The seminars take place every Monday during term time at 11:15
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 | 16.2. | Block Course Week 1 | No Seminar | ||
| 2 | 23.2. | Basler Fasnacht | |||
| 3 | 2.3. | Block Course Week 2: Margarida Cardoso Moreira, The Francis Crick Institute | The evolution of new vertebrate cell types and organs | in person | Patrick Tschopp |
| 4 | 9.3. | Block Course Week 3: Raphaela Heesen, U Konstanz | Understanding togetherness: Exploring the evolutionary, developmental and cultural foundations of human interaction through comparative primate research | online | Daniel Berner |
| 5 | 16.3. | Block Course Week 4: Catalina Chaparro, EAWAG/U Basel | tba | in person | Walter Salzburger |
| 6 | 23.3. | Block Course Week 5: Elena Jovanovska, U Basel | tba | in person | Walter Salzburger |
| 7 | 30.3. | Block Course Week 6: Florian Altermatt, U Zurich | Utilising aquatic environmental DNA to address local to global biodiversity targets | in person | dieter ebert |
| 8 | 6.4. | Easter Monday | No Seminar | ||
| 9 | 13.4. | Jerome Gippet, U Fribourg | tba | in person | Daniel Berner |
| 10 | 20.4. | Marcel Keller, U Basel | A history of the second plague pandemic reconstructed from ancient Yersinia pestis genomes | in person | dieter ebert |
| 11 | 27.4. | ||||
| 12 | 4.5. | ||||
| 13 | 11.5. | ||||
| 14 | 18.5. | Marta Riutort, University of Barcelona | tba | in person | Jeremias Brand, Alejandro Catala Jimenez |
* 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.
