Event recordings
Watch and listen to recordings of our past presentations.
13 August 2020
Dr Rod Peakall, Division of Ecology and Evolution, RSB, ANU
Native Australian orchids have featured strongly in Rod's research, where he has explored a range of fascinating ecological, biochemical, molecular and evolutionary questions...
6 August 2020
Jonathan Losos, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA
Jonathan Losos will speak on his career-long experimental research program manipulating the presence of lizards on small islands in the Bahamas to test ecological and evolutionary...
30 July 2020
Lucy Aplin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Konstanz, Germany
There is an increasing body of evidence for the existence of animal cultures. Recent work has also suggested cultural traits can be subject to selection, changing in form,...
28 July 2020
Rod Peakall, E&E, RSB
Annals of Botany Special Lecture by Professor Rod Peakall (ANU) at the Botany 2020 - Virtual meeting July 27-31, USA
23 July 2020
Vivek Nityananda, Newcastle University
Praying mantises are the only insects known to have stereo vision. We used a comparative approach to determine how the mechanisms underlying stereopsis in mantises differ from...
9 July 2020
Rob Lanfear, E&E, RSB
Having spent much of the last 15 years trying to improve molecular phylogenetics, I had formed the fairly firm view that my research was very interesting (of course!!!) but rather...
9 July 2020
Stephanie Courtney Jones, Nicotra Group, E&E, RSB
The central islands of Indonesia, between Java, Bali and Kalimantan (Borneo) on the west and Papua on the east - are a living laboratory for the study of evolution, known as the...
2 July 2020
Douglas J. Emlen, The University of Montana
Every animal has a weapon of one sort or another, but the overwhelming majority of weapons stay small. Yet, sprinkled through the tree of life are species where weapons become...
24 June 2020
Dr Megan Outram, Post Doc, Williams Group, RSB
Plant pathogens cause disease through secreted effector proteins, which act to modulate host physiology and promote infection. Often, effector proteins lack sequence identity to...
11 June 2020
Michael J Ryan, University of Texas & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
Choosing a mate is one of the most important decisions an animal can make. The fitness costs and benefits of mate choice have been analysed extensively in the context of sexual...