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SUMMER TERM 2024:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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9th May | ----- | -------- | --------------- | ------------------ | ----------------------- | ----------------------- |
16th May | 1pm | GMC | James Bullock | CEH | Will Pearse | Rewilding, Restoration, and the Future of Nature Recovery |
23rd May | ---- | -------- | --------------- | ------------------ | ----------------------- | ----------------No normal seminar because of the special seminar series in climate change and environmental biology (see below) ---------------- |
30th May | 1pm | GMC | Paul Huxley | Virginia Tech | Samraat Pawar | Discrete- versus continuous-time representations of thermal fitness in organisms with complex life histories |
6th June | ---- | -------- | --------------- | ------------------ | ----------------------- | ----------------------- |
13th June | 1pm | GMC | Katherine Helliwell | Exeter/Marine Biological Association | Fengjie Liu | Illuminating cryptic interactions between marine protists and bacteria |
20th June | 1pm | GMC | Paidamoyo Mataranyika | Imperial | Samraat Pawar | Sustainable agriculture strategies using bacteria-based biofertilisers isolated from drought-tolerant legumes in Namibia. |
SPRING TERM 2024:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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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 |
BONUS SEMINARS 2024:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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23rd May | 9:30-12:30 | Oak | Various | Various | James Rosindell | Mini seminar series in Climate Change and Environmental Biology (session 1) |
24th May | 9:30-12:30 | Oak | Various | Various | James Rosindell | Mini seminar series in Climate Change and Environmental Biology (session 2) |
16th July | 1pm | Oak | Kimberley Whitehead | KCL | Samraat Pawar | Metabolic adaptations of the human fetus in the presence of pathological constraints |
22nd July | 1pm | Oak | Yong-Guan Zhu | Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences (CAS) | Fengjie Liu | Antimicrobial resistance under One Health framework |
AUTUMN TERM 2023:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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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 |
SUMMER TERM 2023:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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4th May | 1pm | GMC | Samuel Pironon | Kew Gardens | Cris Banks-Leite | The art of representing species distributions and niches |
11th May | 1pm | GMC | Orly Razgour | University of Exeter | Cris Banks-Leite | Ecological and evolutionary responses to bats to global change |
18th May | 1pm | GMC | Jessica Williams | UCL | Cris Banks-Leite | Understanding how local climatic changes modify the response of biodiversity to land-use change |
25th May | - | - | - | - | - | ---- Seminar postponed ---- |
1st June | 1pm | GMC | Cristina Garcia Perez | Royal Holloway | Samraat Pawar | Dispersal Interactions In the Anthropocene |
8th June | - | - | - | - | - | ---- Seminar postponed ---- |
15th June | 1pm | GMC | Tom Oliver | University of Reading | Tom Smith | How mindsets of connectedness and systems thinking are essential to tackle the biodiversity and climate crises |
22nd June | ||||||
29th June | ||||||
6th July | 1pm | GMC | Fengjie Liu | University of Liverpool | Tom Bell | Iron: Fueling Marine Productivity and Cooling the Earth |
SPRING TERM 2023:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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12th January | 1pm | GMC | Rob Fletcher | University of Florida | Cris Banks-Leite | Connecting nature: the problem of movement and connectivity in the Anthropocene |
19th January | 1pm | GMC | Rob Ewers | Imperial (Internal) | Rob Ewers | Recognising resilience in tropical rainforests |
26th January | 1pm | GMC | Michael Griesser | University of Konstanz | Julia Schroeder | Extended parent-offspring association: key for the evolution of cooperation and cognition. |
2nd February | 1pm | GMC | Robert Endres | Imperial (South Ken) | Jacob Cook | Throwing the kitchen sink at Turing patterns. |
9th February | - | - | - | - | - | -- SEMINAR POSTPONED -- |
16th February | - | - | - | - | - | -- SEMINAR POSTPONED -- |
23rd February | 1pm | GMC | Johanna Pausch | Bayreuth University | Martin Bidartondo | Mycorrhizas and carbon sequestration |
