2020-2021 Biological Science Colloquium Series
Colloquia meet at 4:00 p.m. on Thursdays, via Zoom. 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 10 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Mary T. Mendonca, Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, AL
Environmental stressors, stress responsiveness, and immunocompetence: implications for reproduction, disease resistance, and conservation
Host: To be announced - September 17 (4:00 a.m., Zoom): Dr. David Civitello, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Hungry hungry schistos: the resource ecology of epidemics and control
Host: Dr. Michael Cortez - September 24 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Maria Servedio, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
The effects of sexual selection on the origin of species
Host: Sarah Kettlekamp - October 8 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Phoebe L. Stewart, Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University
Engineering of oncolytic adenovirus for systemic cancer therapy
Host: Dr. M. Elizabeth Stroupe - October 15 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Hong Ma, Huck Distinguished Research Professor of Plant Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Genome and gene duplications in flowering plants affecting major reproductive developmental and adaptive traits
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - October 22 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Orou Gaoue, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Plant-human interactions in a changing world
Host: Dr. Michael Cortez - October 29 (4:00 p.m., Zoom):
TBA
Host: To be announced - November 12 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Nicholas J. Gotelli, Department of Biology, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
Forecasting nature: ecological experiments in a time of planetary change
Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye - November 19 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Alistair Boettiger, Department of Developmental Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Visualizing 3D DNA paths and gene expression during development
Host: Dr. Peter Fraser
Spring Series
- January 14 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Gil Rosenthal, Department of Biology, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical University, College Station, TX
Causes and consequences of mate choice
Host: Mysia Dye - January 21 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Jorn Coers, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
IFN-inducible GTPases as regulators of host defense and inflammation
Host: Dr. Qian Yin - January 28 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Andrew Rassweiler, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Spatial dynamics of coastal ecosystems and their resilience to disturbance, fishing and climate change
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - February 18 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Matthew Thayer, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
Control of human chromosome dynamics by ASAR IncRNA genes
Host: Athanasios (Ethan) Vouzas - March 11 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Genome folding, unfolding, and refolding in the mammalian brain
Host: Javed Chitaman - March 18 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Michael Cortez, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Mechanisms driving the context-dependent relationships between host species richness and disease
Host: To be announced - March 25 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Julia Saltz, Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX
Choice and constraint in the evolution of animal behaviors
Host: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes - April 15 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Sophie McCoy, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Ecosystem resistance and resilience to environmental change
Host: To be announced - April 22 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Qian Yin, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Structural basis of interferon-induced host defense and viral counteracts
Host: To be announced - April 29 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Scott Stagg, Institute of Molecular Biophysics and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University
Determining the structures of challenging membrane remodeling complexes
Host: Dr. Thomas Houpt