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. (last update 21/2/2013)
Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 5th March | Adrian Moehl Centre national de données et d'informations sur la flore de Suisse |
Climb every mountain... - where all the data come from (host CL) |
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Andrea Plüss Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems, ETHZ |
Genetic connectivity supports plant persistence along altitudinal gradients in the face of climate change (host HMS) |
| 7th May | Arpat Ozgul Inst Evolutionary Biology & Environmental Studies, Uni Zürich |
Coupling phenotypic and demographic responses to environmental change (host LFB) |
| Carlos Melian EAWAG, Dübendorf |
Does sex speed up evolutionary rate and increase biodiversity? (host LFB) | |
| 4th June | Eelke Jongejans (Inst Water & Wetland Research, Raboud University, Nijmegen NL) |
Integral Projection Models: tools for linking individual traits to population and community dynamics (host HMS) |
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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 |
| 7th March | Suzanne Lommen Uni Fribourg |
Exploiting natural morphological variation in predators to improve biological pest control - a case study of ladybirds and mites |
| 14th March | Nicola Schönberger Museum of Natural History, Lugano |
Alien Plants in southern Switzerland one of Europe's invasion hotspots |
| 21st March | David Frey Uni Fribourg |
A neutralist explanation
for the dispersal gene-flow paradox in freshwater zooplankton (presentation of MSc thesis) |
| 28th March |
Céline Caseys Uni Fribourg |
The genetic architecture of chemical defense traits in Populus |
| 11th April |
Yan Sun Uni Fribourg & CABI |
Relative importance of soil origin vs. plant neighbour origin for the success and impact of invasive plant species |
| 18th April | Benjamin Cabezas Uni Fribourg |
Foodwebs' structures influence stability of ecological networks |
| 25th April | Sandrine Michel Uni Fribourg |
Artificial polyploids in Centaurea stoebe and metabolomic profiling communities |
| 2nd May | Sarah Humbert Uni Frbourg |
Patterns of genetic diversity and allele sharing among four related alpine species of willows (Salix spp.) |
| 16th May | Ana Marcelino Uni Fribourg |
Melanin variation in resting eggs of Daphnia magna |
| 23rd May | Christoph Stritt Uni Fribourg |
Ecology and evolution of secondary compounds in Populus |
| 6th June |
Mikko Letho-Hürlimann
Dept Ecology & Evolution, Uni lausanne |
About life-histories, metabolism and personality in common voles |
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)...
