The seminars take place every Monday during term time at 16:15
The format of this seminar is variable. On some dates we will meet in person, at other dates the format will be online (via zoom). Seminars in person take place in the small lecture hall of Zoology (kleiner Hörsaal, Vesalgasse 1, 1st floor). Please check the table below about the format of specific dates. A zoom link (online events) will be communicated to all members of zoology and to everybody registered for the seminar in the week before the seminar starts.
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title* | Format | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18.9. | ||||
| 2 | 25.9. | Verena Schuenemann, U Basel | Past Pandemics and One Health: First insights on medieval rodents as animal reservoirs for plague and leprosy | in person | dieter ebert |
| 3 | 2.10. | ||||
| 4 | 9.10. | Wen-Juan Ma | Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics of Homomorphic Sex Chromosomes and Sex Determination | in person | Walter Salzburger |
| 5 | 16.10. | ||||
| 6 | 23.10. | Jason Kolbe, University of Rhode Island | Waiting For The Hurricane: evolution, extinction and eco-evolutionary dynamics in Caribbean Anolis lizards | online | Daniel Berner |
| 7 | 30.10. | Nicolas Salamin | Evolutionary modelling and big data to understand species and traits diversification | in person | Seraina Klopfstein |
| 8 | 6.11. | Robert Unckless, U Kansas | Pleiotropy and the maintenance of genetic variation in Drosophila immune genes | online | dieter ebert |
| 9 | 13.11. | Thibaut Brunet, Institut Pasteur | The evolutionary origin of animal development: insights from choanoflagellates | in person | Alisha May |
| 11 | 20.11. | Eric Warrant, Lund University | Australian Bogong moths use the stars and the Earth’s magnetic field as compasses for long-distance navigation at night | online | Nathalie Matthey |
| 10 | 27.11. | Peter Walentek, U Freiburg | Evolution and adaptation of airway-like mucociliary epithelia across species, germ layers and organs | in person | Patrick Tschopp |
| 12 | 4.12. | Alex Hall, ETH | Drivers of bacterial invasion in human microbiomes | in person | dieter ebert |
| 13 | 11.12. | Nandan Nerurkar, Columbia University | Mechanobiology of vertebrate gut morphogenesis | online | Patrick Tschopp |
| 14 | 18.12. | William Rice, UC Santa Barbara | The fundamental disorder/reorder cycle of life and its significance to the evolution of senescence and genetic recombination | online | Daniel Berner |
* tba: to be anounced
To obtain credit points for participation in this seminar, it is necessary to attend the seminar regularly (attendance will be recorded from the online log-ins) 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 a summary of 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), who will go over it and return it to you with comments. 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.
It is possible to obtain credit points for the Institutskolloqium more than once. To do so, a study contract (Studienvertrag) has to be produced, which needs to be approved by Dieter Ebert at the beginning of the term.
