Graduate

Student Organization

USF Biology Graduate Student Organization (BGSO)

The purpose of the Biology Graduate Student Organization (BGSO) is to:

  • Serve as the official representative body of the biology graduate students before the university
  • Provide a forum for discussion of issues and dissemination of information relevant to biology graduate students
  • Organize, promote, and conduct activities beneficial to biology graduate student life
  • BGSO has a Teams page where you can keep up with IB graduate student events
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If you’d like to join, visit our BullsConnect page or email us with any questions!

2024-2025 Officers

Faculty Advisor

 Dr. Kathleen Scott, kmscott@usf.edu

President

 Claire Crookston, ccrookston@usf.edu 

Vice President

Kate McLendon, kmclendon@usf.edu 

Treasurer

 Roman Priestley, rpriestley@usf.edu 

Secretary

 Elise Samuelson, esamuelson@usf.edu 

Each year, the Biology Graduate Student Organization solicits nominations from Integrative Biology graduate students for accomplished and inspirational biologists to present a research seminar at USF. Our most recent speakers include:

  • 2020: Dr. Hollie Putnam (University of Rhode Island) who presented on "Avenues of marine invertebrate acclimatization in response to rapid environmental change"
  • 2019: Dr. Adam Summers (University of Washington) who presented on "Marine biomechanics - fishes do the most amazing things"
  • 2018: Dr. Lacey Knowles (University of Michigan) who presented on "Species divergence shaped by the intersects of ecology and climate change"
BGSO