Department of Biological Science

2025-2026 Seminars in Ecology and Evolution

Seminars in Ecology and Evolution meet at 4:00 p.m. on Fridays, in King Life Sciences Building room 1024. 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 29:
  New semester mixer: welcome and introduce new students
  Host: Dr. Brian Inouye
  
  
• September 5:
  TBA
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• September 12: Dr. Issac Carter, Co-Creative Consulting and Coaching Imperative
  Tools for navigating difficult conversations in your scientific community  Part 2: graduate student - faculty advisor discussions
  Host: Dr. Nora Underwood
  
  
• September 19 (3:30 pm, 1024 KIN): Dr. Jesse Dunietz, National Institute Standards and Technology, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow
  Scientific communication workshop - critical skills for communicating science to the public
  Host: Monica Paniagua Montoya
  
  
• September 26: Dr. Dustin R. Rubenstein, Columbia University
  Uncertainty: environmental change and sociality
  Host: Dr. Emily H. DuVal
  
  
• October 3:
  cancelled
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• October 10: Dr. Joseph Travis, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  It starts with a placenta: sexual conflict, speciation, and introgression in Poeciliine fishes
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  
• October 17:
  Cancelled
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• October 24: Dr. Liling Chang, Department of Geography, FSU
  Leveraging multi-source observations to improve future predictions of ecosystem dynamics
  Host: Dr. Sarah Lester
  
  
• October 31:
  CANCELLED
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• November 7: Alaina Young, Department of Biological Science, FSU and FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory
  Parasite community structure in blacktip sharks from the Gulf of Mexico
  Host: Dr. Thomas Miller
  
  
• November 14: Dr. Jean Burns, Case Western Reserve University
  Rhododendron as a model system for plant-microbial interactions
  Host: Dr. Thomas Miller
  
  
• November 21: Dr. Sarah Lebeis, Michigan State University
  Untangling biological complexity to reveal drivers of root microbiome assembly
  Host: Dr. David Thoms
  
  
• December 5: Katherine Gentry Richardson, Tall Timbers Research Station
  The sound of the Red Hills: what can we learn from local soundscapes?
  Host: Dr. Emily H. DuVal
  
  

Spring Series

• January 9: Marilla Lippert, Maurice Goodman, and Dr. Thomas Miller, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Departmental sampler: three 15-minute seminars
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  
• January 16: Drs. Brian Inouye and Nora Underwood, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Climate, calendars and crystal balls: Long-term studies of phenology and climate in Sweden and the US
  Host: Dr. Brian Inouye
  
  
• January 23 (4:00 pm, 102 KIN): Dr. Marty Martin, University of South Florida
  The role of epigenetic potential in house sparrow range expansions
  Host: Dr. Emily DuVal
  
  
• January 30: Dr. Nate Dorn, Florida International University
  Impacts of the introduced Asian swamp eel spreading throughout the freshwater Everglades
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  
• February 6 (4:00 pm, 102 KIN): Matthew Cohen, University of Florida
  What controls state changes in Florida’s spring ecosystems
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  
• February 13: Morgan Hawkins, Department of Biological Science, FSU and FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory
  A multidisciplinary approach to optimizing bay scallop restoration aquaculture
  Host: Dr. Sandra Brooke
  
  
• February 20: Dr. Liana Burghardt, Pennsylvania State University
  Picking partners: host selectivity and rewards in the legume-rhizobia symbiosis
  Host: Dr. Kayla Stoy
  
  
• February 27: Dr. David Houle, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Variation predicts the rate of evolution in mammalian skulls - or is it the other way around?
  Host: Dr. Joseph Travis
  
  
• March 6: Miles Robertson, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  Temporal patterns of disease levels in response to loss of host biodiversity
  Host: Dr. Michael Cortez
  
  
• March 13: Dr. Matt Ogburn, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
  Early signs of success in large-scale oyster reef restoration in Chesapeake Bay
  Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
  
  
• March 20:
  Spring Break - No Seminar
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• March 27: Dr. Mickey Eubanks, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University
  Fire ant foraging and the ecology and evolution of an invasive species
  Host: Dr. Brian Inouye
  
  
• April 2: Adin Domen, Department of Biological Science, FSU
  The effects of restoration reef height on economically important crab species in Apalachicola Bay
  Host: Dr. Sandra Brooke
  
  
• April 10 (3:30 pm, 1024 KIN): TBD
  TBD
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• April 17: Dr. Michael Singer, Wesleyan University
  Tri-trophic interactions and keystones hidden in the woods
  Host: Grace Soltis
  
  
• April 26: Dr. Raelene Crandall, University of Florida
  Why old-growth grasslands are old
  Host: Dr. Brian Inouye