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 | 15.9. | Andrew Hendry, McGill University, Montreal | Eco-evolutionary dynamics: experiments with stickleback in nature | online | Daniel Berner |
| 2 | 22.9. | Catalina Chaparro, EAWAG | Ecological resilience and the speed of adaptive evolution in a changing world | in person | Walter Salzburger |
| 3 | 29.9. | ||||
| 4 | 6.10. | Clemens Küpper, MPI for Biological Intelligence | Evolutionary opportunities and the diversification of reproductive strategies | in person | Patrick Tschopp, Walter Salzburger |
| 5 | 13.10. | ||||
| 6 | 20.10. | Alejandro Martínez, Water Research Institute (IRSA), National Research Council of Italy (CNR) | Microscopic animals in caves and sand interstices as models for ecology and evolution | in person | Jeremias Brand |
| 7 | 27.10. | Jeremias Brand | From asexuality to mating syndromes: The evolution of reproduction in flatworms | in person | Lukas Schärer |
| 8 | 3.11. | Patrick Rohner, UC San Diego | Eco-Evo-Devo perspectives on phenotypic variation: How plasticity, developmental bias, and symbionts shape evolution | online | Patrick Tschopp |
| 9 | 10.11. | Jordi Bascompte, U Zurich | The architecture of Biodiversity | in person | dieter ebert |
| 11 | 17.11. | Oscar Puebla, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research, Bremen | The biology of a rapid marine radiation | in person | Lukas Schärer |
| 10 | 24.11. | ||||
| 12 | 1.12. | Ludwik Gąsiorowski, University of Warsaw | Worms in chains: Ecology and development of asexual reproduction in microscopic flatworms | in person | Jeremias Brand |
| 13 | 8.12. | Daniel Ibrahim, MPI MolGen, Berlin | Functional and sequence conservation of regulatory elements and regulatory domains across large evolutionary distances | in person | Patrick Tschopp |
| 14 | 15.12. | Christopher Laumer, Natural History Museum, London | A biodiversity genomics toolkit for Earth’s smallest metazoans | in person | Lukas Schärer |
* 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.
