2022-2023 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 8: Dr. Tongqin Zhou, Chief, Structural Bioinformatics Core Section, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
From antibody to vaccine: structural vaccinology in the era of a pandemic
Host: Dr. Fanxiu Zhu - September 22: Dr. Paul Bienasz, Laboratory of Retrovirology, The Rockefeller Universiy, Rockefeller, NY
Antibodies versus SARS-CoV-2: resisting resistance
Host: Dr. Ashwanth Francis - September 29: Dr. Gavin Naylor, Director, Florida Program for Shark Research, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
Why are there so many different forms of life?
Host: Ashley Dawdy - October 13: Dr. Doug Koshland, Distinguished Chair in the Biological Sciences & Professor of Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development, University of California, Berkeley, CA
The biology and molecular mechanism of higher order chromosome structure
Host: Dr. Hong-Guo Yu - October 20 (4:00 p.m., Zoom): Dr. Toby Beth Freedman, President, Synapsis Search, Biotechnology Recruiting company
Finding your path: the many careers in the life Sciences/biotechnology industry
Host: Maria Quintero Rodriguez - October 27: Joshua Morgan, Academic Honor Policy Administrator, Office of Faculty Development and Advancement, Florida State University
Updates to the FSU Academic Honor Policy
Host: Dr. Karen McGinnis - November 10: Dr. Katie Lotterhos, Marine and Environmental Sciences, Northeastern University, Nahant, MA
Paradigms and paradoxes in global change biology
Host: Dr. Don Levitan
Spring Series
- January 12: Dr. Daniel K. Okamoto, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
How climate change and harvest shape the volatility and viability of marine populations
Host: To be announced - January 19: Dr. Randy Schekman, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Ca
Exosomes and tubular connections in membrane repair and intercellular traffic
Host: Dr. Scott Stagg - January 26: Prof. Suzanne Alonzo, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Social interactions can generate sexual selection on brains, bodies and behavior: Insights from the ocellated wrasse
Host: Dr. Emily H. DuVal - February 9:
Cancelled; faculty candidate special seminar instead
Host: To be announced - February 16: Dr. Karen Abbott, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Ecological Stability in a stochastic world
Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye - February 23: Dr. Sarah Fitzpatrick, Department of Integrative Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Genetic rescue to the rescue: linking genomics and demography for improving persistence of small populations
Host: Alexa Guerrera - March 9: Dr. Loren McClenachan, Department of Environmental Studies, University of Victoria, BC, Canada
Historical marine ecology and conservation
Host: Dr. Andrew Rassweiler - March 23: Dr. Michaela Gack, Florida Research and Innovation Center, Cleveland Clinic Florida, Port St. Lucie, FL
Novel mechanisms of virus sensing in innate immunity
Host: Dr. Hengli Tang - April 13: Dr. Vincent Racaniello, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University, New York, NY
An inordinate fondness for viruses
Host: Jane Benoit - April 20: Dr. Lauren OConnell, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Lessons from poison frogs on how ecological resources shape behavior and physiology
Host: Dr. Emily C. Lemmon - April 27:
TBA
Host: To be announced