Interaction Seminar

Spring Term 2023

Date	Speaker	Title of talk
23.02	Ana Di Pietro-Torres (PhD student) Tschopp Group, UniBas
02.03
09.03	IMovie (Docu) Released April 2020	"Picture a Scientist" chronicles the groundswell of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists
16.03
23.03	Maridel Fredericksen (PostDoc) Ebert Group, UniBas
30.03	Carolin Sommer-Trembo (PostDoc) Salzburger Group, UniBas
06.04	Easter Holiday
13.04	Easter Holiday
20.04	Daniela Souza-Costa (PhD Student) Salzburger Group, UniBas
27.04	Lilla Lovasz (PostDoc) Amrhein Group, UniBas
04.05	Fabio Sacher (PhD Student) Tschopp Group, UniBas
11.05	Emanuell Duarte-Ribeiro (PostDoc) Salzburger Group, UniBas
18.05	Ascension Day
25.05	Vital Heim (PhD Student) Ebert Group, UniBas
01.06	James Lusana (PhD Student) Salzburger Group, UniBas

The Principle

Speakers (MSc, PhD, or Post-Docs) give talks in english in front of their peers in an informal atmosphere (no auditorium). Talks can be about almost anything (planned or finished experiments, or even theoretical work) in the field of evolutionnary biology or ecology. A very high level of interaction between the speaker and the audience is expected. People are therefore highly encouraged to stop the speaker during the talk for questions or remarks.

Pros and Cons of the Interaction Seminars

Pros...

...for the speaker:

Get feedback on your project(s)
Exchange ideas with people from different fields

...for the audience:

Meet your colleagues, get to know their topics
Learn stuff in a relaxed way
Learn how to improve your own experimental designs by discussing those of others

PS: Obviously, there are no Cons!

History of the Interaction Seminars

The first "Interaction Seminar" took place in 1999 at the Zoological Institute of the University of Basel (Switzerland). They subsequently moved together with the Ebert Group to the Biology department of the University of Fribourg in 2001 and then came back to Basel when the Ebert Group moved back to the Zoological Institute in Basel in 2005.

When and where do the Interaction Seminars take place?

The seminars take place on Thursday at 17:00 in the Seminarraum (room E0.07, ground floor) of the:

Universität Basel, Zoologisches Institut
Evolutionsbiologie
Vesalgasse 1
CH-4051 Basel, Switzerland

Remember to follow the rules given by the University of Basel concerning the Coronavirus (COVID-19 Schutzkonzept).

The seminars are announced at least one week before on this webpage.

If you don't know how to find us, have a look here.

How do I participate in the Interaction Seminar?

If you want to give a talk, get informed about upcoming events or if you have any questions, feel free to contact us: Navaneeth Menon (navaneeth.menon@unibas.ch), Pascal Angst (pascal.angst@unibas.ch) or Charlotte Huyghe (charlotte.huyghe@unibas.ch).