2023-2024 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
- September 1:
Faculty lightning talks and new student introductions
Host: Dr. Emily DuVal - September 8: Tianyu (Terry) Li, M.S., Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
Genetic variation and experimental selection on sexual dimorphism in D. melanogaster
Host: Dr. David Houle - September 15: Dr. Gavin Naylor, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
From global wanderer to ocean basin homebody
Host: Ashley Dawdy - September 22: Dr. Mark Hauber, University of Illinois
Using conservation management to test basic ecological principles: case studies from New Zealand
Host: Dr. Emily DuVal - September 29: Joseph Horacek, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Isolation versus connectivity in the deep sea: a look at the phylogeography of deep-sea nematodes across Rapa Nui, the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, the Atacama Trench, and the seamounts of the Chilean Sea in the Pacific
Host: Dr. Jerome Ingel s and Dr. Scott Steppan - October 6: Shania Schull, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Coral-Sponge interactions: building fences and having neighbors for lunch
Host: Dr. Janie Wulfff - October 13 (4:00 pm, !024 KIN): Dr. Barbara Costa, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Evolution in the sigmodontine rodents: how covariance structure impact their evolutionary response
Host: Dr. Scott Steppan - October 20: Tyler Hunt, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
The visual fields of Crocodylia
Host: Dr. Gregory Erickson - October 27: Matthew Schumm, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Growth and life history trait distributions in hungry harvested fish
Host: Dr. Daniel Okamoto - November 3: Bobbie Renfro, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
The effects of water quality on coral reef sponge assemblages
Host: Dr. Janie Wulff - November 17:
Three minutes, three slides, endless curiostiy: EE faculty lightning talks
Host: Dr. Emily DuVal - December 1: Dr. Valerie McKenzie, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Wild microbiomes in a changing environment
Host: Dr. Sarah Lester - December 8: Melanie Medina, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Reproduction and mate choice in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
Host: Dr. Don R. Levitan
Spring Series
- January 12: Dr. Liam Revell, Department of biology, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
Phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things)
Host: Dr. Scott Steppan - January 19: Fatima Alcantara, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Relationships of weather cues and time since last masting event to the mast flowering of a long-lived herbaceous monocarp, Frasera speciosa (Gentianaceae)
Host: Dr. Nora Underwood and Dr. Brian Inouye - January 26: Monica Paniagua Montoya, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Exploring the ecological consequences of body size variation and the potential for feedbacks
Host: Dr. Brian Inouye and Dr. Nora Underwood - February 2: Dr. Tara Stewart Merrill, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory and Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Biodiversity-disease connections: how species diversity shapes host risk and parasite fitness
Host: Dr. Michael Cortez - February 9: Kylie Lawrence, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Expression regulation of the phospholipase A2 gene Family in cottonmouth snakes
Host: Dr. Darin Rokyta - February 16: Dr. Paul Fine, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Amazonian forests are dominated by palms — are humans responsible?
Host: Dr. Janie Wulff - February 23 (4:00 pm, 1024 KIB): Dr. Alex Strauss, Odum School of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
The thermal community ecology of disease: Effects of temperature on zooplankton disease dynamics in a community context
Host: Dr, Michael Cortez - March 1: Penelope Ales, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Intercropping for pest control at multiple spatial scales
Host: Dr. Nora Underwood and Dr. Brian Inouye - March 15:
SPRING BREAK: No Seminar
Host: To be announced - March 22: Dr. Melissa McCartney
Green horizons: preparing, supporting, and advocating for the next generation of the plant science workforce
Host: Dr. Joel Trexler - March 29: Sarah Ruckman, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
You don’t know the power of the dark side: evolutionary constraints associated with coloration and aggression
Host: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes - April 5: Dr. Thomas Sawicki, NOAA Center for Coastal and Marine Ecosystems, and Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee, FL
In defense of Crangonyx floridanus (Crustacea: Amphipoda): is it really globally invasive?
Host: Dr. Barbara Costa - April 12: Dr. Evan Lloyd, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Sensory and behavioral evolution in the Mexican cavefish
Host: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes - April 19: Dr. Esteban Fernandez-Juricic, Purdue University
Bringing together animal behavior and sensory biology to minimize animal collisions in the Anthropocene
Host: Tyler Hunt - April 26: Allison (Allie) Blanchette, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Exploring how coral condition is influenced by genotype and farmer damselfish
Host: Dr. Andrew Rassweiler