FSU Biology - FSU Biology - Colloquium series, 2022-2021

Department of Biological Science

at Florida State University

2022-2023 Seminars in Ecology and Evolution

Seminars in Ecology and Evolution meet at 4:00 p.m. on Fridays, in King Life Sciences Building room 1024. 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

  • August 26: Video recording at: https://www.bio.fsu.edu/video/EESeminars
    Faculty Lightning Talks
    Host: Dr. Emily Lemmon

  • September 2: Dr. Brian Inouye, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Ecology and Evolution new student introductions
    Host: Dr. Emily Lemmon

  • September 9: Dr. Betsy Mansfield, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA
    Multi-level resilience of small-scale fisheries in Baja California, Mexico
    Host: Dr. Andrew Rassweiler

  • September 16: Dr. Don Levitan, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Sea urchin mass mortalities 40 years apart further threaten Caribbean coral reefs
    Host: Dr. Emily Lemmon

  • September 30: Dr. Gavin Naylor, Director, Florida Program for Shark Research, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
    From global wanderer to ocean-basin homebody: changing patterns of movement in the world's white sharks
    Host: Ashley Dawdy

  • October 7: Luke Jones, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Parallel artificial selection in two sister species of Drosphila: how repeatable is evolution at different biological levels
    Host: Dr. David Houle

  • October 14: Dr. Sandra Goutte, New York University
    How frogs get their stripe: genomics and evolution of a widespread color pattern in anurans
    Host: Dr. Emily Lemmon

  • October 21: Sean McCollum, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Exploring global drivers of seagrass meadow organic carbon sequestration
    Host: Dr. Joel Trexler and Dr. Sophie McCoy

  • October 28: Ben Pluer, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Adaptive divergence in the microbiome of the Least Killifish
    Host: Dr. Joseph Travis

  • November 4: Dr. Anna V. Longo, Department of Biology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    Connecting the dots across scales: the need for an integrative understanding of the disease triangle for amphibian conservation
    Host: Dr. Emily Lemmon

  • November 18: Dr. Christian Commander
    Examining how sea otters influence community transition dynamics and diversity in nearshore ecosystems
    Host: Dr. Andrew Rassweiler

  • December 2: Dr. Daniela Rossoni, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    How do quantitative genetics enhance our understanding of morphological evolution?
    Host: Dr. David Houle

Spring Series

  • January 13: Dr. Phil Hahn, Entomology and Nematology Department, University of FL, Gainesville, FL
    Rethinking the growth-defense tradeoff paradigm
    Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye

  • January 20: Nathan Spindel, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Everything changes and nothing stands still: changing resource availability and dynamic abiotic environments drive marine herbivore performance with implications for nearshore ecology
    Host: Dr. Daniel K. Okamoto

  • January 27: Courtney Whitcher, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    The discovery, description, and evolution of biofluorescence in Hylidae treefrogs
    Host: Dr. Emily C. Lemmon

  • February 3: Rachael Best, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    The role of phenotypic plasticity in a species of octocoral in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico
    Host: Dr. Don R. Levitan

  • February 10: Brian Moe, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Blood in the water: can Bayesian inference virtually negate the need for lethal age-based sampling in sharks?
    Host: Dr. Joseph Travis

  • February 17: Dr. Karen Abbott, Department of Ecology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
    Anticipating ecological tipping points
    Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye

  • February 24: Dr. Maya Stokes, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Florida State University
    Erosion of heterogeneous rock drives diversification of Appalachian fishes
    Host: Dr. Emily C. Lemmon

  • March 3: Aaron Ridall, Department of Biological science, Florida State University
    The role of wastewater treatment plants in shaping ecological communities
    Host: To be announced

  • March 10: Lauren Maynard Ph.D., Department of Biological Science, Florida State Unviersity
    Plants are smarter than you think: exploring the mechanisms of multi-species interactions
    Host: To be announced

  • March 24: Danielle Barnes, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Love thy neighbor: the role of sperm competition and kin structure on the fitness of sessile animals
    Host: To be announced

  • March 31: Alli Duffy
    Intraspecific variation in social transmission of fear in a livebearing fish, Brachyrhaphis rhabdophora
    Host: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes

  • April 7: Dr. Laura Dee, University of Colorado, Boulder
    Putting ecological theory to work for conservation
    Host: To be announced

  • April 14: Alexa Guerrera, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    The maintenance of color pattern diversity in male Trinidadian guppies
    Host: To be announced

  • April 21: Dr. Lauren Maynard, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Plants are smarter than you think: exploring the mechanisms of multi-species interactions
    Host: To be announced