2010-2011 and 2011-2012 Academic Years
Dr Steve Kelly
Department of Plant Sciences and the William Dunn School of Pathology,
University of Oxford. link
Host : Prof. Jim Prosser
Sept 3rd, 2010
Prof. Peter Smith, Royal Society-Wolfson Professor of Soils & Global Change
Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen...link
Host: IBES Early-Career Biology Researcher Association...link
Oct 1st, 2010 - Special seminar
Prof. Peter McCaffery - POSTPONED - TO BE RE-SCHEDULED!
Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen
Host: Prof. David Hazlerigg and Dr. Nimesh Mody
Oct 8th, 2010
Dr Richard Kobe
Michigan State University
Mechanisms regulating tree species composition in temperate and tropical forests
Host: David Burslem
Oct 15th, 2010
Dr Kim Parsons
Examining the structure of Killer Whale stocks in the north Pacific
National Marine Mammal Lab, Seattle
Host: Paul Thompson
Oct 22nd, 2010
Dr Giles Budge
National Bee Unit, The Food and Environment Research Agency, Sand Hutton, York
"The decline of the honey bee: context, causes and curve balls."
Host: Dr. Alan Bowman
Oct 29th, 2010
Dr Bob O'Hara
Frankfurt
Crawling towards the where and when of species distributions
Host: Xavier Lambin
Nov 5th, 2010
Prof Tim Birkhead
University of Sheffield
'Darwin and Post-copulatory Sexual Selection'
Host: Jane Reid & John Speakman
Nov 12th, 2010
Dr Richard Lindsay - Postponed - Nov 19th, 2010
University of East London
'Peatbogs and Carbon: the music of the mires'
Host: Sarah Woodin
Dr Andrew Goryachev
Centre for Systems Biology, University of Edinburgh
Protein clusters of cell polarity: Mechanisms and models
Host: Dr. Michael Williams
Nov 26th, 2010
Dr Matthew Evans - Postponed - Dec 3rd, 2010
University of Exeter in Falmouth
'Forecasting for ecological systems under environmental change'
Host: Prof Steve Redpath
IBES Research Day - Dec 10th, 2010
- King's Conference Centre, King's College, Unverisity of Aberdeen
- 9 internal speakers from across the research themes, poster session and sandwich lunch.
- download programme here
Dr David Johnson
Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen...link
Host: IBES Early-Career Biology Researcher Association...link
Dec 17th, 2010 - research & career special seminar
Prof Roberto Braga
University of Lavras, Brazil, link
'Optical Metrology of Biosystems'
Prof Braga is a specialist in biospeckle, the use of laser interference patterns to measure levels of biological activity in plant and animal material.
Host : Graham Horgan
Jan 28th, 2011
Prof David Hazlerigg
Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen...link
Host: IBES Early-Career Biology Researchers Association...link
Feb 4th, 2011 - research & career special seminar
Dr Matthew Evans
University of Exeter in Falmouth
'Forecasting for ecological systems under environmental change'
Host: Prof Steve Redpath
Feb 11th, 2011
Dr. David Pond
British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge
'Copepods regulate buoyancy like sperm whales'
Host: Dan Mayor
Feb 25th, 2011
Prof. Claire Halpin
University of Dundee, link
Host: Prof. Liz Baggs, Biological Interactions in Soils
Mar 11th, 2011
Mar 18th, 2011
Dr Richard Lindsay University of East London
"Peatbogs and Carbon: the music of the mires"
Host: Sarah Woodin
Mar 25th, 2011
Dr Philip Stephens University of Durham
"Life history optimisation and seal breeding strategies"
Host: Xavier Lambin
Mar 30th, 2011
Biological Interactions in Soils Easter Conference
Host: Biological Interactions in Soils theme, IBES
Mar 31th, 2011
Ecology Research Day
Host: Ecology theme, IBES
May 6th, 2011
Dr Tom Oliver Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
"Landscape structure and population resilience"
Host: Justin Travis
May 13th, 2011
Dr. Jeffrey A. Stuart Dept. of Biological Sciences, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada
Host : Dr Colin Selman, Integrative Physiology
May 20th, 2011 - Joint IBES-ACES seminar
Prof. Iain Gordon James Hutton Institute link
"Linking Land and Ocean - Managing Agriculture to Protect Australia's Great Barrier Reef"
Host: Steve Redpath
June 3rd, 2011
Prof. David Macdonald
Professor of Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen
"The petroleum potential of polar regions: a climate zone too far?"
Host: Pete Smith
June 17th, 2011
Prof. Jian Feng Ma
Research Institute for Bioresources, Okayama University, Japan
Provisional title : Silicic acid transporters in rice
Jian Feng Ma is a leading Plant Physiologist with a look list of publications in Nature, PNAS etc. on rice nutrient and toxicant transporters – he discovered and characterised silicic acid transporters, aquaglycerolporins, in rice, and then made the link between these and high rates of arsenic assimilation.
