESCRT pathway protect the nucleus
Host: Dr. Hong-Guo Yu - February 15: Dr. Paul Fine, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Defense chemicals and the origin and maintenance of tropical tree diversity
Host: Dr. Janie Wulff - February 22: Dr. Alex Strauss, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
Why you should care about parasites that infect zooplankton: community ecology, ecosystem processes, and human disease risk
Host: Dr. Michael Cortez - February 29: Dr. Nan Yan, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
STING trafficking and signaling in health and disease
Host: Dr. Qian Yin - March 21: Dr. Melissa McCartney, Department of Biology, Florida International University
Beyond content: Integrating scientific skills and career development into undergraduate biology curricula
Host: Dr. Joel Trexler - March 28: Dr. Karim-Jean Armach, New York University
Molecular mechanisms of epigenetic regulation
Host: Jane Benoit - April 11: Dr. Jelena Erceg, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Genome folding and regulation in diploid multicellular organisms
Host: Dr. Hank W. Bass - April 18: Dr. Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Purdue University
Predator-prey interactions: the avian visual sensory perspective
Host: Tyler Hunt - April 25: Dr. Roberto Vincis, Program in Neuroscience and Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Neural activity underlying oral sensory processing and flavor perception
Host: To be announced