Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Lecture Series in Ecology and Evolution

Past Speakers 2010

Spring Semester 2010
Date Speaker Title
23.02.10 Dr. Vojtech Novotny
University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Ecology of plant-insect food webs in tropical rainforests of New Guinea
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Nentwig
02.03.10 Prof. Dr. R. Bradshaw
University of Liverpool
Long-term population ecology in plants: ancient DNA now contributes to palaeoecological research
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Tinner
09.03.10 Prof. Dr. Nina Buchmann
Institute of Plant Science
ETH Zurich
Linking phenology and climate to soil and ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Nentwig
16.03.10 n.n. n.n.
23.03.10 Prof. Gareth Jones
School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol
Conservation biology of bats: challenges from past, present and future environments
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
30.03.10 Dr. Katie Wagner Eawag Centre for Ecology, Evolution & Biogeochemisty, Kastanienbaum & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University Diversification in African cichlids: from speciation to macroevolutionary patterns
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen
13.04.10 Prof Redouan Bshary University of Neuchâtel The role of punishment in stabilizing cooperation
Organiser: Prof. Dr. H. Richner
20.04.10 Prof. Byron J.T. Morgan
University of Kent
Recent developments in statistical ecology
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
27.04.10 Prof. Henrik Kaessmann
Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne
The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes
Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier
04.05.10 Prof. Dr Tom Reimchen University of Victoria, BC, Canada The evolutionary radiation of divergent stickleback in the archipelago of western Canada
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen
11.05.10 Prof. Dr. Norbert Elsner
Institut for Zoology and Anthropology
University of Göttingen
More than just a love affair? -- Speciation by hybridization in Greek grasshoppers
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Güntert
18.05.10 Prof. Neil Metcalfe
University of Glasgow
Diet, development and Darwinian fitness: how early conditions affect later performance
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky
25.05.10 Dr. Lukas Schärer
University of Basel
Sex allocation and sexual conflict in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
Organiser: Prof. Dr. H. Richner
01.06.10 Exam  

Autumn Semester 2010
Date Speaker Title
21.09.2010 David Fletcher, Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand A simple decision rule for managing human-induced mortality in bird populations
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
28.09.2010 Prof. Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner, Institute of Ecology, Innsbruck Integrative taxonomy: a multisource approach to exploring biodiversity
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Nentwig
16.11.2010 Prof. Jaboury Ghazoul, ETH Zurich Balancing Society's Priorities: Reconciling agricultural expansion, forest protection and carbon conservation in Indonesia
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Fischer
23.11.2010 Dr. Fabian Herder, Bonn Colour, form and function: Adaptive speciation in Lake Matano's sailfin silverside fishes (Atheriniformes: Telmatherinidae)
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Güntert
30.11.2010 Dr. José Antonio, Donazar Estacion Biologica Doñana How to deal with the conservation of insular populations of long-lived vertebrates: the case of the Egyptian Vulture in the Canarian archipelago
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
07.12.2010 Dr. Shonil Bhagwat, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Cultural values and conservation: pathway to a durable future?
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky
14.12.2010 Prof. Ton Groothuis, University of Groningen, Netherlands Development and function of behavioural lateralization in humans and other animals
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky
21.12.2010 Exam -