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Fall 2020

The genetic basis of volatile production in the moss Ceratodon purpureus

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Speaker: Leslie M. Kollar: Exit Seminar
Date: October 15, 2020

 

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The implications of environmental variability and food web structure for species coexistence

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Speaker: Lauren Shoemaker, Botany Department | University of Wyoming
Date: October 13, 2020
Host: Mathew Leibold

 

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Space and Resources: How environment shapes diversification in E. coli populations

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Speaker: Megan Behringer, Department of Biological Sciences | Vanderbilt University
Date: October 6, 2020
Host: Charles Baer

 

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Signaling inclusivity through deliberate framing of specific genetics-related course content

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Speaker: Karen Hales | Davidson College
Date: September 22, 2020
Host: David Julian

 

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The theory and practice of Statistical Ecology

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Speaker: José Miguel Ponciano | University of Florida
Date: September 1, 2020
Host: Robert Holt

 

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Summer 2020

How does interspecific host competition alter the amplification and dilution of disease?

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Speaker: Michael Cortez, Department of Biological Sciences | Florida State University
Date: July 28, 2020
Host: Robert Holt

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A pair of glucose-sensing neurons regulate glucose homeostasis by coordinating the release of insulin and glucagon in Drosophila

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Speaker: Yangkyun Oh | New York University
Date: July 21, 2020
Host: Hua Yan

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Drivers of genetic diversity in regions of low recombination

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Speaker: Kimberly J. Gilbert, Department of Computational Biology | University of Lausanne
Date: June 30, 2020
Host: Charles Baer

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Cold-blooded killers: Eco-evolutionary dynamics of infectious diseases in ectothermic vertebrates

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Speaker: Anna Savage | University of Central Florida
Date: June 16, 2020
Host: Ana Longo

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Unraveling the vine: A Multiscale Approach to Studying Plant Movement

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Speaker: Joyce G. Chery, Center for Lignocellulose Structure & Formation | Pennsylvania State University
Date: June 9, 2020
Host: Cody Coyotee Howard

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Silk protein innovation and variation: CRISPR-based genetics informs biology and material sciences

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Speaker: Caroline Storer, Florida Musem of Natural History | UF
Date: June 2, 2020
Host: Stuart McDaniel

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Feather mites: their intimate relationships with hosts and each other

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Speaker: Heather Proctor | University of Alberta
Date: May 26, 2020
Host:Emily Durkin

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Immune system optimization in a variable world

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Speaker: Ann Tate | Vanderbilt University
Date: May 19, 2020
Host: Andrea Gonzalez-Gonzalez

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Tiny plant nation: linking duckweed biogeography and coexistence with mechanistic niche models

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Speaker: David Armitage | Rice University Biosciences
Date: May 12, 2020
Host: Mathew Leibold

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Spring 2020

Human Brain Evolution, Epigenetics and Neuropsychiatric Diseases

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Speaker: Soojin Yi, School of Biological Sciences | Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: April 14, 2020
Host: Marta Wayne

 

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Imprinting, speciation and local adaptation

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Speaker: Richard Sibly | University of Reading
Date: March 31, 2020
Host: Jamie Gillooly

 

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From no data to big data: empowering the one health revolution

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Speaker: Ilaria Capua | UF One Health
Date: March 24, 2020
Host: Marta Wayne

 

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Avian behavioral and community-level responses to forest fragmentation in the Western Andes of Colombia

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Speaker: Harrison Jones: Exit Seminar
Date: March 12, 2020

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Building a Superorganism: Genomic insights into the evolution and regulation of insect sociality

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Speaker: Amy Toth, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology
ǀ Iowa State University
Date: March 10, 2020
Host: Hua Yan

 

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Phenotypic effects of spontaneous mutations in C. elegans

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Speaker: Lindsay Johnson
Date: February 28, 2020

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Animal inputs drive shifts in biogeochemical processes and microbial communities

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Speaker: Christopher Dutton, Ph.D., Department of Biology ǀ UF
Date: February 25, 2020
Host: José Miguel Ponciano

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What can We Learn from Simple Models of Human-Environment Sustainability

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Speaker: Madhur Anand, School of Environmental Sciences ǀ University of Guelph
Station d’Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale du CNRS
Date: February 18, 2020
Host: Terry Harpold

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Nuclear mechanics in cancer

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Speaker: Tanmay Lele, Charles A. Stokes Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering ǀ UF
Date: February 11, 2020
Host: Charles Baer

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Responses of an Insular Pit Viper to Ecological Disturbance

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Speaker: Mark Sandfoss: Exit Seminar
Date: February 6, 2020

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The strength of predation from micro to macroecological scale

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Speaker: Matthieu Barbier, Ph.D., Centre for Biodiversity Theory & Modeling ǀ Moulis, France
Station d’Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale du CNRS
Date: February 4, 2020
Host: Mathew Leibold

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Sex differences in immune function: probing ultimate drivers, and exploring consequences

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Speaker: Jessica Metcalf, Ph.D., Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology ǀ Princeton University
Date: January 28, 2020
Host: Derek Cummings

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Taylor’s law of fluctuation scaling and other variance functions: where do they come from and what can they tell us?

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Speaker: Joel E. Cohen, Laboratory of Populations ǀ Rockefeller University & Columbia University
Date: January 21, 2020
Host: Robert Holt

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Carbon Processing in Aquatic Critical Zones: Biogeochemical Challenges in the 21st Century

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Speaker: Thomas Bianchi, Department of Geological Sciences ǀ UF
Endowed Chair of Geological Sciences
Date: January 14, 2020
Host: Jeremy Lichstein

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