Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology , Downing Street, CB2 3EJ


2008-10-17 13:00: Control of encrusting organisms in water treatment works (Beccy Mant, Aquatic Ecology Group)

2008-10-17 13:00: Bryozoan, Cordylophora and sponge biofouling in UK water treatment works (Rebecca Mant, Aquatic Ecology Group)

2008-10-24 13:00: Comprehensive, effectively managed, and ecologically representative national and regional marine protected area networks – will we meet the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2012 target? (Sue Wells, UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre)

2008-10-31 13:00: Farming and biodiversity in India - Title TBC (Malvika Onial, Conservation Science Group)

2008-11-07 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Tatsuya)

2008-11-07 13:00: Predicting the impact of agricultural management on fat deposition and grazing damage by white-fronted geese (Dr. Tatsuya Amano, Conservation Science Group)

2008-11-14 13:00: Protected Areas - title TBC (Ian Craigie, Conservation Science Group)

2008-11-14 13:00: P-p-p-problems with penguins- how population genetics and tagging studies can reveal the cryptic ecology of penguins. (Tom Hart, Penguinologist, Institute of Zoology)

2008-11-21 13:00: Measuring protected area performance - Large vertebrate population declines in Africa's protected areas (Ian Craigie, Conservation Science Group)

2008-12-05 13:00: Farming and the future of forest biodiversity in Ghana (Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group)

2008-12-05 13:00: Farming and the future of forest biodiversity in Ghana (Ben Phalan, Conservation Science Group)

2009-01-23 13:00: Land use effects on birds of conservation concern in the Midwestern United States (John McCarty and Lillian Wolfenbarger)

2009-02-06 13:00: Evolution of Bird Colour in a Tetrahedral Colour Space (Cassie Stoddard, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group)

2009-02-20 13:00: Ecology and Conservation of the Lesser Kestrel in Portugal (Ines Catry, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Conservation Science Group)

2009-03-06 13:00: Parental care in burying beetles (Sheena Cotter, University of Cambridge Department of Zoology, Behavioural Ecology Group)

2009-04-24 13:00: 25 decades of dodgy data (Prof. Tim Sparks)

2009-05-01 13:00: Species and diversity patterns in complex human-dominated landscapes: an Atlantic forest case study (Dr Renata Pardini, University of São Paulo)

2009-05-08 13:00: Risk taking, learning, and strategy choice: experiments with humans, bees, and sparrows (Prof. Arnon Lotem)

2009-05-11 13:00: Host-parasite arms races in bird colour space (Dr Martin Stevens and Dr Claire Spottiswoode, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2009-10-09 13:00: When satellites help predicting animal distribution, movement and performance (Dr. Nathalie Pettorelli, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London)

2009-10-16 13:00: Wildlife surveys and site management: the role of volunteers in local conservation work (Dr Ed Turner, Ecology Groups Officer, The Wildlife Trust)

2009-11-06 13:00: Botanising in Cambridgeshire and North East England (Monica Frisch, Cambridge Natural History Society)

2009-11-13 13:00: Investigating the potential use of the sexually transmitted mite, Coccipolipus hippodamiae, in controlling populations of the invasive ladybird Harmonia axyridis (Emma Rhule, Genetics Department, Cambridge University)

2009-11-20 13:00: Supporting local conservation overseas: land purchase as a strategy for conservation (Claire Thompson, World Land Trust, UK)

2010-01-26 13:00: Global Models of Mammal Distribution (Dr Carlo Rondinini, Sapienza University of Rome)

2010-01-29 13:00: Conservation in the Bolivian Amazon: Canoes, Capybara and Climate Change (Claudia Comberti)

2010-03-05 13:00: TALK CANCELLED (Gustavo Canale)

2010-03-12 13:00: Is chytrid fungus, a global scourge of amphibians, having an effect on the UK's rarest amphibian? (Peter Minting, Institute of Zoology)

2010-04-22 13:00: Can Eco-compensation Restore Natural Forest in Xishuangbanna, China? (Yi Zhuangfang, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden)

2010-10-22 13:00: Setting meaningful restoration goals for a globally imperiled habitat (Philine zu Ermgassen, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge)

2010-10-29 13:00: Natural Resource Management - An Ecologist's Perspective (Dr. Martyn Murray, MGM Environmental Solutions / University of Edinburgh)

2010-11-05 13:00: Rainforest conversion and tropical insect communities (Sarah Luke, University of Cambridge)

2010-11-12 13:00: The status and distribution of freshwater biodiversity in Northern Africa (Nieves Garcia. IUCN)

2010-11-19 13:00: To be connected or not? Floodplain restoration and aquatic diversity (Dr Amael Paillex, Aquatic Ecology and Biology Lab, University of Geneva)

2011-01-21 13:00: Who killed the megafauna? A tale of climate change, murder and mystery. (David Williams and Graham Prescott, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-18 13:00: Movement of British macro-moths through fragmented agricultural landscapes (Claire McLaughlan, University of Cambridge)

2011-02-25 13:00: Modelling the distribution of Freshwater Invasive Species across Europe (Dr Belinda Gallardo, Aquatic Ecology Group, University of Cambridge.)

