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