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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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Spring 2025 Seminars

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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