Evolution and Development Seminar Series


2007-01-24 13:00: Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull (Michael Depew, King's College, London)

2007-02-07 13:00: The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates (Hector Escrivà, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, France)

2007-02-14 17:00: Neanderthal Genomics (Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany)

2007-02-21 13:00: The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas (Pauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee)

2007-02-28 13:00: Embryos and Ancestors (Phil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol)

2007-03-07 13:00: Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED) (Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2007-03-14 13:00: Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories (Aleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A.)

2007-04-25 13:00: Sex Determination in Musca domestica, a Prime Example of Evolutionary Plasticity in Development (Daniel Bopp, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2007-05-02 13:00: Gilding the Lily: The Evolution and Development of Specialized Petal Cell Types (Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge)

2007-05-09 13:00: Gene Networks and Natural Selection (Andreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2007-06-06 13:00: High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms (Peter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2007-06-13 13:00: Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways (Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2007-07-19 11:00: Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra (Alexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford)

2007-07-26 11:00: Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders (Wim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany)

2007-09-04 11:00: Expression and function of spider Wnt genes (Alistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany)

2007-09-12 13:00: Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull (Anjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge)

2007-10-10 13:00: Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles (Marcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland)

2007-10-24 13:00: Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints? (Tom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

2007-11-07 13:00: Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution (Benoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France)

2007-11-14 13:00: Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis (Guillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France)

2007-11-21 13:00: The Great Divide:  Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition (Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge)

2007-12-12 13:00: The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm (Andreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A.)

2008-01-16 13:00: The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies (Greg Edgecombe, Natural History Museum, London)

2008-02-06 13:00: Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls (David Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.)

2008-02-13 13:00: Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse (Jim Blackburn, Dept of Craniofacial Development, Kings College London)

2008-02-20 13:00: The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates (Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain)

2008-02-27 13:00: Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record (Tom Harvey, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge)

2008-03-12 13:00: A new view on arthropod limb evolution (Gerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin)

2008-04-23 13:00: Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum (Jessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A.)

2008-04-30 13:00: The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis (Adam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday))

2008-05-07 13:00: Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution (Andreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

2008-05-13 14:00: Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability (Alexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)

2008-05-14 13:00: Evo-devo in the tropics (Catherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh)

2008-05-21 13:00: Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation (Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)

2008-05-28 13:00: The genetic loci underlying phenotypic evolution in animals and plants: from single case studies to general principles (Vigrinie Orgogozo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France)

2008-06-03 13:00: Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera) (Urs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A.)

2008-10-01 13:00: The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects (Jeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany))

2008-10-15 13:00: Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye (Gáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany))

2008-11-05 13:00: Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies. (Angela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University)

2008-11-12 13:00: Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development (Greg Elgar, University of London)

2008-11-19 13:00: Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro  evolutionary research (Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, University College London)

2008-11-26 13:00: Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development (Sinead Drea, University of Leicester)

2008-12-03 13:00: Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea (Aziz Aboobaker, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham)

2009-02-25 13:00: Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg (Carsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany)

2009-03-11 13:00: Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass (Rahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago)

2009-03-19 10:05: Processing and Storage Within Neurons (Professor Jeff Magee, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA)

2009-03-19 11:30: Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain (Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Department of Zoology)

2009-03-19 12:00: What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains? (Dr. William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2009-03-19 12:30: Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders (Dr. Jochen Guck, Department of Physics)

2009-03-19 15:00: Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease (Dr. Ragnhildur Káradóttir, Department of Veterinary Medicine.)

2009-03-19 15:30: Gambling and the Brain (Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology.)

2009-03-19 16:00: Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease. (Dr. Peter Nestor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience)

2009-03-19 16:45: In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits (Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA)

2009-03-19 18:00: What is Consciousness For? (Professor Chris Frith, University College London)

2009-10-14 13:00: Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms (Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-21 13:00: How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs (Artyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA)

2009-11-11 13:00: Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space. (Julie Hawkins, University of Reading)

2009-11-25 13:00: Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans (Matt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford)

2009-12-02 13:00: Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb (Dorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge)

2009-12-16 13:00: Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution (David Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews)

2010-01-27 13:00: The evolution of determinism: an evolutionary history of mechanisms underlying insect wing patterning (Robert Ray, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex)

2010-02-10 13:00: The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa (Barry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham)

2010-03-03 13:00: Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution. (Sebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.)

