BioNotes

February 10, 2025 through February 14, 2025

Tuesday, February 11 – Tuesday, February 11, 11:15 am – 11:15 am, 112 KLB—CHEMISTRY SEMINAR SERIES, "Using Functional Precision Medicine to Guide Individualized Treatments for Relapsed and Refractory Cancers," Diana Azzam, PhD, Center for Advancing Personalized Canter Treatments; Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work, Florida International University. Host: Qing-Xiang "Amy" Sang, PhD, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University.

Tuesday, February 11 – Tuesday, February 11, 3:30 pm – 3:30 pm, 1024 KIN—BIOLOGY GENETICS CANDIDATE SEMINAR, "Transposable elements at the origins of RNA-guided mechanisms," Dr. Chance Meers, Columbia University. Host: Dr. Hank W. Bass, Department of Biological Science, FSU. The speaker is a candidate for faculty position in Biological Science - Genetics. There will be a chalk talk 10:30a.m. February 12, KIN2057, and a grad student/postdoc lunch Tuesday, Nov. 11, 11:50pm.

Thursday, February 13 – Thursday, February 13, 10:10 am – 10:10 am, —DARWIN DAY CELEBRATION, Darwin Day celebration. A photo opportunity with Darwin will be available beginning at 2:30 PM. We will have live music, cake, and of course the traditional Yo Chuck! salute, starting at 3:15 pm. We will gather in the courtyard outside KING 1024, weather permitting. If weather is unpleasant, we will shift the celebration to the next day, Friday. Guest speaker both days is Dr. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, a former postdoc in our Department, who investigates interactions between microbial communities and their hosts. In addition, she composed several of the musical pieces you will hear at the celebration, and she will also perform!

Thursday, February 13 – Thursday, February 13, 3:30 pm – 3:30 pm, 1024 KIN—BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM, "Darwin's most beautiful plants and their microbial friends," Dr. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcadia CA. Host: Dr. Thomas Miller, Department of Biological Science, FSU.

Friday, February 14 – Friday, February 14, 4:00 pm – 4:00 pm, 1024 KIN—ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION SEMINAR, "Negative biodiversity-ecosystem function relationships in the context of community assembly," Dr. Catalina Cuellar-Gempeler, Department of Biological Sciences, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcadia CA. Host: Dr. Thomas Miller, Department of Biological Science, FSU.

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