Suzanne Koptur

 

Professor of Biological Sciences

 Director, QBIC Program (Quantifying Biology in the Classroom)

Florida International University

Office - OE 232, phone 305-348-3103 (w/ voice-mail)    Lab - ECS 151, phone 305-348-3415

Office hours (Spring 2013) – W 10 am - noon; R 9:30 – 11 am; and by appointment

Spring 2013	Summer 2013	Fall 2013
Introductory Botany (BOT 1010)
Introductory Botany Lab (BOT 1010L)
Nature Teaching (IDS 4920 sec U02)
Ecology for QBIC (PCB 3043 sec U02)
QBIC Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)
PLANT TALK

Spring 2012	Summer 2012	Fall 2012
Introductory Botany (BOT 1010)	research	Plant Ecology (BOT 4601/5605)
Introductory Botany Lab (BOT 1010L)		Plant Ecology Lab (BOT 4601L/5605L)
Ecology for QBIC (PCB 3043)		Workshop:  Insect/Plant Interactions (BOT 6920C)
QBIC Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)		PLANT TALK
PLANT TALK

Spring 2011	Summer 2011	Fall 2011
Introductory Botany (BOT 1010)	Ecology (PCB 3043)	Evolutionary Ecology
Introductory Botany Lab (BOT 1010L)	Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)	Evolutionary Ecology Lab
Ecology for QBIC (PCB 3043)		PLANT TALK
QBIC Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)
PLANT TALK
Biology Department Seminar

 

Spring 2010	Summer 2010	Fall 2010
Ecology for QBIC (PCB 3043)	research	Evolutionary Ecology (PCB 4673 & 5687)
General Plant Ecology (BOT 4601)		Evolutionary Ecology Lab
Plant Ecology (BOT 5605)		PLANT TALK
Plant Ecology Lab
PLANT TALK

 

Spring 2009	Summer 2009	Fall 2009
sabbatical in Mexico	at  INECOL	Local Flora (BOT 3153 + L)
THANKS to	Instituto de Ecologia	Ecology (PCB 3043)
FIU for a one-semester sabbatical	Xalapa, Veracruz	Ecology Lab (PCB 3043L)
and a		WS:  Insect/Plant Interactions (BOT 6920C)
Fulbright Garcia Robles Fellowship		PLANT TALK

 

Previous year's courses

Short CV

 

Education

                    B.S.  honors in Botany, 1976, University of Michigan
                    PhD  in Botany, 1982, University of California, Berkeley

 

Publications

 

Graduate Students

 

Professional Societies

American Fern Society
American Society of Naturalists
Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation
Botanical Society of America
British Ecological Society
Ecological Society of America
Florida Academy of Sciences
Florida Entomological Society
Florida Native Plant Society
Natural Areas Association
Organization for Tropical Studies
Plant Biologists of South Florida
Society for Conservation Biology
Society for Ecological Restoration
Society for the Study of Evolution
 

Committees

FIU Greenhouse Committee Chair
FIU Biology Graduate Committee Member

Biology Department Library Representative
FIU Environmental Preserve Advisory Committee
FIU Women's Studies Center Advisory Council
FIU Agroecology Program

EPAC - Florida Endangered Plant Advisory Council
Rare Plant Task Force
Pine Rockland Working Group
 
 

Research Program

 

Pollination of Pine Rockland Plants
Habitat Fragmentation and Pollination of South Florida Pine Rockland Plants
South Florida Pine Rockland Wildflower Restoration in Schoolyards and on Roadsides
Developing Ecological Criteria for Fire in South Florida Pine Rockland Ecosystems
A Pollen Flora for Subtropical Florida
Hurricane Effects on Vegetation and Insect/Plant Interactions
Extrafloral nectaries and Insect/Plant Interactions
Inga ecology
Sedges and their herbivores
Project FIRST II - Faculty Institutes for Reforming Science Teaching

       Schoolyard Ecology

Lab expeditions

Planet-friendly pest control

Quilts

Acknowledgments

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