Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Institute of Evolutionary Biology (IEB) weekly external seminar series. Talks are usually held at 2pm in Ashworth Lecture Theatre 3, but can vary.



*** PAST TALKS ***

Wednesday 09 September 2015

The Invisible Hand of the Black Queen: Reductive Evolution in the Ocean (and Elsewhere)
Jeff Morris (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 09 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/153/show


Wednesday 23 September 2015

“Diversification and convergence in pollination of Dalechampia vines (Euphorbiaceae): a pantropical perspective”
Scott Armbruster (Portsmouth)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 23 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/154/show


Wednesday 30 September 2015

Flip/flop inversion polymorphisms in yeast evolution
Ken Wolfe (Dublin)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 30 September 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/155/show


Tuesday 13 October 2015

Human disease genes and natural selection: Why do we age?
Arcadi Navarro (Barcelona)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Tuesday 13 October 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/157/show


Tuesday 20 October 2015

Inbreeding-environment interactions: experimental studies and a meta-analysis
Charles Fox (Kentucky)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Tuesday 20 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/158/show


Wednesday 21 October 2015

Mimicry supergenes : Selection, inversions, and introgression shaping polymorphism in butterflies
Matthieu Joron (Montpellier)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 21 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/159/show


Wednesday 28 October 2015

Impact of global change on the emergence and spread of zoonotic infectious diseases
Kate Jones (UCL)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 28 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/160/show


Wednesday 04 November 2015

Investigating the genetic basis for morphological evolution within and between Drosophila species
Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 04 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/161/show


Wednesday 11 November 2015

The shifting of ecology of malaria vector mosquitoes in Africa and its implications for control
Heather Ferguson (Glasgow)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 11 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/162/show


Wednesday 18 November 2015

Biased gene conversion: the dark side of recombination
Laurent Duret (Lyon)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 18 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/163/show


Wednesday 25 November 2015

Telomere attrition as marker of early developmental conditions: Evidence from the European starling
Daniel Nettle (Newcastle)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 25 November 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/164/show


Wednesday 02 December 2015

The mutational burden of regulatory function
Martin Taylor (Edinburgh)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 02 December 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/165/show


Wednesday 09 December 2015

Male and female from a hermaphrodite vantage-point
Lukas Scharer (Basel)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 09 December 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/166/show


Thursday 22 October 2015

IEB Extra Seminar: Evolutionary ecology of bacterial adaptive immune systems
Edze Westra
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Thursday 22 October 2015, 12:30 - 13:30
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/206/show


Wednesday 03 February 2016

Genome-wide selection scans — A child’s guide through the jungle
Oscar Gaggiotti
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 03 February 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/234/show


Wednesday 02 March 2016

No fly is an island: How Drosophila respond to socio-sexual environments
Amanda Bretman
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 02 March 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/235/show


Wednesday 16 March 2016

Adaptation to whole genome duplication in Arabidopsis arenosa
Kirsten Bomblies
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 16 March 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/236/show


Wednesday 13 April 2016

Anopheles population genomics, association studies, and the male contribution to malaria transmission
Mara Lawniczak
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 13 April 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/237/show


Wednesday 17 February 2016

Adaptation and speciation genomics: a fish perspective
Philine Feulner
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 17 February 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/240/show


Wednesday 27 January 2016

A trick of the light? Development, function and evolution of plant nanostructures that influence animal behaviour
Beverley Glover
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 27 January 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/241/show


Wednesday 07 October 2015

Analysis of cytoplasmic genomes supports the asymmetric origin of a new hybrid, polyploid species
Mario Vallejo-Marin (Stirling)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 07 October 2015, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/246/show


Wednesday 24 February 2016

Recent changes in the phenology of UK plants and animals
Stephen Thackeray (CEH, Lancaster)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 24 February 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/252/show


Thursday 12 November 2015

The rise and fall of the passenger pigeon: Ancient genomics of a naturally occurring Wright-Fisher population
Beth Shapiro (Santa Cruz)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Thursday 12 November 2015, 16:00 - 17:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/322/show


Wednesday 10 February 2016

How sexual conflict shapes insect phenotypes
Jen Perry (Oxford)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 10 February 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/342/show


