Detailed information
External Seminars 2009 - 2010 | Autumn Semester 2009 | Spring Semester 2010 | Internal Seminars 2009 - 2010 | Topic group - PBPG | Topic group - BEG | Topic group - EGG | Topic group - ECB | Topic group - ND | Topic Group - SLEG
External Seminars 2009 - 2010
The external seminars take place every Wednesday with 12:15 at the Auditorium of Biophore Building
Autumn Semester 2009
| Speaker, Institution, Title | Date, hôte |
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Dr. François Balloux Department of infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College Faculty of Medicine, St Mary's Campus, London The molecular epidemiology of the ongoing 2009 A/H1N1 influenza pandemic |
Wdn, 23 September Ph. Christe |
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Dr. Jukka Jokela ETH Zurich Parasite coevolution and maintenance of sex |
Wdn, 7. October T. Kawecki & S. Vuilleumier |
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Dr. Christian Lexer Université de Fribourg Genetics of speciation in plants |
Wdn, 11. November N. Salamin |
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Dr Gerald Kerth Zoologisches Institut, Universität Zürich and Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen Cooperation, Coordination, and Cognition in Bat Fission-Fusion Societies |
Wdn, 25. November Ph. Christe |
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Dr Leo Beukeboom University of Groningen Evolution and genetics of sex determination in parasitoids |
Wdn, 9. December N. Perrin |
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Dr Mike Siva-Jothy University of Sheffield Trauma, rhythms, immunity and fitness in bed bugs |
Wdn, 16. December T. Kawecki |
Spring Semester 2010
| Speaker, Institution, Title | Date, Host |
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Dr Jean-Christophe Billeter Department of Biology, University of Toronto "Sex, strain and species recognition in Drosophila" |
Wdn, 6. January L. Keller |
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Professor Theo C. M. Bakker University of Bonn "On kin recognition and sexual selection" |
Wdn, 3rd February C. Wedekind |
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Professor John Werren University of Rochester "Using Nasonia and Haploid Genetics to Reveal Evolutionary Genomic Processes of Adaptation and Speciation" |
* Fri, 5. February L. Keller |
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Dr Elva Robinson School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol Individual and Collective Decisions: New Insights from Radio-tagged Ants |
Wdn, 24. February L. Keller |
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Professor Francis Ratnieks Sussex University Title to be announced |
Wdn, 24. March L. Keller |
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Dr Ophélie Ronce Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Université de Montpellier Title to be announced |
Wdn, 14. April S. Vuilleumier |
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Dr Hitoshi Araki Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Title to be announced |
Wdn, 21st April C. Wedekind |
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Dr Michael Hochberg Institut des Sciences et l'Evolution, Université Montpellier II "The Tragedy of the Reviewer Commons" |
Wdn, 5. May A. Roulin |
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Professor Jianzhi Zhang University of Michigan Title to be announced |
Wdn, 2nd June M. Robinson-Rechavi & H. Kaessmann |
Internal Seminars 2009 - 2010
Internal semainars take place every Tuesday with 12:15, room 2213 of the Biophore Building
| Speaker, Title | Date |
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1) Pierre Bize Mitochondrial uncoupling & life-history trade-offs: preliminary results & forthcoming projects |
Tue, 6. October |
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2) Christine Clavien Altruism across disciplines: biology, economics and psychology |
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1) Daniel Cherix Monitoring butterfly diversity in our Swiss National Park |
Tue, 13. October |
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2) Juan van Rooyen The energetics of huddling in two species of mole-rat (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) |
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Alex Kalinka (MPI, Dresden) Comparison of gene expression in Drosophila embryogenesis: evidence for the hourglass model of development |
Tue, 27. October |
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1) Hélène Collin Divergent selection and local adaptation in the cyprinid fish P. phoxinus along an altitudinal gradient |
Tue, 10. November |
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2) Samuel Neuenschwander Reliability of the detection of loci under selection using genome scans |
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1) Robin Engler Future distribution of mountain plants under climate change: does dispersal capacity matter? |
Tue, 17. November |
| 2) Roshan VijendravarmaLife history consequences of adaptation to larval nutritional stress in Drosophila | |
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Sylvia Martinez Good practice for academic research with biological diversity from abroad |
Tue, 24. November |
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Groupes Keller and Perrin Title to be announced |
Tue, 1st December |
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Groupes Robinson et Roulin B. Piasecka: Conservation of genes expression profiles in vertebrates C. Ruppli: Corticosterone induces nestlings to switch from vocal signaling to physical competing in the barn owl |
Tue, 8. December |
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Groupes Salamin et Sanders A. Colard: Effect of genetic exchange in AMF on plant gene expression M. Zaheri: A new Codon mutation model |
Tue, 15. December |
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Groupes Vuilleumier and Wedekind Title to be announced |
Tue, 12. January |
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Dr Irene Keller EAWAG-ETH "Patterns of (adaptive) genetic variation across altitudinal gradients in brown trout" |
Tue, 26. January |
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Pierre Taberlet Title to be defined |
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Topic group - PBPG
Population Biology and Population Genetics
(Alexandre Roulin et Jérôme Goudet)
Groupe de discussion une fois par semaine. L'horaire se décide en fonction des disponibilités des participants. Pour toute information concernant l'horaire contacter Sylvain Antoniazza (Sylvain.Antoniazza@unil.ch).
| Speaker, Title | Date |
Topic group - BEG
Behavioral Ecology Group
(A. Roulin, P. Christe, L. Gigord)
Groupe de discussion chaque jeudi à 12:15, salle 4414 du Biophore.
Dans ce cadre, on discute des travaux effectués mais également prévus par les doctorants et les masters.
*Exceptionally another day, another room or another hour
| Speaker, Title | Date |
Topic group - EGG
Evolutionary Genomics Group
(Marc Robinson-Rechavi, Jérôme Goudet et Pierre Fontanillas)
Every 2nd and 4th Thursday, 12:15, salle 4414, Biophore
Following the discussion of "The origins of genome architecture" by Michael Lynch, we will discuss further the impact of genomics, Evo-Devo, systems biology, and related fields, on our understanding of evolutionary biology.
*Exceptionally another day, another room or another hour
| Speaker, Title | Date |
| Evolutionary plasticity of genetic interaction networks | Thu, 12. March |
| Sequence or regulatory evolution (Paper 1) | Thu, 26. March |
| Sequence or regulatory evolution (Paper 2) | |
| Sequence or regulatory evolution (Paper 3) | |
| Evolvability | Thu, 9. April |
| Evolvability | |
| Human evolution | Thu, 23. April |
| Modularity | Thu, 14. May |
| Modularity | |
| Evo-Devo | Thu, 28. May |
| Evo-Devo | |
| microRNAs | Thu, 11. June |
| microRNAs | |
| Tree of life | Thu, 25. June |
| Tree of life | |
Topic group - ECB
Evolutionary Conservation Biology
(Luca Fumagalli, Nicolas Perrin et Claus Wedekind)
Topic group every Monday at 12:30, room 4414, Biophore Building
*Exceptionally another day, another room or another hour
| Speaker, Title | Date |
Topic group - ND
Niche and Distribution
(Antoine Guisan & Nicolas Salamin)
Topic group every Tuesday at 14:00, room 4414, Biophore Building
This topic group consists in a series of presentation of key papers on the topic, with special focus this semester on phylogenies in relation to niche and distributions.
*Exceptionally another day, another room or another hour
| Speaker, Title | Date |
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Dorothea Pio> Phylogenetic biome conservatism on a global scale (Crisp et al. 2009 Nature) |
Tue, 28. April |
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Aurélien Roger> Influence of phylogeny on fungal community assembly and ecosystem functionning (Maherali & Klironomos 2007 Science) |
Tue, 5. May |
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Loïc Pellissier "Climate change can cause spatial mismatch of trophically interacting species (Schweiger et al. 2008 Ecology)" |
Tue, 12. May |
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Anne Dubuis Functional Traits and Niche-Based Tree Community Assembly in an Amazonian Forest |
Tue, 26. May |
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Blaise Petitpierre ENVIRONMENTAL NICHE EQUIVALENCY VERSUS CONSERVATISM: QUANTITATIVE APPROACHES TO NICHE EVOLUTION (Warren et al. Evolution) |
Tue, 9. June |
| Lucie Buechi | Tue, 16. June |
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Patricio Pliscoff Stability predicts genetic diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest hotspot (Carnaval et al. 2009 Science) |
Tue, 30. June |
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Juan van Rooyen> "Coccinellids in diverse communities: Which niche fits?" |
Tue, 3rd November |
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Fabrice Lalubin> Peterson 2002 |
Tue, 17. November |
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Antoine Guisan, Nicolas Salamin Climate, Niche Evolution and Diversification of the "Bird-Cage" Evening Primroses (Oenothera, Sections Anogra and Kleinia) |
Tue, 1st December |
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Antoine Guisan, Nicolas Salamin "Species distribution models: ecological explanation and prediction across space and time" by Elith & Leathwick, 2009, Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics |
Tue, 15. December |
Topic Group - SLEG
Social Life Ecology and Genetics
(Laurent Keller et Michel Chapuisat)
Topic group, chaque venredi, 14:00 - 15:00, room 4414, Biophore
Dans ce cadre, on discute de résultats obtenus ou d'articles portant sur la génétique, la génomique et l'écologie des insectes sociaux et en particulier des fourmis.
*Exceptionnellement un autre jour, un autre lieu ou une autre heure
| Speaker, Title | Date, host |
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Mark Greco, (Vincent Dietemann group, Bern) Diagnostic radioentomology: a new method to observe nesting ecology and behaviour of social insects |
Fri, 16. October |
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Romain Libbrecht Title to be announced |
Fri, 30. October |
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Danielle Mersch Title to be announced |
Fri, 13. November |
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Dumas Galvez Titre suivra |
Fri, 20. November |
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Thibault Lengronne Title to be announced |
Fri, 27. November |
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Mingkwan Nipitwattanaphon Title to be announced |
Fri, 4. December |
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Professor Vukasin Zrelec Title to be announced |
Fri, 11. Decembre |
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Annabelle Reber Title to be announced |
Fri, 18. Decembre |
