In the spring term the seminars usually take place every Monday at 11:15 in the Small Lecture hall (Kleiner Hörsaal) of Zoology or online. The seminar has a flexible format. On some dates we will meet in person, at other dates the seminar will be online (via zoom). Please check the table below about the format for specific dates. A zoom link (online events) will be communicated to all members of zoology and to everybody registered for the seminar.
| Week | Date | Speaker, Affiliation | Title* | Format* | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17.2. | NO SEMINAR! | |||
| 2 | 24.2. | BLOCKCOURSE: Stefanie Muff, University Trondheim, Norway | P-values, confidence intervals, and significance testing: navigating the minefield when communicating findings | online | Valentin Amrhein |
| 3 | 3.3. | BLOCKCOURSE: Berta Verd, University of Oxford | Evolution and evolvability of vertebral counts | in person | Patrick Tschopp |
| 4 | 10.3. | Basler Fasnacht | |||
| 5 | 17.3. | BLOCKCOURSE: Ricardo Pereira, Natural History Museum Stuttgart | What the Pyrenean hybrid zone of grasshoppers taught us about species formation and their persistence | in person | Daniel Berner |
| 6 | 24.3. | BLOCKCOURSE: Thomas Flatt, University of Fribourg | Inversions and the Hunt for the Genomic Targets of Selection | in person | Lukas Schärer, dieter ebert |
| 7 | 31.3. | BLOCKCOURSE: Adele Mennerat, University of Bergen, Norway | Aquaculture-induced evolution of salmon lice: how a parasite adapts to fish farming | in person | dieter ebert |
| 8 | 7.4. | ||||
| 9 | 14.4. | Helene Morlon, CNRS, Paris | Exploring Speciation: How and Why Rates Vary Across Lineages | in person | Walter Salzburger |
| 10 | 21.4. | EASTER | |||
| 11 | 28.4. | ||||
| 12 | 5.5. | Felix Liechti, Universität Basel | Monitoring aerial biodiversity | in person | Valentin Amrhein |
| 13 | 12.5. | Andrew Storfer, Washington State University | Coevolutionary genomics of Tasmanian devils and their facial tumor disease: from genes to ecosystems | in person | dieter ebert |
| 14 | 19.5. | Christoph Liedtke, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Spain | Go dark, go large, or get out: the transcriptomic playbook for tadpole survival | in person | Carlos Herrera Castillo |
| 15 | 26.5. | Mariana Nery, State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil | The evolutionary history of whales told by their genes | in person | Elisa Ramos |
* tba: to be anounced
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 "Current Topics in Zoology and Evolution" (the Institutskolloquium Zoologie) it is necessary to attend the seminar regularly (sign the list after the seminar) and to write an essay/summary about one of the seminars and its discussion. 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.
