FSU Biology - FSU Biology - Colloquium series, 2024-2023

2024-2025 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 30 (4:00 am, 1024 KIN):
    Faculty Lightning Talks
    Host: To be announced

  • September 6: Dr. Betsy Mansfield, Department of Biological Science, FSU
    A social-ecological exploration into the impact of oyster population collapse and fishery closure of the Apalachicola Bay oyster
    Host: To be announced

  • September 13: Dr. Evelyn Gaiser, Florida International University
    Mats matter: the social-ecological role of benthic microbial communities in wetlands
    Host: Dr. Joel Trexler

  • September 20: Dr. Maurice Goodman, University of Washington and NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
    Climate-driven species range shifts restructure predator-prey interactions at population scales
    Host: Dr. Sarah Lester

  • September 27: Biology Postdocs
    Five-Minute Oral Presentations Competition
    Host: To be announced

  • October 4: Laura Anthony
    Environmental influences on deep-sea coral reef reproduction
    Host: Dr. Sandra Brooke

  • October 11: Ally Dubel
    Battle royale: Drivers of coral-algae transitions on lagoon reefs
    Host: Drs. Andrew Rassweiler and Sarah Lester

  • October 18: Dr. Jean Philippe Gibert, Department of Biology, Duke University
    Rapid phenotypic change and microbial food-web dynamics in a warming world
    Host: Dr. Michael Cortez

  • October 25: various
    Presentations honoring David Houle upon his retirement
    Host: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes

  • November 1: Jessica Dehn, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory and Department of Biological Science, FSU
    Employing 16 years of data to assess Atlantic sharpnose sharks' (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae) response to a changing environment in Florida's Big Bend
    Host: Dr. R. Dean Grubbs

  • November 15: Dr. Katie Lotterhos, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University, Nahant, MA
    The promise and pitfalls of genomic forecasting
    Host: Dr. Don R. Levitan

  • December 6: Dr. Matt Ogburn, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
    Early signs of success in large-scale oyster reef restoration in Chesapeake Bay
    Host: Allison Blanchette

Spring Series

  • January 10:
    TBA
    Host: To be announced

  • January 17: Dr. Katie Arkema
    TBA
    Host: Dr. Sarah Lester

  • January 24: Dr. Dustin Rubenstein
    TBA
    Host: Dr. Emily DuVal

  • January 31:
    TBA
    Host: To be announced

  • February 7: Emily Fuqua, Department of Biological Science, FSU
    ffects of environmental stress on the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica ) and its implications for restoration
    Host: Dr. Sandra Brooke

  • February 14: Dr. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcadia CA
    TBA
    Host: Dr. Thomas Miller

  • March 7: Donaven Baughman, Department of Biological Science, FSU
    TBA
    Host: Dr. Joel Trexler

  • March 21: Abigail Dittmar, Department of Biological Science, FSU
    TBA
    Host: Drs. Nora Underwood and Brian Inouye

  • March 28: Carlie Anderson, Department of Biological Science, FSU
    Brains, behaviors, and speciation: Evoked patterns of neural activity in chorus frogs reveal candidate mechanisms of species recognition
    Host: Dr. Emily Lemmon

  • April 4: Annais Muschett-Bonilla, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory and Department of Biological Science, FSU
    TBA
    Host: Dr. R. Dean Grubbs

  • April 11:
    TBA
    Host: To be announced

  • April 18: Emilie Broussard, Department of Biological Science, FSU
    TBA
    Host: Dr. Darin R. Rokyta

  • April 25: Dr. Elise Gornish, Center for Environmentally Sustainable Mining, Arizona State University
    TBA
    Host: Dr. Thomas Miller