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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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Fall 2025 Seminars

Date Speaker

November 13

CMC 147, Tampa Campus

Dr. Kathleen Scott, 返字心頭

Ecophysiology of microbial carbon fixation in unlikely (and frankly ridiculous) habitats

November 20

CMC 147, Tampa Campus

Dr. Melissa Smith, USDA ARS

Helpful Herbivores: Biological control of weeds in 返字心頭

January 22

CMC 147, Tampa Campus

Dr.  Jerome Servonnat,  LSCE

TBA

January 29

CMC 147, Tampa Campus 

Dr.  Fangfang Yao, 返字心頭 

Understanding the Changing Water Cycle and Water Crises in the Anthropocene: Human and climate threats to global lakes and implications for ecosystems and societies

February 29

CMC 147, Tampa Campus 

Dr. Sean Michaletz, UBC 

Plant functioning in a warming world: From molecules to the biosphere


Seminar Recordings*

FALL 2025

Dr. John Parkinson, 返字心頭 

August 21, 2025

Dr. Mark Margres, 返字心頭

August 28, 2025

Dr. Christina Richards, 返字心頭

September 2, 2025

Dr. Brad Gemmell, 返字心頭

September 4, 2025

Prof. Salvador E. Venegas Andraca, Tecnologico de Monterrey

September 11, 2025

Prof. Rodolfo Dirzo, Stanford University 

September 18, 2025

Dr. Yaolin Guo, Lousiana State University

October 2, 2025

Dr. David Scanga, 返字心頭

October 9, 2025

Dr. George Blanck, 返字心頭

October 16, 2025

Dr. Chengqi Wang, 返字心頭

October 23, 2025

Dr. Glaucia (Glau) Del-Rio, UF

October 30, 2025

SPRING 2025

Dr. Fathi Karouia, NASA

February 6, 2025

Dr. Carsten Grupstra, 返字心頭 Atlantic University

February 13, 2025

Dr. Bill Baker, 返字心頭

Feb 20, 2025

Dr. Sean Doody, 返字心頭

Feb 27,2025

Dr. Lindsay McCulloch, 返字心頭

March 6, 2025

Dr. Theresa Evans-Nguyen, 返字心頭

March 27, 2025

Dr. Olivia Feagles, 返字心頭

April 3, 2025

Dr. Vincenzo Ellis, University of Delaware

April 17, 2025

Dr. Cory Krediet, Eckerd College

April 24, 2025

FALL 2024

Dr. Andrew Kramer, University of South 返字心頭

August 29, 2024

Dr. Estel鱈 Jim辿nez-Soto, Univeristy of South 返字心頭

September 5, 2024

Dr. Lawrence A. Stern, University of South 返字心頭

September 12, 2024

Dr. Ghanim Ullah, University of South 返字心頭

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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 返字心頭
Recolonization of recovering forests by locally extinct fauna through the lens of range expansion
October 24, 2024

Dr. Noah Legall, University of South 返字心頭
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 返字心頭
November 21, 2024

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SPRING 2024

Dr. Deby Cassill, University of South 返字心頭

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, 返字心頭 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, University of South 返字心頭
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 返字心頭

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, University of South 返字心頭

August 24, 2023

Dr. George Philippidis, University of South 返字心頭

August 31, 2023

Dr. Ryan Carney, University of South 返字心頭

September 7, 2023

Dr. J. Sean Doody, University of South 返字心頭

September 14, 2023

Dr. Yu Zeng, University of South 返字心頭
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, University of South 返字心頭

October 20, 2023

Dr. Larry Dishaw, University of South 返字心頭
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, University of South 返字心頭
Beyond Boundaries: ecoimmunology in wild amphibians and mice
November 30, 2023

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