FSU Biology - Colloquium series, 2019-2018

Department of Biological Science

at Florida State University

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
    TBA
    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. David Meckes, Department of Biomedical Science, Florida State University College of Medicine
    TBA
    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