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 8: Ash Dawdy, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory and Department of Biological Science, FSU
Movement behavior of the critically endangered smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) in the Southeastern US
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. Joseph Travis, Department of Biological Science, FSU
When is evolution (un) predictable? and is this even interesting?
Host: Dr. Joel Trexler
Spring Series
- January 10:
TBA
Host: To be announced - January 31: Dr. Scott Burgess, Department of Biological Science, FSU
Evolution of marine larval dispersal and local retention
Host: Dr. Joel Trexler - February 7: Emily Fuqua, Department of Biological Science, FSU
Getting salty: salinity response of oysters from Apalachicola Bay, FL and implications for restoration
Host: Dr. Sandra Brooke - February 14: Dr. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcadia CA
Negative biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships in the context of community assembly
Host: Dr. Thomas Miller - February 21: Dr. Aaron Carlisle, University of Delaware
New biologging and chemical tracer approaches for studying and conserving marine species and ecosystems
Host: Emma Jackson - February 28: Niall Whalen, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
Unlocking the Potential of Phytoliths for Deep Time Research
Host: Gregory Erickson, Jonathan Dennis - March 7: Donaven Baughman, Department of Biological Science, FSU
Allocation trade-offs in predator-exposed oysters across salinity regimes
Host: Dr. Joel Trexler - March 21: Abigail Dittmar, Department of Biological Science, FSU
Modeling the role of plant induced resistance in herbivore population growth
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
Maternal investment and reproductive patterns in matrotrophic stingrays
Host: Dr. R. Dean Grubbs - April 11: Sarah-Kate Genter, Department of Biological Science, FSU
Coastal connections: the role of biological soil crusts in Floridas dune vegetation
Host: Dr. Thomas Miller - April 25: Dr. Elise Gornish, Cooperative Extension, University of Arizona
Saving the west: What nearly a decade of outcomes from a dryland coordinated network experiment can tell us about life, death and plants
Host: Dr. Thomas Miller