Research events

Late Lunch Talk by Michael Maxwell

Late Lunch Talk by Kristin Hook

Two guest lectures on global seabird conservation, and population-level responses to pollutants in polar seabirds

TGAC has been revived and we will again meet up to discuss interesting science. First up is this very interesting paper by Therkildsen et al. 2019 in Science

MSc Norith Eckbo at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis "The narratives of conservation in ecotoxicology: vulnerability and suspectibility to contaminants in polar seabirds" for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Norith Eckbo at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Plastic in the ocean: how serious is the threat?

MSc Katharine Rose Dean at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis The epidemiology of plague in Europe: inferring transmission dynamics from historical data for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Katharine Rose Dean at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Yersinia pestis virulence evolution.

By Jun Kitano from National Institute of Genetics, Japan

A startup meeting regarding the theme "Evolvability: A new and unifying concept in evolutionary biology?". Focusing on refining and redefining the "key questions" about evolvability.

MSc Chloé Rebecca Nater at the Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Impacts of harvesting, hydropower, and stocking on a size-structured population of brown trout for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Chloé Rebecca Nater at the Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Does individual heterogeneity matter? Predicting global change effects on populations along a life history continuum.

By Stéphanie Jenouvrier from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (USA) and Centre d’études Biologiques de Chizé (France)

IBV hosts six guest lectures in Bioinformatics on Tuesday June 25th and Thursday June 27th. 

Lecture titles: "Reconstructing the ancestral organisation of genomes to shed light on their evolution" and "Repeated signatures of local selection across salmonid populations"

IBV hosts six guest lectures in Bioinformatics on Tuesday June 25th and Thursday June 27th. 

MSc Srinidhi Varadharajan at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Comparative genomics in teleost fish: Insights into forces driving genome evolution for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Srinidhi Varadharajan at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Genome assembly: An introduction to its challenges.

Meeting for the CEES Core members

By Michael Ghil from Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, and University of California, Los Angeles

MSc Tonje Knutsen Sørdalen at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis: Marine reserves and selective fishing shape mating behaviour, secondary sexual trait and growth in European lobster.

Doctoral candidate MSc Tonje Knutsen Sørdalen at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: The role of sexual selection in conservation biology.