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).
| Week | Date | Speaker | Title | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oct 23, 06 | no seminar | ||
| 2 | Oct 30, 06 | Thomas Wahli, Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Bern | The mystery of PKD (Proliferative Kidney Disease of Fish) | Patricia Holm |
| 3 | Nov 6, 06 | Dario Maestripieri, University of Chicago | Genetic and maternal effects on offspring behavioral development in RHESUS MACAQUES: what crossfostering studies can tell us about the evolution of primate behavior | Mathias Kölliker |
| 4 | Nov 13, 06 | Jens Rolff, Sheffield University | Ecological Immunity | Dieter Ebert |
| 5 | Nov 20, 06 | Barbara Hohn, FMI Basel | Influences of the environment on the dynamics of the plant genome | Dieter Ebert |
| 6 | Nov 27, 06 | Ueli Ochsenbein, BE-GBL-Gewässer- und Bodenschutzlabor | Pesticides in small rivers - origin and relevance | Patricia Holm |
| 7 | Dec 4, 06 | Marc Naguib, University Bielefeld | Effects of early developmental conditions on sexually selected traits and life history strategies in zebra finches | Valentin Amrhein |
| 8 | Dec 11, 06 | Volker Schmid | Cnidaria and the evolution of the basic bilaterian Bauplan | Dieter Ebert |
| 9 | Dec 18, 06 | Roland Roesch, Fischereiforschungsstelle des Landes Baden-Württemberg, Germany | Long-term trends in fisheries yield in the re-oligotrophicating Lake Constance (Bodensee) | Patricia Holm |
| 10 | Jan 8, 07 | Dirk Redecker, Basel | Underground networking: Environmental and evolutionary factors shaping communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi | Dieter Ebert |
| 11 | Jan 15, 07 | Wolfgang Nentwig, Zoologisches Institut, Uni Bern | Animal invasion - pathways and consequences | Patricia Holm |
| 12 | Jan 22, 07 | Bruno Frey, ETH Zürich | Publishing as Prostitution | Florian Altermatt, Th. Zumbrunn |
| 13 | Jan 29, 07 | Joris Koene, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam | Sperm competition and sexual selection in simultaneously hermaphroditic snails | Lukas Schärer |
| 14 | Feb 5, 07 | Camilla Hinde, University of Cambridge | Reproductive Investment in Great Tits | Mathias Kölliker |
| 15 | Feb 12, 07 | Arne Skorping, Uni. Bergen, Norway | Salmon lice in fish farms: large-scaled experiments on virulence evolution? | Dieter Ebert |
