| Spring Semester 2018 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 20.02.2018 |
Dr. Christoph Schwoerer, IPS & Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research |
Back to the Future - Using paleoecological data to estimate future vegetation changes
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky |
| 27.02.2018 |
Dr. Joana Meier, IEE |
The reticulate evolution of Lake Victoria cichlid fishes
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Myles Menz) |
| 06.03.2018 |
Dr. Aida Andrés, UCL Genetics Institute |
The effects of behaviour, demography and natural selection on the evolution of the genomes of the great apes
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Kimberly Gilbert) |
| 13.03.2018 |
Prof. Dr. Martin Entling, Uni Koblenz- Landau (DE) |
Management innovations for sustainable viticulture
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz |
| 20.03.2018 |
Dr. Samuel A. Cushman, USDA Forest Service, Arizona |
Latest applications of landscape genetics & connectivity modeling in conservation biology
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Arnaud Barras) |
| 27.03.2018 |
Prof. Barbara Koenig, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich |
Conspecifics matter - causes and consequences of social interactions in wild house mice
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Sacha Engelhardt) |
| 10.04.2018 |
Dr. Benjamin Peter, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
Genetic landscapes reveal how human genetic diversity aligns with geography
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Joana Meier) |
| 17.04.2018 |
Dr. Gerald Carter, Max-Planck-Institute of Ornithology, Konstanz |
Reciprocity, kinship, and cooperative relationships in vampire bats
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky |
| 24.04.2018 |
Prof. Tracey Chapman, University of East Anglia |
The role of sexual conflict and co-operation in driving evolutionary change
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Diana Rennison) |
| 01.05.2018 |
Prof. Hans Hofmann, University of Texas at Austin |
Neural and Molecular Evolution of the Social Brain
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky |
| 08.05.2018 |
Dr. José M. Gómez, Experimental station of arid zones, Spanish Research Council |
The fuzzy logic of biotic interactions
Organiser: Dr. C. J. Melián |
| 15.05.2018 |
Prof. Dr. Loïc Pellisier, Eidg. Forschungsanstalt WSL |
Toward spatial mechanistic models of biodiversity
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Myles Menz) |
| 22.05.2018 |
Prof. Rafe Brown, University of Kansas |
New phylogenoimic data augment a 35-year conceptual paradigm for evolutionary diversification in an island archipelago
Organiser: Dr. Stefan Hertwig |
| 29.05.2018 |
Exam |
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| Autumn Semester 2018 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 18.09.2018 |
Prof. Jordi Bascompte, Universität Zürich |
Plant-animal mutualistic networks, the architecture of biodiversity
Organiser: Prof. Dr. Arlettaz |
| 25.09.2018 |
PD Dr. Péter Bátary, MTA ÖK Lendület, Landscape and Conservation Ecology Research Group, Hungary |
Role of landscape structure in maintaining farmland biodiversity
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz |
| 02.10.2018 |
Prof. Jonathan Levine , ETH Zürich |
Understanding species responses to climate change: the importance of population and community ecology
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel |
| 09.10.2018 |
Dr. Tanja Slotte, Stockholm University |
Genomic consequences of plant mating system variation
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Kimberly Gilbert) |
| 16.10.2018 |
Dr. Juliet Vickery, University of Cambridge |
The conservation of Afro Paleartic migrant birds: an impossible task?
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Arnaud Barras) |
| 23.10.2018 |
PD Dr. Mark-Oliver Rödel, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin |
Changing environments - amphibian responses
Organiser: Dr. Stefan T. Hertwig |
| 30.10.2018 |
Prof. Trevor Price, University of Chicago |
Bird distributions across the Himalayan tropical-temperate divide
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. David Marques) |
| 06.11.2018 |
Prof. Axel Meyer, Universität Konstanz, Germany |
Genomics of adaptation and ultrafast speciation in repeated radiations of cichlid fishes
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Sacha Engelhardt) |
| 13.11.2018 |
Prof. Alexandra-Maria Klein, University of Freiburg, Germany |
Causes and consequences of insect decline - what do we know and what can we do
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Myles Menz) |
| 20.11.2018 |
Volz-Preis |
Best MSc thesis: Dario Bayani / Best PhD thesis: Manon Schweinfurth |
| 27.11.2018 |
Prof. Jon Slate, University of Sheffield, UK |
Predicting phenotypes from genomic data in a wild mammal population
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Diana Rennison) |
| 04.12.2018 |
Dr. Ludovic Orlando, University of Toulouse |
Tracking five millenia of horse domestication with extensive genome time-series
Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier |
| 11.12.2018 |
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nentwig, IEE |
Research and other things
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Nentwig |
| 18.12.2018 |
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