2018-2019 Biological Science Colloquium Series
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 Series
- September 13: Dr. P. Dee Boersma, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Penguins as ecosystem sentinels
Host: Dr. Daniel Okamoto - September 20:
No colloquium
Host: To be announced - September 27: Dr. Nitin Phadnis, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Genomic conflicts and speciation in Drosophila
Host: Micaiah Ward - October 11: Dr. Vojo Deretic, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Mammalian autophagy v2.0
Host: Dr. Qian Yin - October 18: Dr. Mathew Leibold, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Rethinking metacommunity ecology
Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller - October 25: Dr. Zuoxing Wang, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
A unique animal model for social neuroscience research
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - November 8: Dr. Janneke Hille Ris Lambers , Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
When do flowers flower? The importance of wildflower phenology for plants, insects and people under changing climates
Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye - November 15: Dr. Rebecca Fuller, Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
The pervasive effects of lighting environments on the evolution of color patterns, color vision, and animal behavior in a killifish
Host: Dr. Dr. Kimberley A. Hughes - November 29: Dr. Patrick Phillips, The Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
Ghosts of migration past: genomics, divergence and the experimental evolution of complex traits
Host: Dr. Scott Steppan
Spring Series