2019-2020 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 12: Dr. Peng Jin, Department of Human Genetics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
RNA dysregulation in brain disorders
Host: Dr. Jian Feng - September 19: Dr. David Houle, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Making the genotype-phenotype map more than a metaphor
Host: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes - September 26: Dr. Daniel Blumstein, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
The sound of fear
Host: Dr. Emily H. duVal - October 10: Dr. Damon R. Lisch, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University College of Agriculture, West Lafayette, IN
Transient exposure to high temperature rapidly and heritably reactivates an epigenetically silenced transposon in maize
Host: Jason Lynn - October 17: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Predictability of evolution in fish and flies
Host: Dr. David Houle - October 24: Dr. Darin R. Rokyta, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
TBA
Host: To be announced - October 31: Dr. Hong-guo Yu, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Mechanics at the nuclear envelope and its associated degradation
Host: Dr. Fanxiu Zhu - November 14: Dr. Sarah McDonald, Department of Biology, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
YERGER LECTURE: Mechanism of rotavirus genome replication: some assembly required
Host: Dr. Fanxiu Zhu - November 21: Dr. Christopher L. Sansam, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, OK
Mechanisms of DNA replication regulation during early embryonic development
Host: Jesse Turner
Spring Series
- January 23: Dr. Roger B. Deal, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Transcriptional control in plant genomes: new discoveries and new questions
Host: Dr. Karen M. McGinnis - January 30: Dr. Jenny Ting, Department of Immunology and Microbiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC,
TBA
Host: Dr. Qian Yin - February 13: Dr. Jonathan Levine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
TBA
Host: Dr. Andrew Rassweiler - February 20: Dr. Ed Boyden, Departments of Biological Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
TBA
Host: Jason Cote - February 27: Dr. Daniela Nicastro, Department of Cell Biology and Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
TBA
Host: Dr. M. Elizabeth Stroupe - March 12: Dr. Monserrat C. Anguera, Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
TBA
Host: Dr. Brian P. Chadwick - March 19:
Spring Break - No colloquium
Host: To be announced - March 26: Dr. Jian Feng, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
TBA
Host: To be announced - April 9: Dr. Ashley Shade
TBA
Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller - April 16: Dr. Paul Fine, Department of Integrative biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
TBA
Host: Dr. Janie Wulff - April 23: Dr. Paul Gignac, Department of Anatomy and Vertebrate Paleontology, Oklahoma State University
TBA
Host: Schyler Ellsworth