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Spring 2018 | Fall 2017 | UF Faculty Seminars | Spring 2017 | Fall 2016 | Summer 2016 | Spring 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | Selected Exit Seminars
Spring 2018
The physiology of the last universal common ancestor — where did the first cells on Earth live and from what? Speaker: Professor Dr. William Martin, Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf ǀ Germany |
Connecting with Biodiversity Collections: Structure-Function Relationships and Morphological Evolution in Mosses Speaker: Jessica Budke, Ph.D., University of Tennessee ǀ Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Generating genetic tools in ants to study social behavior and neural development Speaker: Hua Yan, Ph.D., New York University Langone Medical Center |
The genetic basis of evolutionary transitions in early development Speaker: Christina Zakas, Ph.D., New York University | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
From Model Organism to Superorganism: Integrating Ecology, Evolution, and Development Speaker: Rajendhran Rajakumar, Ph.D., Harvard University-Medical School |
Studies of synchrony as examples of mathematics as biology’s next microscope Speaker: Daniel Reuman, Ph.D., University of Kansas | Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
The molecular basis of insect visual system development and evolution Speaker: Michael Perry, Ph.D., New York University |
EvoDevOmics and the developmental basis of tooth regeneration in sharks Speaker: Gareth Fraser, Ph.D., University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
Moving beyond the Black-Box: Microbial Traits, Community Structure, & Biogeochemical Cycling in Forest Soils Speaker: Christopher Fernandez, Ph.D., University of Minnesota |
Changing the cell fate through an asymmetric cell division Speaker: Mamiko Yajima, Ph.D., Brown University |
Biodiversity and the functioning of ecosystems: Connected problems or connected solutions? Speaker: Jessica Hines, Ph.D., German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Jena-Halle-Leipzig |
#SciComm, media relations, and a botanist on Mars: How to get more than 20 strangers to hear about your latest research when it’s not published in Nature or Science Speaker: Chris Martine, Ph.D., Bucknell University |
Understanding novelty, one cell at a time Speaker: Leslie Babonis, Ph.D., Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience | UF |
How do evolutionary and mechanistic insights from budding yeast inform genotype to phenotype maps? Speaker: Kerry Geiler-Samerotte, Ph.D., Stanford University |
How do Terrestrial Ecosystems Influence Aquatic Communities from Local to Continental Scales? Speaker: Sarah Collins, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin |
Animal Migrations and Resource Subsidies Influence River Ecosystem Dynamics Speaker: Amanda Subalusky, Ph.D., Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies |
Drivers and impacts of viral diversity in endemic human disease: within-host to global scales Speaker: Maia Rabaa, Ph.D., Oxford University, Clinical Research Unit, Vietnam |
Multi-Host Fungal Pathogens: Challenges and Opportunities in Conserving Global Amphibian Biodiversity Speaker: Ana Longo, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute |
Biodiversity-Disease Relationships are Scale Dependent Speaker: Julia Buck, Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara, Marine Science Institute |
What can Plankton tell us about Links between Ecosystems & Disease Speaker: Meghan Duffy Ph.D., University of Michigan |
Disentangling Host Behavior and Social Context in Disease Ecology Speaker: Nick Keiser Ph.D., Rice University |
Fall 2017
Digging Deep: applications of deep learning to digitized museum collections Speaker: Paul Frandsen, Ph.D., Research Computing ǀ Smithsonian Institute |
Species interactions, resource landscapes, and the maintenance of diverse communities Speaker: Leithen M’Gonigle, Ph.D., FSU ǀ Department of Biological Science |
Diversity, Stability and Evolution of Ecological Networks Speaker: Andrew Gonzalez, Director of the Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, McGill University ǀ Department of Biology |
Problems of Integration and Synthesis in Organismal Biology after World War II Speaker: Joel Hagen, Ph.D., Radford University ǀ Department of Biology |
Replaying Life’s Tape: Using Recurrent Spatial Patterns to Understand the Process of Adaptation Speaker: Nicholas Kooyers, Ph.D., USF ǀ Department of Integrative Biology |
The Role of Innate Immune Mechanisms in Molecular Evolution and Pathogenesis of Flaviviruses Speaker: Helen Piontkivska, Ph.D., Kent State University ǀ Department of Biological Sciences |
Enhancing Undergraduate Learning through Research Experiences Speaker: Susan Singer, Ph.D., Vice President for Academic Affairs, Provost and Professor of Biology | Rollins College |
UF Faculty Seminars
Supporting biology students with learning differences in the classroom, research laboratory, and academic advisement: Leveraging insights from STEM students with learning disabilities and their mentors Speaker: Consuelo Maun Kreider, Ph.D, University of Florida ǀ PHHP Occupational Therapy |