2nd March | 1pm | GMC | Tracey Chapman | University of East Anglia | Lauren Cator | Sexual competition and reproductive plasticity |
9th March | - | - | - | - | - | -- SEMINAR POSTPONED -- |
BONUS SEMINARS 2023:
Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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14th March (Tuesday) | GMC | Leah Johnson | Virginia Tech | Samraat Pawar |
Trait-based Approaches to Bridging the Gaps Between Mechanistic and Phenomenological Modeling for Ecological Applications |
3rd April (Monday) | GMC | Rohini Balakrishnan | Indian Institute of Science | Rob Ewers | |
20th April | GMC | Nick Haddad | Michigan State University | Rob Ewers | Reconnecting Landscapes for Nature and People |
14th June (Wednesday) | GMC | Ian Hutton | Lord Howe Island | Kyle Macleod | Lord Howe Island – The Galapagos of the West Pacific |
AUTUMN TERM 2022:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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6th October | 1pm | GMC | Ryan Chisholm | National University of Singapore | James Rosindell | Exploring the transition between niche assembly and dispersal assembly in ecological communities |
13th October | 1pm | GMC | Mark Ramsden | ADAS | Will Pearse | Stepping up IPM – Decision Support Systems for IPM and demonstrating that IPM Works |
20th October | ||||||
27th October | 1pm | GMC | Rafal Gutaker | Kew Gardens | Vincent Savolainen | Genomics of rice ecology |
3rd November | ||||||
10th November |
- | - | - | - | - | -- SEMINAR CANCELLED -- |
17th November | 1pm | GMC | Samraat Pawar | Imperial College London (Internal) | Jacob Cook | Climatic Warming, Microbial Community Dynamics, and Rip Van Winkle on Steroids |
24th November | - | - | - | - | - | -- SEMINAR POSTPONED -- |
1st December | 1pm | GMC | Peter Greystock | Imperial College London (Internal) | Jacob Cook | The plight of bees and their microbial ecology |
8th December | 1pm | Online | Julien Martin | University of Ottawa | Julia Schroeder | Life-history evolution in a changing environment: a 2 tails story |
SUMMER TERM 2022:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title (link to panopto recording) |
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5th May | 1pm | GMC | Barnaby Dobson | Imperial College London | Guy Woodward | Predicting catchment suitability for biodiversity at national scales towards coupled infrastructure-ecology management |
12th May | 1pm | GMC | Ashish Malik | University of Aberdeen | Tom Smith | Microbial processes impacting soil carbon cycling under anthropogenic change: trait-based scaling from individuals to the ecosystem |
19th May | 1pm | Online | Matthias Schleuning | Senckenberg Institute for Biodiversity Research | Joe Tobias | Inference of functional consequences of biodiversity loss from traits |
7th June | 1pm | GMC | Bob Holt | University of Florida | Vincent Savolainen | GMC special seminar: SARS-CoV-2 Meets the Hutchinsonian Niche |
16th June | 1pm | Online | Iestyn Woolway | Bangor University | Samraat Pawar | Climate change impacts on the physical environment of lakes |
23rd June | 1pm | Online | Sandra Alvarez-Carretero | University College London | Samraat Pawar | Inferring species level timelines with phylogenomic data: A Bayesian sequential-subtree approach |
30th June | 1pm | GMC | Luke Powell | Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources | Joe Tobias | The Birds, the Bees and the African Chocolate Trees |
13th July | 1pm | GMC | David Moreno Mateos | Harvard University | Guy Woodward | Restoring ecosystem complexity in a changing environment |
11th August | 1pm | GMC | Hannah White | Anglia Ruskin University | Will Pearse | Traits, functions and functioning: A macroecological perspective |
SPRING TERM 2022:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title (link to panopto recording) |
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17th January | Online |
Sir John Lawton |
The institution of Environmental Sciences | Vincent Savolainen | Making Space for Nature [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] | |
3rd February | 1pm | Online |
Stewart Plaistow |
University of Liverpool | Tom Smith | No rapid adaptation to heatwaves in replicated populations with manipulated evolutionary potential |
10th February | 1pm | Online | Andrew Johnson | Centre for Ecology and Hydrology | Guy Woodward | The key stressors influencing changes in invertebrate diversity in England’s rivers over the past 30 years |
