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. We also have a once a month focus on Emerging Infectious Disease on the first Thursday of the month (indicated on the calendar with EID)

Location

Seminars are online via Microsoft Teams and when possible will be shown in the Centre for Population Biology (CPB) common room, Silwood Park campus, Thursdays at 13.00. When the CPB is occupied for teaching, seminars are held in Fisher/Haldane Lecture room, Hamilton building (first half of Autumn Term). The seminars are also streamed on teams so are accessible to those working remotely

Meeting a speaker

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

Inviting a speaker

**For the 2020-2021 academic year, all speakers will be remotely hosted on MS Teams**

If you are faculty 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...).

Students: If you are a student and would like to propose a speaker please contact the student nomination committee and discuss with them your suggestion.

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 Danielle Harris and Peter Graystock. 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
15th October	4pm	Online	Barrett Klein	University of Wisconsin (USA)	Samraat Pawar	Sleeping in a society of honey bees: The tale of a sleep-deprived dancer and her unwitting followers, and the search for insect dreams
22nd October	4pm	Online	Marta Shocket	University of California Los Angeles (USA)	Samraat Pawar	Thermal ecology of infectious disease: lessons from mosquito-transmitted viruses and a Daphnia-fungal pathogen
29th October	1pm	Online	Jose Jiménez	Imperial College London (UK)	Peter Graystock and Danielle Harris	Eco-evo dynamics of experimentally tractable microbial systems
5th November [EID]	1pm	Online	Alex Corbishley	University of Edinburgh (UK)	Emma Ransome	Floating data points: poo and the pandemic in Scotland
12th November	1pm	Online	Bonnie Waring	Imperial College London (UK)	Peter Graystock and Danielle Harris	Ecosystem feedbacks to climate change: when and where do microbes matter?
19th November						No seminar planned
26th November	1pm	Online	Elli Leadbeater	Royal Holloway University of London (UK)	Peter Graystock	The honeybee waggle dance: evolutionary marvel but modern-day relic?
3rd December [EID]	1pm	Online	Till Hoffman	Imperial College London (UK)	Vincent Savolainen	Geospatial caseload estimates for wastewater-based epidemiology & faecal shedding of SARS-CoV-2 RNA amongst hospitalised patients
10th December	1pm	Online	Will Pearse	Imperial College London (UK)	Peter Graystock and Danielle Harris	Evolutionary ecology in the time of COVID

Date	Location	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title