FSU - Biological Science

Defenses
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Monday, 22nd of June 2026	10:00 AM	A211 PDB	Neuroscience Dissertation Defense	Neural representations of familiar faces across adulthood: Who stands out from the crowd?	Stefani Morgan
Monday, 22nd of June 2026	11:00 AM	2057 KIN and Zoom	Dissertation Defense	Investigating the behavioral ecology of imperiled batoids in Florida coastal waters	Ashley Dawdy
Tuesday, 23rd of June 2026	10:00 AM	1303 COM and Zoom	Biomedical Sciences Dissertation Defense	Deleting D2 receptors from developing cortical interneurons increases glutamatergic neurons and attenuates NMDA antagonist-evoked behavioral responses	Yasmeena Thabet

Colloquia and Seminars
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Monday, 22nd of June 2026	12:00 PM	A211 PDB	Neuroscience Student Lunch and Talks		Rose Riley and Aiden Streleckis
Monday, 22nd of June 2026	3:00 PM	A211 PDB	Neuroscience Dissertation Defense	Targeting object-oriented cognition to enhance Alzheimers disease screening	Stefani Morgan
Friday, 26th of June 2026	12:00 PM	virtual	Decades of Advancing Coastal and Marine Science Seminar Series	with Florida State University
Thursday, 10th of September 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	TBA	Will Prinz
Thursday, 24th of September 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Integrative approaches to studying new frontiers of animal communication: from genes to brains to trees	Dr. Matthew Fuxjager

Symposia
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Friday, 18th of September 2026	8:00 AM	FSU Alumni Center	Fowler Symposium 2026	Biological Imaging Across Scales	Dr. David Veesler

Miscellaneous
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Thursday, 3rd of September 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Faculty Meeting