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Dr. Curtice Griffin, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Wildlife Responses to Ecotourism: Insights from Elephants, Sea Turtles, and Whale Sharks
January 21, 2026 

Dr. Fangfang Yao, USF
Understanding the Changing Water Cycle and Water Crises in the Anthropocene: Human and climate threats to global lakes and implications for ecosystems and societies
January 28, 2026

Dr. Sean Michaletz, UBC
Plant functioning in a warming world: From molecules to the biosphere
February 5, 2026

Larry Plank, Space Trek at the Kennedy Space Center
Old Bricks, New Bridges: Connecting, Communicating and Collaborating to Strengthen our Scientific Community (and make Charles proud)
February 12, 2026

Dr. Sudeep Sarkar, USF
AI/Computer Vision for Wildlife Monitoring
February 19, 2026

Dr. Edna Fernandez-Figueroa, University of Tampa
Spying on Nature: Drone Environmental Monitoring for the Curious 
February 26, 2026

Dr.  Ioannis Spanopoulos, USF
Porous Hybrid Metal Halide Semiconductors for Energy and Environment-related Applications
March 5, 2026

Dr. Krishna D. Reddy, USF
How evolution shaped the structure and function of a membrane transporter
March 12, 2026

Dr. Alejandro Aleuy, FAU
Linking Physiology to Geography: Temperature Across Host–Parasite Systems
March 26, 2026

Dr. Dimitri Voronin, USF
Novel Techniques for Bioimaging
April 9, 2026

Dr. Sarah Davies, BU
Uncovering factors governing coral symbiosis under global change
April 16, 2026

 Dr. Janay Fox, Moffitt
Adaptation Under Stress: Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics from Guppies to Cancer Therapy
April 23, 2026

Dr. Bob Ellis, FWC
Goliath Grouper, Cobia, and Life History Research in Support of Fisheries Management
April 30, 2026

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Dr. John Parkinson, USF 
Coral-algal symbioses: evolution in the Anthropocene (2025 Edition)
August 21, 2025

Dr. Mark Margres, USF
Complex disruptions: genetic mechanisms underlying coevolutionary dynamics in transmissible cancers and snake venoms
August 28, 2025

Dr. Christina Richards, USF
Understanding mechanisms of response to complex environmental conditions in non-model plants.
September 2, 2025

Dr. Brad Gemmell, USF
Hydrodynamic Harmony: Using Fluid Mechanics to Understand Aquatic Locomotion
September 4, 2025

Prof. Salvador E. Venegas Andraca, Tecnologico de Monterrey
Quantum Technology in Biology
September 11, 2025

Prof. Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University 
Population Extinctions in the Anthropocene: Consequences for Ecosystems and Humans
September 18, 2025

Dr. Yaolin Guo, Lousiana State University
Plant Invasions in Coastal Wetlands: An Integrative View Across Functional Traits, Species Interactions, and Biogeography.
October 2, 2025

Dr. David Scanga, USF
Supporting Educators at the David C. Anchin Center: A  Systemic Shift in K-12 Mathematics from Rote to Reason
October 9, 2025

Dr. George Blanck, USF
Familiar diseases as seen through the "lens" of antiviral T-cell receptor CDR3s
October 16, 2025

Dr. Chengqi Wang, USF
From Social Stress to Malaria Drug Resistance: Multi-omics and AI Approaches in Translational Genomics
October 23, 2025

Dr. Glaucia (Glau) Del-Rio, UF
Insights into the speciation process from the “most non-model” organism ever... 
October 30, 2025

Dr. Kathleen Scott, USF
Ecophysiology of microbial carbon fixation in unlikely (and frankly ridiculous) habitats
November 13, 2025

Dr. Melissa Smith, USDA ARS 
Helpful Herbivores: Biological control of weeds in Florida
November 20, 2025 

Dr. Fathi Karouia, NASA
From Earth to Space: Evolutionary Adaptation to Extreme Environments
February 6, 2025

Dr. Carsten Grupstra, Florida Atlantic University
Cryptic Diversity and Hidden Interactions Shape Coral Reef Response to Climate Change
February 13, 2025

Dr. Bill Baker, USF
Secondary Metabolites as Biomarkers for Genetic Drift
Feb 20, 2025

Dr. Sean Doody, USF
Bringing the Blurry Monster into Focus: A Wildlife Biology Perspective of  Bigfoot
Feb 27,2025

Dr. Lindsay McCulloch, USF
How plant-microbial interactions influence ecosystem-level properties and function
March 6, 2025

Dr. Theresa Evans-Nguyen, USF
Universal Mass Analysis
March 27, 2025

Dr. Olivia Feagles, USF
The complexity of female treefrog mate choice: choosiness and preferences are independent behaviors, and each prone to separate sources of variation
April 3, 2025

Dr. Vincenzo Ellis, University of Delaware
Dispersal and host specificity of avian malaria parasites and lessons for predicting infectious disease emergence
April 17, 2025

Dr. Cory Krediet, Eckerd College
Using microbial symbionts to improve coral resilience to a changing environment
April 24, 2025

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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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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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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