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 Zoological Institute of Basel University.
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21.9. | Elham Sheikhjabbari | Hatching success of Daphnia resting eggs: size, shape and parasites | D. Ebert |
2 |
28.9. | Hugo Gante | Evolution of Iberian Barbus: Species boundaries and interspecific gene flow | W. Salzburger |
| 3 | 5.10. | Pepijn Luijckx | Specificity of the parasite P.ramosa for its Daphnia host within and between different species of Daphnia | D. Ebert |
| 4 | 12.10. | Anya Theis | The function of eggspots in a haplochromine cichlid | W. Salzburger |
| 5 | 19.10. | Sereina Rutschmann | Ecological diversification in Antarctic notothenioid fishes | W. Salzburger |
| 6 | 26.10. | Emilia Santos | Alternative splicing and gene duplication in the evolution of the FoxP gene sub-family | W. Salzburger |
| 7 | 2.11. | Luis-Miguel Chevin, Imperial College London | Some evolutionary demographic consequences of phenotypic plasticity | N. Boileau |
| 8 | 9.11. | Lobke Dillen, University of Antwerp | The hermaphroditic land snail Succinea putris as a model system to study sexual selection, sexual conflict and sex allocation | Lukas Schärer |
| 9 | 16.11. | Eveline Diepeveen | The endothelin family; candidate genes for naturally and sexually traits in cichlids | W. Salzburger |
| 10 | 23.11. | Matthew Hall | Evolutionary genetics of complex traits: from g-max to genomes | D. Ebert |
| 11 | 30.11. | Joel Meunier | The evolution of sociality: from nestmate recognition in ants, to alternative life-history traits in earwigs | M. Kölliker |
| 12 | 7.12. | Halil Kesselring, Uni. Basel and Uni. Queensland | Offspring size and its effect on fitness in a marine tube worm | D. Ebert, W. Salzburger |
| 13 | 14.12. | Britta Meyer | The evolutionary history of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid fish assemblage - from gene genealogies and gene trees to the species tree | W. Salzburger |
| 14 | 21.12. | Janine Wong | Maternal care and dispersal from the nest in the European earwig | M. Kölliker |
