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Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

The functional (trait) dimension of biodiversity

User Manuela González-Suárez, University of Reading.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

The evolution of (almost) everything

UserArmand Leroi; Imperial College London, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Iridescence as Camouflage

UserKarin Kjernsmo; University of Bristol, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Departmental Seminar Series

Phenotypes, Fossils, and the Reach of Microevolution

UserGabriel Bever; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

UserDr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

UserProfessor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

UserRenske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Environment-neuroendocrine interactions regulating larval settlement in the marine worm Platynereis

This talk is hybrid - email the organisers for a Zoom link

UserElizabeth Williams, University of Exeter.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

UserDr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

TBC

UserProf Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

UserProfessor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

UserDr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

UserDr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Zoology postdoc summer seminar series

Chemical defence and sexual selection in Heliconius butterflies

UserErika Cristina Pinheiro de Castro, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 September 2018, 16:30-17:00

Zoology postdoc summer seminar series

The evolution of paired appendages

UserVicky Sleight, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 September 2018, 16:00-16:30

Zoology postdoc summer seminar series

The evolution of dental growth in mammals

UserMadeleine Geiger (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 August 2018, 16:00-16:30

Zoology postdoc summer seminar series

The evolution of indiscriminate altruism in meerkats

UserDr. Mark Dyble, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Zoology postdoc summer seminar series

The evolution of teaching and “anti-teaching”

UserDr. James Allen, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 July 2018, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

UserHernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

UserMadeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

UserBrian Metscher (University of Vienna).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

UserAssociate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Eco-evolutionary dynamics

UserAndrés López-Sepulcre (IEES CNRS Paris).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Parasites, Immune Function, and Human Life Histories

UserAaron Blackwell (University of California, Santa Barbara).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 14 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

UserJohannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetic evolution of humans and closely related species

UserAida Andres (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Information gaps in ecology and conservation

UserTatsuya Amano (Centre for the Study of Existential Risk / Department of Zoology University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 January 2017, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Dispersal evolution

UserJean Clobert (Station d’Ecologie Experimentale du CNRS Moulis).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Host-parasite coevolution

UserKayla King (University of Oxford).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 November 2016, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolution of butterfly brains

UserStephen Montgomery (Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 October 2016, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

UserChristopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Balancing selection in Müllerian mimicry: causes and consequences

UserDr Violaine Llaurens, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité .

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

TBC

UserDr Sinead English, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2015, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

UserVahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The diversification of birds

UserDr Gavin Thomas, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How does an alga become a parasite?

UserEllen Nisbet (University of Cambridge).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Summer Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Louise Couton.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 July 2014, 14:30-15:00

Summer Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr Tatsuya Amano.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 July 2014, 14:30-15:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment

UserJohn Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

What Biologists can learn from bats

UserEgbert Leigh, Smithsonian Tropical research Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2014, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

UserBenjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

UserGünter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

UserPatrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cracking the code of crocodile skin

UserMichel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes

UserGáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

UserSteffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Deconstructing visual signals in social butterflies

UserSusan Finkbeiner - University of California, Irvine, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 05 February 2013, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

UserSiegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Butterfly defense against predation

UserChrister Wiklund - Stockholm University, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Body temperature regulation in passerines

UserJan-Åke Nilsson - University of Lund, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 November 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

UserKristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Markets, social opportunities, and the evolution of fairness

UserJean-Baptiste André - Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

UserDiethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

There and back again; the migration of the garden warbler

UserUlf Ottosson - A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Jos, Nigeria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 06 March 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

UserMandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why are defensive toxins so variable?

