Institute of Ecology and Evolution

Lecture Series in Ecology and Evolution

Seminar Location

Haller Auditorium

Seminar Schedule

Tuesday, 16:15

Speakers

Spring Semester 2022
Date	Speaker	Title
22.02.2022	Dr. Margaret Owuor, Wyss Academy	Conservation of Biodiversity in Developing Countries: An Integrative approach *Zoom presentation only* Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen
01.03.2022	Ass. Prof. Enrico L. Rezende, P. Universidad Católica de Chile	Thermal biology in a warming world *Zoom presentation only* Organiser: IEE junior staff (G. Martinez de Leon)
08.03.2022	Dr. David R. Johnson, Eawag, Dübendorf	How is microbial diversity maintained during range expansion? (and why we should care) *in presence seminar* Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier
15.03.2022	Ass. Prof. Mark Ravinet, University of Nottingham (UK), Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences	The evolution of human commensalism in Passer sparrows *Zoom presentation only* Organiser: IEE junior staff (F. Schlichta)
22.03.2022	Prof. Olga Otero, Université de Poitiers	Old fossils, current issues - how fragmentary remnants of past biodiversity shed light on our understanding of evolution; case study in "fish" *Zoom presentation only* Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. M. Muschick)
29.03.2022	Prof. Marie Dacke, Lund University, Sweden	As the crow flies and the beetle rolls: Straight-line orientation from behaviour to neurons *Zoom presentation only* Organiser: Prof. Dr. E. Ringler
05.04.2022	Prof. Dr. François-Xavier Dechaume-Moncharmont, Université Lyon 1	The marriage challenge: emotion and optimal stopping during mate choice *in presence seminar* Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. B. Szabo)
12.04.2022	Prof. Sam Yeaman, University of Calgary	The genetic basis of adaptation: constrained, flexible, or somewhere in between? *Zoom presentation only* Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel & Prof. Dr. C. Bank
26.04.2022	Prof. Eric Post, University of California, Davis	The role of large herbivores in plant diversity response to warming in the Arctic *Zoom presentation only* Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. P. Thakur
03.05.2022	Dr. Sarah Papworth, Royal Holloway University of London	People, primates and perceptions: human and animal behaviour in conservation *Zoom presentation only* Organiser: IEE junior staff (D. Slodowicz)
10.05.2022	Prof. Kathrin Kiehl, University of Applied Sciences Osnabrück	Green roofs as habitats for dry grassland plants and insects in urban areas chances and challenges *Zoom presentation only* Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
17.05.2022	Dr. François Blanquart, CNRS, Paris, France	Modelling the ecology and evolution of antibioresistance and virulence in Escherichia coli *in presence seminar* Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. L. Marrec)
24.05.2022	Dr. Chaitanya Gokhale, Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Plön, Germany	The power of belief - how collective narratives catalyze cooperation *in presence seminar* Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel & Prof. Dr. C. Bank
31.05.2022	Exam

Autumn Semester 2022
Date	Speaker	Title
20.09.2022	Prof. Daniel Blumstein, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)	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	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. Amanda Madeleine Seed, University of St. Andrews	Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. B. Szabo)
25.10.2022	Dr. Helen Alexander, University of Edinburgh	Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Bank
01.11.2022	Volz Award
08.11.2022	Prof. Andreas Wagner, University of Zürich	Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. L. Marrec)
15.11.2022	Dr. Nina Marchi, IEE	Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier
22.11.2022	Prof. Dr. Jan van der Meer, University of Lausanne	Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. P. Thakur
29.11.2022	Prof. Brian Langerhans, North Carolina State University	Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. M. Rösti)
06.12.2022	Prof. Alison Bennett, The Ohio State University	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

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.