Extra seminars

By Geir Ottersen, Institute of Marine Research and CEES, Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo

Tuesday October 29th the Tangled Bank Seminar will be given by Carl Simpson on "How colonial animals evolve".

Lectures on: "Harnessing natural diversity to discover the rules of flower color evolution" and "Possible bias toward micro- and macroevolutionary conservation by developmental systems"

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

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

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

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.]

By Gabor Foldvari, Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest

Principal Investigator Jay F Storz, University of Nebraska.

By Dieter Ebert, Universität Basel, Switzerland

By Dr. Adam Philippy, National Human Genome Research Institute

By Filip Volckaert from the University of Leuven

By Mats Gyllenberg from the University of Helsinki