Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Lecture Series in Ecology and Evolution

Seminar Location

Haller Auditorium

Seminar Schedule

Tuesday, 16:15

Speakers

Autumn Semester 2022
Date	Speaker	Title
20.09.2022	Prof. Daniel Blumstein, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)	Insights from an emergent view of sociality Organiser: Prof. Dr. E. Ringler
27.09.2022	Dr. Anne-Claire Fabre, NMBE	Development as a driver or a brake of morphological diversity? Organiser: Dr. S. Hertwig (NMBE)
04.10.2022	Prof. Matt Walsh, University of Texas at Arlington	Environmental signals, phenotypic plasticity, and evolutionary change: insights from killifish and waterfleas Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
11.10.2022	Dr Esther Sebastián-González, University of Alicante	Composition and structure of vertebrate scavenger assemblages in the Anthropocene Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. S. Vignali)
18.10.2022	Dr. Nina Marchi, IEE	Reconstructing human history with palaeogenomics Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier
25.10.2022	Dr. Helen Alexander, University of Edinburgh	Roles of demographic stochasticity and ecology in the emergence of drug resistance Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Bank
01.11.2022	Volz Award	Best MSc thesis: Annika Freudiger / Best PhD thesis: Zuyao Liu
08.11.2022	Prof. Andreas Wagner, University of Zürich	A highly rugged yet easily navigable adaptive landscape of antibiotic resistance Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. L. Marrec)
15.11.2022	Dr. Amanda Madeleine Seed, University of St. Andrews	Evaluating cognitive control in chimpanzees and children a psychometric approach *ZOOM presentation only* Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. B. Szabo)
22.11.2022	Prof. Dr. Jan van der Meer, University of Lausanne	Culturing and managing complex soil microbiomes Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. P. Thakur
29.11.2022	Prof. Brian Langerhans, North Carolina State University	Predictability and parallelism of multi-trait adaptation and speciation Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. M. Rösti)
06.12.2022	Prof. Alison Bennett, The Ohio State University	Soil, plant, and insect microbiomes: Influence and interactions *ZOOM presentation only* Organiser: IEE junior staff (S. Sanders)
13.12.2022	Dr. Stefano Canessa, IEE	Making rational decisions in biodiversity conservation Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
20.12.2022	Exam

Spring Semester 2023
Date	Speaker	Title
21.02.2023	Dr. Chloé William Schmidt, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv)	Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen
28.02.2023	-
07.03.2023	Dr. Ian Ausprey, IEE	Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
14.03.2023	Prof. Dr. Carston Rahbek, Center for Macroecology, Evolution, and Climate, University of Copenhagen	Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. S. Vignali)
21.03.2023	Prof. Elena Conti, University of Zürich	Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
28.03.2023	Dr. Karoline Faust, UK Leuven	Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. L. Marrec)
04.04.2023	Prof. Dr. Martin Gossner, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL	Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
18.04.2023	Dr. Anita Risch, WSL	Organiser: Prof. Dr. Madhav P. Thakur
25.04.2023	Dr. David McLeod, IEE	Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Bank
02.05.2023	-
09.05.2023	-
16.05.2023	Prof. Marta Manser, Universität Zürich	Organiser: Prof. Dr. E. Ringler
23.05.2023	-
30.05.2023	Exam

Past Speakers

Exam

The semester exam (open-book, 45 minutes) of this lecture series covers the lectures given in this semester. At the exam you will receive three themes corresponding to three talks given in this semester and you will be asked to choose one.

State for this selected theme the three results or statements that you judge as being most important.
You are encouraged to supplement your explanation by graphs or tables, if appropriate, and to describe and value the applied methodology. Critique would be welcome, if you were not entirely happy with methods or interpretation.

Most importantly, you should justify your judgements with arguments – this is what will be evaluated by the examiners, not your selection of what you found most important. Please discuss only issues that were presented in the respective talks, and not related issues that you know from other sources. Please be concise and aim to condense your text to one page.

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