17th February | 1pm | GMC | Ian Sanders | University of Lausanne | Vincent Savolainen | Genetic and epigenetic variation in mycorrhizal fungi and its role in altering plant growth and carbon storage in tropical soils |
3rd March | 1pm | GMC | Erin Saupe | University of Oxford | Martin Brazeau | A deep time perspective on macroecology |
10th March | 1pm | GMC | Sarah Worsley | University of East Anglia | Julia Schroeder | |
17th March | 1pm | Online | Rampal Etienne | University of Groningen | James Rosindell | The limits to ecological limits to diversification |
AUTUMN TERM 2021:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title (link to panopto recording) |
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14th October | 1 pm | Haldane | Jonathan Davies | The University of British Columbia | Vincent Savolainen | Underground forests, fire, mammal browsers and the origin of Agrican savanna |
21st October | 1 pm | Online | Gal Ofir | Weizmann Institute of Science | Vincent Savolainen | Conservation of TIR immune signaling in bacteria and plants |
4th November | 1 pm | Haldane | Daniel Field | University of Cambridge | Martin Brazeau |
Birdwatching on a cosmic scale: The avian fossil record and the origin of modern bird diversity |
11th November | 1pm | Haldane | Christopher Meyer & Sarah Tweedt | Smithsonian Institution | Emma Ransome | |
25th November | 1 pm | Online | Katrina Davis | Oxford University | Guy Woodward | The dynamics and impacts of marine human-wildlife conflict |
2nd December | 1 pm | Online | Stewart Clarke | National Trust / QMUL | Guy Woodward | Working with natural processes: a National Trust perspective |
9th December | 2 pm | Online | Rebecca Safran | University of Colorado | Julia Schroeder | The role of adaptation in phenotype divergence and speciation: an integrative and comparative perspective |
SUMMER TERM 2021:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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6th May [EID] | 1pm | Online |
C. Jessica Metcalf |
Princeton University (USA) | Will Pearse | Eco-evolutionary dynamics of coronaviruses |
13th May | 1:30pm | Online | Mollie Gupta | World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) | Cristina Banks-Leite | WWF-UKs work on the global food system – how we use research to further our work with government, industry and other charities |
20th May | 1pm | Online | Si Creer | Bangor University | Danielle Harris | From 1ul of DNA, to ecosystem scale biodiversity in four easy steps: the fantastic world of eDNA analysis |
27th May | 1pm | Online | Rita Covas | University of Porto | Julie Schroeder |
Living together: cooperation in the sociable weaver
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3rd June [EID] | No planned seminar | |||||
10th June | 1pm | Online | Martin Sikora | University of Copenhagen | Matteo Fumagalli |
Tracing the evolutionary history of viruses from the Stone Age to the present using ancient DNA |
17th June | 1pm | Online | Tien Ming Lee | Sun Yat-sen University | Rob Ewers | TBC |
SPRING TERM 2021:
Date | Time | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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Postponed | Postponed | Online | Mollie Gupta | World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) | Cristina Banks-Leite | - |
28th January | 1pm | Online | Michelle Jackson | University of Oxford (UK) | Guy Woodward | The importance of scale in global change biology |
4th February [EID] | No planned seminar | |||||
11th February | 1pm | Online | Flora Jay | Université Paris-Saclay | Matteo Fumagalli | Neural Networks for population genetics: demographic inference and data generation |
18th February | No planned seminar | |||||
25th February | 1pm | Online | Nina Overgaard | Cornell University (USA) | Matteo Fumagalli | Contemporary evolution and adaptive divergence in open ocean environment: New insights and applications to fisheries management |
4th March [EID] | 1pm | Online |
John Drake |
University of Georgia (USA) | Will Pearse | Semi-automated Modeling of COVID-19 in the United States |
11th March | 1pm | Online | Mark Ravinet | University of Nottingham (UK) | Arkhat Abzhanov |
The evolution of human commensalism in Passer sparrows
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18th March | 1pm | Online | Matt Struebig | University of Kent (UK) | Rob Ewers | Oil palm and biodiversity: toward more sustainable palm oil production in the tropics |
AUTUMN TERM 2020:
SUMMER TERM 2020:
Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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30th April | CPB | Mark Ravinet | University of Notthingham | Arkhat Abzhanov | The evolution of human commensalism in Passer sparrows |
7th May | CPB | Cagan Sekercioglu | University of Utah | Joseph Tobias | TBC |
14th May | CPB | ||||
21st May | CPB | Louise Johnson | University of Reading | Vasso Koufopanou |
Experimental evolution for invasion in cancer cell lines
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28th May | CPB | Marta Shocket | University of Califonia Los Angeles | Samraat Pawar | -- Cancelled -- |
4th June | CPB | Flora Jay | Université Paris-Sud | Matteo Fumagalli | Supervised and unsupervised deep learning for population genetics |
11th June | CPB | Sinead English | University of Bristol | Lauren Cator | TBC |
18th June | CPB | Jeremy Field | University of Exeter | Richard Gill | Evolution and ecology of social behavior |
25th June | CPB | Nathalie Seddon | University of Oxford | Joseph Tobias | Nature-based Solutions to climate change and other global challenges: promise, evidence, challenges |
SPRING TERM 2020:
Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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9th January | CPB | Francois Balloux | University College London | Vincent Savolainen |
Reconstructing the spread of bacterial mobile elements in space and time |
16th January | CPB | Simeon Hill | British Antarctic Survey | Emma Cavan | Managing fisheries to protect dependant predators |
23rd January | CPB | Tom Smith | Imperial College London - Silwood | Samraat Pawar | The effects of temperature on microbial metabolic rates |
30th January | CPB | Durham University | Joseph Tobias | The phylogenetic signature of interspecific competition in birds | |
6th February | CPB | Philip Stevenson | Royal Botanical Gardens - Kew | Peter Graystock | Sex and Drugs and Bee Control: the ecological functions of nectar and pollen chemicals |
13th February | CPB | Mike Bruford | Cardiff University | Matteo Fumagalli | Use of genomics in endangered species conservation |
20th February | CPB | Gabrielle Davidson | -- Cancelled -- | -- Cancelled -- | -- Cancelled -- |
27th February | Fisher | Marion Nicolaus |
University of Groningen (Netherlands) |
Julia Schroeder | Evolutionary causes and consequences of dispersal syndromes in a wild passerine bird |
5th March | CPB | Rahia Mashoodh | University of Cambridge | Lauren Cator |
Non-genetic inheritance and adaptation within the family environment
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12th March | CPB | TBC |
AUTUMN TERM 2019:
Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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10th October | Fisher/Haldane | Dimitrios - Georgios Kontopoulos | Imperial College London | Emma Cavan | Deep-time evolution of biological responses to temperature changes |
31st October | Fisher/Haldane | Daniel Barrios-O'Neill | University of Exeter | Samraat Pawar | A manifesto for systematically describing consumer-resource interactions |
14th November | Fisher/Haldane | Ruiyun Li | Imperial College London (St Mary's) | Lauren Cator | Climate-driven variation in mosquito density predicts the spatiotemporal dynamics of dengue |
21st November | Fisher/Haldane | Jacob Johansson | Lund University and Imperial College London (Silwood) | Richard Gill | Flowers, bees and shifting seasons: how to adapt when Nature's calendar goes out of sync in a warming world |
28th November | Fisher/Haldane | Isabel Rosa | Bangor University | Rob Ewers | Towards a new generation of integrated global scenarios and models of biodiversity and ecosystem services |
5th December | CPB | Josh Firth | University of Oxford | Julia Schroeder |
The complex consequences of simple sociality in the wild
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12th December | CPB | Marion Nicolaus - rescheduled 27th Feb |
EXTRA SEMINARS 2019:
Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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25th April ** | CPB | Tali Magory Cohen | Tel Aviv University (Israel) | Vincent Savolainen |
A global avian invader on the move: a case study of the Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis)
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3rd May | CPB | Dustin Marshall | Monash University (Australia) | Samraat Pawar | Why do organisms grow? |
4th June | Fisher/Haldane | Robert Trivers | Chapman University (USA) | Austin Burt | On honour killing |
