The IEG Seminar series ‘Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution’
The IEG Seminar series ‘Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution’ is one of the department’s platforms for postgraduate education and scientific interaction among research programs. With internationally renowned speakers presenting their latest work it also builds an important bridge to the worldwide eco-evolutionary science community.
Fall 2020
Tuesday, 8 September 3pm, ZOOM (link in the email invitation)
Speaker: Jacquieline Sztepanacz (University of Toronto, Canada)
Title: "Evolutionary limits: disentangling the roles of pleiotropy and stabilizing selection"
Host: Thomas Richards
Tuesday, 6 October 2pm Place to be announced
Speaker: Dominic Wright (Linköping University, Sweden)
Title: "The genomics of feralisation and the regulation of behavioral, parasite load, and structural colour variation"
Host: Jacob Höglund
Tuesday, 20 October 2pm ZOOM (link in the email invitation)
Speaker: Rui Borges (University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria)
Title: "Modeling and measuring selection at different time scales"
Host: Carina Farah Mugal
Tuesday, 3 November 2pm ZOOM (link in the email invitation)
Speaker: Natalie Pilakouta (University of Aberdeen, Scotland)
Title: "Evolution of behaviour: stickleback to the future and nature’s undertakers"
Host: Matilda Andersson
Tuesday, 17 November 2pm Place to be announced
Speaker: Stefano Manzoni (Stockholm University, Scotland)
Title: "Similarities and differences between carbon and nutrient dynamics in terrestrial and aquatic systems"
Host: Dolly Kothawala
Tuesday, 1 December 2pm ZOOM (link in the email invitation)
Speaker: Emily Josephs (Michigan State University, US)
Title: "The evolutionary forces shaping gene expression variation in plants"
Host: Martin Lascoux
Tuesday, 15 December 2pm ZOOM (link in the email invitation)
Speaker: Florence Debarre Josephs (iEES Paris, France)
Title: TBA
Host: Claus Rüffler
Contact: elina.immonen[at]ebc.uu.se