| Spring Semester 2014 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 18.02.2014 |
Prof. Frederik Hendrickx, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium |
The thin line between species dispersal and adaptive radiation in generating replicated species assemblages
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Nentwig |
| 25.02.2014 |
Prof. Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester |
Going underground: plant functional traits, microbial communities and the carbon cycle
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Fischer |
| 04.03.2014 |
Dr. Irene Keller, DKF |
Population genomics of Lake Victoria cichlids
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen |
| 11.03.2014 |
no seminar |
|
| 18.03.2014 |
Prof. John Pannel, University of Lausanne |
Sexual dimorphism and the evolution of combined versus separate sexes in plants
Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier |
| 25.03.2014 |
Prof. Rosy Gillespie, University of California Berkeley |
Community assembly & adaptive radiation: Insights from the Hawaiian Island chronology
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen |
| 01.04.2014 |
Dr. Catherine Peichel, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle |
Genetics of adaptation and speciation in sticklebacks
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen |
| 08.04.2014 |
Josephine Daub, IEE |
Detection of polygenic selection at different evolutionary time scales
Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier |
| 15.04.2014 |
Prof. Gerald S. Wilkinson, University of Maryland |
Genomic conflict, sexual selection and speciation in stalk-eyed flies
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky |
| 29.04.2014 |
Prof. Jakob Koella, University of Neuchâtel |
Ecology of mosquito immunity and resistance to malaria
Organiser: Prof. Dr. H. Richner |
| 06.05.2014 |
no seminar |
|
| 13.05.2014 |
Prof. CWW Pirk, University of Pretoria, South Africa |
Nutrition and reproduction in honeybees
Organiser: Prof. Dr. P. Neumann |
| 20.05.2014 |
Prof. Martin Wikelski, Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Radolfzell |
The biology of large-scale migration
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky |
| 27.05.2014 |
Exam |
|
| Autumn Semester 2014 |
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
| 16.09.2014 |
Dr. Philine Feulner, Eawag |
Genomics of divergence along a continuum of parapatric population differentiation
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen |
| 23.09.2014 |
Prof. Gary McCracken, University of Tennessee |
The ecological economics of insect-eating bats
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz |
| 30.09.2014 |
Prof. Alexandre Roulin, Université de Lausanne |
Melanin-specific life-history strategies
Organiser: Prof. Dr. H. Richner |
| 07.10.2014 |
Prof. Hanna Kokko, Universität Zürich |
Males exist. Does it matter?
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky |
| 14.10.2014 |
Dr. Violaine Llaurens, Museum National dHistoire Naturelle, Paris |
Evolution of dominance in loci under balancing selection: polymorphic mimicry as a case-study
Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier |
| 21.10.2014 |
no seminar |
|
| 28.10.2014 |
Dr. Tanja Stadler, ETH Zürich |
A unified framework for inferring phylogenies with fossils
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Kropf |
| 04.11.2014 |
Dr. Thomas Von Rintelen, Humboldt-University of Berlin |
Drivers of diversification in freshwater invertebrates from Sulawesi, Indonesia: geography vs ecology
Organiser: PD Dr. C. Kropf |
| 11.11.2014 |
Prof. Philip Awadalla, Justine Hospital, University of Montreal |
Integrating mutation and recombination rates to understand the genomic landscape of variation among human populations
Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier |
| 18.11.2014 |
Prof. Stano Pekar, Masaryk University Brno, CZ |
Biological control in winter: Novel evidence for the importance of generalist predators
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Nentwig |
| 25.11.2014 |
Dr. Thomas Giesecke, Universität Göttingen |
Vegetation history A guide to consequences of global warming for species distribution and diversity?
Organiser: Prof. Dr. W. Tinner |
| 02.12.2014 |
Prof Leonida Fusani, Univ. Ferrara & Vienna |
Behind the elaborate courtship of Golden-collared manakins: female choice for male motor skills
Organiser: Prof. Dr. H. Richner |
| 09.12.2014 |
Prof Amy McCune , Cornell University |
Novelty, homology and transformation: are swim bladders modified lungs?
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen |
| 16.12.2014 |
Exam |
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