Interaction Seminar

Fall Term 2024

Date Speaker Title of talk interaction
03.10
10.10
17.10
24.10
31.10 Svenja Conrad (MSc Student)
Ebert Group, UniBas
Characterizing infection by the Alpha lineage of Pasteuria ramosa in Daphnia magna
07.11
14.11 Georg Sloth (MSc student)
Tschopp Group, UniBas
Plastic responses to dietary changes in rat and quail livers
21.11 Pia Karbiener/Group III reps
PhD and Post Doc representative at the department meetings
28.11 Inés Piñero (MSc student)
Tschopp Group, UniBas
tbd
05.12 Christmas Aperol
12.12 Anaïs Schmidhauser (MSc student)
Salzburger Group, UniBas
tbd
19.12

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.

Master students are asked to present their thesis early on (2nd semester) in a talk structured in the format of a project proposal.

PhD students and Postdoc’s are invited to hold a short lecture about their favorite tool, method, or piece of software that they use regularly, to deepen our understanding of unfamiliar methods that might often be mentioned - but not explained in detail - in the Monday and Tuesdays seminars.

However, we will still offer you the opportunity to present problems or struggles and to ask for help and advice, since the seminar was born to address this need.

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 to 17:30 in the Seminarraum Dieter Ebert lab (1st floor, left side) of the:

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

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: Daniela Souza-Costa (daniela.souza@unibas.ch), Luca Pecalli (luca.pecalli@unibas.ch) or Fabio Sacher (fabio.sacher-at-unibas.ch).

Past Interaction Seminars