Wednesday 11 May 2016

Bacterial endosymbionts and the evolution of host sex-determination mechanisms
Richard Cordaux (Poitiers)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 11 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/391/show


Wednesday 04 May 2016

Estimating the proportion of noncoding DNA and RNA bases that are functional
Chris Ponting (Edinburgh)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 04 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/395/show


Wednesday 25 May 2016

From ecology to genomics and back: inference of coevolution using host and parasite sequence data
Aurelien Tellier (TUM)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 25 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/436/show


Wednesday 20 April 2016

The evolution of social interactions in microbial communities
Sara Mitri (Lausanne)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 20 April 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/438/show


Wednesday 18 May 2016

A genetic view of ecology: adaptation and resistance to abiotic change in grassland communities
Raj Whitlock (Liverpool)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 18 May 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/439/show


Wednesday 08 June 2016

Introgression Across the European House Mouse Hybrid Zone
Stuart Baird (Studenec, Czech Republic)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 08 June 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/496/show


Wednesday 09 March 2016

Protective symbiosis: does it really work in nature?
Jan Hrcek (Oxford)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 09 March 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/502/show


Wednesday 21 September 2016

A global scale comparative study of biological invasions
Isabella Capellini (Hull)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 21 September 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/589/show


Wednesday 12 October 2016

Are old ages useless? Shedding light on the allelic spectrum of late-onset diseases
Samuel Pavard (MNHN, Paris)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 12 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/590/show


Wednesday 16 November 2016

Does transgenerational plasticity increase robustness to environmental change?
Bram Kuijper (UCL)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 16 November 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/591/show


Wednesday 28 September 2016

Predicting Responses to Environmental Change: from Biodiversity Patterns to Movement Mechanisms
Luca Borger (Swansea)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 28 September 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/593/show


Wednesday 19 October 2016

Mega-evolutionary dynamics of the adaptive radiation of birds
Gavin Thomas (Sheffield)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 19 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/594/show


Wednesday 23 November 2016

Unravelling retrovirus and transposon evolution
Alex Hayward (Cornwall)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/601/show


Wednesday 07 December 2016

Synchrony in phenology in space and time
Ella Cole (Oxford)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 07 December 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/603/show


Wednesday 05 October 2016

Seasonality and cold hardiness of temperate trees
Yann Vitasse (Switzerland)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 05 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/610/show


Wednesday 05 April 2017

Experimental Studies of the Interaction Between Ecology and Evolution in a Natural Ecosystem
David Reznick (UC Riverside)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 05 April 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/616/show


Wednesday 26 October 2016

What did we learn from high-coverage archaic genomes?
Kay Pruefer (Max Planck, Leipzig)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 26 October 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/617/show


Wednesday 02 November 2016

Ebola to Zika: Real-time, pathogen genome surveillance with portable sequencing
Nick Loman (Birmingham)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 02 November 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/738/show


Wednesday 14 December 2016

What can we learn about evolution from the genome of a wild bird?
Kai Zeng (Sheffield)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 14 December 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/766/show


Tuesday 06 December 2016

Island Time and the Interplay Between Ecology & Evolution in Species Diversification
Rosemary Gillespie (Berkeley)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Tuesday 06 December 2016, 09:30 - 10:30
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/775/show


Wednesday 09 November 2016

Epigenetic regulation of P. falciparum phenotypic plasticity during life-cycle in the mosquito
Elena Gómez-Día (EBD-CSIC)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 09 November 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/814/show


Wednesday 08 February 2017

Tempo and mode of evolutionary change in the gut microbiota as revealed by E. coli
Isabel Gordo (Gulbenkian)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 08 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/815/show


Thursday 08 December 2016

The Evolution of Menopause in Killer Whales
Darren Croft (Exeter)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Thursday 08 December 2016, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/821/show


Wednesday 01 February 2017

Hormone-mediated maternal effects of the prenatal social environment
Nikolaus von Engelhardt (Plymouth)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 01 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/840/show


Wednesday 15 February 2017

Mutations in cis- and trans-regulatory elements can give rise to transgressive phenotypes
Jon Bollback (Liverpool)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 15 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/848/show