**EMBO Fellowship interview.
SPRING/SUMMER TERM 2019:
Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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2nd May | CPB | Barbara Tschirren | University of Exeter (UK) | Julia Schroeder |
The Evolution of Silver Spoon Effect
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9th May | CPB | Michalis Barkoulas | Imperial College London (UK) | Chris Wilson | C. elegans as a tractable host to study natural infections by oomycetes |
16th May | CPB | John Donohue | University of Limerick (Ireland) | Samraat Pawar | Density dependence in stage-structured populations |
23rd May | CPB | Emma Cavan | Imperial College London (UK) | Samraat Pawar | The circle of [marine biogeochemistry +] life |
30th May | CPB | [free] | |||
6th June | Fisher/Haldane | Benjamin Kraemer | IGB Leibniz (Germany) | Samraat Pawar | Lake Colour in a Warming World |
13th June | CPB | Kayla King | University of Oxford (UK) | Tim Barraclough | Killers and protectors: rapid microbial evolution across the mutualist-parasite continuum |
20th June | CPB | Melissah Rowe | NHM & University of Oslo (Norway) | Julia Schroeder | Molecular diversification of the seminal fluid proteome in Passer sparrows |
27th June | CPB | Thomas Thorne | University of Reading (UK) | Matteo Fumagalli | Systems biology for single cell RNA-Seq data |
WINTER TERM 2018/19:
Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Title |
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31st January | CPB | Jordan Casey | University of Perpignan (France) | Emma Ransome | Reconstructing hyperdiverse food webs: fish gut content metabarcoding as a tool to disentangle trophic interactions on coral reefs. |
7th February | CPB | Diego Barneche | University of Exeter (UK) | Samraat Pawar | Integrating ecology across scales of biological organisation |
14th February | CPB | Thomas Lewinsohn | UNICAMP (Brazil) | Cris Banks-Leite | Community ecology reappraised: crises and new developments |
21st February | CPB | Peter Graystock | Imperial College London (UK) | Rich Gill | The microbial ecology of bees, and engineering protective microbiomes |
28th February | CPB | Alex Pigot | University College London (UK) | Samraat Pawar | Coexistence, community assembly and the n-dimensional hypervolume |
7th March | CPB | Charles Mullon | Université de Lausanne (Switzerland) | Vincent Savolainen | Correlational selection and the shape of polymorphism |
14th March | CPB | Richard Sibly | University of Reading (UK) | Samraat Pawar |
How birds got their colours |
21st March | CPB | Chris Jiggins | University of Cambridge (UK) | Tim Barraclough | Hibridisation as a constructive process in evolution |
28th March | Haldane Lecture room | Siobhán O'Brien | University of Liverpool (UK) | Tim Barraclough | Microbial social interactions in the real world: From the lab to the field and back again |
Autumn Term 2018/19:
Date | Location | Speaker | Institution | Host | Topic | Title |
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18th October | Fisher/Haldane, Hamilton | Alex Badyaev | University of Arizona (USA) | Arkhat Abzhanov | Ecology and evolutionary biology | Islands in a sea of possibilities: On reconciling stability and innovation in evolution |
25th October | Fisher/Haldane, Hamilton | Domingos Cardoso | Universidade Federal da Bahia (Salvador, Brazil) | Jon Lloyd | Plant ecology | The relevance of taxonomy to Amazon plant diversity estimates |
1st November | Fisher/Haldane, Hamilton | Angelica Gonzalez | Rutgers University (New Jersey, US) | Rebecca Kordas | Structure and function of ecological systems | Food web structure and dynamics across space and time |
