Department of Biological Science

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 Mechancal University, College Station, TX
  TBA
  Host: Mysia Dye
  
  
• January 21 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Jörn Coers, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Qian Yin
  
  
• January 28 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Andrew Rassweiler, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui
  
  
• February 11 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Harilaos A. Lessios, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Janie Wulff
  
  
• February 18 (4:00 p.m., Coll): Dr. Matthew Thayer, School of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR
  TBA
  Host: Athanasios (Ethan) Vouzas
  
  
• February 25 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Job Dekker, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachussetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
  TBA
  Host: Mahdi Khadem
  
  
• March 11 (4:00 p.m., Coll): Dr. Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins, Department of Bioengineerin, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
  TBA
  Host: Javed Chitaman
  
  
• March 25 (4:00 p.m., Coll): Dr. Julia Saltz, Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes
  
  
• April 8: Dr. Cary Moody, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Hengli Tang
  
  
• April 15: Dr. Sophie McCoy, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  TBA
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• April 22: Dr. Qian Yin, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  TBA
  Host: To be announced