Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology


2008-03-06 16:00: mRNA quality control: How do cells recognize and degrade aberrant mRNAs? (Elisa Izaurralde, Max Planck Inst Developmental Biology, Tuebingen)

2008-05-22 16:00: Molecular Architecture of the novel RNA binding protein Rrp47 and its role in Exosome-Mediated RNA Processing and Surveillance (Phil Mitchell, University of Sheffield)

2008-05-29 16:00: What comes next in biological microscopy? (Brad Amos, MRC Molecular Biology Cambridge)

2008-06-05 16:00: Fossils and phylogeny: a waste of time? (Matthew Wills, University of Bath)

2008-06-12 16:00: Evo-Devo and 'Typological Thinking': An Exculpation (Tim Lewens, University of Cambridge)

2009-01-15 17:15: Endless Flies Most Beautiful (Sean Carroll: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA)

2009-05-21 16:00: Studies of wound healing and inflammation in flies (Paul Martin, University of Bristol)

2009-05-28 16:00: Ecomorphological diversification and origins of major clades in early mammal evolution (Zhe-Xi Luo, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh)

2009-06-04 16:00: Synchronization of the Drosophila circadian clock by daily light and temperature fluctuations (Ralf Stanewsky, Queen Mary College, University of London)

2009-06-11 16:00: Plasticity of sex pheromone detection in male moths: modulation of behaviour and central nervous processing (Sylvia Anton, Centre de Recherches de Versailles)

2009-10-20 16:00: The Evolution of Creationism (Eugenie Scott, National Center for Science Education USA)

2010-03-04 17:15: What it means to be an organism: a case study of a social amoeba (Professor Joan Strassmann, Rice University, Houston, Texas)

2010-05-20 16:00: From genes to shape: notions from the study of the Drosophila tracheal system (Jordi Casanova, Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Barcelona)

2010-05-27 16:00: Specification of muscle identity in Drosophila (Laurence Dubois, Centre de Biologie du Développement, Toulouse)

2010-06-03 16:00: p38 SAPK signaling protects the Drosophila larval hindgut against chronic stress (Hugo Stocker, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zurich)

2010-06-10 16:00: Opening a window on primate and afrotherian evolution: new early Tertiary mammals from Algeria and Tunisia (Rodolphe Tabuce, Université Montpellier 2)

2011-05-26 16:00: Genetics and  physiology of growth in Drosophila (Pierre Leopold, Institute of Developmental Biology and Cancer, University of Nice, France)

2011-06-02 16:00: The development and modulation of amphibian motor control systems (Keith Sillar, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Scotland)

2011-06-09 16:00: Trying to make sense of all that nonsense (-mediated mRNA decay) (Oliver Mühlemann, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Berne, Switzerland)

2011-06-16 16:00: Microfossils for macroevolution: planktonic foraminifera, the Court Jester and the Red Queen (Prof. Andy Purvis, Imperial College, London)

2011-10-26 13:00: Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development (Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK)

2012-05-30 13:00: Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci (Matthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK)

2012-06-06 13:00: The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System (Johannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona)

2012-06-13 13:00: From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution (Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.)

2012-10-09 16:00: MAD World (Alasdair Houston - University of Bristol, UK)

2012-10-23 16:00: Ecological genetics of life history and host plant adaptation in the Glanville fritillary butterfly (Maaike de Jong - University of Helsinki, Finland)

2013-01-22 16:00: Inclusive fitness versus multi-level selection: equivalent approaches to social evolution? (Samir Okasha -  University of Bristol, UK)

2013-05-29 13:00: Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors (Melinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK)

2013-06-05 13:00: Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila (Christen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal)

2013-10-15 16:00: Fishy cognition (Culum Brown (Macquarie University))

2013-11-12 16:00: Maternal and paternal effects on offspring behavior and survival (Katie McGhee, University of Illinois)

2014-05-21 13:00: Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements (Hannah Long (University of Oxford))

2014-10-14 16:00: The Assembly of Coevolving Interactions (Prof. John N Thompson, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2014-10-28 15:00: How does a bird know what nest to build? (Dr Sue Healy, University of St Andrews)

2014-11-04 16:00: Competition, cooperation and the evolution of weapons (Dr John Fitzpatrick, University of Manchester)

2014-11-11 16:00: Variation in the anti-predator defences of aposematic organisms (Dr Bibiana Rojas Zuluaga, University of Jyvaskyla)

2015-01-13 16:00: Genetic, neuronal and experiential influences on olfactory perception in mice (Dr Darren Logan ( Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute))

2015-01-27 16:00: Cooperation under the bark: Understanding sociality and symbioses in ambrosia beetles (Dr Peter Biedermann, Max Planck Research Group Insect Symbiosis)

2015-05-20 13:00: Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape (Christen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência))

2016-05-18 13:00: Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics (Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard))

2019-05-29 13:00: Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development (Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center)

2023-10-26 17:30: LCLU Annual Talk: On Life's Origins: a View from Astrophysics (Prof Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University, USA)