2011-03-04 13:00: Conservation and Corporations (Emma Marsden, University of Cambridge)

2011-07-15 13:00: The convoluted evolution of behavior: insights from bird eggs and songs (David C. Lahti,  Department of Biology,  Queens College, The City University of New York (CUNY))

2011-09-30 13:00: Colony defense by post-reproductive adults and young nymphs in a social aphid (Keigo Uematsu. Department of General Systems Studies, University of Tokyo.)

2011-10-06 16:00: Luminal sensing and neuromodulation in the gut: different roles for PYY and NPY (Helen Cox, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College, London)

2011-10-13 16:00: Genetic basis of group dynamics in Drosophila (Joel Levine, Department of Cell & Systems Biology, University of Toronto, Canada)

2011-10-20 16:00: Looking for novel regulators of cell morphogenesis using microscopy-based functional genomics approaches (Rafael Carazo Salas, The Gurdon Institute, University of Cambridge)

2011-11-03 16:00: Physiomimetics: generating functional membranes for buildings (lessons from the ventilation systems of African fungus-growing termites) (Rupert Soar, Wolfson School of Engineering at Loughborough University)

2011-11-10 15:30: Developmental function and possible role in morphological evolution of the vertebrate Cdx genes (Stephen Gaunt, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge)

2011-11-17 16:00: Nano-scale pathfinders: how kinesins move along the microtubule (Zeynep Oekten, Institute for Cell Biology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany)

2011-11-18 13:00: Unravelling ecological dynamics at a macro scale: application of hierarchical models (Dr Tatsuya Amano, Conservation Science Group)

2011-11-24 16:00: Dynamics of mammalian chromosome evolution (Aurora Ruiz Herrera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)

2011-11-25 13:00: The importance of evaluating conservation  management actions: unexpected outcomes of invasive predator control for  malleefowl conservation (Jessica C. Walsh, Conservation Science Group)

2011-12-01 16:00: The molecular and neuronal control of nutrient decisions in Drosophila (Carlos Ribeiro, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal)

2012-01-19 16:00: Local coordination of cell polarity through cell-cell interactions (Professor David Strutt - MRC Centre for Developmental and Biomedical Genetics, University of Sheffield)

2012-01-26 16:00: From fly embryos to single molecule studies: elucidating molecular mechanisms of cytoplasmic mRNA transport (Dr Simon Bullock, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology)

2012-02-02 16:00: The role of mitochondrial DNA in neuronal development and neurodegeneration (Dr Joseph Bateman, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London)

2012-02-09 16:00: Regulating the actin cytoskeleton during Drosophila oogenesis (Dr Margot Quinlan, UCLA)

2012-02-16 16:00: Organogenesis during planarian regeneration (Dr Jochen Rink, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics)

2012-02-23 16:00: Statistical inference in the fossil record: estimating the divergence time of primates (Professor Simon Tavaré,  Department of Oncology University of Cambridge)

2012-02-24 13:00: Predictive models in ecology: case studies of invasive fire ants and fire risks (Yohay Carmel, Technion Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel)

2012-03-01 16:00: Strategies to ensure robustness in genome replication (Prof. Julian Blow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation & Expression, University of Dundee)

2012-03-02 13:00: Empowering generations of conservation leadership - myth or reality! (Kiragu Mwangi, Birdlife International)

2012-03-08 16:00: Potentials and Challenges of Developing Ecosystem-Based Co-management: A Case Study From the Swedish West Coast (Dr Andrea Morf, University of Gothenburg, and the Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment)

2012-03-09 13:00: Biodiversity after forty years of human re-colonization in the Amazon forest (Jose Manuel Ochoa-Qunintero, Conservation Science Group, University of Cambridge)

2012-03-15 16:00: All things bright and beautiful; structural colour in biological systems (Dr Pete Vukusic, Department of Physics, University of Exeter)

2012-03-30 13:00: Mapping plant diversity across the scales (Laurens Geffert, Nees Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn)

2012-03-30 13:00: Mapping plant diversity across the scales (Laurens Geffert, Universität Bonn)

2012-04-26 16:00: The physics of bird coloration (Professor Doekele Stavenga, University of Groningen, NL.)

