Past Speakers 2010

Spring Semester 2010
Date Speaker Title
23.02.10 Dr. Vojtech Novotny
University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Ecology of plant-insect food webs in tropical rainforests of New Guinea
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Nentwig
02.03.10 Prof. Dr. R. Bradshaw
University of Liverpool
Long-term population ecology in plants: ancient DNA now contributes to palaeoecological research
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Tinner
09.03.10 Prof. Dr. Nina Buchmann
Institute of Plant Science
ETH Zurich
Linking phenology and climate to soil and ecosystem carbon dioxide fluxes
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Nentwig
16.03.10 n.n. n.n.
23.03.10 Prof. Gareth Jones
School of Biological Sciences University of Bristol
Conservation biology of bats: challenges from past, present and future environments
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
30.03.10 Dr. Katie Wagner Eawag Centre for Ecology, Evolution & Biogeochemisty, Kastanienbaum & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University Diversification in African cichlids: from speciation to macroevolutionary patterns
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen
13.04.10 Prof Redouan Bshary University of Neuchâtel The role of punishment in stabilizing cooperation
Organiser: Prof. Dr. H. Richner
20.04.10 Prof. Byron J.T. Morgan
University of Kent
Recent developments in statistical ecology
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
27.04.10 Prof. Henrik Kaessmann
Center for Integrative Genomics, University of Lausanne
The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes
Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier
04.05.10 Prof. Dr Tom Reimchen University of Victoria, BC, Canada The evolutionary radiation of divergent stickleback in the archipelago of western Canada
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen
11.05.10 Prof. Dr. Norbert Elsner
Institut for Zoology and Anthropology
University of Göttingen
More than just a love affair? -- Speciation by hybridization in Greek grasshoppers
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Güntert
18.05.10 Prof. Neil Metcalfe
University of Glasgow
Diet, development and Darwinian fitness: how early conditions affect later performance
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky
25.05.10 Dr. Lukas Schärer
University of Basel
Sex allocation and sexual conflict in a simultaneous hermaphrodite
Organiser: Prof. Dr. H. Richner
01.06.10 Exam  

Autumn Semester 2010
Date Speaker Title
21.09.2010 David Fletcher, Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Otago Dunedin New Zealand A simple decision rule for managing human-induced mortality in bird populations
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
28.09.2010 Prof. Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner, Institute of Ecology, Innsbruck Integrative taxonomy: a multisource approach to exploring biodiversity
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Nentwig
16.11.2010 Prof. Jaboury Ghazoul, ETH Zurich Balancing Society's Priorities: Reconciling agricultural expansion, forest protection and carbon conservation in Indonesia
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Fischer
23.11.2010 Dr. Fabian Herder, Bonn Colour, form and function: Adaptive speciation in Lake Matano's sailfin silverside fishes (Atheriniformes: Telmatherinidae)
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Güntert
30.11.2010 Dr. José Antonio, Donazar Estacion Biologica Doñana How to deal with the conservation of insular populations of long-lived vertebrates: the case of the Egyptian Vulture in the Canarian archipelago
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
07.12.2010 Dr. Shonil Bhagwat, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Cultural values and conservation: pathway to a durable future?
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky
14.12.2010 Prof. Ton Groothuis, University of Groningen, Netherlands Development and function of behavioural lateralization in humans and other animals
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky
21.12.2010 Exam -