Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences

Annette Fayet (Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants.

Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments

Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections

Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms

Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Origins and extinctions of early vertebrates: a story of ecology, phylogeny, and the fossil record

Rob Sansom (University of Manchester).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Ode to the masalai: New Guinea as a crucible for evolution in plants and insects

Simon Segar (Harper Adams University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 14 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION: The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations

Josh Firth (Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Tracking trade in underground symbioses

Toby Kiers (VU Amsterdam).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Causes and consequences of social evolution in spiders

Trine Bilde (Aarhus University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking patterns and processes across scales: a case study with Andean hummingbirds

Catherine Graham (Swiss Federal Institute WSL).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do organisms age? Beyond energy trade-offs

Alexei Maklakov (University of East Anglia).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Phenotypic plasticity and the evolution of eusociality: How does the queen control reproduction in her workers?

Elizabeth Duncan (Leeds University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

How coordinated behaviour is achieved through selection, synchrony and sex

James Herbert-Read (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Out-of-term seminar

Alexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Note unusual time; out-of-term seminar

Cosima Porteus (University of Exeter).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 15 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Microbial evolution in the human gut

Pauline Scanlan (University College Cork).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild

Susan Johnston (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Linking all the things: towards a biodiversity knowledge graph

Roderick Page (University of Glasgow).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why do females fight?

Eleanor Bath (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Speciation, horizontal transfer and the evolutionary genomics of bdelloid rotifers

Tim Barraclough (Imperial College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Through a glass darkly - interpreting animal behaviour with the aid of machines

Alex Jordan (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

High-throughput synchrotron X-ray imaging of extant and fossil insects

Thomas van de Kamp (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Pleiotropy, chance and predictability in the genetic paths of evolution

Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Institute Jacques Monod).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Alarm calls and interspecific eavesdropping

Robert Magrath (Australian National University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 11 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution on the wing

Owen McMillan, STRI.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Social learning? So what! Looking for evolutionary consequences of social information use.

Rose Thorogood (University of Cambridge and University of Helsinki).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sexual conflict in ecological context

Jen Perry (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The tension between generality and diversity: what makes biology so cool

Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. How culture made the human mind

Zoology Graduate Student's Invited Speaker

Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of ant social chromosomes and bumblebee diversity

Yannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Epigenetics and social insects

Eamonn Mallon (University of Leicester).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Timing and pattern of tooth eruption – Investigation of their evolution in wild and domestic mammals

Madeleine Geiger (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What genes made us human, and how much did they cost?

James Sikela, UC Denver.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 04 September 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

THE CHEMICAL WARFARE BETWEEN PLANTS AND INSECTS: From pathway discovery to functional diversification of toxins

Professor Søren Bak , University of Copenhagen.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 13 July 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Illuminating the start of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems

Dr Emily Mitchell, Earth Sciences (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Fuxianhuiids and their exceptional contribution to the early evolution of Cambrian euarthropods

Javier Ortega Hernandez (Dept of Zoology, Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 08 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neuroethology of a striking crustacean, the mantis shrimp

Dr Kate Feller, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 01 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

On the origin of human sociality: Ape minds and the evolution of Homo sapiens

Christopher Krupenye (University of St. Andrews).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 24 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION

Canceled

Jennifer Perry (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 13 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Cognition in the wild: foraging hummingbirds and building nests

Sue Healy (University of St. Andrews).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 20 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Benefits of social relationships in carrion crows

Claudia Wascher (Anglia Ruskin University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 13 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution in island colonising birds: silvereyes of the south Pacific

Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 06 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Paleogenomics beyond humans

Michi Hofreiter (University of Pottsdam).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 30 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neural circuitry of a polycystin-mediated hydrodynamic startle response in Platynereis: from genes to ecology

Gáspár Jékely (University of Exeter).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 23 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Growing old yet staying young: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity?

Emma Teeling (University College Dublin).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 28 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Parental Care

Chris Cunningham (Swansea University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 21 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Neurophysiology in the field: What can it tell us about the ecology of acoustic communication?

Heinrich Römer (University of Graz).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 14 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Can social networks explain why females cheat?

Julia Schroeder (Imperial College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 07 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

When males lose their fathers genome: the why and how of a remarkable reproductive system

Laura Ross (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 31 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Adaptive radiations and species(?) diversity

Per Lundberg (Lund University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 24 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Rapid host and pathogen co-evolution following a severe emerging infectious outbreak

Camille Bonneaud (University of Exeter).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 17 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

You are what you eat? Gut bacteria and mating preferences in Drosophila

Zenobia Lewis (University of Liverpool).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 10 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Complex Homology and the Neuromolecular Evolution of Social Behavior

NOTE SPECIAL TIME

Hans Hoffmann (University of Texas at Austin).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 26 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Bringing Partula up to date: from Captain Cook to the 2017 search for lost snails.