2012-05-03 16:00: Without a leg to stand on: locomotion in the earliest "land" animals (Dr Stephanie Pierce, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge and The Royal Veterinary College, London)

2012-05-10 16:00: Controlling recombination: from worms to human disease (Professor Simon Boulton, CRUK Clare Hall Laboratories, UK.)

2012-05-17 16:00: Neurochemical control of aggression  - insights from crickets (Professor Paul Stevenson, University of Leipzig, Germany)

2012-07-05 16:00: Cows under the radar: The genetics of tuberculosis susceptibility in Britain (Bill Amos - Department of Zoology)

2012-07-19 16:00: 'Bacterial community diversity of the American alligator gastrointestinal tract' ( Sarah Keenan - Louisiana State University)

2012-07-26 16:00: Be careful what you wish for: the issues and politics of generating a potentially human-to-human transmissible bird flu virus (Professor Derek Smith. Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.)

2012-10-04 16:00:  From Mammoth to Microscope: Life History and Dental Development in Mammals (Dr Wendy Dirks, University of Newcastle)

2012-10-10 14:00: Microtubule assemblers (Rob Cross, Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology,Warwick Medical School )

2012-11-01 16:00:  From VB Wigglesworth to H-factors. Lessons from my first 50 years of research (Peter A. Lawrence, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge)

2012-11-08 16:00: Ephrin and netrin synergy in spinal motor neuron axon guidance (Dr. Artur Kania, Neural Circuit Development research unit Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal (IRCM))

2012-12-10 17:00: Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of today with a complex evolutionary history. (Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany)

2012-12-13 17:00: Mouse deer and Water chevrotain: peculiar artiodactyl mammals of  today with a complex evolutionary history  (Dr Gertrud Rössner, Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie Munich, Germany)

2013-04-18 16:00: Open Access: common good or uncommon danger? (Stephen Curry (Imperial Collge London))

2013-04-25 16:00: Nature's glass: half-full or half-empty (Andrew Balmford (Department of Zoology, Cambridge))

2013-05-02 16:00: Life, death and resurrection in the Early Carboniferous (Jenny Clack (Department of Zoology, Cambridge))

2013-05-13 16:00: Neural circuits of C. elegans olfactory behavior and plasticity  (Yun Zhang, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Brain Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA)

2013-05-16 16:00: Museums and Science (Ian Owens (Natural History Museum, London))

2017-09-05 13:00: Bringing Partula  up to date: from Captain Cook to the 2017 search for lost snails. (Dr. Justin Gerlach)

2017-09-26 14:00: Complex Homology and the Neuromolecular Evolution of Social Behavior (Hans Hoffmann (University of Texas at Austin))

2017-10-10 13:00: You are what you eat? Gut bacteria and mating preferences in Drosophila (Zenobia Lewis (University of Liverpool))

2017-10-17 13:00: Rapid host and pathogen co-evolution following a severe emerging infectious outbreak (Camille Bonneaud (University of Exeter))

2017-10-24 13:00: Adaptive radiations and species(?) diversity (Per Lundberg (Lund University))

2017-10-31 13:00: When males lose their fathers genome: the why and how of a remarkable reproductive system (Laura Ross (University of Edinburgh))

2017-11-07 13:00: Can social networks explain why females cheat? (Julia Schroeder (Imperial College London))

2017-11-14 13:00: Neurophysiology in the field: What can it tell us about the ecology of acoustic communication? (Heinrich Römer (University of Graz))

2017-11-21 13:00: Genetic and Epigenetic Control of Parental Care (Chris Cunningham (Swansea University))

2017-11-28 13:00: Growing old yet staying young: do bats hold the secret of extended longevity? (Emma Teeling (University College Dublin))

2018-01-23 13:00: Neural circuitry of a polycystin-mediated hydrodynamic startle response in Platynereis: from genes to ecology (Gáspár Jékely (University of Exeter))

2018-01-30 13:00: Paleogenomics beyond humans (Michi Hofreiter (University of Pottsdam))

2018-02-06 13:00: Evolution in island colonising birds: silvereyes of the south Pacific (Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford))

2018-02-13 13:00: Benefits of social relationships in carrion crows (Claudia Wascher (Anglia Ruskin University))

2018-02-20 13:00: Cognition in the wild: foraging hummingbirds and building nests (Sue Healy (University of St. Andrews))

2018-03-13 13:00: CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION   (Jennifer Perry (University of Oxford))

2018-04-24 13:00: On the origin of human sociality: Ape minds and the evolution of Homo sapiens (Christopher Krupenye (University of St. Andrews))

2018-05-01 13:00: Neuroethology of a striking crustacean, the mantis shrimp (Dr Kate Feller, Dept of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience (University of Cambridge))

