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4 upcoming talks and 46 talks in the archive.

What triggered the Cambrian Radiation?

UserRachel Wood, University of Edinburgh.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 12 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

Unlocking the evolutionary secrets of a key innovation in the world’s most variable daisy inflorescence, Gorteria diffusa

UserJoshua Kestel, University of Cambridge (Department of Plant Sciences).

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 05 March 2026, 13:00-14:00

State-dependent cognitive biases in bees

UserVivek Nityananda, Newcastle University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 26 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

The mutational process in primate spermatogenesis inferred from HiFi long read sequencing of testis and sperm samples

UserMikkel Heide Schierup, Aarhus University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 19 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Climate impact attribution for wildlife species

UserMax Kotz, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 12 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Two Tales of Anthropogenic Hybridization in Human-Altered Marine Habitats

UserNicolas Bierne, Université de Montpellier.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 05 February 2026, 13:00-14:00

Conserving and Restoring Coastal Ecosystems

UserTom Worthington, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 29 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

Quantifying the contribution of actions to reduce species extinction risk using ‘STAR’

UserLouise Mair, Newcastle University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 22 January 2026, 13:00-14:00

The role of climate in shaping past demography and evolution in humans

UserAndrea Manica, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 04 December 2025, 13:00-14:00

Ecology in Every Cell: what comparative somatic genomics can reveal about ageing, evolution, and the environment

UserAlex Cagan, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 27 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Objectives, ecology, cool tools and people: on ingredients to managing ecosystem change on reefs

UserProf. Maria Beger, University of Leeds.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 20 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of germ-line restricted and unrestricted genomes in diptera

UserKamil Jaron, Sanger Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 13 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Unlocking the secrets of dolphin cooperation in the wild

UserStephanie King, University of Bristol.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 06 November 2025, 13:00-14:00

Population genomics in the African malaria vector Anopheles funestus over the past century

UserPetra Korlevic, Sanger Institute.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 30 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Joint seminar session with two half length talks from Arman and Sam (please see 'Abstract' for talk titles)

UserArman Pili/Sam Turner, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 23 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

The evolution of evolvability

UserPaul Rainey, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 16 October 2025, 13:00-14:00

Color pattern evolution in jumping spiders (Salticidae) [UPDATED TIME]

UserCynthia Tedore, University of Hamburg.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 17 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Contribution of mitonuclear genomes to evolutionary processes

UserFlo Camus, UCL.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Using AI to understand what works in conservation and other stories

UserSam Reynolds, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Echinoderms in a changing ocean

UserMiles Lamare, University of Otago.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

What we (un)know about Neotropical montane species of butterflies

UserKarina Lucas Da Silva Brandao, Leibniz-Institut zur Analyse des Biodiversitätswandels.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Social Immunity: the colony-wide immune system of insect colonies 

UserSylvia Cremer, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Speciation with gene flow, assortative mating and chemical senses: insights from genomics

UserCarole Smadja, Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 18 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

The Sensory Ecology of Navigation

UserMarie Dacke, Lund University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Quantifying & predicting resilience from individuals, to populations, to whole communities

UserRoberto Salguero-Gómez, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockFriday 07 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

The causes and consequences of marine human wildlife conflict

UserKatrina Davis, University of Oxford.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 06 March 2025, 16:00-17:00

A telomeric tale: 2500 years of human betaherpesvirus evolution

User Dr Charlotte Houldcroft, Department of Genetics.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 25 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Pee in the sea: Consumer-mediated nutrients in marine ecosystems

UserIsabelle Cote, Simon Fraser University.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockThursday 20 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

The roles of chromosomal rearrangements and hybridisation in the rapid diversification of Ithomiini butterflies

UserJoana Meier.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 11 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

The functional (trait) dimension of biodiversity

User Manuela González-Suárez, University of Reading.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 12 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Predicting Emergent Properties of Spatially Structured Microbial Systems

UserSimon van Vliet, University of Basel .

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockMonday 04 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Connecting from genes to behavior during the diversification of sea fireflies

UserDr Nicholai Hensley, Department of Zoology.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 29 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Species-level morphological changes on geological time scales: cheilostome bryozoans as a study system

UserProfessor Lee Hsiang Liow, University of Oslo.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 22 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Mass extinctions and community structure through the Phanerozoic

UserAlexander Dunhill; University of Leeds, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 05 March 2024, 16:00-17:00

Evolutionary Genetics of Visual Preferences: Beauty, Brains and Butterfly Diversity

UserRichard Merrill; LMU Munich, Germany.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 27 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

The genetic basis of a recent transition to live-bearing in marine snails

UserSean Stankowski; University of Sussex, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 20 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

The evolution of (almost) everything

UserArmand Leroi; Imperial College London, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 13 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Decoding time information from sun and moon for the regulation of physiology and behavior

UserKristin Tessmar-Raible; Max Perutz Labs, Austria.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 06 February 2024, 16:00-17:00

Novel ecoinformatic approaches to help monitor and solve the biodiversity crisis

UserJoe Millard; Natural History Museum, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 23 January 2024, 16:00-17:00

Seeing the world in a new light: Polychaete worms wriggle winding evolutionary paths to vision

UserMichael Bok; Lund University, Sweden.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 28 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Iridescence as Camouflage

UserKarin Kjernsmo; University of Bristol, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 21 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Evolution of sensory-driven behaviours in blind cavefish

UserSylvie Retaux; NeuroPSI, France.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 14 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Phenotypes, Fossils, and the Reach of Microevolution

UserGabriel Bever; Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, USA.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 07 November 2023, 16:00-17:00

Evolution of neurons and neuropeptides in early animal lineages

UserMaria Sachkova; University of Bristol, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 24 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Task-dependent vision in the marine environment

UserMartin How; University of Bristol, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 17 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Exploring the role of lighting, pattern and habitat geometry on animal behaviour, evolution and conservation

UserJolyon Troscianko; University of Exeter, UK.

HousePart II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

ClockTuesday 10 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

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