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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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April 16 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Sarah Davies, BU Uncovering factors governing coral symbiosis under global change |
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April 23 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Janay Fox, MOFFITT Adaptation Under Stress: Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics from Guppies to Cancer Therapy. |
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April 30 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
TBA |
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August 27 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Camilo Zalamea, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ Seed fungal interactions, microscopic allies and enemies of tropical tree species |
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September 3 CMC 147, Tampa Campus |
Dr. Emily Lemmon, FSU TBA |
Seminar Recordings*
SPRING 2026
Dr. Curtice Griffin, University of Massachusetts Amherst
January 21, 2026
Dr. Fangfang Yao, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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
February 12, 2026
Dr. Sudeep Sarkar, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
February 19, 2026
Dr. Edna Fernandez-Figueroa, University of Tampa
February 26, 2026
Dr. Ioannis Spanopoulos, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
March 5, 2026
Dr. Krishna D. Reddy, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
March 12, 2026
Dr. Alejandro Aleuy, FAU
Linking Physiology to Geography: Temperature Across Host–Parasite Systems
March 26, 2026
Dr. Dimitri Voronin, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
April 9, 2026
FALL 2025
Dr. John Parkinson, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
August 21, 2025
Dr. Mark Margres, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
August 28, 2025
Dr. Christina Richards, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
September 2, 2025
Dr. Brad Gemmell, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
October 9, 2025
Dr. George Blanck, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
October 16, 2025
Dr. Chengqi Wang, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
October 23, 2025
Dr. Glaucia (Glau) Del-Rio, UF
October 30, 2025
Dr. Kathleen Scott, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
November 13, 2025
Dr. Melissa Smith, USDA ARS
November 20, 2025
SPRING 2025
Dr. Fathi Karouia, NASA
February 6, 2025
Dr. Carsten Grupstra, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ Atlantic University
February 13, 2025
Dr. Bill Baker, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
Feb 20, 2025
Dr. Sean Doody, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
Feb 27,2025
Dr. Lindsay McCulloch, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
March 6, 2025
Dr. Theresa Evans-Nguyen, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
March 27, 2025
Dr. Olivia Feagles, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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 ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
August 29, 2024
Dr. Estelà Jiménez-Soto, Univeristy of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
September 5, 2024
Dr. Lawrence A. Stern, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
September 12, 2024
Dr. Ghanim Ullah, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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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 ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
Recolonization of recovering forests by locally extinct fauna through the lens of
range expansion
October 24, 2024
Dr. Noah Legall, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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 ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
November 21, 2024
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SPRING 2024
Dr. Deby Cassill, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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, ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬ 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 ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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 ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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 ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
August 24, 2023
Dr. George Philippidis, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
August 31, 2023
Dr. Ryan Carney, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
September 7, 2023
Dr. J. Sean Doody, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
September 14, 2023
Dr. Yu Zeng, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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 ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
October 20, 2023
Dr. Larry Dishaw, University of South ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
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 ÊÖ»ú¿´Æ¬
Beyond Boundaries: ecoimmunology in wild amphibians and mice
November 30, 2023
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