Department of Biological Science

2019-2020 Seminars in Ecology and Evolution

Seminars in Ecology and Evolution meet at 4:00 p.m. on Fridays (unless otherwise noted below), in room 1024 King Life Sciences Building on the FSU campus in Tallahassee, Florida. They are open to the public.

Fall Series

• September 13: Dr. Rebecca Dalton, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  Phenology and species interactions in subalpine flowering plants
  Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye
  
  
• September 20 (4:00
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  p.m., 2057 KIN): Jasmin Graham, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, and FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory, St. Theresa, FL
  Analysis of adult and large juvenile smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) movements: evaluating bycatch risk and identifying critical habitat
  Host: Dr. Dean Grubbs
  
  
• September 27: Dr. Daniel Blumstein, Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
  Insights from an emergent view of sociality
  Host: Dr. Emily H. duVal
  
  
• October 4: Dr. Dale A. Casamatta, Department of Biology, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL
  It aint easy being blue-green: in defense of our cyanobacterial friends
  Host: Dr. Sophie J. McCoy
  
  
• October 18: Dr. Mark Brenner, Land Use and Environmental Change Institute and Department of Geology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  The dynamic paleoecology of the lowland neotropics: impacts of climate and humans
  Host: Dr. Sophie J. McCoy
  
  
• October 25:
  Homecoming - No Seminar
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• November 1: Dr. Scott J. Steppan, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  Diversification of the sigmodontine rodents in South America, from rainforests to beyond the limits of Life on Earth
  Host: Dr. Sophie J. McCoy
  
  
• November 8: Jessie Mutz, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  TBA
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• November 15: Dr. Berry J. Brosi, Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Nora Underwood
  
  
• November 22: Dr. Terry Hughes, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Janie Wulff
  
  
• November 29:
  Thanksgiving holiday - no seminar
  Host: To be announced
  
  
• December 6: Dr. Jacob M. Heiling, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colorado
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Brian D. Inouye
  
  
• December 13:
  TBA
  Host: To be announced
  
  

Spring Series

• January 17: Dr. Alice Boyle, Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS
  TBA
  Host: Pearl Rivers
  
  
• January 24: Cheston Peterson, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, and FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory, St. Theresa, FL
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Dean Grubbs
  
  
• January 31: Margaret Vogel, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller
  
  
• February 7: Dr. Egbert G. Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Republic of Panama
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Janie L. Wulff
  
  
• February 14: Dr. Jonathan Levine, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Andrew Rassweiler
  
  
• February 21: Molly Wiebush, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Nora Underwood
  
  
• March 6: Abigail Engelman, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory and Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Sandra Brooke
  
  
• March 13: Dr. Ethan White, Weecology interdisciplinary ecology research group, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Andrew Rassweiler
  
  
• March 20: Dr. Michal Kowaleski, Florida Museum of Natural History, Gainesville, FL
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Andrew Rassweiler
  
  
• April 3: Brendan Scherer, Department of Biological Science, Florida State University
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Austin Mast
  
  
• April 10: Dr. Ashley Shade, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Thomas E. Miller
  
  
• April 17: Dr. Paul Fine, Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA
  TBA
  Host: Dr. Janie Wulff
  
  
• April 24: Dr. Paul Gignac, Anatomy and Vertebrate Paleontology, Oklahoma State University,
  TBA
  Host: Schyler Ellsworth