Past Speakers 2022

Spring Semester 2022
Date Speaker Title
23.02.2022 Prof. Maren Vitousek, Cornell University Coping with stress: from integrative mechanisms to evolutionary consequences ***Zoom presentation only***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. B. Taborsky
02.03.2022 Prof. Dr. Katja Räsänen, University of Jyväskylä Organismal adaptation to environmental stress – an integrative perspective ***Zoom presentation only***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. E. Ringler
09.03.2022 Dr. Bonnie Fraser, University of Exeter Genomic basis of local adaptation in the Trinidadian Guppy ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
16.03.2022 Prof. Judith Korb, University of Freiburg, Germany Sociality and the evolution of ageing: insights from termites ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. B. Taborsky
23.03.2022 Dr. Paul Jay, University of Montpellier The evolution of supergenes and sex chromosomes: insights from butterflies and models ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
30.03.2022 Dr. Philine Feulner, EAWAG A Genomic Perspective on Speciation and Adaption in Alpine Whitefish ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Bank
06.04.2022 Dr. Stefan Laurent, Max Plank Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne Detecting and dating recent shifts in mating systems in flowering plants ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Bank
13.04.2022 Dr. Julia Barth, University of Basel Genomic inversions - their origin and role as supergenes ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
27.04.2022 Dr. Stephan Reber, Lund University Dinosaur Cognition - Using phylogenetic bracketing to reconstruct the evolution of thought ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. E. Ringler
04.05.2022 Prof. Mike Cant, University of Exeter The evolution of intergroup conflict in animal societies ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. B. Taborsky
11.05.2022 Prof. Dr. Hannes Svardal, University of Antwerp The mysterious role(s) of large chromosomal inversions in a cichlid fish adaptive radiation ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Bank / Dr. S. Peischl
18.05.2022 Dr. Bahtiyar Yilmaz, Inselspital Bern Plasticity of the adult human small intestinal stoma microbiota ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Bank
25.05.2022 Ass. Prof. Dr. Lysanne Snijders, Wageningen University Of birds and fish: Investigating the social dynamics of two wild model species ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. E. Ringler
01.06.2022 Prof. Dr. Niels Dingemanse, Munich University Why animals have “personalities”- Insights from studies on wild great tits ***in presence seminar***
Organiser: Prof. Dr. E. Ringler