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Seminars in Ecology & Evolution

The seminars in Ecology and Evolution take place alternately with the Department seminars on Tuesdays at 11.15 in the main lecture theatre in Plant Biology. They are followed by a free sandwich lunch for those persons who have registered their intention to attend.

Date

Speaker

Title
3rd May

 Olivier Broennimann
University of Lausanne
Change of the climatic niche over time in the invasive Centaurea stoebe and the importance of anthropogenic disturbance for range expansion and invasion (host: HMS)
17th May  
 Yamama Naciri
Botanical Garden, Geneva
Tracking the evolution of plant diversity: from phylogeography to DNA barcoding (host: CL)
24th May

31st May



Research seminars in Ecology & Evolution

The Research seminars in Ecology & Evolution are held on Thursadays in the seminar room (0.109) of Plant Biology at 16.15. The titles will be announced as and when they become available.

Date

Speaker

Title
3rd March Dorothea Lindke
Uni Fribourg		 The porous genome in Populus: hybrid zones as gene filters
17th March Jill Hamilton
Uni Fribourg		 Genetic mechanisms underlying local adaptation across a Sitka (Picea sitchensis) and white spruce (P. glauca) zone of introgression
24th March Isablle Zaugg
Uni Fribourg		 Biological, proteomic and genomic approaches for analysing resistance in beans
31st March Maria Joao Amaral
Uni Fribourg
 Molecular basis of adaptive phenotypic convergence in tropical Stone Oaks (Lithocarpus: Fagaceae)
7th April Gwenaël Jacob
Uni Fribourg		 Non-invasive estimation of population size and population trend in Hazel grouse
14th April Steven Bacon
Uni Frbourg 		Invasive Alien Insects - Pathways into Europe through worldwide trade
21st April Karen Callaway
Uni Fribourg		 Migration cues
5th May Mariana Cruz Petersen
Uni Fribourg		 The SLOSS debate: an evaluation in marine protected areas
12th May Nicolas Fasel
Uni Fribourg		 Effects of beaver engineering on insect communities
19th May Min Hahn
Uni Fribourg		 Population dynamics of native and invasive Centaurea stoebe: the role of life cycles and specialist herbivore
26th May Tiziana Pedrotta
Uni Fribourg		 Non-target effects of a biological control agent against Rumex obtusifolius





Speakers we have hosted in the past include:

Redouan Bshary (U. of Neuchatel), Victoria Braithwaite (U. of Edinburgh), Paul Brakefield (U. of Leiden), Austin Burt (Imperial College Silwood Park), James Collins (U. of Arizona), Dario Floreano (EPFL), Charles Godfray (Imperial College Silwood Park), Peter and Rosemary Grant (U. of Princeton), Peter Hammerstein (U. Berlin), Laurent Keller (U. Lausanne), Sven Krackow (U. of Zürich), David Rand (Brown U., Providence), Paul Schmid-Hempel (ETH Zürich), Ruth Shaw (U. of Minnesota), Michael Taborski (U. of Bern), Francois Taddei (INSERM Paris), Marc Tatar (Brown U., Providence), Donald M. Waller (U. of Wisconsin)...

University of Fribourg - Faculty of Science - Department of Biology - Ecology & Evolution - chemin du musée 10 - 1700 Fribourg 
phone +41 26 / 300 8850 - fax +41 26 / 300 9680 - contact: secretary - updated September 2009 -  Swiss University