2017-2018 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 14: Dr. Hengli Tang, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Stem cell-derived tissue culture models for viral infection
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - September 21: Dr. Gregory M. Erickson, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Faunal composition, provinciality, and paleobiology of a late cretaceous arctic vertebrate assemblage revealed through cross-latitudinal comparisons
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - September 28: Dr. Kyle E. Harms, Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA
Community assembly in high-diversity pine savanna groundcover
Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller - October 12: Dr. Bruce Edgar, Huntsman Institute, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Stem cell control: regeneration and tumorigenesis in the Drosophila gut.
Host: Dr. Wu-Min Deng - October 19: Dr. Yangchang Wang, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Florida State University
The silencing of the spindle assembly checkpoint
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - October 26: Dr. Jonathan N. Pruitt, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Keystone individuals in animal societies: some pros and cons
Host: Carla Vanderbilt - November 9: Dr. Todd C. Holmes, Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Program in Neuroscience, University of California, Irvine, CA
Novel direct phototransduction mechanisms in central brain neurons
Host: Dr. Debra A. Fadool - November 16: Dr. Claude Gascon, The Global Environmental Facility
From FSU to the Amazon and the world: the true value of an FSU PhD!
Host: Dr. Joseph Travis - November 30: Dr. Philip J. Kranzusch, Department of Cancer Immunology and Virology Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Ancient cGAS-STING pathways link bacteria signaling and human innate immunity
Host: Dr. Fanxiu Zhu
Spring Series
- January 25: Dr. Victor G. Corces, Department of Biology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Mechanisms of transgenerational inheritance of obesity epiphenotypes
Host: To be announced - February 8: Dr. Matthew Hahn, Department of Biology, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
Adaptation and speciation in Anopheles mosquitoes: a virtuous cycle
Host: Dr. Emily M. Lemmon - February 15: Dr. J. Wilson White, Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
How many males does a population need? Investigations of sex-changing fish and sex-changing chemicals
Host: Ellen Kosman / Dr. Don Levitan - February 22: Dr. Jeffrey Wilusz, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
How RNA viruses escape the wrath of the cellular RNA decay machinery
Host: Dr. Hengli Tang - March 8: Dr. Iswar Hariharan, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Genetic control of growth and regeneration
Host: Sarayu Row - March 22: Dr. David W. Pfennig, Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Plasticity-first evolution: how novelty emerges from pre-existing phenotypic plasticity
Host: Dr. Emily M. Lemmon - March 29: Dr. Don Levitan, Chair, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
The evolution of gametic compatibility OR what I did to maintain sanity as Chair
Host: Dr. Joseph Travis - April 12: Dr. Luke J. Harmon, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID
Scaling the tree of life: connecting macroevolutionary pattern to microevolutionary process
Host: Dr. Darin R. Roktya - April 19: Dr. Hengli Tang, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Stem cell-derived tissue culture models for viral infection
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui