Research Seminars take place every Tuesday during term time at 12:15 to 13:30 in the small lecture hall of the Zoological Institute (Vesalgasse 1, first floor).
If not mentioned otherwise, speakers are from the Zoology Institute at Basel University.
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| -1 | 3. Feb 09 | Adam Petrusek, Prag University | Daphnia in canyon-shaped reservoirs: spatial distribution and hybridization affected by environmental gradients | D. Ebert |
| 0 | 10. Feb 09 | Cesar Metzger, Lausanne University | Testing the Competitive Exclusion Principle using various niche parameters in a native (Natrix maura) and an introduced (N. tessellata) colubrid | D. Ebert |
| 1 | 17. Feb 09 | Benjamin Lange | Host range evolution of a microsporidian parasite | D. Ebert |
| 2 | 24. Feb 09 | Thierry Lefevre, Uni. Montpellier, France | PARASITIC MANIPULATION inVECTOR-BORNE DISEASES | David Duneau |
| 3 | 3. Mar 09 | no seminar | (Basler Fasnacht) | - |
| 4 | 10. Mar 09 | no seminar (bloc-course) | - | |
| 5 | 17. Mar 09 | no seminar (bloc-course) | - | |
| 6 | 24. Mar 09 | no seminar (bloc-course) | - | |
| 7 | 31. Mar 09 | no seminar (bloc-course) | - | |
| 8 | 7. Apr 09 | Daniel Berner | The role of the (co)variance structure in adaptive diversification? insights from stickleback | W. Salzburger |
| 9 | 14. Apr 09 | Barbara Tschirren, Lund University, Sweden | Mothers matter: Evolutionary implications of maternal effects in birds | M. Kölliker |
| 10 | 21. Apr 09 | Harris Fienberg | Mendelian Genetics of Daphnia and the Development of a Novel Dahpnia Phagocytosis Assay | D. Ebert |
| 10 | Special
22. Apr 09, 14:00 |
Peter Wirtz, Madeira | The National Geographic expedition to Sao Tome Island - marine biology of the tropical eastern Atlantic | W. Salzburger |
| 11 | 28. Apr 09 | Jarkko Routtu | Mapping genes in Daphnia magna | D. Ebert |
| 12 | 5. May 09 | Tim Janicke | Behavioural and morphological responses to group size in a hermaphroditic flatworm | L. Schärer |
| 13 | 12. May 09 | . | . | . |
| 14 | 19. May 09 | Peter Sandner | How Macrostomum lignano responds to sperm competition and how paternity success can be predicted | L. Schärer |
| 15 | 26. May 09 | Adrian Indermaur | The evolution of trophic specialization in the Tanganyikan cichlid tribe Tropheini | W. Salzburger |