Wednesday 22 March 2017

IEB seminar: 'Adaptive models of growth and maturation'
Rufus Johnstone (Cambridge)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 22 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/849/show


Wednesday 29 March 2017

Sex-differences in senescence patterns across mammals
Jean-Francois Lemaitre (Lyon)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 29 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/850/show


Wednesday 25 January 2017

Chiral shells, cells and F-molecules
Angus Davison (Nottingham)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 25 January 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/858/show


Wednesday 15 March 2017

Transposable element evolution in Drosophila
Andrea Betancourt (Liverpool)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 15 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/859/show


Wednesday 08 March 2017

Understanding sex differences in aging using insects as a model
Ruth Archer (Exeter)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 08 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/862/show


Wednesday 03 May 2017

How 'new' enteric bacteria emerge and spread: current and future perspectives.
Chinyere Okoro (Cambridge)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 03 May 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/872/show


Wednesday 01 March 2017

Life history trade-offs: an experimental study in wild jackdaws
Jelle Boonekamp (Groningen)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 01 March 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/874/show


Wednesday 07 June 2017

Host behaviour and disease spread in wild mice networks
Patricia Lopes (Zurich)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 07 June 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/875/show


Wednesday 22 February 2017

Molecular evolution in parasitic flowering plants
Susann Wicke (Muenster)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 22 February 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/879/show


Wednesday 14 June 2017

IEB Seminar 14th June 2017
Ellen Leffler (Oxford)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 14 June 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/935/show


Wednesday 17 May 2017

IEB Seminar 17th May 2017
John Davey (Oxford)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 17 May 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/939/show


Wednesday 31 May 2017

The Genomic History of Killer Whale Ecotypes
Andy Foote (Bangor)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 31 May 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1023/show


Tuesday 06 June 2017

IEB Extra Seminar 6th June 2017
Martina Doblin (Sydney)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Tuesday 06 June 2017, 11:00 - 12:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1041/show


Wednesday 29 November 2017

Genome fragmentation in bacterial endosymbionts: good, bad, or just ugly?
John McCutcheon (Montana)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 29 November 2017, 14:00 - 16:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1044/show


Wednesday 22 November 2017

Cooperation under the bark - sociality and farming in ambrosia beetles
Peter Biedermann (Max Planck)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 22 November 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1055/show


Wednesday 15 November 2017

Towards a parameterised genomic landscape of effective gene flow
Simon Aeschbacher (Bern)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 15 November 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1064/show


Wednesday 25 October 2017

Improving our understanding of the genetic basis of human complex traits
Matt Robinson (Lausanne)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 25 October 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1074/show


Wednesday 01 November 2017

Unexpected costs and benefits of family life in earwigs: new insights into the early evolution of social life?
Joël Meunier (University François Rabelais of Tours)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 01 November 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1075/show


Friday 08 December 2017

IEB Seminar 8th December
Vanessa Ezenwa (Georgia)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Friday 08 December 2017, 15:00 - 16:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT1)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1076/show


Wednesday 04 October 2017

Origins of molecular complexity and weirdness
Scott Roy
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 04 October 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1077/show


Wednesday 13 December 2017

Ant symbioses: from parasitism to mutualism
Naomi Pierce (Harvard)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 13 December 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1139/show


Wednesday 08 November 2017

IEB Seminar 8th November
Luis Miguel Chevin (Montpellier)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 08 November 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1143/show


Wednesday 13 September 2017

Clarifying the Complexity of Adaptive Evolution
John Pool (Wisconsin)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 13 September 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1164/show


Wednesday 24 January 2018

Genomics of sexual dimorphism
Alison Wright (Sheffield)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 24 January 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1165/show


Wednesday 21 March 2018

Epi-Evo: Insight into fundamental epigenetic mechanisms through evolutionary analyses
Peter Sarkies (MRC, London)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 21 March 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1166/show


Wednesday 28 March 2018

IEB Seminar 28th March 2018
Thomas Flatt (Fribourg)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 28 March 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1167/show


Wednesday 27 September 2017

“Evolution and the life history of the genome”
William Etges (Arkansas)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 27 September 2017, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1175/show


Wednesday 23 May 2018

The holy grail is in the castle of ARG
Jerome Kelleher (Oxford)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 23 May 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1184/show


