Time and venue, Friday 1pm, Zoology Lecture Theatre, unless stated.
SBS/IBES SEMINARS
October 12th 2012
Professor Guy Poppy
University of Southampton
"How can science allow us to close the gap between food security and other ecosystem services?"
Host: Liz Baggs
October 19th 2012
Dr Alistair Jump
Stirling University
Title: Impacts of rapid climate change and extreme events on tree growth and competition in temperate forest
Host: David Johnson
October 26th 2012
Prof Alexandre Buttler
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
"Impact of climate change on Swiss mountain ecosystems: from altitudinal gradient analysis to monolith transplantation and active OTC warming"
Host: David Johnson
November 2nd 2012
Dr Nick Royle
University of Exeter at Falmouth
'The evolution of parental care'
Host: Colin Selman
November 9th 2012
November 16th 2012
Dr Kyle Dexter
RBG Edinburgh
"The Assembly of Tropical Tree Communities"
Host: David Burslem
November 23rd 2012
Dr Michael Brockhurst
University of York
'Experimental coevolution of bacteria with their phages and plasmids'
Host: Graeme Nicol
November 30th 2012
Prof. Susan Schwinning
Texas State University
"The ecohydrology of roots in rocks"
Host: David Robinson
December 7th 2012
SBS/IBES Research Day
Kings conference Centre
December 14th 2012
Prof Tracey Chapman
University of East Anglia
Title: 'Molecules and mating: insights from mechanisms underlying sexual selection and sexual conflict'
Host: David Hazlerigg
February 1st 2013
Dr Tom Pizzari CANCELLED
University of Oxford
Host: Stuart Piertney
February 8th 2013
Professor Craig Primmer
University of Turku, Finland
"Annotated genes and non-annotated genomes: use of model organism gene annotation information in ecology and evolution research"
Host: Sam Martin
February 15th 2013
Prof. Jim Prosser, OBE
University of Aberdeen
'Archaeal Ammonia Oxidisers in Soil: why should we care?'
Followed by a celebratory drinks reception at 4:30pm in the Zoology Foyer - all welcome!
February 22nd 2013
Dr Paula Stockley
University of Liverpool
'Postcopulatory sexual selection in mammals'
Host: Sylvain Losdat
Tuesday February 26th 2013
Dr Otso Ovaskainen
University of Helsinki
'Roots and associated fungi drive long-term carbon sequestration in boreal forests'
Host: Xavier Lambin
TUESDAY, 1pm, in Cruickshank G08
March 8th 2013
Still free
March 15th 2013
Dr Michael Berenbrink
University of Liverpool
Title tbc
Host: Dan Macqueen
March 22nd 2013
Still free
March 25th & 26th 2013
3rd year PhD symposium
April 19th 2013
Dr Uta Paszkowski
Cambridge University
Host: David Johnson
April 26th 2013
Dr Sue Ward
Lancaster University
Effects of vegetation and climate on peatland carbon cycling
Host: David Johnson
May 3rd 2013
Still free
May 10th 2013
Prof Frithjof Kuepper
University of Aberdeen
"Iodide in kelp: An inorganic antioxidant in a living system impacting atmospheric processes"
May 17th 2013
Still free
October 25th 2013
Dr Franciska De Vries
Manchester University
Host: David Johnson
See list of seminars from the 2009-2010 Academic Year