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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 |
February 20 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Bill Baker, 91tvӰԺ Secondary Metabolites as Biomarkers for Genetic Drift |
February 27 St. Pete Campus |
Dr. Sean Doody, 91tvӰԺ Does bigfoot walk in our woods or just in our minds? A wildlife biology perspective |
March 6 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Lindsay McCulloch, 91tvӰԺ TBA |
March 13 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
TBA |
March 27 CMC 147,Tampa Campus |
Dr. Theresa Evans-Nguyen, 91tvӰԺ Universal Mass Analysis |
April 3 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Olivia Feagles, 91tvӰԺ The complexity of female treefrog mate choice: choosiness and preferences are independent behaviors, and each prone to separate sources of variation |
April 10 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Margaret Mars Brisbin, 91tvӰԺ Resolving the impacts of B-vitamin availability and bacterial interaction on the growth and bloom formation of saxitoxin-producing Pyrodinium bahamense in Florida ecosystems |
April 17 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Vincenzo Ellis, University of Delaware TBA |
April 24 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Cory Krediet, Eckerd College TBA |
Seminar Recordings*
SPRING 2025
Dr. Fathi Karouia, NASA
February 6, 2025
Dr. Carsten Grupstra, Florida Atlantic University
February 13, 2025
FALL 2024
Dr. Andrew Kramer, 91tvӰԺ
August 29, 2024
Dr. Estelí Jiménez-Soto, Univeristy of South Florida
September 5, 2024
Dr. Lawrence A. Stern, 91tvӰԺ
September 12, 2024
Dr. Ghanim Ullah, 91tvӰԺ
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September 19, 2024
Dr. Sandra L. McLellan, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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, 91tvӰԺ
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
Dr. Deby Cassill, 91tvӰԺ
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
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
February 29, 2024
Dr. Diego Santiago-Alarcon, 91tvӰԺ
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, 91tvӰԺ
March 25, 2024
Dr. Patricia G. Parker, University of Missouri St. Louis
April 11, 2024
Dr. Nichole M. Tiernan, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden
April 18, 2024
Dr. Sahas Barve, Archbold Biological Station
April 25, 2024
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FALL 2023
Dr. Heather Judkins, 91tvӰԺ
August 24, 2023
Dr. George Philippidis, 91tvӰԺ
August 31, 2023
Dr. Ryan Carney, 91tvӰԺ
September 7, 2023
Dr. J. Sean Doody, 91tvӰԺ
September 14, 2023
Dr. Yu Zeng, 91tvӰԺ
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
September 28, 2023
Dr. Mohamed Elhamdadi, 91tvӰԺ
October 20, 2023
Dr. Larry Dishaw, 91tvӰԺ
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
November 2, 2023
Dr. Tad Dallas, University of South Carolina
November 9, 2023
Dr. Francisco C. Ferreira, Texas A&M University
November 16, 2023
Dr. Vania R. Assis, 91tvӰԺ
Beyond Boundaries: ecoimmunology in wild amphibians and mice
November 30, 2023
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