2024-2025 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 12 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Loren Williams, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
RNA and protein, a match made in the Hadean
Host: Dr. Hank W. Bass - September 19 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Roxanne Hughes, College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, Florida State University, and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Creating an inviting space for individuals to thrive in biology
Host: Department Community Committee - September 26 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Elcin Unal, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
From unconventional gene regulation to cellular rejuvenation: insights from gametogenesis
Host: Dr. Hong-Guo Yu - October 10 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Celine Riera, Center for Neural Science and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Hypothalamic neurocircuits regulating energy balance in health and disease
Host: Bridger Menlove and Rimil Guha Roy, D.Fadool lab - October 17 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Jean Philippe Gibert, Department of Biology, Duke University
Ecological responses in warming food webs
Host: Dr. Michael Cortez - October 24 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN):
Discussion of 2024 Department Community Survey Results
Host: Department Community Committee - October 31 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Jennifer Zallen, Developmental Biology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Cell state transitions in epithelial morphogenesis
Host: Dr. Guangxia Miao - November 14 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Katie Lotterhos, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University, Nahant, MA
The evolution and genomics of migratory body shape in a marine fish
Host: Dr. Don R. Levitan - November 21 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN):
Graduate Student Research Showcase
Host: To be announced
Spring Series
- January 30 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN):
Graduate Student Research Showcase
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - February 13 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcadia CA
Darwin's most beautiful plants and their microbial friends
Host: Dr. Thomas Miller - February 20 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Aaron Carlisle
Tags to tracers: revealing the hidden lives of sharks and fishes through integrative approaches to ecology
Host: Emma Jackson - February 27 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Yoshihiro Izumiya
Development of KSHV-associated disease specific therapeutic gene vector from studies on KSHV gene regulation
Host: Dr. Fanxiu Zhu - March 27 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Douglas Storace, Department of Biological Science, FSU
Understanding functional transformations carried out by the bulb
Host: To be announced - April 10 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Thelma Madzima, Department of Plant Biology, Michigan State University
Epigenetic regulation of environmental stress responses in crop plants- CANCELLED
Host: Kathryn Koirtyohann - April 17 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Raven Baxter, Independent Science Communication Expert
Scientists most powerful weapon against misinformation is communication- CANCELLED
Host: Kathryn Koirtyohann - April 24 (3:30 p.m., 1024 KIN): Dr. Elise Gornish, Cooperative Extension, University of Arizona
Making ecological restoration better: nothing in this presentation is true but its exactly how things are
Host: Dr. Thomas Miller