2010-04-28 13:00: The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates (Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield)

2011-10-26 13:00: Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development (Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK)

2011-11-02 13:00: Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head (Gregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany)

2011-11-09 13:00: Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica (Evelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France)

2011-11-16 13:00: Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila (Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK)

2011-11-23 13:00: Axial homologies re-examined:  a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa (Heather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)

2011-11-30 13:00: Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates (Stefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France)

2012-02-01 13:00: The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm (Maurijn van der Zee, University of Leiden)

2012-02-08 13:00: The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker? (Andrew Peel, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete)

2012-02-22 13:00: What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development (Mandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa)

2012-02-29 13:00: Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna (Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London)

2012-03-07 13:00: Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species (Toni Gabaldon, CRG, Barcelona)

2012-03-14 13:00: The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research (Diethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany)

2012-05-09 12:00: Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate (Seb Shimeld, University of Oxford, UK)

2012-05-23 13:00: Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis (Georg Brenneis, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany)

2012-05-30 13:00: Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci (Matthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK)

2012-06-06 13:00: The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System (Johannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona)

2012-06-13 13:00: From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution (Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.)

2012-11-07 13:00: Shedding light on lunar rhythms (Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria)

2012-11-14 13:00: Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish (Christian Schroeter, University of Cambridge, UK)

2012-11-21 13:00: Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak (Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK)

2012-11-28 13:00: The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects (Siegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany)

2012-12-05 13:00: Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria? (Grigory Genikhovich, University of Vienna, Austria)

2012-12-12 13:00: Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics (Ralf J. Sommer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany)

2013-02-06 13:00: Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration (Brigitte Galliot, Geneva, Switzerland)

2013-02-20 13:00: Evolution of gastrulation in flies (Steffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany)

2013-02-22 12:00: The spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum as a model to study the ancestral mechanisms of bilaterian metazoan development (Hiroki Oda, Osaka, Japan)

2013-02-27 13:00: Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians (Ivan Gomez-Mestre, Seville, Spain)

2013-03-06 13:00: The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects (Abderrahman Khila, Lyon, France)

2013-05-15 13:00: Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice (Harold Zakon, University of Texas at Austin, USA)

2013-05-22 13:00: Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration (Ildiko Somorjai, University of St Andrews, UK)

2013-05-29 13:00: Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Melinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK)

2013-06-05 13:00: Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila (Christen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal)

2013-06-27 14:00: Probing the molecular and cellular basis of developmental morphogenesis (Tassos Pavlopoulos, Max Planck Institute at Dresden)

2013-10-30 13:00: Developmental Modularity, and Evolvability of the Head Skeleton (Charles Kimmel (University of Oregon))

2013-11-13 13:00: Deciphering the onychophoran ‘segmentation gene cascade’: inferences about the evolution of segmentation (Ralf Janssen (Uppsala University))

2013-11-20 13:00: Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes (Gáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology))

2013-11-27 13:00: RNA regulation during development and evolution (Claudio Alonso (University of Sussex))

2013-12-11 13:00: The endocrine organs of Drosophila as new model to study extreme evolutionary divergence and epithelial to mesenchymal transitions during development (James Castelli-Gair Hombría (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville))

2014-01-29 13:00: Cracking the code of crocodile skin (Michel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva))

2014-02-19 13:00: Making similar embryos with divergent genomes (Patrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier))

2014-02-26 13:00: Integration in Morphological Structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves (Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester))

2014-03-05 13:00: The evolution of branching patterns in plants (Jill Harrison (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-12 13:00: Floral quartets link flower development and evolution (Günter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena))

2014-04-23 13:00: Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila (Benjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy))

2014-04-30 13:00: Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment (John Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham))

2014-05-07 13:00: Using barcoding to understand British Collembola (Springtails) (Peter Shaw (University of Roehampton))

