Organisms and Environment Division Seminar Series 2011-12
Seminars to be held on Thursdays at 13.10hrs-14.00hrs, in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Biomedical Sciences Building, unless otherwise stated.
11th October 2011 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 2 - Dr Michael Bruford
Title: How genetics can help with endangered species conservation
13th October 2011 - POSTPONED DUE TO FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS
Dr Michael Tunney, School of Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast
Title: Anaerobic bacteria in chronic respiratory disease: pathogens or bystanders?
20th October 2011
Professor Dr Simone Sommer, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany
Title: The contribution of immune gene (MHC) diversity to biodiversity conservation
27th October 2011
Dr Mark van der Giezen, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Unversity of Exeter
Title: Weird mitochondria as proxies for understanding eurkaryotic evolution
Tuesday 1st November 2011 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 1 - Dr Sarah Perkins
Title: Facebook for Wildlife - What social network theory can tell us about Ecology
3rd November 2011
Dr Alison Dunn, Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, University of Leeds
Title: Parasites, sex and invasions
10th November 2011
Title: Looking backwards to look forwards; Conservation genetics in a changing world
17th November 2011
Dr Matt Tinsley, Biological and Evironmental Sciences, University of Stirling
Title: Interplays between invertebrate immune defence and the ageing process
24th November 2011
Dr Justin Pachebat, Microbes and Genomics, IBERS, Aberystwyth
Title: Sequencing anything and everywhere - what next?
1st December 2011
Professor David Scanlan, School of Life Sciences, The University of Warwick
Title: From ecology to genomics: how oceans of genomes are illuminating our understanding of marine picocyanobacteria
8th December 2011
Professor David Lloyd, Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Light from Life
15th December 2011
Dr Graeme Nicol, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Aberdeen
Title: Understanding the role of archaea in the paradox of nitrification in acidic environments
12th January 2012
Dr Ian Hardy, School of Biosciences, The University of Nottingham
Title: Chemistry and the behaviour of parasitoid wasps
19th January 2012
OnE-Dr Jean-Francois Mboumba, Universite des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku, Gabon
Title: Comparative Phylogeography of two savannah rodents suggest a persistent fragmentation of Savannah-forest mosaic landscape in West central Africa
2nd February 2012
Professor Angus Buckling, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford
Title: Bacteria-virus coevolution: lab, wild and applications
9th February 2012 - Physiology Lecture Theatre A, Biomedical Sciences Building
Title: Goods thinking versus tree-thinking: How the tree of life hypothesis is inadequate and what we might do to replace it
Friday 10th February 2012 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 2 - Dr Eshwar Mahenthiralingam
Title: Good bugs, bad bugs - Are some bacteria schizophrenic or just older and wise than us all?
16th February 2012 - Physiology Lecture Theatre A, Biomedical Sciences Building
Title: Beacons, decoys and stealth foraging: Echoacoustic communication between
bats, moths and flowers
23rd February 2012 - Physiology Lecture Theatre A, Biomedical Sciences Building
Dr Bert Engelen, ICBM, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Title: Microbial processes within the subsurface of tidal-flat sediments
1st March 2012 - Physiology Lecture Theatre A, Biomedical Sciences Building
Dr Mike Brockhurst, Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour Department, University of Liverpool
Title: Exploring the evolutionary ecology of microbes in the lab and in the wild
Friday 2nd March 2012 - Physiology A Lecture Theatre at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talks Year 1 - Dr Julian Marchesi
Title: Molecular microbial ecology of the human gut in health and disease: To me you're just a tube
8th March 2012
Dr Elva Robinson, Department of Biology, The University of York
Title: Distributed decisions: New insights from radio-tagged ants
15th March 2012 - Cancelled
Dr Kathryn Monk, Environment Agency Wales
Title: TBA
22nd March 2012
Professor Alan Gange, School of Biological Sciences, Royal Holloway, London
Title: Endophyte fungi in herbaceous plants: mutualists or antagonists?
26th April 2012
Dr Mhairi Gibson, Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of Bristol
Title: Evolutionary life history theory and the demographic impact of a rural international development project in Southern Ethiopia
3rd May 2012
Dr Olivier Restif, Cambridge Infectious Diseases, Cambridge University
Title: Using ecological approaches to understand the dynamics and evolution of immune defences
10th May 2012
Dr Clare Bryant, Immunology, Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge
Title: What can maths and physics do for infection biology?
Details on more speakers and titles to follow shortly.