2020
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Fall 2020
The genetic basis of volatile production in the moss Ceratodon purpureus
Speaker: Leslie M. Kollar: Exit Seminar
Date: October 15, 2020
The implications of environmental variability and food web structure for species coexistence
Speaker: Lauren Shoemaker, Botany Department | University of Wyoming
Date: October 13, 2020
Host: Mathew Leibold
Space and Resources: How environment shapes diversification in E. coli populations
Speaker: Megan Behringer, Department of Biological Sciences | Vanderbilt University
Date: October 6, 2020
Host: Charles Baer
Signaling inclusivity through deliberate framing of specific genetics-related course content
Speaker: Karen Hales | Davidson College
Date: September 22, 2020
Host: David Julian
The theory and practice of Statistical Ecology
Speaker: José Miguel Ponciano | University of Florida
Date: September 1, 2020
Host: Robert Holt
Summer 2020
How does interspecific host competition alter the amplification and dilution of disease?
Speaker: Michael Cortez, Department of Biological Sciences | Florida State University
Date: July 28, 2020
Host: Robert Holt
A pair of glucose-sensing neurons regulate glucose homeostasis by coordinating the release of insulin and glucagon in Drosophila
Speaker: Yangkyun Oh | New York University
Date: July 21, 2020
Host: Hua Yan
Drivers of genetic diversity in regions of low recombination
Speaker: Kimberly J. Gilbert, Department of Computational Biology | University of Lausanne
Date: June 30, 2020
Host: Charles Baer
Cold-blooded killers: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases in ectothermic vertebrates
Speaker: Anna Savage | University of Central Florida
Date: June 16, 2020
Host: Ana Longo
Unraveling the vine: A Multiscale Approach to Studying Plant Movement
Speaker: Joyce G. Chery, Center for Lignocellulose Structure & Formation | Pennsylvania State University
Date: June 9, 2020
Host: Cody Coyotee Howard
Silk protein innovation and variation: CRISPR-based genetics informs biology and material sciences
Speaker: Caroline Storer, Florida Musem of Natural History | UF
Date: June 2, 2020
Host: Stuart McDaniel
Feather mites: their intimate relationships with hosts and each other
Speaker: Heather Proctor | University of Alberta
Date: May 26, 2020
Host:Emily Durkin
Immune system optimization in a variable world
Speaker: Ann Tate | Vanderbilt University
Date: May 19, 2020
Host: Andrea Gonzalez-Gonzalez
Tiny plant nation: linking duckweed biogeography and coexistence with mechanistic niche models
Speaker: David Armitage | Rice University Biosciences
Date: May 12, 2020
Host: Mathew Leibold
Spring 2020
Human Brain Evolution, Epigenetics and Neuropsychiatric Diseases
Speaker: Soojin Yi, School of Biological Sciences | Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: April 14, 2020
Host: Marta Wayne
Imprinting, speciation and local adaptation
Speaker: Richard Sibly | University of Reading
Date: March 31, 2020
Host: Jamie Gillooly
From no data to big data: empowering the one health revolution
Speaker: Ilaria Capua | UF One Health
Date: March 24, 2020
Host: Marta Wayne
Avian behavioral and community-level responses to forest fragmentation in the Western Andes of Colombia
Speaker: Harrison Jones: Exit Seminar
Date: March 12, 2020
Building a Superorganism: Genomic insights into the evolution and regulation of insect sociality
Speaker: Amy Toth, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
ǀ Iowa State University
Date: March 10, 2020
Host: Hua Yan
Phenotypic effects of spontaneous mutations in C. elegans
Speaker: Lindsay Johnson
Date: February 28, 2020
Animal inputs drive shifts in biogeochemical processes and microbial communities
Speaker: Christopher Dutton, Ph.D., Department of Biology ǀ UF
Date: February 25, 2020
Host: José Miguel Ponciano
What can We Learn from Simple Models of Human-Environment Sustainability
Speaker: Madhur Anand, School of Environmental Sciences ǀ University of Guelph
Station d’Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale du CNRS
Date: February 18, 2020
Host: Terry Harpold
Nuclear mechanics in cancer
Speaker: Tanmay Lele, Charles A. Stokes Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering ǀ UF
Date: February 11, 2020
Host: Charles Baer
Responses of an Insular Pit Viper to Ecological Disturbance
Speaker: Mark Sandfoss: Exit Seminar
Date: February 6, 2020
The strength of predation from micro to macroecological scale
Speaker: Matthieu Barbier, Ph.D., Centre for Biodiversity Theory & Modeling ǀ Moulis, France
Station d’Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale du CNRS
Date: February 4, 2020
Host: Mathew Leibold
Sex differences in immune function: probing ultimate drivers, and exploring consequences
Speaker: Jessica Metcalf, Ph.D., Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology ǀ Princeton University
Date: January 28, 2020
Host: Derek Cummings
Taylor’s law of fluctuation scaling and other variance functions: where do they come from and what can they tell us?
Speaker: Joel E. Cohen, Laboratory of Populations ǀ Rockefeller University & Columbia University
Date: January 21, 2020
Host: Robert Holt
Carbon Processing in Aquatic Critical Zones: Biogeochemical Challenges in the 21st Century
Speaker: Thomas Bianchi, Department of Geological Sciences ǀ UF
Endowed Chair of Geological Sciences
Date: January 14, 2020
Host: Jeremy Lichstein