Seminar: Research in Evolutionary Biology

The "Research Seminar" of DUW Zoology

Spring Term 2025

Research Seminars take place every Tuesday during term time at 12:15 to 13:30. If not mentioned otherwise speakers are members of DUW Zoology.

The format of this seminar is variable. On most dates we will meet in person, at times it may 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.

For the new credit point regulation, see below!

Week Date Speaker Title Format Host
1 18. 2. Alessio Brait Survival of a crustacean subjected to an abrupt salinity change in person dieter ebert
2 25. 2. Noah Meier Undiscovered wasps and where to find them - Species richness estimation of Afrotropical Darwin wasps (Ichneumonidae, Hymenoptera) in person Walter Salzburger
3 4. 3. Fränzi Nievergelt From data to decisions in wildlife management and research in person Valentin Amrhein
4 11. 3. Basler Fasnacht
5 18. 3. Aurelia Wolf tba in person Fabrizia Ronco
6 25. 3. Nathalie Matthey-de-l'Endroit tba in person Daniel Berner
7 1. 4. Nikolaos Lampadaridis tba in person dieter ebert
8 8. 4. Svenja Conrad tba in person dieter ebert
9 15. 4. Georg Sloth tba in person Patrick Tschopp
10 22. 4. Junyi Yang tba in person Daniel Berner
11 29. 4.
12 6. 5. Jahn Ringger Historical sediment reveals a time-series of antagonistic coevolution in a model host-parasite system in person dieter ebert
13 13. 5. Luca Pecalli tba in person dieter ebert
14 20. 5. Anaïs Schmidhauser tba in person Walter Salzburger
15 27. 5.

Credit points

The seminar is open to all members of zoology and all Master students. For students in a BSc program the succesful completion of the following first year biology lectures is required: Bau und Vielfalt der Tiere (10316-01), Evolutionsbiologie (10575-01) und Ökologie und Naturschutzbiologie (10234-01).

To obtain credit points for participation in this seminar, it is necessary to 1) attend the seminar regulary (sign the list) and 2) take part in at least 4 of the 5 post-seminar discussions (about 30 minutes). The seminars where the name of the speaker is printed in bold type and marked with * will have a post-seminar discussion. During these discussions the quality of the talk will be discussed (in the obligatory absense of the speaker). The speaker will later receive feedback from one participant of the discussion. The days with post-seminar discussions will be announced after most slots of the seminar are filled.

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