Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series
Seminars from the RSB Division of Ecology and Evolution (E&E).
15
Jun
2023
Past events
25
May
2023
E&E Seminar: Five Fabulous Faculty Flash Talks »
Every speaker will have five minutes to speak followed by a five-minute question period. Timing rules will be rigidly enforced.
11
May
2023
E&E Seminar: How intraspecific variation, phenotypic plasticity, and rapid evolution influence the maintenance of species diversity »
Understanding how diversity is maintained in biological systems is a fundamental problem in biology. When addressing this problem, ecologists tend to focus on mechanisms that maintain species diversity, while typically ignoring the ecological and evolutionary consequences of diversity within species.
28
Apr
2023
E&E PhD Exit Seminar: The price of pleasure: How sex affects your body and your future »
What is the meaning of life? … I’m afraid the answer is disappointingly simple: Mating. That’s it” written by the author Oliver Markus.
27
Apr
2023
E&E Seminar: Cockatooing around: social cognition in an urban-dwelling parrot »
Group-living animals form social relationships that can influence their fitness in a variety of ways.
14
Apr
2023
E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Complexities of carbon, traits and tree performance in tropical forest »
Tropical forests are globally important ecosystems that have absorbed a large portion of CO2 from fossil fuel emissions to date.
23
Mar
2023
E&E Seminar: Mate choice in the brain: Species differ in how male traits ‘turn on’ gene expression in female brains »
Substantial research demonstrates the importance of mate choice to speciation, yet we know little about the molecular mechanisms that underpin this crucial decision-making process.
16
Mar
2023
E&E Special Seminar: Modelling movement and interactions of biological organisms: resolution of a hundred year old problem on lattice random walks »
In many biological processes the emergence of spatio-temporal patterns depends on the interaction between pairs of individuals, agents or subunits comprising the whole system.
09
Mar
2023
E&E Seminar: Is love just a chemical attraction? Pair bonding in primates and lizards »
Social interactions regulate our behavior and physiology, and connections between social well-being and health may be one reason why individuals who are happy with their relationships live longer.
23
Feb
2023
E&E Seminar: Sexual conflict in complex environments »
Sexual conflict occurs when male and female evolutionary interest do not coincide and is an important determinant of population viability and evolvability.
09
Dec
2022
E&E PhD Exit Seminar: Small insects, Big pattern: ecomorphological evolution of a hyperdiverse beetle radiation »
Beetles account for almost one quarter of all living species on earth. Yet, the drivers of this superradiation remain unclear. Previous studies have centred on morphological innovation, co-evolution with angiosperms or diversification into a variety of niches as potential causes.
03
Nov
2022
E&E Seminar: Molecular mechanisms underlying rapid evolution during invasion »
Exotic invasions offer an ideal opportunity to investigate evolution, which often occurs rapidly when organisms are introduced to novel environments.
20
Oct
2022
E&E Seminar: Our rather surprising highland grasslands and their future: the ecology and ecophysiology of an ecosystem »
Highland grasslands present a familiar landscape to anyone keen on mountain areas. These ecosystems are aesthetically pleasing, support many endemic species and are important grazing lands for both native animals and stock.
18
Oct
2022
13
Oct
2022
E&E Seminar: Better together? Group decision making in velvet worms, social insects and giant amoebas »
Organisms display a wide variety of social behaviours ranging from nesting aggregations to parental care to the amazingly complex societies found in eusocial insects such as honeybees, termites and ants.
02
Sep
2022
E&E PhD Exit Webinar: The ecological niche of human-associated Escherichia coli (E. coli) »
Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains are responsible for the majority of extra-intestinal infections in humans, including urinary tract infections, neonatal meningitis, and bacteraemia.