Past Speakers 2019

Speakers

Autumn Semester 2019
Date Speaker Title
17.09.2019 Prof. Dr. Markus Fischer, Universität Bern, Institut für Pflanzenwissenschaften IPBES and its global and regional assessment reports: trends, drivers, scenarios, and options for nature and people
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
24.09.2019 Prof. Dr. Michel Milinkovitch, Université de Genève Patterning of the vertebrate skin through mechanical and Turing instabilities
Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier
01.10.2019 Prof. Dr. Dan Bolnick, University of Connecticut Co-evolutionary Pyrrhic Victory? Cestode resistance entails a costly immune pathology in stickleback
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
08.10.2019 Dr. Janet Kelso, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology The fate of Neandertal DNA in modern humans
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. N. Marchi)
15.10.2019 Dr. Thomas Merckx, Department of Ecology and Genetics, University of Oulu, Finland Urban moths: XL species and specimens
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. K. Zografou)
22.10.2019 Prof. Roger Butlin, University of Sheffield Local adaptation and speciation in Littorina
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. D. Rennison)
29.10.2019 Dr. Patrik Nosil, CEFE, Montpellier Genetic interactions and the dynamics of evolution
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
05.11.2019 Dr. Rodolphe Rougerie, MNHN Paris Novel model for the study of insect diversity and macroecology
Organiser: IEE junior staff (A. Barras)
12.11.2019 Prof. Dr. Christian Kost, Universität Osnabrück Is metabolic cooperation within microbial communities inevitable?
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. S. Engelhardt)
19.11.2019 Dr. Julia Schwarzer, Zoological Research Museum Alexander König, Bonn The untapped potential of Sulawesi Ricefishes - threatened diversity, speciation and a complex innovation
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. D. Marques)
26.11.2019 Prof. Dr. Gernot Segelbacher, University of Freiburg, Germany How conservation can benefit from using genetic tools
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
03.12.2019 Dr. Alice Mouton, Université de Liège, Belgien Rat poison and bobcats: application of gene expression in a natural population
Organiser: PD Dr. A. Grill
10.12.2019 Prof. Dr. Ole Seehausen What we know and what we dont know about processes involved in exceptionally fast origins of large adaptive radiations
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
17.12.2019 Exam

Spring Semester 2019
Date Speaker Title
19.02.2019 Prof. Jeff McKinnon, East Carolina University, USA Color Pattern Evolution in the Threespine Stickleback: Widening the Field of View
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
26.02.2019 Prof. Joan Strassman, Washington University in St. Louis Who is in charge in the Dictyostelium - Burkholderia microbial symbiosis?
Organiser: Prof. Dr. M. Taborsky
05.03.2019 PD Dr. Jean-Yves Humbert, IEE Assessing the value of agri-environment schemes for biodiversity: current status and opportunities
Organiser: Prof. Dr. R. Arlettaz
12.03.2019 no seminar
19.03.2019 Prof. Åke Lindström, University of Lund What 4000 km of line transects, annually, tell us about how land-use and climate change affect Swedish birds.
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Arnaud Barras)
26.03.2019 Prof. Eva Millesi, Universität Wien The role of energy reserves in hibernating small mammals
Organiser: PD Dr. A. Grill
02.04.2019 Dr. Anna Runemark, Lund University, Sweden Selection against incompatible derived alleles mold hybrid genomes
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. David Marques)
09.04.2019 Prof. Joachim Hermisson, University of Vienna Adaptation in polygenic traits: Conditions and criteria for sweeps and shifts
Organiser: Prof. Dr. C. Peichel
16.04.2019 Prof. Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Theoretical Biology, Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), ETH Zurich A dynamical perspective on the evolution of antibiotic resistance
Organiser: Prof. Dr. L. Excoffier
30.04.2019 Dr. Josefa González, Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (CSIC-UPF) The role of natural transposable element insertions in stress response
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Kimberly Gilbert)
07.05.2019 Prof. Seirian Sumner, University College London Social wasps and social genes: Realising Tinbergen’s Dream
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Sacha Engelhardt)
14.05.2019 Prof. Michael Richie, St. Andrews University Sexual selection, speciation and genomic divergence
Organiser: IEE junior staff (Dr. Diana Rennison)
21.05.2019 Prof. Matt Knope, University of Hawaii in Hilo Comparative study of adaptive radiations on the Hawaiian archipelago
Organiser: Prof. Dr. O. Seehausen
28.05.2019 Exam