Welcome to the Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series page!

This weekly seminar series aims to provide a platform for researchers in the fields of evolution and ecology from across the UK to showcase their work here at Silwood Park.

Location

Seminars are in person in the Georgina Mace Centre (GMC) common room, Silwood Park campus, Thursdays at 13.00. The seminars are also streamed live on teams so are accessible to those working remotely.

Overseas speakers

Throughout the COVID-19 lockdowns we were able to invite speakers from around the globe to share their research with us. We will continue to do this for the forseeable future with seminars presented from overseas speakers being held online on MS Teams.

Meeting a speaker

If you would like to meet with the seminar speaker, please contact the host listed below.

Inviting a speaker

If you are faculty or a postdoc and have a speaker you would like to invite to give a seminar, please see the timetable below for available slots.

Once you have a speaker provisionally interested in giving a talk and you have agreed a slot for them to come, email silwoodseminars@gmail.com with contact information and the preferred slot. We will double-check availability and provide further details to the speaker. Accommodation can also be arranged if required. Hosts are in charge of organising the day for their invited speaker (greetings, meetings, dinner, etc...).

PhD students: You are very welcome to invite speakers, though please bear in mind that you will be responsible for hosting the speaker while they are at Silwood.

Please be aware the timetable is not updated daily.

Speaker expenses / budget

When speakers are on site we can cover some costs with our yearly budget. The maximum amount that can be claimed when hosting seminar speakers is £200 per speaker, and includes travel expenses, one night accommodation and dinner for host and speaker. Please bear this budget in mind when considering invitations. Travel should be booked using cheap, advance options in line with the College’s Expenses Policy (requires College login). Entertainment costs are detailed in the Expenses Policy. Normally speakers should be travelling from within the UK. Exceptionally we can include speakers from Europe if they can travel here within budget: in such cases, the host must notify the seminar organizers for departmental approval ahead of time. Hosts are, of course, welcome to use any alternative source of funding to cover expenses above the £200 limit if required.

 Panopto recordings

Most presentations will be recorded/uploaded using Panopto (Imperial login required). You can find all of the recorded talks in the Silwood Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series folder, here. Note that not all talks are recorded, for various reasons.

Previous seminars

The schedules for previous terms (including links to Panopto recordings) can be found here.

Questions

The organisers are Jacob Cook and Miles Nesbit. Please email silwoodseminars@gmail.com with any queries.

Timetables

Schedules for upcoming terms are given below. Blank slots are free. Times given are based on UK time. 

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
12th October	1pm	GMC	Virtual Rainforest Group	Imperial (internal)	Rob Ewers	A Virtual Rainforest
19th October	1pm	GMC	Vicky Boult	Reading	Vivienne Groner	Forecast-based action for conservation: Developing early-warnings of human-elephant conflict
26th October	1pm	GMC	Anne Jungblut	Natural History Museum	Cris Banks-Leite	Putting Microbiomes on the Map: Genomic Diversity, Function and Climate change in the Polar Regions
2nd November	----	-------	-----------------------	--------------------------	--------------------	----------------SEMINAR----------------CANCELLED----------------
9th November	1pm	GMC	All Silwood research groups	Imperial (internal)	Samraat Pawar	Research group introduction session
16th November	1pm	GMC	David Fisher	Aberdeen	Julia Schroeder	How social animals cope with environmental stressors: Genomic and individual perspectives
23rd November	1pm	GMC	TBC	Imperial (internal)	Clara Bradberry	Meet an academic session
30th November	1pm	GMC	Mati Patel	Hull	James Rosindell	Social Evolution and AI
7th December	1pm	GMC	Alex Papadopulos	Bangor	Vincent Savolainen	Parallelism and Plasticity During Adaptation to Industrial Era Mining Contamination

 

SPRING TERM 2024:

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
18th January	1pm	GMC	Dan Exton	rePLANET	Cris Banks-Leite	Funding nature conservation through credits
25th January	1pm	GMC	Bingzhang Chen	Strathclyde	Fengjie Liu	Partitioning the slope of the Ordinary Least-Squares regression into within- and between-group components and its application in understanding the metabolic asymmetry between autotrophs and heterotrophs
1st February	1pm	GMC	TBC	Imperial (internal)	Clara Bradberry	Meet an academic session
8th February	1pm	GMC	Daniel Maynard	UCL	Will Pearse	A statistical view of mechanism in ecology
15th February	1pm	GMC	Marta Shocket	Lancaster	Lauren Cator	Thermal disease ecology in a changing world
22nd February	1pm	GMC	Paul Devlin	Royal Holloway	Samraat Pawar	Dynamic plant-microbe interactions in the phyllosphere
29th February	1pm	GMC	Vincent Jansen	Royal Holloway	Samraat Pawar	Biodiversity, stability and feasibility and one model to find them all and in the darkness bind them
7th March	1pm	Online	Rosalind Allen	University of Jena	Samraat Pawar	How spatial partitioning of a microbial population alters the collective benefits of enzyme production
14th March	1pm	Oak	Cecile Gubry-Rangin	Aberdeen	Bonnie Waring	Ecological and evolutionary adaptation of Thaumarchaeota

SUMMER TERM 2024:

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
9th May	1pm		Lauren Brent	Exeter	Vincent Savolainen
16th May	1pm		James Bullock	CEH	Will Pearse
23rd May			Cara Brook	University of Chicago	Student hosted seminar
30th May
6th June
13th June			Katherine Helliwell	Exeter	Fengjie Liu
20th June			Paul Jepson	Credit Nature	Samraat Pawar

BONUS SEMINARS:

Date	Time	Location	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title