2014-05-14 13:00: Developmental Constraints? Why blind cavefish still have eye at embryonic stage (Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London))

2014-05-21 13:00: Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements (Hannah Long (University of Oxford))

2014-06-04 13:00:  Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins (Elia Benito Gutierrez (EMBL))

2014-09-12 12:00: Deep Time and Modern Brains (Professor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona))

2014-10-22 13:00: Morphogenesis and Molecular Regulation of Colour Patterning in Natural Populations (Marie Manceau (Collège de France))

2014-11-19 13:00: How does an alga become a parasite? (Ellen Nisbet (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-26 13:00: Bdelloid rotifers: unveiling the mystery of an evolutionary scandal (Chiara Boschetti (University of Cambridge))

2015-01-21 13:00: The development and evolution of vertebrate oxygen-sensing cells (Dorit Hockman (University of Oxford))

2015-01-28 13:00: The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely? (Simon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge))

2015-02-04 13:00: Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease (Vahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London))

2015-03-04 13:00: The curious incident of the seal in the pond (Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki))

2015-03-11 16:00: Raising the shield: How cell migration changes got the turtle its shell (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME) (Scott Gilbert)

2015-03-18 11:00: Regulatory Programme and Evolution Underlying the Development of Echinoderm Skelton (Paola Oliveri)

2015-03-19 13:00: An integrated structural biology approach to flower development (Francois Parcy, Grenoble)

2015-04-27 13:00: Exploring the genetic toolkit for pattern formation and diversification in butterfly wings (Arnaud Martin (UC Berkley))

2015-05-13 13:00: Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates (Andrew Gillis (University of Cambridge))

2015-05-20 13:00: Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape (Christen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência))

2015-08-05 13:00: The molecular basis of developmental buffering: a key to understanding the interface between environment and evolution? (Dr Atsuko Sato (Ochanomizu University))

2015-10-28 13:00: Evolution of eye development in Astyanax blind cavefish (Hélène Hinaux )

2015-11-18 13:00: Endodermal contribution to orofacial structures in non-teleost fishes: How ancient is the pre-oral gut? (Martin Minařík (Charles University, Prague))

2016-01-27 13:00: Three phases of Wnt signaling define three phases of axis development in the hemichordate S. kowalevskii (Jens Fritzenwanker (Stanford University))

2016-02-03 13:00: Comparative Analyses of Neuromesodermal Progenitor Dynamics in vivo (Ben Steventon (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-24 13:00: Evolution of animal body axes: insights from the oral-aboral axis of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis (Chiara Sinigaglia)

2016-03-09 13:00: The Evolution of Developmental Regulation in Spiders and Flies: Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts (Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University))

2016-04-20 13:00: TCF/Lef regulates the Gsx ParaHox gene in central nervous development in chordates. (Myles Garstang, University of St Andrews)

2016-04-27 13:00: Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes (Christopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute))

2016-05-11 13:00: Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms (Arkhat Abzhanov (Imperial College London))

2016-05-18 13:00: Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics (Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard))

2016-06-08 13:00: Flies, bees, aphids and frogs: what can this menagerie tell us about the evolution of developmental processes? (Elizabeth Duncan (University of Leeds))

2016-10-05 13:00: Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo approach (Casper Breuker (Oxford-Brookes University))

2016-10-12 13:00: The evolution of embryonic form: a genetic and cellular analysis of arthropod development (Matt Benton (University of Cologne))

2016-10-26 13:00: 5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 – Evolution of digit number through modification of embryonic Sonic hedgehog signalling (Megan Davey (University of Edinburgh))

2016-11-02 13:00: Evo-devo in cartilaginous fishes - teeth, scales and the cartilaginous skeleton of the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula (Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud (University of Montpellier))

2016-11-16 13:00: Expression of segment polarity genes in brachiopods supports a non-segmental ancestral role of engrailed for bilaterians (Bruno Vellutini (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology))

2017-01-25 13:00: Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning (Sebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford))

2017-02-08 13:00: How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution (Neal Anthwal (King's College London))

2017-02-09 16:00: Lizards, skulls and reptile communities (Johannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum))

