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 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
'Evolution of mammalian diving capacity traced by myoglobin net charge'
Host: Dan Macqueen
March 22nd 2013
Prof Paul Rodhouse
British Antarctic Survey
"Marine Science and the UK Flagship"
Host: Ursula Witte
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
Dr Tom Pizzari
University of Oxford
"Sex and the chicken: the evolutionary ecology of promiscuity"
Host: Stuart Piertney
May 10th 2013
Still free
May 17th 2013
Prof Frithjof Kuepper
University of Aberdeen
"Iodide in kelp: An inorganic antioxidant in a living system impacting atmospheric processes"
October 25th 2013
Dr Franciska De Vries
Manchester University
Host: David Johnson
See list of seminars from the 2009-2010 Academic Year