Department of Biology
Ecology & Evolution
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 |
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Holger Kreft Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Uni. Göttingen |
Wallace revisited - towards a quantitative biogeographical regionalization of vertebrates (host SB) |
| 23rd March | Armin Biscoff Agrocampus, Angers (F) |
Local plant adaptation and biotic interactions - implications for ecological restoration (host HMS) |
| Walter Salzburger Inst Zoology, Uni Basle |
Evolution in Darwin's Dreamponds: The adaptive radiations of cichlid fishes in East Africa (host CL) |
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| Michael Kruetzen Anthropological Institute and Museum, University of Zurich |
Phylogeographic patterns, behavioural variation and culture in orang-utans (genus: Pongo) (host CL) | |
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Pierre Bize Dept Ecology & Evolution, Uni Lausanne |
Life history variation along an altitudinal gradient: a role for uncoupling proteins? (host LFB)
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| 22nd May | J Gwen Shlichta Lab Evolutive Entomology, Uni Neuchâtel |
Examining the effects of host plant on population structure using exophagous and endophagous insect herbivores (host IZ) |
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Justyna Wolinska Inst Ecology, University of Munich |
The influence of parasites on the maintenance of host diversity (host JL)
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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 |
| 23rd February | Sylvie Rotzetter Uni Fribourg |
Direct effects of plant diversity on habitat choice in the wasp-spider |
| 1st March | Isabelle Zaugg Uni Fribourg |
A new arcelin variant responsible for bean resistance to bruchid beetles |
| 8th March |
Dominique Fasel Uni Fribourg |
Evolutionary genetics of a breeding system polymorphism in Daphnia magna |
| 15th March |
Dorothea Lindtke Uni Fribourg |
Admixture mapping of leaf traits in Populus |
| 19th April | Fabienne Marthaler Uni Fribourg |
Hybridization in a neotropical species radiation |
| 26th April | Céline Reisser Uni Fribourg |
New Zealand's offshore islands: genetic diversity, connectivity and implications for conservation in two highly isolated island groups |
| 10th May | Nadine Sandau Uni Frbourg |
Plant compositional effects on plant productivity |
| 24th May |
Barbora Singliarova Uni Fribourg |
Adaptive significance of polyploidy |
| 31st May |
Maria Joao Amaral Uni Fribourg |
The utility of next generation sequencing and bioinformatic approaches for marker development in non model species |
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)...