2018-05-08 13:00: Fuxianhuiids and their exceptional contribution to the early evolution of Cambrian euarthropods (Javier Ortega Hernandez (Dept of Zoology, Cambridge))

2018-05-15 13:00: Illuminating the start of complex life: Spatial analysis of Ediacaran ecosystems (Dr Emily Mitchell, Earth Sciences (University of Cambridge))

2018-07-13 13:00: THE CHEMICAL WARFARE BETWEEN PLANTS AND INSECTS: From pathway discovery to  functional diversification of  toxins (Professor Søren Bak , University of Copenhagen)

2018-09-04 13:00: What genes made us human, and how much did they cost? (James Sikela, UC Denver)

2018-10-09 13:00: Timing and pattern of tooth eruption – Investigation of their evolution in wild and domestic mammals (Madeleine Geiger (University of Cambridge))

2018-10-16 13:00: Epigenetics and social insects (Eamonn Mallon (University of Leicester))

2018-10-23 13:00: Evolution of ant social chromosomes and bumblebee diversity (Yannick Wurm (Queen Mary University of London))

2018-10-30 13:00: Darwin’s Unfinished Symphony. How culture made the human mind (Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews))

2018-11-06 13:00: The tension between generality and diversity: what makes biology so cool (Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich))

2018-11-13 13:00: Sexual conflict in ecological context (Jen Perry (University of Oxford))

2018-11-20 13:00: Social learning? So what! Looking for evolutionary consequences of social information use. (Rose Thorogood (University of Cambridge and University of Helsinki))

2018-11-27 13:00: Evolution on the wing (Owen McMillan, STRI)

2018-12-11 13:00: Alarm calls and interspecific eavesdropping (Robert Magrath (Australian National University))

2019-01-22 13:00: Pleiotropy, chance and predictability in the genetic paths of evolution (Virginie Courtier-Orgogozo (Institute Jacques Monod))

2019-01-29 13:00: High-throughput synchrotron X-ray imaging of extant and fossil insects (Thomas van de Kamp (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology))

2019-02-05 13:00: Through a glass darkly - interpreting animal behaviour with the aid of machines (Alex Jordan (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology))

2019-02-12 13:00: Speciation, horizontal transfer and the evolutionary genomics of bdelloid rotifers (Tim Barraclough (Imperial College London))

2019-02-19 13:00: Why do females fight? (Eleanor Bath (University of Oxford))

2019-02-26 13:00: Linking all the things: towards a biodiversity knowledge graph (Roderick Page (University of Glasgow))

2019-03-05 13:00: The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild (Susan Johnston (University of Edinburgh))

2019-03-12 13:00: Microbial evolution in the human gut (Pauline Scanlan (University College Cork))

2019-03-15 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Cosima Porteus (University of Exeter))

2019-03-19 13:00: Title to be confirmed (Alexandra K. Schnell (University of Cambridge))

2019-10-15 13:00: How coordinated behaviour is achieved through selection, synchrony and sex (James Herbert-Read (University of Cambridge))

2019-10-22 13:00: Phenotypic plasticity and the evolution of eusociality: How does the queen control reproduction in her workers? (Elizabeth Duncan (Leeds University))

2019-10-29 13:00: Why do organisms age? Beyond energy trade-offs (Alexei Maklakov (University of East Anglia))

2019-11-05 13:00: Linking patterns and processes across scales: a case study with Andean hummingbirds (Catherine Graham (Swiss Federal Institute WSL))

2019-11-12 13:00: Causes and consequences of social evolution in spiders (Trine Bilde (Aarhus University))

2019-11-19 13:00: Tracking trade in underground symbioses (Toby Kiers (VU Amsterdam))

2019-11-26 13:00: CANCELLED DUE TO STRIKE ACTION: The complex consequences of simple sociality in wild populations (Josh Firth (Oxford))

2020-01-14 13:00: Ode to the masalai: New Guinea as a crucible for evolution in plants and insects (Simon Segar (Harper Adams University))

2020-01-21 13:00: Origins and extinctions of early vertebrates: a story of ecology, phylogeny, and the fossil record (Rob Sansom (University of Manchester))

2020-01-28 13:00: A deeper take on our sexual nature: Importance of cellular sex and underlying mechanisms (Bruno Hudry (Institute de Biologie Valrose))

2020-02-04 13:00: It's about time: The evolutionary ecology of circadian rhythms during infections (Sarah Reece (University of Edinburgh))

2020-02-11 13:00: The evolution of plasticity for life cycle regulation in seasonal environments (Karl Gotthard (Stockholm University))

2020-02-18 13:00: Longevity, senescence and reproductive variation in wild African elephants. (Phyllis Lee (University of Stirling))

2020-02-25 13:00: Drivers of seabird movements and their fitness consequences (Annette Fayet (Oxford))