Research events

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)

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

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.

We welcome you all to the launch of the book "Evolutionary Genetics - Concepts, Analysis, and Practice" written by Glenn-Peter Sætre and Mark Ravinet. The book is published by Oxford University Press.

MSc Pernille Nilsson at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis The evolutionary arms race between plague and great gerbil – burrowing into host resistance for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Pernille Nilsson at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Evolutionary processes driving host-parasite coevolution.

Lecture titles: "On the malleability of proteins and the emergence of novel function" and "Evolutionary trade-offs in the adaptive immune system shape genomic diversity of the MHC"

Late Lunch Talk by Martina Visnovska

MSc Even Sannes Riiser at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Spilling the guts: Investigations of the Atlantic cod intestinal microbiome for the degree of PhD.

Doctoral candidate MSc Even Sannes Riiser at Department of Biosciences will give a trial lecture on the given topic: Is the concept of the holobiont a fundamental evolutionary principle, or just another science fad?

Title: The role of environmental factors in shaping the population structure of anaerobic subsurface microorganisms.

Camilla Nesbø, Research associate, University of Toronto ​

Title: Antibiotic resistance, transmission and population genomics of the Klebsiella genus

Edward Feil, Professor, University of Bath

Combining computational and experimental approaches, MIT-Professor Christopher Voigt has made outstanding contributions to the fields of synthetic biology and biological engineering. 

Late Lunch Talk by Daniel Hooper

By Mark J. Costello from the Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand

MSc Leonie Färber at Department of Biosciences will be defending the thesis Understanding population dynamics and variability in fish stocks in response to fishing pressure and climate chang for the degree of PhD.