Lecture Series in Ecology and Evolution
Seminar Location
Haller AuditoriumSeminar Schedule
Tuesday, 16:15Speakers
| Autumn Semester 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 17.09.2019 | Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer, Universität Bern, Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften | IPBES and its global and regional assessment reports: trends, drivers, scenarios, and options for nature and people Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel |
| 24.09.2019 | Prof. Dr. Michel Milinkovitch, Université de Genève | Patterning of the vertebrate skin through mechanical and Turing instabilities Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier |
| 01.10.2019 | Prof. Dr. Dan Bolnick, University of Connecticut | Co-evolutionary Pyrrhic Victory? Cestode resistance entails a costly immune pathology in stickleback Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel |
| 08.10.2019 | Dr. Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | The fate of Neandertal DNA in modern humans Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. N. Marchi) |
| 15.10.2019 | Dr. Thomas Merckx, Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Finland | Urban moths: XL species and specimens Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. K. Zografou) |
| 22.10.2019 | Prof. Roger Butlin, University of Sheffield | Local adaptation and speciation in Littorina Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. D. Rennison) |
| 29.10.2019 | Dr. Patrik Nosil, CEFE, Montpellier | Predictability of eco-evolutionary dynamics Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel |
| 05.11.2019 | Dr. Rodolphe Rougerie, MNHN Paris | Novel model for the study of insect diversity and macroecology Organiser: IEE junior staff (A. Barras) |
| 12.11.2019 | Prof. Dr. Christian Kost, Universität Osnabrück | Is metabolic cooperation within microbial communities inevitable? Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. S. Engelhardt) |
| 19.11.2019 | Dr. Julia Schwarzer | Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. D. Marques) |
| 26.11.2019 | Prof. Dr. Gernot Segelbacher, University of Freiburg, Germany | Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz |
| 03.12.2019 | Dr. Alice Mouton, Université de Liège, Belgien | Organiser: PD Dr. A. Grill |
| 10.12.2019 | Prof. Dr. Ole Seehausen | Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel |
| 17.12.2019 | Exam | |
| Spring Semester 2020 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Speaker | Title |
| 18.02.2020 | SNSF Prof. Dr. Benjamin Towbin, IZB, University of Bern | Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel |
| 25.02.2020 | - | |
| 03.03.2020 | Prof. Menno Schilthuizen, Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Leiden University | Organiser: PD Dr. Andrea Grill |
| 10.03.2020 | - | |
| 17.03.2020 | - | |
| 24.03.2020 | Prof. Jimmy A McGuire, University of California, Berkeley | Organiser: Dr. Stefan Hertwig |
| 31.03.2020 | - | |
| 07.04.2020 | - | |
| 21.04.2020 | Prof. Dr. Rob Paxton, MLU Halle-Wittenberg, Germany | Evolutionary dynamics of a major honey bee pathogen, Deformed wing virus Organiser: Prof. Dr. P. Neumann |
| 28.04.2020 | - | |
| 05.05.2020 | - | |
| 12.05.2020 | - | |
| 19.05.2020 | - | Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky |
| 26.05.2020 | 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.