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Fall 2025
The Great Human Mutagenesis Experiment

Speaker: Yuval Simons
Date: November 4th, 2025
Host: Juannan Zhou
Making macho males: a story about how chasing the mechanisms of phenotypic plasticity

Speaker: Dan Hahn
Date: October 28th, 2025
Host: Zepeng Yao
Environmentally driven variation in leaf structure and its implications for the composition and function of global forests

Speaker: Claudia Garnica Díaz
Advisor: Dr. Grace P. John
Coadvisor: Dr. Jeremy Lichstein
Date: October 27th, 2025
Breaking the Seal: Nuclear Envelope Dynamics in C. elegans Oocyte Development

Speaker: Chenshu Liu
Date: October 21th, 2025
Host: Xiaofei Bai
Quantitative genetics, population genomics, and molecular ecology

Speaker: Tim Crombie
Date: October 14th, 2025
Host: Charlie Baer
If You Ain’t got Horse, Ride Cow: Resilience and Ingenuity in Caribbean Research

Speaker: Dr. Darren Browne – University of the West Indies – Barbados
Date: October 9th, 2025
Host: Eric Trotman
Creating Ecological Inference with Stoichiometric Trait Distributions

Speaker: Ed Hall
Date: October 7th, 2025
Host: Audrey Goeckner / Chris Dutton
Title: Biology Seminar – Tropical Forest Ecology

Speaker: Kaoru Kitajima
Date: September 30th, 2025
Title: Global Change and Lepidoptera

Speaker: Vaughn Shirey
Date: September 23rd, 2025
Host: David Blackburn
Title: Behavioral Disease Ecology: From Individuals to Populations

Speaker: Nick Keiser
Date: September 18th, 2025
Host: Bob Holt
Title: Neuroscience of Social Behaviors

Speaker: Nancy Padilla-Coreano
Date: September 16th, 2025
Host: David Julian
Title: The Biotic Circulatory System: Animal Movements Connect Meta-ecosystems

Fall 2025- Tenure Seminar
Speaker: Amanda Subalusky
Date: September 11th, 2025
Microbe-metabolite networks in the surface ocean

Fall 2025- Tenure Seminar
Speaker: Bryn Durhman
Date: September 9th, 2025
Is regeneration an emergent phenomenon?

Fall 2025- Biology Seminar
Speaker: Ashley Seifert
Date: September 2nd, 2025
Host: Malcolm Maden
Genomics of speciation in Amazonian Birds

Fall 2025- Biology Seminar
Speaker: Glaucia Del-Rio – Department of Biology
Date: August 26th, 2025
Advisor: Rebecca Kimball
Summer 2025
Eating The Everglades: Investigating the Burmese Python (Python bivittatus) Invasion Through Stable Isotopes and Gut Contents

Summer 2025 – Exit Seminar
Speaker: Kate Davis – Department of Biology
Date: August 18th, 2025
Advisor: Hannah Vander Zanden
Decoding Eusociality: Exploring Ant Chemosensation Across Development, Caste, and Species

Summer 2025 – Exit Seminar
Speaker: Kayli R. Sieber – Department of Biology
Date: July 2nd, 2025
Advisor: Hua Yan
Spring 2025
Life-History Strategies and Disease Resilience in Amphibians: Adaptive Responses to Seasonal Pathogen Pressures

Spring 2025 – Exit Seminar
Speaker: Zuania Colón-Piñeiro – Department of Biology
Date: May 5th, 2025
Advisor: Ana V. Longo
Macroevolutionary dynamics of a rare trait: the origins and fates of red flowers

Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Stacey D Smith- UC-Boulder
Date: April 22nd, 2025
Host: Liming Cai
Validating population parameters in deepwater marine fishes with eye lens chemistry

Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Will Patterson- UF Fisheries
Date: April 15th, 2025
Host: Hannah Vander Zanden
Functional genomics tools for the filamentous cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme

Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Doug Risser- CSSU
Date: April 8th, 2025
Host: Stuart McDaniel
How ecology and evolution shape bird flight: Islands and sexual selection drive changes in flight morphology and performance

Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Natalie Wright – Kenyon College
Date: April 1st, 2025
Host: Rebecca Kimball
Cascading impacts of mammalian community shifts in South American drylands

Spring 2025 – Biology Seminar
Speaker: Julia Monk – NYU
Date: March 25th
Host: Amanda Subalusky
Magnetic Moss: Tillandsia usneoides as a Passive Biosensor for Particulate Matter Air Pollution

Speaker: Robert Hatfield – UF Geology
Date: March 11th, 2025
Host: Stuart McDaniel
Gene expression differences across genetically identical individuals predict reproductive traits

Speaker: Amy Webster – FSU
Date: March 4th, 2025
Host: Charlie Baer
Mechanisms of intra- and inter-cellular transport

Speaker: Eva Karasmanis – University of California San Diego
Date: February 25th, 2025
Host: Zhanar Abil
Decoding the Molecular Mechanisms and Cellular Roles of Microtubule Associated Proteins (MAPs) via Purification-Free TIRF Assays and Ballistic Microscopy

Speaker: Jijumon A. S – Stanford University
Date: February 20th, 2025
Host: Charlie Baer
Mechanisms and Regulation of Endocytosis and Autophagy: Insights from Quantitative Live-Cell Imaging

Speaker: Speaker: Meiyan Jin – University of Florida
Date: February 11th, 2025
Host: Hua Yan
A thousand ways to evolve a sex chromosome

Speaker: Alex Harkness – Hudson Alpha/Auburn
Date: January 28th, 2025
Host: Doug Soltis
Surprises and opportunities in long term research: from tortoises to newts

Speaker: Lora Smith – Jones Center at Ichauway
Date: January 21st, 2025
Host: Amanda Subalusky
How living tubes squeeze: Mechanosensing and calcium signaling in the C. elegans spermatheca

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