2018-2019 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 13: Dr. P. Dee Boersma, Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Penguins as ecosystem sentinels
Host: Dr. Daniel Okamoto - September 20:
No colloquium
Host: To be announced - September 27: Dr. Nitin Phadnis, Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Genomic conflicts and speciation in Drosophila
Host: Micaiah Ward - October 11: Dr. Vojo Deretic, Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Mammalian autophagy v2.0
Host: Dr. Qian Yin - October 18: Dr. Mathew Leibold, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Rethinking metacommunity ecology
Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller - October 25: Dr. Zuoxing Wang, Department of Psychology, Florida State University
A unique animal model for social neuroscience research
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - November 8: Dr. Janneke Hille Ris Lambers , Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
When do flowers flower? The importance of wildflower phenology for plants, insects and people under changing climates
Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye - November 15: Dr. Rebecca Fuller, Department of Animal Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
The pervasive effects of lighting environments on the evolution of color patterns, color vision, and animal behavior in a killifish
Host: Dr. Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes - November 29: Dr. Patrick Phillips, The Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
The systems genetics of aging: evolutionary, functional, and pharmacological perspectives
Host: Dr. Scott Steppan
Spring Series
- January 24: Dr. Alan Marshall, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Tallahassee, FL
Ultrahigh resolution mass spectrometry: extending the size and detail of biomolecule structure analysis
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - January 31: Dr. Joel McGlothlin, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA
Building an adaptation: 300 million years of toxin resistance evolution
Host: Elizabeth Lange - February 14: Dr. Hank W. Bass, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Genome regulation and transmission in a model eukaryote; i.e. why I love maize
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui - February 28: Oliver Rando, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Daddy issues: effects of paternal environments in the next generation in mammals
Host: Jason Lynn - March 14: Dr. Scott Burgess, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
The evolution of dispersal in the sea
Host: To be announced - March 28: Dr. Minoree Kohwi, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY
Genome architecture dynamics and neural progenitor competence
Host: Aliza DeNobrega - April 11: Dr. Megan C. King, Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Genome integrity in context: how the cell biology of the nucleus influences DNA repair
Host: Dr. Hong-guo Yu - April 18: Dr. Jennifer B. H. Martiny, Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA
The role of microbial communities in an ecosystem's response to environmental change
Host: Margaret Vogel - April 25: Dr. David M. Gilbert, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Regulation of replication timing and chromosome architecture
Host: Dr. Hongchang Cui