Host: Prof. Andy Meharg
New Discovery Gallery Series
- @ Aberdeen Art Gallery
June 30th, 2011
Dr. Alan Bowman
Institute of Biological & Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen
'The Problems With Our Bees'
Albert Einstein famously commented that if the bee disappears, Man would have no more than four years to live. Why are our bees dying and what can we do about it?
July 28th, 2011
Prof. Monty Priede
Director of Oceanlab, University of Aberdeen
'How Deep Can Fish Go?'
Fishes have occupied the world’s oceans for atleast 400 million years but only in the last 70 million have they invaded the deep. Find out more about these hidden wonders of our natural world.
University of Aberdeen news:
- Bee insight and wildlife photography on offer at new event (30 Jun 11)
How deep can fish go? (27 Jul 11)
4th International IUPAC Symposium for Trace Elements in Food (TEF-4)
King's College, Aberdeen, 19-22 June 2011
Link to TEF-4 website
Link to University of Aberdeen news
Aug 22-24th 2011, Aberdeen.
ACES 2011: Conservation Conflicts
- strategies for coping with a changing world.
University of Aberdeen news -
Leading scientists work together to tackle conservation conflict (5 Apr 11)
Sept 26-30th 2011, Aberdeen
World Conference on Marine Biodiversity 2011
Short videos now available for viewing (30 days only, from 12-Oct-11)
University of Aberdeen news -
Marine biodiversity and ocean ecosystems under scrutiny at key conference (01 Aug 11)
SBS/IBES SEMINARS
October 7th 2011
Dr Sarah Cleaveland
University of Glasgow
"Controlling viral infections in the Serengeti: impacts and implications for ecosystem health"
Host: Sandra Telfer
November 4th 2011
Dr Lisa DeBruine
University of Aberdeen
"Human kin recognition and facial phenotype matching"
Host: Jane Reid
November 11th 2011
Dr. Mikko Heino
University of Bergen
"Shrinking cod: Plasticity or genetics?"
Host: Tara Marshall
November 18th 2011
Prof. Xavier Lambin
University of Aberdeen
"Trophic interactions in metapopulations: voles, plants, ecto-parasites, invasive American mink and people"
November 25th 2011
Professor Victor Brovkin
Max Planck Institute - Hamburg
Title: Terrestrial biosphere modelling: progress with the land surface model JSBACH
Host: Pete Smith
Thursday December 1st 2011
Professor Herbert Prins
University of Wageningen
"Grazing Lawns: On Hares and Rhinos"
Hosts: Rene van der Wal & Xavier Lambin
December 9th 2011
SBS RESEARCH DAY
Kings Conference Centre, Old Aberdeen
Invited speakers : Prof. Colin Jahoda (University of Durham)‘A few strands of hair follicle biology – regeneration, restoration and regulation’
Prof. Jonathan Silvertown (Open University) ‘Hydrological niches in plant communities’ .....cancelled due to bad weather
Opening by Principle Prof. Ian Diamond, poster session and sandwich lunch. Download programme here
2012
January 27th 2012
Dr. Peter Doerner
University of Edinburgh, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences
"Phosphate signalling and root growth behaviour"
Host: Dr. Adam Price
February 3rd 2012
Dr Nick Foulkes
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
"Circadian Clocks and Photoreception: Lessons from Fish"
Host: Dr David Hazlerigg
February 10th 2012
Dr Tom Webb
University of Sheffield
'Challenge & Opportunity in Marine Macroecology'
Host: Beth Scott
February 17th 2012
Prof Mike Boots
University of Exeter at Falmouth
"Modelling the ecology and evolution of infectious disease: Parasites in space, Squirrels and Red Kings"
Host: Stuart Piertney
February 24th 2012
Dr Wendy Gentleman
Dalhousie University
Title "Investigating scallop population connectivity using physical-biological modelling"
Host: Dan Mayor
March 2nd 2012
Dr Adam Price
University of Aberdeen
"Genetic mapping in rice- where has 20 years got us and what's new?"
March 16th 2012
Jane Reid, Aberdeen
The deception of monogamy: genetic variation, selection and evolution of reproductive systems in the wild
March 23rd 2012 -
Dr Freya St John, University of Kent.
Investigating illegal activities in conservation
Host: Steve Redpath
April 20th 2012
Dr Lucy Webster
Wildlife DNA Forensics, Diagnostics & Molecular Biology Section,Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA)
"Blood, sweat and deer(s): using animal DNA evidence to aid wildlife crime investigation"
Host: John Baird
April 27th 2012
Prof Andrew Cockburn
Australian National University, Canberra
"Swingin’ in the rain: the genetics and ecology of female mate choice in a complex world"
Host: Jane Reid