Wednesday 14 February 2018

Zoonosis:  Virus evolution at the animal - human interface
Sara Sawyer (Colorado)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 14 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1247/show


Wednesday 17 January 2018

Evolution and expression of the Drosophila X chromosome
John Parsch (Munich)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 17 January 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1252/show


Wednesday 09 May 2018

Feathers and function; homology and deep homology
Mike Benton (Bristol)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 09 May 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1253/show


Wednesday 07 February 2018

De novo evolution of genes
Diethard Tautz (Max Plank Institute, Ploen)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 07 February 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1256/show


Wednesday 31 January 2018

IEB Seminar 31st January
Lucy Gilbert (JHI)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 31 January 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1287/show


Wednesday 04 April 2018

When, why, and how to avoid, prefer, or tolerate inbreeding
Brad Duthie (Stirling)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 04 April 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1288/show


Wednesday 13 June 2018

IEB Seminar 13th June 2018
David Duneau (Toulouse)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 13 June 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1306/show


Wednesday 28 February 2018

EDEN Seminar: On why we need more life history oddities to examine life history evolution
Rob Salguero-Gomez (Oxford University)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 28 February 2018, 14:00 - 16:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1328/show


Wednesday 05 December 2018

Hosted or as a whole: intestinal eukaryotes of hybridising house mice and other wildlife
Emanuel Heitlinger (Berlin)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 05 December 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1385/show


Wednesday 03 October 2018

Phytoplankton Adaptation to Global Warming – Insights from Resurrection Experiments and Ecosystem Modelling
Inga Hense (Hamburg)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 03 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1386/show


Wednesday 21 November 2018

Insights into early human migrations with modern and ancient genomic data
Anna-Sapfo Malaspinas (Lausanne)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 21 November 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1388/show


Wednesday 24 October 2018

Biodiversity-ecosystem functioning: from experiments to the real world and back again
Eric Allan (University of Bern)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 24 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1392/show


Wednesday 28 November 2018

How do species interactions determine species geographic ranges and biodiversity patterns?
Regan Early (University of Exeter)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 28 November 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1393/show


Wednesday 07 November 2018

Insect immune strategies: Resisting, tolerating and remembering infections
Sophie Armitage (Berlin)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1394/show


Wednesday 14 November 2018

Virus-host specificity and control of host systems
David Robertson (Glasgow)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 14 November 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1395/show


Wednesday 17 October 2018

Killers and protectors: rapid microbial evolution across the parasite-mutualist continuum
Kayla King (Oxford)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 17 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1400/show


Wednesday 27 June 2018

Biodiversity analysis through genomic approaches: implications for understanding and monitoring ecological change at different scales
Mehrdad Hajibabaei (Guelph)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 27 June 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1404/show


Wednesday 31 October 2018

The evolution of Rubisco, upper ocean oxygenation and the Mesozoic Marine Revolution
Ros Rickaby (Oxford)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1406/show


Wednesday 19 September 2018

High as a fly: Pleiotropic consequences of adaptive dopaminergic signaling
Ana Marija Jaksic (Vienna)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 19 September 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1408/show


Wednesday 26 September 2018

Hot and bothered: how do organisms deal with multiple forms of stress?
Andrew Beckerman (Sheffield)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 26 September 2018, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1409/show


Wednesday 16 January 2019

Genomic consequences of asexual reproduction in animals
Tanja Schwander (Lausanne)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 16 January 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1411/show


Wednesday 08 May 2019

IEB Seminar 8th May 2019
Ben Ashby (Bath)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1415/show


Wednesday 27 March 2019

Genomics of adaptation and speciation: Interpreting genomic landscapes and beyond
Reto Burri (Jena)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 27 March 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1512/show


Wednesday 13 March 2019

IEB Seminar 13th March 2019
Greta Bocedi (Aberbeen)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 13 March 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1562/show


Wednesday 06 March 2019

Major transitions in the mating behaviour of plants
John Pannell (Lausanne)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 06 March 2019, 14:10 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1589/show


Wednesday 23 January 2019

Parental decision-making in poison frogs
Eva Ringler (Vienna)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 23 January 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1605/show