UserJohanna Mappes - University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 February 2012, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

UserStefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The fate of Sundaland's degraded forests

UserDavid P Edwards - James Cook University, Cairns, Australia.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Colours of speciation in fish and frogs

UserMartine Maan - University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 November 2011, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

UserEvelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

UserGregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mechanisms of Hedgehog signalling in Drosophila epithelia

UserIsabel Guerrero, Centro de Biologia Molecular Severo Ochoa, Madrid, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 12 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

From mice to molecules: the genetic basis of adaptation

UserHopi Hoekstra, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 05 May 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Transient population dynamics: implications for life history, evolution and conservation

UserStuart Townley, School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 28 April 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

foraging: from nature to molecule

UserMarla Sokolowski, University of Toronto, Canada.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 17 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Neural and mechanical mechanisms of multifunctionality

UserHillel Chiel, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 10 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The origin and evolution of vision

UserDan Nilsson, Lund University, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 03 March 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Epithelial repair in Drosophila

UserAntonio Jacinto, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Lisbon, Portugal.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 24 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The Drosophila intestinal epithelium as an immune barrier: from steady-state to pathology

UserBruno Lemaitre, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 17 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Can we have our tropical biodiversity and eat it too?

UserDr. Ben Phalan, Dept. Of Zoology, Cambridge University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 15 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The evolution of transcriptional regulation

UserDuncan Odom, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 10 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

mRNA localisation at the neuromuscular junction

UserAlejandra Gardiol, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 03 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The evolution of culture

UserProf. Kevin Laland, University of St. Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 01 February 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Cell competition through growth factor signalling

UserEugenia Piddini, Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 27 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mammalian phylogenomics and evolution: where are we and what is next?

UserFrederic Delsuc, CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 20 January 2011, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Control of sexual differentiation and behavior by the doublesex gene in Drosophila melanogaster

UserStephen Goodwin, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 25 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

The long march of the human genes.

UserDr. Andrea Manica, Dept. of Zoology, Cambridge University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Why pain gets worse - the molecular basis of sensitization

UserPeter McNaughton, Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 11 November 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Seeing in the dark: Vision and visual behaviour in nocturnal insects

UserEric Warrant, Department of Cell and Organism, University of Lund.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 28 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Is life impossible? Information, sex and the origin of complex organisms

UserJoel Peck, Department of Biology and Environmental Science, University of Sussex.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 21 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sympatric speciation on islands

UserVincent Savolainen, Imperial College London & Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 19 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Potassium channel and Calcium signalling in Drosophila learning

UserJames Hodge, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 07 October 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Homeostatic growth in the Drosophila intestine

UserBruce Edgar, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 16 September 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The Allure of the Centipede

UserMichael Akam, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 13 May 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

CANCELLED

UserOlivier Hyrien, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 29 April 2010, 00:00-00:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

UserGareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

UserSebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Social cognition: lessons from corvids and children

see also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_MnwNyX0Ds

UserNicky Clayton, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 25 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Fifty Years of Wild Chimpanzee Tool Use: Where Do We Stand?

UserBill McGrew, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 18 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

UserBarry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Taking shape; how Drosophila renal tubules find their way

UserHelen Skaer, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 04 February 2010, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The developmental origins of type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome

UserSusan Ozanne, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 21 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserDr. Matthew Bell, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 19 January 2010, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Mycobacterial disease in Drosophila: old signals, new biology

UserMarc Dionne, Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology of Inflammation, King's College London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 14 January 2010, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

UserDavid Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The evolutionary biomechanics of dinosaur locomotion

UserJohn Hutchinson, Royal Veterinary College, Univ London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 03 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

UserDorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Co-evolutionary interactions between cuckoos and their hosts

UserDr. Bård Stokke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 November 2009, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Life in rotten places: how O2 and CO2 sensing alter foraging in a worm

UserMario DeBono, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 29 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

UserArtyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Conflict and cooperation in social birds

UserAndy Radford, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 15 October 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

UserAndrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

The Evolution of Human Languages

UserMark Pagel, University of Reading.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 14 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Role of the human origin recognition complex ORC in DNA replication

UserAloys Schepers, German Research Center for Environmental Health, Munich.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 07 May 2009, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

UserCharles Godfray, Department of Zoology, Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 28 April 2009, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Why is sex determination in reptiles so diverse?

UserTobias Uller, Edward Grey Institute, Department of Zoology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 17 March 2009, 17:00-18:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

UserRahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Control of microtubule length by depolymerizing kinesins

UserJoe Howard, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 26 February 2009, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

UserCarsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sex differences in cognition

UserSue Healy, University of St Andrews.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sympatric Speciation

UserVincent Savolainen, Imperial College London, and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 February 2009, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Evolutionary variability of avian eggshell colours

UserPhillip Cassey, Centre for Ornithology, University of Birmingham.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 January 2009, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Genetics of Cooperation and Competition in Chimpanzees

UserLinda Vigilant, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 December 2008, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Sex ratios and rarity in birds: an unhappy balance?

