The seminars usually 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).
siehe auch: Online Vorlesungsverzeichnis
| Week | Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18.2. | no seminar | ||
| 2 | 25.2. | Block Course Seminar: Gray Camp, IOB | Reconstructing uniquely human development with single-cell genomics | Walter Salzburger |
| 3 | 4.3. | Block Course Seminar: Sarah Schaack, Reed College, Oregon, USA | The Ultimate Source: Empirical Explorations of Fundamental Questions in Mutation Biology | Dieter Ebert |
| 4 | 11.3. | (Basler Fasnacht) | ||
| 5 | 18.3. | Block Course Seminar: Michael Taborsky, University of Bern | Reciprocal altruism in animals | Valentin Amrhein, Walter Salzburger |
| 6 | 25.3. | Block Course Seminar: Luc Bussière, Stirling University | Exploiting theory on mate choice evolution to make agricultural landscapes more sustainable | Lukas Schärer |
| 7 | 1.4. | Block Course Seminar: Marie Manceau, Collège de France, Paris, France | Formation of periodic patterns in birds | Patrick Tschopp |
| 8 | 8.4. | Elizabeth Sibert, Harvard University | 85 million years of fish in the sea: microfossils, mass extinctions, and global change | Walter Salzburger, Moritz Muschick |
| 9 | 15.4. | Jordi Paps, University of Bristol, UK | Reconstruction of ancestral genomes reveal genome dynamics in major evolutionary transitions | Jeremias Brand, Lukas Schärer |
| 10 | 22.4. | Easter Monday | ||
| 11 | 29.4. | Mike Wade, Indiana University and Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin | Nature, Nurture and the Nurturers | Dieter Ebert |
| 12 | 6.5. | Thomas Frölicher, Universität Bern | Ocean extreme events and their impacts on marine ecosystems | Jonathon Stillman |
| 13 | 13.5. | Stephan Peischl, University of Bern | Genetic drift, natural selection and dispersal evolution during range expansions | Daniel Berner |
| 14 | 20.5. | Dieter Thomas Tietze, Naturhistorisches Museum Basel | Song evolution in passerine birds | Valentin Amrhein |
| 15 | 27.5. | Joshua Payne, ETH Zürich | Empirical genotype-phenotype maps of transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation | Patrick Tschopp |
To obtain credit points for participation in the “Institutskolloquium Zoologie” it is necessary to attend the seminar regularly (sign the list after the seminar) and to write an essay about one of the seminars. Any seminar (except the last two in the term) can be chosen. The essay should be about 3 pages long und should be written in the style of a report/summary of the presentation. It should also include the main points of the discussion. We prefer essays in English. The essay should be handed in (as a file and in printed form) to the host of the seminar speaker (as listed on the webpage). The host of this particular seminar will then send an email to the person responsible for the credit points of the seminar, informing him whether the essay was acceptable or not. An unacceptable essay can be repeated on another occasion. Deadline for handing the essay in is the last seminar of the term.
It is possible to obtain credit points for the Institutskolloqium more than once.
