2026-2027 Biological Science Colloquium Series

Colloquia meet in person at 3:30 p.m. on Thursdays. 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. Refreshments will be provided at 3:15pm before the talk.

Fall Series

• September 10 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. William Prinz, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, TX
  Roles of lipid droplet formation and inter-organelle lipid transport in regulating organelle quality control and ferroptosis
  Host: Lauren Carson
  
  
• September 24 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Matthew Fuxjager, Brown University
  Integrative approaches to studying new frontiers of animal communication: from genes to brains to trees
  Host: Daniel Gutierrez
  
  
• October 8 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Kristen Kwan, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
  Cellular and molecular dynamics shaping the vertebrate eye
  Host: Austin Werner
  
  
• October 15 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): TBA
  TBA
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• October 22 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Melissa Harrison, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
  Pioneers, settlers and life on the OregonR trail: transcriptional regulation during development
  Host: Dr. Liyun Miao
  
  
• October 29 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Jacqueline J. Maher, University of California, San Francisco, CA
  Modeling metabolic liver disease using patient-derived stem cells
  Host: Dr. James Jordan
  
  
• November 12 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Ann C. Morris, University of Kentucky, Lexington
  TBA
  Host: Drs. Debra and James Fadool
  
  
• November 19 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Brandon Cooper, University of California, Davis, CA
  Host-Wolbachia interactions: getting into the next generation by any means necessary
  Host: Dr. Kayla Stoy
  
  
• November 26 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN):
  Thanksgiving Holiday, No Colloquium
  Host: To be announced
  
  

Spring Series

• January 14 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Elcin Unal, University of California, Berkeley
  TBA
  Host: Anuvind Kalpetta Gramathil
  
  
• January 21 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN):
  Graduate Student Research Showcase
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• January 28 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Patricia Wittkopp, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Amy Webster
  
  
• February 11 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Butch Brodie
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Kayla Stoy
  
  
• February 25 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Tom E.X. Miller
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye
  
  
• March 11 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Thomas Turner
  TBA
  Host: Signe Renstrom, Trexler lab
  
  
• March 25 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Rob Brumbaugh, The Nature Conservancy
  Shaping a nature-positive future for the Caribbean: delivering science, building political will, and mobilizing financial resources
  Host: Lillie Bradshaw