Sexual Differentiation of Vertebrate Genitalia: from Evolutionary Origins to Congenital Malformations Speaker: Martin Cohn, Ph.D., UF ǀ Department of Molecular Genetics, Microbiology, and Biology |
An Invasive Prey and an Endangered Predator: A Novel Cocktail full of Surprises Speaker: Robert Fletcher, Ph.D., UF ǀ Wildlife Ecology and Conservation |
RNA Interference in Animals and Plants: Convergent or Descent from Common Ancestor, or Both? Speaker: Bryan Kolaczkowski, Ph.D., UF ǀ Department of Microbiology and Cell Science |
Cloudy with a Chance of Microbes Speaker: Brent Christner, Ph.D., UF ǀ Department of Microbiology and Cell Science |
The Community Ecology of Mutualism: Lessons from 20 years among the Ant-Plants of Kenya Speaker: Todd Palmer, Ph.D., UF ǀ Department of Biology |
Plant Functional Diversity: Leaves, Trees, and the Global Carbon Cycle Speaker: Jeremy Lichstein, Ph.D., UF ǀ Dept. of Biology |
Bahamian Bird Communities During and After the Last Ice Age: Real Turnover on Real Islands Speaker: David Steadman, Curator of Ornithology, UF ǀ Museum of Natural History |
Vertical Stratification: A New Gradient in Biogeography
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Deforestation and Vector-Borne Diseases: Notes from the field
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Mechanisms of environmental modulation of longevity
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Communicating Modern Genetic Technologies with a Concerned Public Speaker: Kevin Folta, Ph.D., Horticultural Sciences Department | University of Florida |
The rise of the bilaterian radiation: An EvoDevo explanation for radical changes in body plan evolution
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The Green Plant Tree of Life and other Big Data Tales Speaker: Matthew Gitzendanner, Ph.D., UF/Department of Biology |
Title “Fisher and Mendel fistfight in heaven: The quantitative genetics of biased segregation
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Novel insights into genetic stress responses learned from the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
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Infectious Diseases: Impact on Life, Living and Evolution
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Evolution of development: the paradox of spiralian embryogenesis
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Patterns of Assembly and Disassembly in Ecological Communities
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Communication, exploitation, and the evolution of color in Habronattus jumping spiders Speaker: Lisa Taylor, Ph.D., UF, Department of Entomology |
Ecological divergence, life history timing, and the origin of insect species Speaker: Tom Powell, Ph.D., UF-Department of Entomology |
Nest abandonment of colonial nesting birds at Seahorse Key: what do we know and where do we go from here? Speaker: Coleman Sheehy III, Ph.D., UF-Wildlife, Ecology and Conservation |
Herd Immunity and the Surprising Dynamics of Dengue Interventions
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The Diversity and Evolution of African Frogs Speaker: David Blackburn, Ph.D., UF, Florida Museum of Natural History |
Science Amidst Catastrophe: Rescue and Assessment of Sea Turtles Affected by the 2010 Gulf Oil Spill
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Taking a big stick to a big problem: Using deep Next Generation Sequencing data to investigate gene structure and RNA processing across the plant kingdom
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Understanding fish behavior across levels of biological organization Speaker: James Liao, Ph.D., UF/Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience |
Towards systems biology of stomatal defense and glucosinolate metabolism
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Modeling the structure of variability in ecological and evolutionary time series Speaker: José Miguel Ponciano, Ph.D., UF/Dept. of Biology |
A phylogenomic odyssey: From models and power analysis to gene trees and species trees
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Efforts to Save Nature, Mostly Tropical
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Discipline based education research – broadening the impacts of our science and our teaching
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Spring 2017
Evolutionary Biology of Sea Kraits: A Saga over Geological Time Speaker: Harold Heatwole, Ph.D., NC State University, Department of Biological Sciences, Raleigh and University of New England, Department of Zoology, Armidale |
Givers of Pain and Delight: The role of sex in adaptation and conflict Speaker: Patrick Phillips, Ph.D., University of Oregon, Institute of Ecology and Evolution |
Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles Speaker: Jonathan Losos, Ph.D., Harvard University, Department of Organisms & Evolutionary Biology |
How Seasonal is Seasonal? The Application of Wavelet Analysis to Functional Trait Data
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The Power of Place in Fern Evolution Speaker: Eric Schuettpelz, Ph.D., Smithsonian Institute | Washington DC |
