Guest lectures

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

By Jun Kitano from National Institute of Genetics, Japan

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"

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

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"

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. 

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

By Bezawork Afework and Afework Bekele from Department of Zoological Sciences (DZS) at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia

By Rob Salguero-Gomez from Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, U.K.

By Rubao Ji from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, U.S.

Marine Group/CEES Extra seminar by Kirstin Meyer-Kaiser

CEES Extra seminar by Love Dalén, Swedish Museum for Natural History, Stockholm

By Lukas Keller, University of Zurich

By Trevor Price from University of Chicago

By Lydia V. Luncz, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Friday seminar by Robert Serrouya from Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute, Edmonton, Canada

By Brian O’Neill from the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, USA

By Scott A. Taylor from University of Colorado Boulder

By Steve Chenoweth from the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia, and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsala, Sweden

By Gene Hunt from the Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, USA.

By Folmer Bokma from Umeå University, Sweden 

Speakers: Eörs Szathmáry, Ferenc Jordan, and András Báldi. [Update: Gabor Foldvari's talk on "Urban ecology of tick-borne diseases: how to anticipate?" has been moved to Wednesday 25 April.]