Dr. Justin Gerlach.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 05 September 2017, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Museums and Science

Ian Owens (Natural History Museum, London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 16 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

bmo21's list

Neural circuits of C. elegans olfactory behavior and plasticity

Yun Zhang, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Monday 13 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Life, death and resurrection in the Early Carboniferous

Jenny Clack (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 02 May 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty

Andrew Balmford (Department of Zoology, Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 25 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Open Access: common good or uncommon danger?

Stephen Curry (Imperial Collge London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history

Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 13 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history.

Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Monday 10 December 2012, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Ephrin and netrin synergy in spinal motor neuron axon guidance

Dr. Artur Kania, Neural Circuit Development research unit Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 08 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From VB Wigglesworth to H-factors. Lessons from my first 50 years of research

Peter A. Lawrence, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 01 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Microtubule assemblers

Rob Cross, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology,Warwick Medical School .

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Wednesday 10 October 2012, 14:00-15:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From Mammoth to Microscope: Life History and Dental Development in Mammals

Dr Wendy Dirks, University of Newcastle.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 04 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Be careful what you wish for: the issues and politics of generating a potentially human-to-human transmissible bird flu virus

Professor Derek Smith. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 26 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

'Bacterial community diversity of the American alligator gastrointestinal tract'

Sarah Keenan - Louisiana State University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 19 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Cows under the radar: The genetics of tuberculosis susceptibility in Britain

Bill Amos - Department of Zoology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 05 July 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Neurochemical control of aggression - insights from crickets

Professor Paul Stevenson, University of Leipzig, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 17 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Controlling recombination: from worms to human disease

Professor Simon Boulton, CRUK Clare Hall Laboratories, UK..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 10 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Without a leg to stand on: locomotion in the earliest "land" animals

Dr Stephanie Pierce, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and The Royal Veterinary College, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 03 May 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The physics of bird coloration

Professor Doekele Stavenga, University of Groningen, NL..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 26 April 2012, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Mapping plant diversity across the scales

Laurens Geffert, Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 30 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Mapping plant diversity across the scales

Laurens Geffert, Universität Bonn.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 30 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

All things bright and beautiful; structural colour in biological systems

Dr Pete Vukusic, Department of Physics, University of Exeter.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 15 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Biodiversity after forty years of human re-colonization in the Amazon forest

Jose Manuel Ochoa-Qunintero, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 09 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Potentials and Challenges of Developing Ecosystem-Based Co-management: A Case Study From the Swedish West Coast

Dr Andrea Morf, University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 08 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Empowering generations of conservation leadership - myth or reality!

Kiragu Mwangi, Birdlife International.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 02 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Strategies to ensure robustness in genome replication

Prof. Julian Blow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 01 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Predictive models in ecology: case studies of invasive fire ants and fire risks

Yohay Carmel, Technion Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 24 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Statistical inference in the fossil record: estimating the divergence time of primates

Professor Simon Tavaré, Department of Oncology University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 23 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Organogenesis during planarian regeneration

Dr Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 16 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Regulating the actin cytoskeleton during Drosophila oogenesis

Dr Margot Quinlan, UCLA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 09 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The role of mitochondrial DNA in neuronal development and neurodegeneration

Dr Joseph Bateman, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 02 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From fly embryos to single molecule studies: elucidating molecular mechanisms of cytoplasmic mRNA transport

Dr Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 26 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Local coordination of cell polarity through cell-cell interactions

Professor David Strutt - MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 19 January 2012, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The molecular and neuronal control of nutrient decisions in Drosophila

Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 01 December 2011, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

The importance of evaluating conservation management actions: unexpected outcomes of invasive predator control for malleefowl conservation

Jessica C. Walsh, Conservation Science Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 25 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution

Aurora Ruiz Herrera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 24 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Unravelling ecological dynamics at a macro scale: application of hierarchical models

Dr Tatsuya Amano, Conservation Science Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 18 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Nano-scale pathfinders: how kinesins move along the microtubule

Zeynep Oekten, Institute for Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 17 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Developmental function and possible role in morphological evolution of the vertebrate Cdx genes

Stephen Gaunt, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 10 November 2011, 15:30-16:30

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Physiomimetics: generating functional membranes for buildings (lessons from the ventilation systems of African fungus-growing termites)

Rupert Soar, Wolfson School of Engineering at Loughborough University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 03 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Looking for novel regulators of cell morphogenesis using microscopy-based functional genomics approaches

Rafael Carazo Salas, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 20 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Genetic basis of group dynamics in Drosophila

Joel Levine, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 13 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Luminal sensing and neuromodulation in the gut: different roles for PYY and NPY

