USF IB Seminar Series | Spring 2012

Date Time & Location Speaker Title Additional info
Total Zero Open Seminars (Please contact Marc Lajeunesse lajeunesse@usf.edu for additional info)
Jan. 12 3:30, CHE217 Sandy Westerheide,
USF CMMB
Regulation of heat shock transcription factor HSF1 by SIRT1
Jan. 19 3:30, CHE217 Bill Baker,
USF Chemistry
Antarctic Marine Chemical Ecology
Jan. 26 3:30, CHE217 Robert Fletcher,
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida
A network perspective on the connectivity and persistence of populations
Feb. 2 11:00 am, FAH101


3:30, CHE217
Barry Sinervo,
University of California, Santa Cruz


Rich McBride,
NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center at Woods Hole
Climate-forced extinctions threaten biodiversity at tropical and temperate speciation hotspots

Effects of food and energy assimilation on egg production in relation to fish reproductive strategies
Feb. 9 3:30, MSC2100C

7:00 pm, FAH101
Eugenie Scott,
National Center for Science Education


Eugenie Scott,
National Center for Science Education
Dr. Scott's Handy-Dandy Guide to Teaching Evolution


Florida's 'Critical Thinking' bills: Creationism du jour?
Darwin Day Lecture I


Darwin Day Lecture II
Feb. 16 3:30, CHE217 Chris Stallings,
USF St. Petersburg Marine Science
Indirect effects of fishing on predators and their prey
Feb. 23 3:30, CHE217 Michele Nishiguchi,
Department of Biology, New Mexico State University
How many degrees of separation? Interfacing ecology with beneficial associations between bobtail squids and Vibrio BGSO invited speaker
Mar. 1 3:30, CHE217 Corinne Richards-Zawacki,
Tulane University
A frog of a different color: why are the poison frogs of Bocas del Toro Panama so amazingly diverse?
Mar. 8 3:30, CHE217 Harold Drake,
Department of Ecological Microbiology, University of Bayreuth
TBA
Mar. 15 3:30, CHE217 SPRING BREAK
Mar. 22 3:30, TBA Peter Sale,
University of Windsor
TBA
Mar. 29 3:30, CHE217 Mark Tamplin,
University of Tasmania, Australia
TBA
Apr. 5 3:30, CHE217 Christine Miller,
Entomology and Nematology Department, University of Florida
Sexual selection in variable environments
Apr. 12 3:30, CHE217 Alex Levine,
Philosophy Department,
USF
Darwinism and Human Nature
Apr. 19 3:30, CHE217 Craig Osenberg,
Department of Biology, University of Florida
TBA
Apr. 26 3:30, CHE217 David Jenkins,
Department of Biology, University of Central Florida
TBA



USF IB Seminar Series | fall 2011

Date Time & Location Speaker Title Additional info
Total 0 OPEN Seminar (Please contact Marc Lajeunesse lajeunesse@usf.edu for additional info)
Aug. 25 3:30, CHE217 Brian Silliman,
University of Florida
Food webs, Climate change and new paradigms in Marine Ecology
Sept. 1 3:30, CHE217 Lynn (Marty) Martin,
USF Integrative Biology
Physiological integration and phenotypic variation in vertebrates Tenure Seminar
Sept. 8 3:30, CHE217 Steve Deban,
USF Integrative Biology
Constraint and convergence in the evolution of musculoskeletal systems Tenure Seminar
Sept. 15 3:30, CHE217 Thomas Unnasch,
USF Department of Global Health
You transmit what you eat - Using mosquito blood meals to decipher the dynamics of the transmission of Eastern Equine Encephalitis
Sept. 22 3:30, CHE217 David L. Reed,
Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Of Lice and Men: using a lousy parasite to shed new light on human evolution
Sept. 29 3:30, CHE217 Megan Sheffield,
Academic Services Librarian USF
Research Rescue: Caught in the Web of Science
Oct. 6 3:30, CHE217 John Orrock,
Zoology Department, University of Wisconsin
Some consequences of plant-mediated animal behavior: the invasion ratchet and potential changes in disease risk
Oct. 13 3:30, CHE217 Patrick Krug,
Dept. of Biological Sciences, Cal. State Los Angeles
Shifts in host use and larval type promote speciation in photosynthetic sea slugs
Oct. 20 3:30, CHE217 Greg O'Mullan,
CUNY Queens College
Sewage loading and microbial ecology in urban estuaries of New York
Oct. 27 3:30, CHE217 Michael Reed,
Tufts University
Persistence & Extinction of Small Populations: Birds, Fish, and Elvis
Nov. 3 3:30, CHE217 Carol Rizkalla,
USF Integrative Biology
Modeling Connectivity for Forest Rodents in Indiana
Nov. 10 3:30, CHE217 Lorena Madrigal,
USF Anthropology
The evolution of human post-reproductive longevity
Nov. 17 3:30, CHE217 Amy Litt,
New York Botanical Garden
What makes a tomato a tomato: comparative gene function in the development of fleshy and dry fruits in the tomato family
Nov. 24 3:30, CHE217 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
Dec. 1 3:30, CHE217 Andrea Liebl & Courtney Coon (USF Integrative Biology) TBA: Slide show of Kenya safaris and field work Kenyan food!?