The seminars take place every Monday during term time at 11:15 in the small lecture hall of the Zoological Institute (kleiner Hörsaal, Vesalgasse 1, 1st floor).
The seminars grayed out are the "Departements-Kolloquien" of the Department Umweltwissenschaften (DUW). They will take place on Tuesdays at 17:15 either in the lecture hall of the Geography-building at Klingelbergstrasse 27.
After the talk there will be an apero.
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21. 2. | no seminar | Blockkurs | |
| 2 | 28. 2. | Simon Sprecher, Fribourg | Seeing colors: how to specify color photoreceptors in Drosophila | Gudrun Viktorin |
| 3 | 7. 3. | Jörg Schibler, IPNA, University of Basel | Archaeozoology and Wetland Archaeology – Response strategies during climatic deterioration in Swiss Neolithic lakeshore settlements | Walter Salzburger |
| 4 | 14. 3. | Fasnacht | ||
| 5 | 21. 3. | Redouan Bshary, University of Neuchatel | Cooperation: diversity in nature and concepts | Mathias Kölliker |
| 6 | 28. 3. | Paul Brakefield, University of Cambridge, UK | Evolution on the butterfly wing | Walter Salzburger |
| DUW Colloq | Thur, 31.3 | Prof. Asmeret Berhe,
School of Natural Sciences, University of California Merced, USA |
Rainfall Characteristics and Critical Zone Organic Matter Dynamics
(Kolloquiumsvortrag zusammen mit den Current Topics in Geoscience) |
|
| 7 | 4. 4. | no seminar | Blockkurs | |
| 8 | 11. 4. | Janis Antonovics, University of Virginia and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin | Disease in marginal populations and its impact on range limits | Dieter Ebert |
| 9 | 18. 4. | Rufus Johnstone, University of Cambridge | Coordination and reciprocity in parental care | Mathias Kölliker |
| 10 | 25. 4. | Ostermontag | ||
| 11 | 2. 5. | Patricia Moore, Exeter/Cornwall | The cost of keeping eggs fresh: diet, social conditions and life history trade-offs in females | Mathias Kölliker |
| 12 | 9. 5. | Theo Bakker | On kin recognition and sexual selection | Walter Salzburger |
| DUW Colloq | 10.5 | Dr. Franz Conen,
Institut für Umweltgeowissenschaften |
Dust, bacteria & clouds | |
| 13 | 16. 5. | Tommaso Pizzari, University of Oxford | Sexual Selection and The Paradox of Promiscuity | Lukas Schärer |
| 14 | 23. 5. | Stefan Schuster, University of Bayreuth | Small systems for large tasks: lessons from fish brains | Walter Salzburger |
| 15 | 30. 5. | |||
