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Departmental Seminars
Integrative Biology Departmental seminars are held each Thursday at 12:30 PM EST. Seminars are hosted in person and remotely via Microsoft Teams. To attend, please click the link or contact biology@usf.edu.
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Date | Speaker |
January 16 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
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January 23 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
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January 30 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
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February 6 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
TBA, TBA |
February 13 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Sarah Davies, Boston University Uncovering factors governing coral symbiosis under global change |
Seminar Recordings*
FALL 2024
Fall 2024
Dr. Andrew Kramer, University of South Florida
Understanding emerging diseases and invasive species through creative combinations
of data and models
August 29, 2024
Dr. Estelí Jiménez-Soto, Univeristy of South Florida
Brewing Biodiversity: Insect Interactions and the Human Dimension of Conservation
in Mexican Coffee Agroforests
September 5, 2024
Dr. Lawrence A. Stern, University of South Florida
Protein Engineering Approaches to Study Cell Signaling
September 12, 2024
Dr. Ghanim Ullah, University of South Florida
Investigating the calcium hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease and aging
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September 19, 2024
Dr. Sandra L. McLellan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The guts of an urban ecosystem: What sewer microbes can tell us about the health and
sustainability of a city.
October 3, 2024
Dr. Thomas E. Hanson, Delaware Biotechnology Institute
Exploring microbial growth under low energy conditions from cells to metabolites to
epigenetics
October 17, 2024
Dr. Miguel A. Acevedo, University of Florida
Recolonization of recovering forests by locally extinct fauna through the lens of
range expansion
October 24, 2024
Dr. Noah Legall, University of South Florida
Machine learning of wildlife diseases
October 31, 2024
Dr. Joseph Gazing Wolf, Arizona State University and Living Heritage Research Council
Indigenous Epistemologies as Resistance to Corporatist "Education"
November 7, 2024
Dr. Rhett Rautsaw, Tampa PacBio
Harnessing PacBio HiFi sequencing to unlock multiomic insight
November 14, 2024
Dr. Ross Cunning, Shed Aquarium
Rapid increases and high variability in the thermal tolerance of surviving corals
following recurrent coral bleaching events in Florida
November 21, 2024
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SPRING 2024
SPRING 2024
Dr. Deby Cassill, University of South Florida
Advances in Models of Altruism
January 18, 2024
Dr. Tyler Carrier, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
Sea urchins and their developmental symbioses
January 25, 2024 | Recording not available
Dr. Robert Quinn, Michigan State University
Metabolomics approaches to understand the coral holobiont response to thermal stress
February 1, 2024
Dr. Lucas Griffin, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Unraveleing the Migratory Mysteries of Atlantic Tarpon: Fundamental Approaches for
Actionable Science
February 8, 2024 | Recording not available
Dr. Pedro Peres, Florida International University
From shallow to the deep, molecules to communities: a quest to understand marine biodiversity
February 13, 2024 | Recording not available
Dr. Amy Boddy, UC Santa Barbara
Adapting to adversity: Exploring cancer in the animal kingdom
February 15, 2024
Dr. Michelle Spicer, Lehigh University
Drivers of plant diversity in temperate and tropical forest communities
February 29, 2024
Dr. Diego Santiago-Alarcon, University of South Florida
Disease Ecology Across Environmental Gradients | Recording not available
March 7, 2024
Dr. Kenneth Hoadley, The University of Alabama
Phenomic tools for understanding coral photo-symbiont functional diversity with applications
for conservation | Recording not available
March 18, 2024
Dr. Jason Gleditsch, Oberlin College
Creation and Maintenance of Biodiversity in the Context of Global Change | Recording
not available
March 21, 2024
Dr. Brian Maitner, University at Buffalo
Biodiversity Science in a Time of Crisis | Recording not Available
March 25, 2024
Dr. Gabriela Quinlan, Pennsylvania State University
From macroscales to genes: Pollinator responses to global change | Recording not Available
March 25, 2024
Dr. Harioum Yadav, University of South Florida
Microbial Ecosystems: Key Players in Aging Well-being
March 25, 2024
Dr. Patricia G. Parker, University of Missouri St. Louis
Understanding Disease Threats to the Galapagos Avifauna: Mitigation Strategies
April 11, 2024
Dr. Nichole M. Tiernan, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
Plumeria Research, Plant Blindness and the Million Orchid Project at Fairchild Tropical
Botanic Garden
April 18, 2024
Dr. Sahas Barve, Archbold Biological Station
Parental Facilitation in a Time of Global Change
April 25, 2024
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FALL 2023
Dr. Heather Judkins, University of South Florida
Insights into Cephalopod Research: What Does Heather Do With Her Time?
August 24, 2023
Dr. George Philippidis, University of South Florida
Algal Strain Development via Adaptive Evolution and Mutagenesis Assisted by Multi-omics
August 31, 2023
Dr. Ryan Carney, University of South Florida
Digital Dinosaurs & Diseases: from Archaeopteryx to Zika
September 7, 2023
Dr. J. Sean Doody, University of South Florida
Over Yonder and Down Under: My Last Six Years in Research
September 14, 2023
Dr. Yu Zeng, University of South Florida
Rolling, Tangling and Flapping: Shape-shifting in Evolution of Novel Performance Scales
September 21, 2023 | Not recorded per speaker request
Dr. Joseph L. Graves, North Carolina A&T
Racism, Not Race: Answers to Critically Asked Questions
September 28, 2023
Dr. Mohamed Elhamdadi, University of South Florida
Using the Mathematics of Knotting to Understand Protein Folding
October 20, 2023
Dr. Larry Dishaw, University of South Florida
Obeying universal laws: an ascidian model system reveals phylogenetic principles regulating
microbial colonization of gut mucosal surfaces
October 26, 2023 | Not recorded per speaker request
Dr. Anthony Snead, New York University
Responses to Environmental Change Across Biological Scales in an Intertidal Fish
November 2, 2023
Dr. Tad Dallas, University of South Carolina
The Macroecology of Host-Helminth Interactions
November 9, 2023
Dr. Francisco C. Ferreira, Texas A&M University
Avian malaria in Hawai‘i: dissecting vector-parasite interactions of a conservation
threat
November 16, 2023
Dr. Vania R. Assis, University of South Florida
Beyond Boundaries: ecoimmunology in wild amphibians and mice
November 30, 2023
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