2017-02-22 13:00: The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton (Kate Criswell (University of Cambridge))

2017-03-08 13:00: Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila (Nicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich))

2017-03-15 13:00: Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes (Ildiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews))

2017-03-22 13:00: Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures  (Kathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth))

2017-04-06 13:00: The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies (Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley))

2017-05-03 13:00: Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum (Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool))

2017-05-31 13:00: Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal  skeleton (Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder))

2017-06-14 13:00: Time and space in insect segmentation (Erik Clark (University of Cambridge))

2017-07-26 13:00: Evolution of limb and fin regeneration (Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará))

2017-10-11 13:00: Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array (Michael Bok (University of Bristol))

2017-11-08 13:00: Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders (Emilia Santos (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-22 13:00: Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion (Daniel Jackson (University of Göttingen))

2017-11-23 13:00: MicroCT from zoology to pathology (Brian Metscher (University of Vienna))

2017-11-29 13:00: Probing human brain evolution in a dish (Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge))

2018-01-17 13:00: Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis (Hernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory))

2018-01-24 13:00: Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system  of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain  centers (Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology))

2018-01-31 13:00: The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates (Shunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews))

2018-02-07 13:00: Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration (Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin))

2018-02-21 13:00: Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental  GRN (Berta Verd (University of Cambridge))

2018-03-07 13:00: Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution (Jordi Solana (Oxford Brookes University))

2018-04-25 13:00: Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita (Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona))

2018-05-02 13:00: Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox (Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-16 13:00: Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan? (Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo))

2018-05-30 13:00: Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours? (Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague))

2018-09-17 14:00: Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies (Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago)

2018-10-03 13:00: Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry (Dr Frank Hirth, King's College London)

2018-10-24 13:00: Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus (Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University)

2018-10-31 13:00: Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity (Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-14 13:00: Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis (Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris)

2018-12-05 13:00: Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex (Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester)

2019-01-16 13:00: Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis (Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon)

2019-01-30 13:00: Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila (Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki)

2019-02-13 13:00: Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations (Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge)

2019-02-20 13:00: Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains -  approaching the next level of detail (Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg)

2019-02-27 13:00: Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution  and development (Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona)

2019-03-06 13:00: The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions,  and developmental directions (Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge)

2019-04-10 13:00: Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field (Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan)

2019-05-08 13:00: TBC (Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford)

2019-05-15 13:00: From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods (Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London)

2019-05-29 13:00: Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development (Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center)

2019-10-09 13:00: Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution (Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London)

2019-10-30 13:00: How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development (Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics)

2019-11-20 13:00: TBC (Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology)

2019-12-04 13:00: TBC (Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University)

2020-01-29 13:00: Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function (Justin Crocker, EMBL)

2020-03-04 13:00: The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing [CANCELLED] (Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research)

2020-04-22 13:00: The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis (Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität)

2022-04-27 13:00: Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms (Prof Paola Oliveri)

2022-05-04 13:00: Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics (Dr Jordi Solana)

2022-05-11 13:00: On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems (Prof Gaspar Jékely)

2022-05-18 13:00: One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers  (Dr Edwige Moyroud)

2022-05-25 13:00: Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans (Dr Dorit Hockman)

2022-10-12 13:00: How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida) (Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen))

2022-10-26 13:00: Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie? (Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna))

2022-11-09 13:00: The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact (Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford))

2022-11-16 13:00: The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals (Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge))

2022-11-23 13:00: Origin and early evolution of vertebrates (Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol))

2022-11-30 13:00: From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution (Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna))

2023-02-01 13:00: Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants (Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford))

2023-02-15 13:00: The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian (Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh))

2023-03-01 13:00: The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds (Dr Marie Manceau (College De France))

2023-03-08 13:00: To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish (Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer))

2023-04-26 13:00: The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation (Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen))

2023-05-10 13:00: Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development (Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London))

2023-05-17 13:00: A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development (Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London))

2023-05-31 13:00: Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties (Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona))

2023-06-07 13:00: Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time (Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University))

2023-06-14 13:00: Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level (Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University))

2024-11-08 13:00: London EvoDevo meeting (Speaker to be confirmed)