UserPaul Donald, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 04 December 2008, 16:00-17:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Causes and consequences of avian personality differences

UserKees van Oers, Netherlands Institute of Ecology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 20 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Heterozygosity and fitness in seals

UserJoe Hoffman, Department of Zoology, Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 November 2008, 17:00-18:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Macroecology of the oceans

UserSimon Jennings, CEFAS Lowestoft.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 13 November 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

UserAngela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

UserGáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

UserJeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evo-devo in the tropics

UserCatherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Are coral reef fishes at risk or resilient to climate change?

**Please Note Change in Day**

UserDr. Morgan Pratchett, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 12 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Timing the end of neural proliferation in Drosophila

UserAlex Gould, National Institute for Medical Research London.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 08 May 2008, 16:00-17:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

UserAndreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

UserAdam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

UserJessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Ecosystem decay in Amazonian forest fragments

UserBill Laurance, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 20 March 2008, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Respiratory Responses To Temperature By Ectomycorrhizal Fungi

UserDr. Glenna M. Malcolm, Pennsylvania State University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 13 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

UserGerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Theories in alien invasions: Resistance vs. Meltdown

UserPhiline zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 07 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Sperm competition and speciation in mammals

UserMontserrat Gomendio, National Museum of Natural Sciences, Madrid.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 26 February 2008, 17:00-18:00

lvb23's list

Coding and plasticity in an olfactory system

UserGilles Laurent: Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Occasional neuroscience talks

Coding and plasticity in an olfactory system

UserGilles Laurent, Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 25 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

UserJordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

The impacts of climate change on Indian Ocean coral reef biodiversity

UserProfessor Charles Sheppard, University of Warwick.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 08 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Mapping European Seabed Habitats

UserSarah Young, Marine Ecologist, Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 25 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Free-loading, racketeering and murder: a day in the life of cowbirds

UserProfessor Mike Clinchy, University of Western Ontario.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 18 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

CANCELLED

UserTim Blackburn, Institute of Zoology London/Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 17 January 2008, 16:00-17:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Locomotion and adhesion: tarsal attachment control in ants

UserThomas Endlein, Insect Biomechanics Workgroup, Zoology Department.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 13 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

UserAndreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Mathematical Models of Microcolony Formation in Bacteria

UserDr. Leah Johnson, National Centre for Statistical Ecology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 07 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Phylogeography reveals South Africa's hidden vertebrate diversity

UserPaulette Bloomer, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 05 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Aquatic Alien Invasions: Teleportation or Transportation?

UserPhiline zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 30 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

UserGuillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Birds and People

UserDr Nigel Collar, BirdLife International.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 09 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

UserBenoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Zoology Department - Tea Talks

Baboon Metaphysics

Note unusual day

UserDorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Baboon Metaphysics

UserDorothy Cheney, University of Pennsylvania.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 06 November 2007, 17:00-18:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

A Bird in the Hand: Stone Curlew Conservation

UserAlison Johnston, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 02 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

UserTom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Locomotion in Australian Monitor Lizards: Ecomorphological and Ecophysiological Considerations

UserDr. Chris Clemente, Insect Biomechanics Workgroup, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 19 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

lvb23's list

'Do hawk cuckoo chicks simulate larger broods?'

UserDr Keita Tanaka: RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Behaviour, Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

Do hawk cuckoo chicks simulate larger broods?

UserDr Keita Tanaka, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Japan.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 16 October 2007, 17:00-18:00

Ecology Lunchtime Series

Happiness, Global Catastrophe, and the National Assembly for Wales

UserGareth Clubb, Senior Research Officer, National Assembly of Wales.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 12 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

UserMarcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

UserAnjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

UserAlistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

UserAndreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

UserAleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

UserMichael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

Embryos and Ancestors

UserPhil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development Seminar Series

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

UserPauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockWednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

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