Emergent Cooperation in Natural and Engineered Swarms Speaker: Melanie Moses, Ph.D., University of New Mexico ǀ Dept. of Computer Science and Biology |
Mechanisms of Food Choice and Feeding Decisions in the Fly
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Did Climate Change Give Us All These Species? Speaker: Mark McPeek, Ph.D., Dartmouth College | Department of Biological Sciences |
The roles of seed and pollen dispersal by animals in shaping gene flow and seedling survival of a tropical palm
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The Developmental Basis of Caste Evolution in Ants: Hormones, Genes and Epigenetics Speaker: Rajendhran Rajakumar, Ph.D., UF Post‑Doc | Department of Molecular Genetics & Microbiology |
Building a Tropical Flora: Origins and Affinities of Hawaiian Non-Marine Algae
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The Living Dead: Metabolic Arrest and the Control of Biological Time Speaker: Kenneth Storey, Ph.D., Carleton University, Ottawa Canada | Dept. of Biology and Chemistry |
Mutualism: What do we know, and where do we go from here? Speaker: Judith Bronstein, Ph.D., University of Arizona | Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Evolution Education in the South and Communicating Funding Success Rates for Women and Men at the NSF Speaker: Leslie J. Rissler, Ph.D., Division of Environmental Biology; National Science Foundation |
Fall 2016
Your Site is my Replicate: Scaling up from Site-Scale Experiments to Multi-Continent Inference
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Bryophyte evolution in the era of high-throughput phylogenetics and transcriptomics
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Microbial Contributions to Biodiversity: Accounting for the Invisible Majority
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The biology, physics and geometry of sand-swimming
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Intergenerational Tradeoffs in Ferns: The Pressures of Reproduction
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Origin and maintenance of biodiversity gradients: Making inferences over regional to global scales
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Clash of the Titans: Competing Influences of Newton and Darwin in Biology
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Re-thinking metacommunity ecology
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An integrative approach to biodiversity prediction in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
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Coral Reef Community Structure and Resilience in a Changing World
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The origins of microendemic adaptive radiation
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Tropical forest diversity: patterns, causes, and consequences
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Scaling up biodiversity monitoring in managed tropical forests by using bioacoustics
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Phylogenetic tools for studying diversification in the tree of life
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Archie Carr and the Continuing Riddles of the Ridley Speaker: Thane Wibbels, Ph.D., University of Alabama, Department of Biology |
Summer 2016
Individual and Species Differences in Neural Mechanisms underlying Behavior in Nudibranch Molluscs Speaker: Paul S. Katz, Ph.D., Georgia State University Department of Biology and Neuroscience Institute |
Neural dynamics, olfactory coding and behavior Speaker: Baranidharan (Barani) Raman, Ph.D., Washington University Department of Biomedical Engineering Apologies for the audio difficulties during the 1st 5½ minutes. |
Interpreting animal movement and trophic ecology across space and time Speaker: Hannah Vander Zanden, Ph.D., University of Utah Global Change & Sustainability Center, Department of Geology & Geophysics |
Spring 2016
Evo-devo beyond the embryo: regeneration and asexual reproduction in annelids Speaker: Alexa Bely, Ph.D., University of Maryland Department of Biology |
Causes and Consequences of Recombination Rate Variation Speaker: Nadia D. Singh, Ph.D., North Carolina State University Department of Biological Sciences |
Fire in the Evolutionary Environment of Florida and the Southeastern Coastal Plain Speaker: Dr. Reed Noss Ph.D., Provost’s Distinguished Professor, Pegasus Professor, and Davis-Shine Endowed Professor of Conservation Biology at the University of Central Florida Dr. Noss is an elected Fellow of the AAAS and has served on many boards and advisory panels, including the Board of Governors of the Society for Conservation Biology, the Board of Trustees of the Florida Chapter of the Nature Conservancy, and Florida’s Acquisition and Restoration Council. He recently served as Vice-Chair of a Federal Advisory Committee for the U.S. Climate Change Science Program. Dr. Noss directs the SPICE (Science and Planning in Conservation Science) laboratory at the University of Central Florida. He is President and Chief Scientist for the Florida Institute for Conservation Science. Professor Noss has more than 300 publications and is recognized as one of the 500 most highly cited authors in all fields worldwide. He has published 7 books, the most recent being Forgotten Grasslands of the South: Natural History and Conservation (2013, Island Press). His research interests include vertebrate ecology, vegetation science, disturbance ecology, climate change, adaptive management and conservation planning. |