Helen Cox, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Colony defense by post-reproductive adults and young nymphs in a social aphid

Keigo Uematsu. Department of General Systems Studies, University of Tokyo..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 30 September 2011, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

The convoluted evolution of behavior: insights from bird eggs and songs

David C. Lahti, Department of Biology, Queens College, The City University of New York (CUNY).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 15 July 2011, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Conservation and Corporations

Emma Marsden, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 04 March 2011, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Modelling the distribution of Freshwater Invasive Species across Europe

Dr Belinda Gallardo, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 25 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Movement of British macro-moths through fragmented agricultural landscapes

Claire McLaughlan, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 18 February 2011, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Who killed the megafauna? A tale of climate change, murder and mystery.

David Williams and Graham Prescott, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 21 January 2011, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

To be connected or not? Floodplain restoration and aquatic diversity

Dr Amael Paillex, Aquatic Ecology and Biology Lab, University of Geneva.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 19 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Northern Africa

Nieves Garcia. IUCN.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 12 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Rainforest conversion and tropical insect communities

Sarah Luke, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 05 November 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Natural Resource Management - An Ecologist's Perspective

Dr. Martyn Murray, MGM Environmental Solutions / University of Edinburgh.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 29 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Setting meaningful restoration goals for a globally imperiled habitat

Philine zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 22 October 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Can Eco-compensation Restore Natural Forest in Xishuangbanna, China?

Yi Zhuangfang, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Thursday 22 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Is chytrid fungus, a global scourge of amphibians, having an effect on the UK's rarest amphibian?

Peter Minting, Institute of Zoology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 12 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

TALK CANCELLED

Gustavo Canale.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 05 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Conservation in the Bolivian Amazon: Canoes, Capybara and Climate Change

Claudia Comberti.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 29 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Global Models of Mammal Distribution

Dr Carlo Rondinini, Sapienza University of Rome.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Tuesday 26 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Supporting local conservation overseas: land purchase as a strategy for conservation

Claire Thompson, World Land Trust, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 20 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Investigating the potential use of the sexually transmitted mite, Coccipolipus hippodamiae, in controlling populations of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis

Emma Rhule, Genetics Department, Cambridge University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 13 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Botanising in Cambridgeshire and North East England

Monica Frisch, Cambridge Natural History Society.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 06 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Wildlife surveys and site management: the role of volunteers in local conservation work

Dr Ed Turner, Ecology Groups Officer, The Wildlife Trust.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 16 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

When satellites help predicting animal distribution, movement and performance

Dr. Nathalie Pettorelli, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 09 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Host-parasite arms races in bird colour space

Dr Martin Stevens and Dr Claire Spottiswoode, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Monday 11 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Risk taking, learning, and strategy choice: experiments with humans, bees, and sparrows

Prof. Arnon Lotem.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 08 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Species and diversity patterns in complex human-dominated landscapes: an Atlantic forest case study

Dr Renata Pardini, University of São Paulo.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 01 May 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

25 decades of dodgy data

Prof. Tim Sparks.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 24 April 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Parental care in burying beetles

Sheena Cotter, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 06 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Ecology and Conservation of the Lesser Kestrel in Portugal

Ines Catry, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Conservation Science Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 20 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Evolution of Bird Colour in a Tetrahedral Colour Space

Cassie Stoddard, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 06 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Land use effects on birds of conservation concern in the Midwestern United States

John McCarty and Lillian Wolfenbarger.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 23 January 2009, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Farming and the future of forest biodiversity in Ghana

Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 05 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Farming and the future of forest biodiversity in Ghana

Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 05 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Measuring protected area performance - Large vertebrate population declines in Africa's protected areas

Ian Craigie, Conservation Science Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 21 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Protected Areas - title TBC

Ian Craigie, Conservation Science Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 14 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

P-p-p-problems with penguins- how population genetics and tagging studies can reveal the cryptic ecology of penguins.

Tom Hart, Penguinologist, Institute of Zoology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 14 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Title to be confirmed

Tatsuya.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 07 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Predicting the impact of agricultural management on fat deposition and grazing damage by white-fronted geese

Dr. Tatsuya Amano, Conservation Science Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 07 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Farming and biodiversity in India - Title TBC

Malvika Onial, Conservation Science Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 31 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Comprehensive, effectively managed, and ecologically representative national and regional marine protected area networks – will we meet the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2012 target?

Sue Wells, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 24 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Control of encrusting organisms in water treatment works

Beccy Mant, Aquatic Ecology Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 17 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Bryozoan, Cordylophora and sponge biofouling in UK water treatment works

Rebecca Mant, Aquatic Ecology Group.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ.

Friday 17 October 2008, 13:00-14:00