Welcome to the Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series page!

This 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 usually held 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).

Meeting a speaker

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

Inviting a speaker

If you 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 first find a faculty/staff member who is willing to host the speaker. The faculty member should then contact the speaker and agree a slot prior to the contacting silwoodseminars@gmail.com. 

Please be aware the timetable is not updated daily.

Speaker expenses / budget

There is a yearly budget to cover all invited speaker expenses. 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. We can offer one night accomodation in the Visitor Lodge in Silwood park campus for a reasonable price, depending upon availability. 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 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 new organisers are Emma Cavan and Peter Graystock. Please email silwoodseminars@gmail.com with any queries.

Date	Location	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title
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
12th December	CPB	Marion Nicolaus - rescheduled 27th Feb

Date	Location	Speaker	Institution	Host	Title