| 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 |
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| 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 |
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