Wednesday 20 March 2019

IEB Seminar 20th March 2019
Ellie Harrison (Sheffield)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 20 March 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1612/show


Thursday 22 November 2018

IEB Annual Graduate Student invite 2018
Hanna Kokko (Zurich)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Thursday 22 November 2018, 15:00 - 16:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1635/show


Wednesday 13 February 2019

IEB seminar 13th February 2019
Aoife McLysaght (Trinity College Dublin)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 13 February 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1649/show


Wednesday 05 June 2019

IEB Seminar 5th June 2019
Joana Meier (Cambridge)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 05 June 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1703/show


Wednesday 15 May 2019

IEB Seminar 15th May 2019
John Skelhorn (Newcastle)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 15 May 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1715/show


Wednesday 02 October 2019

IEB seminar 2nd October 2019
Jacek Radwan (AMU Poznan)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 02 October 2019, 14:10 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1720/show


Wednesday 29 May 2019

IEB Seminar 29th May 2019
Marlene Zuk (Minnesota)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:10 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1721/show


Wednesday 22 May 2019

IEB Seminar 22nd May 2019
Josh Firth (Oxford)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:10 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1723/show


Wednesday 18 September 2019

TBC later
Tanja Schwander (Lausanne)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 18 September 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1822/show


Wednesday 25 September 2019

TBC in Sept
Shenna Cotter (University of Lincoln)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 25 September 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1823/show


Wednesday 02 October 2019

Title to be confirmed
Jacek Radwan (AMU Poznan)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 02 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1824/show


Wednesday 09 October 2019

To be confirmed later
Dannie Durand (Pittsburgh)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 09 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1825/show


Wednesday 16 October 2019

To be confirmed
Julie Jaquiery (INRA)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 16 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1826/show


Wednesday 23 October 2019

Still to confirm
Ariel Camp (Liverpool)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 23 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1827/show


Wednesday 30 October 2019

To be confirmed at a later stage
Mirre Simmons (Sheffield)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 30 October 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1828/show


Wednesday 06 November 2019

Still to obtain title
John Skelhorn (Newcastle)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 06 November 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1829/show


Wednesday 20 November 2019

Title still to get
Sandra Breum Andersen (University of Copenhagen)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1830/show


Wednesday 27 November 2019

Awaiting title
Stephen Montgomery (Bristol)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 27 November 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1831/show


Wednesday 04 December 2019

Title awaiting
Göran Arnqvist (Uppsala)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1832/show


Wednesday 15 January 2020

Jonna Kulmuni (University of Helsinki)
Jonna Kulmuni (University of Helsinki)
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 15 January 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1833/show


Wednesday 29 April 2020

Proposed PhD Symposium
To be added later
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 29 April 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1834/show


Wednesday 04 March 2020

Sensory and cognitive adaptations in butterfly brains
Stephen Montgomery, Bristol University
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 04 March 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1965/show


Wednesday 11 March 2020

Post-grad talk
Daniel Bolnick
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 11 March 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1966/show


Wednesday 18 March 2020

Genomic insights into metabolism and fitness
Florencia Camus, UCL
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 18 March 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1967/show


Wednesday 25 March 2020

Evolution of germline-soma genome differences in birds
Alexander Suh, Uppsala
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 25 March 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1968/show


Wednesday 01 April 2020

Differential phenological shifts; climate change leads to ecological relationship problems
Marcel Visser, NIOO Wageningen
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 01 April 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1969/show


Wednesday 06 May 2020

What process(es) drive(s) genetic diversity?
Guillaume Achaz, Paris
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 06 May 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1970/show


Wednesday 13 May 2020

TB added
Emilia Santos, Cambridge
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 13 May 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3)
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1971/show


Wednesday 20 May 2020

Tracking short-term evolution in a pedigreed wild population
Nancy Chen, Rochester
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 20 May 2020, 14:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/1972/show


Wednesday 18 May 2022

Understanding immune responses in patients with visceral leishmaniasis and HIV co-infections
Dr Pascale Kropf
Biology: Institute of Evolutionary Biology Seminar (IEB)
Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00 - 15:00
Venue: Ashworth Laboratories (LT3
http://talks.is.ed.ac.uk/talk/2083/show



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