The microbial ecology of indoor and outdoor air Speaker: Noah Fierer, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Plant responses to below ground competition with siblings and strangers: tests for kin recognition in plants Speaker: Susan Dudley, Ph.D., McMaster University | Ontario, Canada Department of Biology |
Cryptic genetic variation and the evolution of complex traits Speaker: Annalise Paaby, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology | Atlanta, Georgia Department of Integrative Biology |
Statistical Inference for Mechanistic Models: Case Studies in Ecology Speaker: Leah Johnson, Ph.D., University of South Florida, Department of Integrative Biology |
Resolving the dual paradoxes of nitrogen limitation and nitrogen richness Speaker: Duncan Menge, Ph.D., Columbia University, Ecology Evolution and Environmental Biology Jeremy Lichstein, has provided some information below on Dr. Menge’s research: Duncan is a broad-thinking and creative scientist (he is both an ecologist and a biogeochemist), and an all-around great guy! His research focuses on unraveling the mysteries of nutrient limitation in terrestrial ecosystems. For example: Why are nitrogen-fixing trees common in tropical forests (which are NOT thought to be N-limited), but rare in temperate forests (which appear to be strongly N-limited)? The paradoxes abound, and Duncan has done some great empirical and theoretical work trying to solve them. But his interests go way beyond his own research program, and he enjoys learning and talking about science in general. |
Towards a Theory of Species’ Distributions and Their Dynamics Speaker: Jorge Soberon, Ph.D., University of Kansas Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Predicting the ecological consequences of temperature Speaker: Owen Petchey, University of Zurich Institute of Evolutionary Biology & Environmental Studies |
Is Modern Agriculture Sustainable? An Ecologist’s View of Agricultural Science Speaker: Charles J. Krebs, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology |
2015 Seminars
Using Museum Specimens to Investigate Genome Size Evolution in Crustaceans Speaker: Kristin Hultgren, Ph.D. Seattle University Kristin has done some cool work on the evolution and ecology of snapping shrimp, the most diverse shrimp family, and the only marine organisms that have evolved eusociality. You can find out more about her work here: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kristin_Hultgren/publications. |
Genomics of Hydractinia: A Cnidarian Model for Regeneration, Allorecognition, and Developmental Biology Speaker: Christine Schnitzler, Ph.D., National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH, Bethesda, MD |
The roles of individual physiology and behavior in disease competence Speaker: Lynn Bloxom (Marty) Martin, II, Ph.D., USF-Department of Biology |
Critical transition at range limits slows down the response of forest trees to climate warming Speaker: Dominique Gravel, Ph.D., University of Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada) |
Darwin: Books, Beetles, and Blasphemy Speaker: David Wooten, Ph.D., Washtenaw Community College of Life Sciences, Biology |
Networks of cell death and differentiation Speaker: Andrea Doseff, Ph.D., The Ohio State University/Dept. of Molecular Genetics |
2014 Seminars
Combining mechanistic modeling with big data to better understand biological scaling Speaker: Dr. Van Savage Ph.D., Department of Biomathematics David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology UCLA |
It doesn’t matter until it does: cryptic genetic variation Speaker: Matt Rockman, Ph.D., NYU Biology |
Whole Genome Duplications and the Origins of Novelty Speaker: J. Chris Pires, Ph.D., University of Missouri |
The Biotic Death Spiral of Coral Reefs: Can Local Intervention Reverse the Global Decline? Speaker: Dr. Mark Hay Ph.D., Professor of Environmental Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology |
Selected Ph.D. Exit Seminars
The Role of Host Composition and Asymptomatic Infection in the Transmission of Zoonotic Diseases Speaker: Stephanie Cinkovich, University of Florida Department of Biology |
Life in a colony: growth, morphology, and metabolic scaling Speaker: Lianne Jacobson, University of Florida Department of Biology |
Detecting whole genome duplications and unraveling patterns of gene duplication in plants Speaker: George Tiley, University of Florida Department of Biology |
High Seas Hitchhiker and Sea Turtle Symbiont: Global genetics and ecological interactions of oceanic crabs Speaker: Joe Pfaller, UF Department of Biology |
Why the reef is green: how nutrient enrichment affects coral reefs Speaker: Michael Gil, UF Department of Biology |