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Fall 2018
Microbial Spatial Distribution in Chinese Soils
Speaker: Haiyan Chu, Ph.D., State Key Laboratory of Soil & Sustainable Agriculture | Institute of Soil Science,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China
Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Pamela Soltis, Distinguished Prof., Curator & Doug Soltis, Distinguished Prof. ǀ Dept. of Biology
Eco-evolutionary dynamics and global change: freshwater ponds as model systems
Speaker: Prof. Luc De Meester, Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Catholic University of Leuven
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Mathew Leibold, Professor and Preeminent Scholar | Dept. of Biology
Understanding the Origins and Future of Biodiversity Patterns
Speaker: John Wiens, Professor ǀ University of Arizona
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Anthony Melton, Ph.D. Candidate ǀ Dept. of Biology (BGSA)
Sea Turtle Fishing in the Miskito Cays, Nicaragua: investigating the ethnology of indigenous fishing and the use of a scarce natural resource
Speaker: Dr. Hitoshi Takagi, Post-Doctoral Fellow | National Museum of Ethnology | Osaka, Japan
Date: Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Zoonotic Pathogens
Speaker: Salim Mattar, Ph.D. ǀ University of Cordoba, Colombia
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Marta L. Wayne, Professor & Chair ǀ Dept. of Biology
Co-sponsored by: Center for Latin American Studies
The motors and brakes of phenotypic evolution
Speaker: Martha Muñoz, Ph.D. ǀ Virginia Technical University
Date: Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: David C. Blackburn, Assoc. Curator ǀ Dept. of Biology
Genetic conflicts on the sex chromosomes
Speaker: Manus Patten, Ph.D. ǀ Georgetown University
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: David C. Blackburn, Assoc. Curator & Stuart McDaniel, Assoc. Prof. ǀ Dept. of Biology
Silica accumulation by plants: signals of phylogeny, biogeography, and microenvironment
Speaker: Kaoru Kitajima, Professor, Forest and Biomaterials Science | Kyoto University
Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Alice Harmon, Professor ǀ Department of Biology
Fern tales at two scales: Using phylogenetics to study historical biogeography in Africa and community assembly in Florida
Speaker: Emily Sessa, Asst. Professor, Department of Biology | University of Florida
Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Alice Harmon, Professor ǀ Department of Biology
Adventures in Organismal Biology: Birds and Bio Student
Speaker: Nicole Gerlach, Ph.D, Department of Biology | University of Florida
Date: Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Colette St. Mary, Professor ǀ Department of Biology
Spring 2018
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
Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Stuart McDaniel, Associate Professor ǀ Department of Biology
The Role of Host Composition and Asymptomatic Infection in the Transmission of Zoonotic Diseases
Speaker: Stephanie Cinkovich, University of Florida Department of Biology
Date: Thursday, April 5, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Dr. Derek Cummings, Professor & Preeminent Scholar | Department of Biology
The physiology of the last universal common ancestor — where did the first cells on Earth live and from what?
Speaker: Dr. William Martin, Institute of Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf ǀ Germany
Date: Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Marta Wayne, Professor and Chair ǀ Department of Biology
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
Date: Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Stuart McDaniel, Associate Professor ǀ Department of Biology
Life in a colony: growth, morphology, and metabolic scaling
Speaker: Lianne Jacobson, University of Florida Department of Biology
Date: Thursday, March 15, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Dr. Craig W. Osenberg, Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia
Generating genetic tools in ants to study social behavior and neural development
Speaker: Hua Yan, Ph.D., New York University Langone Medical Center
Date: Friday, March 03, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Charles Baer, Associate Professor ǀ Department of Biology
The genetic basis of evolutionary transitions in early development
Speaker: Christina Zakas, Ph.D., New York University | Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Date: Thursday, March 01, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Joseph Ryan, Assistant Professor ǀ Department of Biology & Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience
From Model Organism to Superorganism: Integrating Ecology, Evolution, and Development
Speaker: Rajendhran Rajakumar, Ph.D., Harvard University-Medical School
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Emily Sessa, Assistant Professor ǀ Department of Biology
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
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Eminent Scholar Robert D. Holt ǀ Department of Biology
The molecular basis of insect visual system development and evolution
Speaker: Michael Perry, Ph.D., New York University
Date: Monday, February 26, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Edward Braun, Professor ǀ Department of Biology
EvoDevOmics and the developmental basis of tooth regeneration in sharks
Speaker: Gareth Fraser, Ph.D., University of Sheffield | United Kingdom
Date: Friday, February 23, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Martin J. Cohn, Professor ǀ Cancer & Genetics Research Complex and Department of Biology
Moving beyond the Black-Box: Microbial Traits, Community Structure, & Biogeochemical Cycling in Forest Soils
Speaker: Christopher Fernandez, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Eminent Scholar Robert D. Holt ǀ Department of Biology
Changing the cell fate through an asymmetric cell division
Speaker: Mamiko Yajima, Ph.D., Brown University
Date: Monday, February 19, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Keith Choe, Assistant Professor ǀ Department of Biology
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
Date: Thursday, February 15, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Jamie Gillooly, Associate Professor ǀ Department of Biology
#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
Date: Tuesday, February 13th, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Cody Coyotee Howard, Biology Graduate Student Association ǀ Department of Biology
Understanding novelty, one cell at a time
Speaker: Leslie Babonis, Ph.D., Whitney Lab for Marine Bioscience | UF
Date: Monday, February 12, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Malcolm Maden, Professor ǀ Department of Biology
How do evolutionary and mechanistic insights from budding yeast inform genotype to phenotype maps?
Speaker: Kerry Geiler-Samerotte, Ph.D., Stanford University
Date: Friday, February 9, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Charles Baer, Associate Professor ǀ Department of Biology
How do Terrestrial Ecosystems Influence Aquatic Communities from Local to Continental Scales?
Speaker: Sarah Collins, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Todd Palmer, Associate Professor ǀ Department of Biology
Animal Migrations and Resource Subsidies Influence River Ecosystem Dynamics
Speaker: Amanda Subalusky, Ph.D., Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies
Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Stuart McDaniel, Associate Professor ǀ Department of Biology
Multi-Host Fungal Pathogens: Challenges and Opportunities in Conserving Global Amphibian Biodiversity
Speaker: Ana Longo, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Date: Thursday, January 25, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: José Miguel Ponciano, Associate Professor ǀ Department of Biology
Disentangling Host Behavior and Social Context in Disease Ecology
Speaker: Nick Keiser Ph.D., Rice University
Date: Thursday, January 11, 2018
Location: Room 211, Bartram Hall
Host: Hannah Vander Zanden, Assistant Professor ǀ Department of Biology