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Upcoming Events - 2026-08-04

Colloquia and Seminars
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Thursday, 10th of September 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Roles of lipid droplet formation and inter-organelle lipid transport in regulating organelle quality control and ferroptosis	Dr. William Prinz
Thursday, 24th of September 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Integrative approaches to studying new frontiers of animal communication: from genes to brains to trees	Dr. Matthew Fuxjager
Thursday, 8th of October 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Cellular and molecular dynamics shaping the vertebrate eye	Dr. Kristen Kwan
Thursday, 15th of October 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	TBA	TBA
Thursday, 22nd of October 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Pioneers, settlers and life on the OregonR trail: transcriptional regulation during development	Dr. Melissa Harrison
Thursday, 29th of October 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Modeling metabolic liver disease using patient-derived stem cells	Dr. Jacqueline J. Maher
Thursday, 12th of November 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium and Yerger Lecture	TBA	Dr. Ann C. Morris
Thursday, 19th of November 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Host-Wolbachia interactions: getting into the next generation by any means necessary	Dr. Brandon Cooper
Thursday, 26th of November 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Thanksgiving Holiday, No Colloquium
Thursday, 7th of January 2027	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Faculty Meeting	Thanksgiving Holiday, No Colloquium
Thursday, 14th of January 2027	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	TBA	Dr. Elcin Unal
Thursday, 21st of January 2027	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Graduate Student Research Showcase
Thursday, 28th of January 2027	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	TBA	Dr. Patricia Wittkopp
Thursday, 11th of February 2027	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	TBA	Dr. Butch Brodie
Thursday, 25th of February 2027	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	TBA	Dr. Tom E.X. Miller
Thursday, 11th of March 2027	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	TBA	Dr. Thomas Turner
Thursday, 25th of March 2027	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Colloquium	Shaping a nature-positive future for the Caribbean: delivering science, building political will, and mobilizing financial resources	Dr. Rob Brumbaugh
Friday, 26th of March 2027	4:00 PM	1024 KIN	Ecology and Evolution Seminar	Learning from larvae and becoming a scientifically trained advocate for change	Dr. Rob Brumbaugh

Symposia
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Friday, 18th of September 2026	8:00 AM	FSU Alumni Center	Fowler Symposium 2026	Biological Imaging Across Scales	Dr. David Veesler, Dr. Jochen Zimmer, Dr. Melody Campbell, Dr. Tessa Burch-Smith, Dr. Laura Ann Metkas.

Miscellaneous
Date	Time	Location	Series Title	Title	Speaker
Thursday, 3rd of September 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Faculty Meeting
Thursday, 1st of October 2026	3:30 PM	102 KIN	Biological Science Faculty Meeting
Thursday, 5th of November 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Faculty Meeting
Friday, 4th of December 2026	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Biological Science Faculty Meeting
Thursday, 18th of February 2027	3:30 PM	1024 KIN	Department Dialogue