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Fall 2024
On habitat filtering and limiting similarity: The ecology of spider sociality
Speaker: Leticia Avilés, University of British Columbia
Date: December 3rd, 2024
Host: Steven Cassidy
Weird giraffes, giant elephants, and absurd sauropods: the evolution of the herbivore guild in deep time
Speaker: Advait M. Jukar, Florida Museum of Natural History
Date: November 19th, 2024
Host: David Blackburn
Something fishy this way comes: investigating shark and fish evolution using microfossils in deep sea sediments
Speaker: Elizabeth Sibert, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Date: November 12th, 2024
Host: Gareth Fraser
Quantifying complex, multivariate ecologies (and other calming pursuits in mammalogy)
Speaker: Jonathan Nations – UF Florida Museum of Natural History
Date: November 5th, 2024
Host: David Blackburn
Resource Hotspots and Wildlife Disease: Drivers of Risk and Opportunities for Management
Speaker: Georgia Titcomb – Colorado State University
Date: October 29th, 2024
Host: Chris Dutton
Comparative genomics and metabolomics of endophytic and saprotrophic fungi in the Xylariales: how do species interactions shape metabolic gene cluster diversity?
Speaker: Jana U’Ren – Washington State University
Date: October 22nd, 2024
Host: Gordon Burleigh
Under the Pavement: The Ants of New York City
Speaker: Clint Penick – Auburn University
Date: October 15th, 2024
Host: Hua Yan
Organization of specialized ER subdomains for lipid droplet biogenesis
Speaker: Amit Joshi – University of Tennessee Knoxville
Date: October 1st, 2024
Host: Xiaofei Bai
Shaping organs via dynamic cell and matrix interactions
Speaker: Shaohe Wang – HHMI
Date: September 17th, 2024
Host: Xiaofei Bai
From Wounded to Regeneration – Mechanisms of Whole-Body Regeneration in the sea star Patiria miniata
Speaker: Veronica Hinman – UF Biology & Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
Date: September 10th, 2024
Host: Brad Barbazuk
Reconstructing animal histories with isotope approaches
Speaker: Hannah Vander Zanden – UF Biology
Date: September 3rd, 2024
Host: Rebecca Kimball
Sea turtles, tumors & trees: genomics for wildlife conservation and biodiversity monitoring
Speaker: David Duffy – UF Biology & Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience
Date: August 27th, 2024
Host: Derek Cummings
Spring 2024
Zoogeochemistry of Arid Ecosystems
Speaker: Dror Hawlena – Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Date: April 23rd, 2024
Host: Amanda Subalusky
Using functional traits to understand drought responses in tropical forests
Speaker: Beatriz Salgado Negret – Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Date: April 18th, 2024
Host: Claudia Garnica Diaz
Who dies and who thrives? Integrating host specificity to disentangle multi-pathogen dynamics of amphibian communities in Florida
Speaker: Arik Hartmann
Date: March 28th, 2024
Host: Ana V. Longo
Note: recording started late
Cutting effect size down to size: regression to the mean in ecological meta-analyses and what to do about it
Speaker: Jeremy Fox – Calgary
Date: April 16th, 2024
Host: Bob Holt
Modulation of C.elegans reproductive behavior circuits by mechanosensory feedback
Speaker: Kevin Collins – University of Miami
Date: April 9th, 2024
Host: Xiaofei Bai
Selective Reprogramming of Proteases for Biomedical and Biotechnological Applications
Speaker: Carl Denard – UF Chemical Engineering
Date: April 2nd, 2024
Host: Juannan Zhou
Systematics of symbiosis: how does mutualism generate and maintain tropical marine biodiversity?
Speaker: Benjamin Titus – Dept of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama
Date: March 28th, 2024
Host: Gareth Fraser
The limits of life: how evolution turns animals into extreme survivors
Speaker: Rebecca Varney – Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Date: March 26th, 2024
Host: Stefanie Gazda
Toward an integrative understanding of the light sensing systems in Nematostella vectensis
Speaker: Kyle McCulloch – Dept. of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior, University of Minnesota
Date: March 21st, 2024
Host: Malcolm Maden
Marine Evolutionary Ecology in the Anthropocene
Speaker: Lauren Schiebelhut – Sunflower Star Laboratory
Date: March 19th, 2024
Host: Xiaofei Bai
Cryptic Diversity and Hidden Interactions Shape Coral Reef Responses to Climate Change
Speaker: Carsten Grupstra – Boston University & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Date: March 7th, 2024
Host: Nick Keiser
The role of connectivity in natural, urban, and experimental pond networks
Speaker: Zsófia Horváth – HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research, Hungary
Date: March 5th, 2024
Host: Mathew Leibold
Computational Studies of Rare Human Genetic Disorders
Speaker: Xiao Fan – UF BME
Date: February 6th, 2024
Host: Xiaofei Bai
Empowering Equity through Active Learning in Undergraduate Biology Instruction
Speaker: Julie Brown – UF College of Education
Date: January 30th, 2024
Host: Bryndan Durham
Creating Life, Naturally and Unnaturally
Speaker: Steven Benner – Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution (FAME)
Date: January 23rd, 2024
Host: Zhanar Abil
Erosion of heterogeneous rocks as driver of allopatric speciation in Appalachian fishes
Speaker: Maya Stokes – FSU
Date: January 16th, 2024
Host: Stuart McDaniel
Genes and Genomics Underlying the Social Behavior of Honey Bees
Speaker: Hongmei Li-Byarlay – Central State University
Date: January 9th, 2024
Host: Hua Yan