8th November | Fisher/Haldane, Hamilton | Matthias Forkel | TU Wien (Austria) | Colin Prentice | Modelling of land surface-vegetation interactions | Earth Observation and Data Science to better Understand and Model Ecosystems under Global Change |
15th November | Fisher/Haldane, Hamilton | Tom Churcher | Imperial College London (UK) | Lauren Cator | Malaria modelling | Predicting the public health benefit of vector control interventions against malaria and evaluating them in the field |
22nd November | Fisher/Haldane, Hamilton | Alison Wright | University of Sheffield (UK) | Matteo Fumagalli | Sexual conflict and genomics | Routes to the resolution of sexual conflict |
29th November | Fisher/Haldane, Hamilton | Keith Farnsworth | Queen's University Belfast (UK) | Samraat Pawar | Biological theory | A Deeper Understanding of Biodiversity: What it is, with implications for how we should quantify and value it |
6th December | CPB | Luke Eberhard-Philips | Max Planck Institute for Ornithology (Germany) | Julia Schroeder | Behaviour and demography | Breeding system evolution in light of demographic sex biases |
13th December | CPB | Frank Jiggins | University of Cambridge (UK) | Tim Barraclough | Evolution and genetics of hosts and parasites | Parallel evolution of resistance to myxomatosis in European and Australian rabbits |
Summer term 2017-2018:
Date | Speaker | Institution | Host | Topic | Title |
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3 May | Mathias Disney | UCL | Rob Ewers | Environmental Monitoring and Modelling | Lasers in the jungle: new 3D measurements of forest structure and function [no video] |
10 May | Katie Field | University of Leeds | Martin Bidartondo | Plant-fungal symbioses | Unity in diversity: functional insights into the ancient partnerships between plants and fungi [no video] |
17 May | Rebecca Kilner | University of Cambridge | Julia Schroeder | Behaviour and evolution | How behaviour influences evolution: experiments with burying beetles [no video] |
24 May | Dan Stowell | QMUL | Cristina Banks-Leite | Machine listening | How far can machine listening help with acoustic bird surveying? [video] |
31 May | Blake Morton | University of Hull | Vincent Savolainen | Behavioural ecology & comparative psychology | Personality uniquely contributes to social relationships and group networks in monkeys [no video] |
** 2 June | Rob Fletcher | University of Florida (USA) | Rob Ewers | Behaviour and evolution | An invasive prey and an endangered predator: novel interactions full of surprises [no video] |
7 June | Martin Sullivan | University of Leeds | Lan Qie | Environmental monitoring | Monitoring tropical forests (and birds) in a changing world [video] |
14 June | Aida Andres | UCL | Matteo Fumagalli | Adaptation and genomics | Local adaptation in humans and other primates [video] |
21 June | Simon Smart | Centre for Ecology & Hydrology | Petra Guy | Environmental changes & ecology | Predicting changes in the diversity of functionally important plants in response to extreme weather: how far can we go with statistical Species Niche Models? [no video] |
**31 July | Kartik Shankar | Indian Institute of Science | Samraat Pawar | Ecology and evolutionary biology | Drivers of diversification of herpetofauna in the Western Ghats Escarpment |
** 2 August | Matthew Betts | Oregon States University (USA) | Rob Ewers | Behaviour and evolution | Forest biodiversity: how can it be conserved, and why should we bother anyway? |
** Denotes Special Seminar