FSU Biology - FSU Biology - Colloquium series, 2023-2022

Department of Biological Science

at Florida State University

2023-2024 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

  • September 1:
    Faculty lightning talks and new student introductions
    Host: Dr. Emily DuVal

  • September 8: Tianyu (Terry) Li, M.S., Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
    Genetic variation and experimental selection on sexual dimorphism in D. melanogaster
    Host: Dr. David Houle

  • September 15: Dr. Gavin Naylor, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
    From global wanderer to ocean basin homebody
    Host: Ashley Dawdy

  • September 22: Dr. Mark Hauber, University of Illinois
    Using conservation management to test basic ecological principles: case studies from New Zealand
    Host: Dr. Emily DuVal

  • September 29: Joseph Horacek, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Isolation versus connectivity in the deep sea: a look at the phylogeography of deep-sea nematodes across Rapa Nui, the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, the Atacama Trench, and the seamounts of the Chilean Sea in the Pacific
    Host: Dr. Jerome Ingel s and Dr. Scott Steppan

  • October 6: Shania Schull, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Coral-Sponge interactions: building fences and having neighbors for lunch
    Host: Dr. Janie Wulfff

  • October 13 (4:00 pm, !024 KIN): Dr. Barbara Costa, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Evolution in the sigmodontine rodents: how covariance structure impact their evolutionary response
    Host: Dr. Scott Steppan

  • October 20: Tyler Hunt, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    The visual fields of Crocodylia
    Host: Dr. Gregory Erickson

  • October 27: Matthew Schumm, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    Growth and life history trait distributions in hungry harvested fish
    Host: Dr. Daniel Okamoto

  • November 3: Bobbie Renfro, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
    The effects of water quality on coral reef sponge assemblages
    Host: Dr. Janie Wulff

  • November 17:
    Three minutes, three slides, endless curiostiy: EE faculty lightning talks
    Host: Dr. Emily DuVal

  • December 1: Dr. Valerie McKenzie, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
    Wild microbiomes in a changing environment
    Host: Dr. Sarah Lester

Spring Series