2024-2025 Seminars in Ecology and Evolution
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution meet at 4:00 p.m. on Fridays, in King Life Sciences Building room 1024. Meeting links are distributed by department email list; FSU members, subscribe at Bio-Everyone list management; non-FSU members, BioNotes. To request an individual link without subscribing to a mailing list, contact that talks host.
Fall Series
- August 30 (4:00 am, 1024 KIN):
Faculty Lightning Talks
Host: To be announced - September 6: Dr. Betsy Mansfield, Department of Biological Science, FSU
A social-ecological exploration into the impact of oyster population collapse and fishery closure of the Apalachicola Bay oyster
Host: To be announced - September 13: Dr. Evelyn Gaiser, Florida International University
Mats matter: the social-ecological role of benthic microbial communities in wetlands
Host: Dr. Joel Trexler - September 20: Dr. Maurice Goodman, University of Washington and NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center
Climate-driven species range shifts restructure predator-prey interactions at population scales
Host: Dr. Sarah Lester - September 27: Biology Postdocs
Five-Minute Oral Presentations Competition
Host: To be announced - October 4: Laura Anthony
Environmental influences on deep-sea coral reef reproduction
Host: Dr. Sandra Brooke - October 11: Ally Dubel
Battle royale: Drivers of coral-algae transitions on lagoon reefs
Host: Drs. Andrew Rassweiler and Sarah Lester - October 18: Dr. Jean Philippe Gibert, Department of Biology, Duke University
Rapid phenotypic change and microbial food-web dynamics in a warming world
Host: Dr. Michael Cortez - October 25: various
Presentations honoring David Houle upon his retirement
Host: Dr. Kimberly A. Hughes - November 1: Jessica Dehn, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory and Department of Biological Science, FSU
Employing 16 years of data to assess Atlantic sharpnose sharks' (Rhizoprionodon terraenovae) response to a changing environment in Florida's Big Bend
Host: Dr. R. Dean Grubbs - November 8: Ash Dawdy, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory and Department of Biological Science, FSU
Movement behavior of the critically endangered smalltooth sawfish (Pristis pectinata) in the Southeastern US
Host: Dr. R. Dean Grubbs - November 15: Dr. Katie Lotterhos, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University, Nahant, MA
The promise and pitfalls of genomic forecasting
Host: Dr. Don R. Levitan - December 6: Dr. Matt Ogburn, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Early signs of success in large-scale oyster reef restoration in Chesapeake Bay
Host: Allison Blanchette
Spring Series
- January 10:
TBA
Host: To be announced - January 17: Dr. Katie Arkema
TBA
Host: Dr. Sarah Lester - January 24: Dr. Dustin R. Rubenstein, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia Univewrsity, NY
Phenotypic and genotypic consequences of social living
Host: Dr. Emily DuVal - January 31:
TBA
Host: To be announced - February 7: Emily Fuqua, Department of Biological Science, FSU
ffects of environmental stress on the eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica ) and its implications for restoration
Host: Dr. Sandra Brooke - February 14: Dr. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcadia CA
TBA
Host: Dr. Thomas Miller - March 7: Donaven Baughman, Department of Biological Science, FSU
TBA
Host: Dr. Joel Trexler - March 21: Abigail Dittmar, Department of Biological Science, FSU
TBA
Host: Drs. Nora Underwood and Brian Inouye - March 28: Carlie Anderson, Department of Biological Science, FSU
Brains, behaviors, and speciation: Evoked patterns of neural activity in chorus frogs reveal candidate mechanisms of species recognition
Host: Dr. Emily Lemmon - April 4: Annais Muschett-Bonilla, FSU Coastal and Marine Laboratory and Department of Biological Science, FSU
TBA
Host: Dr. R. Dean Grubbs - April 11:
TBA
Host: To be announced - April 18: Emilie Broussard, Department of Biological Science, FSU
TBA
Host: Dr. Darin R. Rokyta - April 25: Dr. Elise Gornish, Cooperative Extension, University of Arizona
TBA
Host: Dr. Thomas Miller