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Fall 2025

The Great Human Mutagenesis Experiment

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Speaker: Yuval Simons
Date: November 4th, 2025
Host: Juannan Zhou

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Making macho males: a story about how chasing the mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity

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Speaker: Dan Hahn
Date: October 28th, 2025
Host: Zepeng Yao

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Environmentally driven variation in leaf structure and its implications for the composition and function of global forests

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Speaker: Claudia Garnica Díaz
Advisor: Dr. Grace P. John
Coadvisor: Dr. Jeremy Lichstein
Date: October 27th, 2025

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Breaking the Seal: Nuclear Envelope Dynamics in C. elegans Oocyte Development

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Speaker: Chenshu Liu
Date: October 21th, 2025
Host: Xiaofei Bai

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Quantitative genetics, population genomics, and molecular ecology

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Speaker: Tim Crombie
Date: October 14th, 2025
Host: Charlie Baer

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If You Ain’t got Horse, Ride Cow: Resilience and Ingenuity in Caribbean Research

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Speaker: Dr. Darren Browne – University of the West Indies – Barbados
Date: October 9th, 2025
Host: Eric Trotman

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Creating Ecological Inference with Stoichiometric Trait Distributions

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Speaker: Ed Hall
Date: October 7th, 2025
Host: Audrey Goeckner / Chris Dutton

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Title: Biology Seminar – Tropical Forest Ecology

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Speaker: Kaoru Kitajima
Date: September 30th, 2025

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Title: Global Change and Lepidoptera

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Speaker: Vaughn Shirey
Date: September 23rd, 2025
Host: David Blackburn

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Title: Behavioral Disease Ecology: From Individuals to Populations

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Speaker: Nick Keiser
Date: September 18th, 2025
Host: Bob Holt

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Title: Neuroscience of Social Behaviors

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Speaker: Nancy Padilla-Coreano
Date: September 16th, 2025
Host: David Julian

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Title: The Biotic Circulatory System: Animal Movements Connect Meta-ecosystems

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Fall 2025- Tenure Seminar
Speaker: Amanda Subalusky
Date: September 11th, 2025

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Microbe-metabolite networks in the surface ocean

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Fall 2025- Tenure Seminar
Speaker: Bryn Durhman
Date: September 9th, 2025

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Is regeneration an emergent phenomenon?

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Fall 2025- Biology Seminar
Speaker: Ashley Seifert
Date: September 2nd, 2025
Host: Malcolm Maden

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Genomics of speciation in Amazonian Birds

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Fall 2025- Biology Seminar
Speaker: Glaucia Del-Rio – Department of Biology
Date: August 26th, 2025
Advisor: Rebecca Kimball

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Summer 2025

Eating The Everglades: Investigating the Burmese Python (Python bivittatus) Invasion Through Stable Isotopes and Gut Contents

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Summer 2025 – Exit Seminar
Speaker: Kate Davis – Department of Biology
Date: August 18th, 2025
Advisor: Hannah Vander Zanden

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Decoding Eusociality: Exploring Ant Chemosensation Across Development, Caste, and Species

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Summer 2025 – Exit Seminar
Speaker: Kayli R. Sieber – Department of Biology
Date: July 2nd, 2025
Advisor: Hua Yan

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Spring 2025

Life-History Strategies and Disease Resilience in Amphibians: Adaptive Responses to Seasonal Pathogen Pressures

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Spring 2025 – Exit Seminar
Speaker: Zuania Colón-Piñeiro – Department of Biology
Date: May 5th, 2025
Advisor: Ana V. Longo

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Macroevolutionary dynamics of a rare trait: the origins and fates of red flowers

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Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Stacey D Smith- UC-Boulder
Date: April 22nd, 2025
Host: Liming Cai

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Validating population parameters in deepwater marine fishes with eye lens chemistry

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Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Will Patterson- UF Fisheries
Date: April 15th, 2025
Host: Hannah Vander Zanden

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Functional genomics tools for the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme

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Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Doug Risser- CSSU
Date: April 8th, 2025
Host: Stuart McDaniel

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How ecology and evolution shape bird flight: Islands and sexual selection drive changes in flight morphology and performance

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Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Natalie Wright – Kenyon College
Date: April 1st, 2025
Host: Rebecca Kimball

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Cascading impacts of mammalian community shifts in South American drylands

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Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Julia Monk – NYU
Date: March 25th
Host: Amanda Subalusky

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Magnetic Moss: Tillandsia usneoides as a Passive Biosensor for Particulate Matter Air Pollution

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Speaker: Robert Hatfield – UF Geology
Date: March 11th, 2025
Host: Stuart McDaniel

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Gene expression differences across genetically identical individuals predict reproductive traits

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Speaker: Amy Webster – FSU
Date: March 4th, 2025
Host: Charlie Baer

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Mechanisms of intra- and inter-cellular transport

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Speaker: Eva Karasmanis – University of California San Diego
Date: February 25th, 2025
Host: Zhanar Abil

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Decoding the Molecular Mechanisms and Cellular Roles of Microtubule Associated Proteins (MAPs) via Purification-Free TIRF Assays and Ballistic Microscopy

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Speaker: Jijumon A. S – Stanford University
Date: February 20th, 2025
Host: Charlie Baer

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Mechanisms and Regulation of Endocytosis and Autophagy: Insights from Quantitative Live-Cell Imaging

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Speaker: Speaker: Meiyan Jin – University of Florida
Date: February 11th, 2025
Host: Hua Yan

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A thousand ways to evolve a sex chromosome

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Speaker: Alex Harkness – Hudson Alpha/Auburn
Date: January 28th, 2025
Host: Doug Soltis

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Surprises and opportunities in long term research: from tortoises to newts

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Speaker: Lora Smith – Jones Center at Ichauway
Date: January 21st, 2025
Host: Amanda Subalusky

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How living tubes squeeze: Mechanosensing and calcium signaling in the C. elegans spermatheca

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Speaker: Erin Cram – Northeastern University
Date: January 14th, 2025
Host: Xiaofei Bai

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