(Version: 21.08.2008)
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).
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 16. Sep 08 | Karen Falsone, Vogelwarte and Uni Basel | Effect of endurance flight on corticosterone levels in passerine birds during autumn migration | D. Ebert |
| 2 | 23. Sep 08 | Bronwyn Heather Bleakley (University of Exeter, Cornwall) | Cooperation and cannibalism: Evolution of social behaviour through indirect genetic effects | M. Kölliker |
| 3 | 30. Sep 08 | Michael Matschiner, Uni Basel | Gene flow in Antarctic fishes | W. Salzburger |
| 4 | 7. Oct 08 | Karen Haag, Uni Basel | Reduced levels of polymorphism in the O. bayeri genome | D. Ebert |
| 5 | 14. Oct 08 | Katja Saggese, Basel and Oslo | The influence of winter feeding on territorial behaviour in the great tit. | V. Amrhein |
| 6 | 21. Oct 08 | Tobias Roth, Uni Basel | Signalling patterns match receivers’ sampling behaviour in the nightingale | V. Amrhein |
| 7 | 28. Oct 08 | Nicole Kalberer, Basel | Dispersal, its influence on reproduction and host plant recognition in an alpine leaf beetle | M. Kölliker |
| 8 | 4. Nov 08 | Moritz Muschick, Uni Basel | Parallelism in pharyngeal jaws of cichlid fishes from Lake Tanganyika, East Africa | W. Salzburger |
| 9 | 11. Nov 08 | Flore Mas, Uni. Basel | Cancelled; new date: Wed, 26.11.08, at 15:15 | M. Kölliker |
| 10 | 18. Nov 08 | Claudio Kugler, Uni. Basel | V. Amrhein | |
| 11 | 25. Nov 08 | Kiyono Sekii, Uni Basel and Uni Insbruck | Experimental tests of sex allocation theory using the RNAi-knockdown approach | L. Schaerer |
| 12 | 26. Nov 08, Wed, 15:15 | Flore Mas, Uni. Basel | The smell of need & parental investment in the common european earwig. | M. Kölliker |
| 13 | 2. Dec 08 | David Duneau, Uni Basel | Males versus females versus parasites | D. Ebert |
| 14 | 9. Dec 08 | W. Salzburger, Uni Basel | Sequence first, ask questions later... | W. Salzburger |
| 15 | 16. Dec 08 | Sylvia Martinez, Botanisches Institut, Basel | Doing research with biological material from abroad | D. Ebert |
