Tea Room, Department of Zoology


2009-01-30 17:00: How can the invasive Asian clam help us tackle freshwater pollution? (Nicole Spann)

2009-01-30 17:30: The interaction of epigenetic remodelling and nuclear reprogramming, following nuclear transfer to an amphibian oocyte (Richard Halley-Stott)

2009-02-06 17:00: Microcephaly genes and primate brain size evolution (Stephen Montgomery (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group))

2009-02-06 17:30: Information-Energy trade-offs in spiking and graded cells (Biswa Sengupta (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Vision Group))

2009-02-13 17:00: Somatic knock-ins + Chemical Genetics = Unveiling the specific roles of Cdk1 and Aurora A (Paola Marco (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group))

2009-02-13 17:30: Large-scale genetic structure and the demographic history of the domestic horse (Vera Warmuth (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Archaeogenetics Group))

2009-02-20 17:00: Genetic linkage and reproductive isolation in Heliconius butterflies (Richard Merrill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Butterfly Genetics Group))

2009-02-20 17:30: Pups and personality: Individual variation in helping behaviour in cooperative meerkats (Sinead English (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group))

2009-02-27 17:00: Investigating nuclear reprogramming of the mammalian inactive X chromosome by somatic cell nuclear transfer to Xenopus laevis oocytes (Vincent Pasque (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology))

2009-02-27 17:30: The importance of forest fragments in the oil-palm matrix. Could parasitoids save the rainforest? (Tim Cockerill (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Insect Ecology Group))

2009-03-06 17:00: Deceptive signalling strategies in the fork-tailed drongo (Tom Flower (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Bird Behavioural Ecology Group))

2009-03-06 17:30: Evo-devo and the bristle patterning of flies: attempting targeted transfer of gene regulatory regions between species (Richard Wallbank (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Skylab))

2009-04-24 17:00: Elucidation of cyclin A function in the human cell cycle through proteomics (Felicia Walton (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Cell Biology Group))

2009-04-24 17:30: The genetics of pigmentation in the Red-billed quelea (Neil Walsh (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Evolutionary Genetics Group))

2009-05-01 17:00: Contextual influences in filial imprinting; behaviour and neural correlates (Stephen Town (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology))

2009-05-01 17:30: Silicification in Eukaryotes (Alan Marron (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Development and Evolution Group))

2009-05-08 17:00: Histone modification changes upon DNA damage (Jorrit Tjeertes (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology))

2009-05-15 17:00: Genetic susceptibility to bovine tuberculosis in UK cattle (Erin Driscoll (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Molecular Ecology Group))

2009-05-15 17:30: Variation in response to intruder scent cues in meerkats (Cesar Raff Mares (University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology, Large Animal Research Group))

2009-11-07 17:00: The Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Blood (John Cannon)

2009-11-13 17:00: The Role of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins in Blood (John Cannon)

2009-11-20 17:30: Seabirds as Indicator Species in the Southern Ocean (Claire Tancell)

2009-11-27 17:00: Biomechanical Problems of Load Transport: How Grass-Cutting Ants Avoid Falling Over (Karin Moll)

2009-11-27 17:30: Natural Hybridization in Heliconius Butterflies and the Role of Hybridization in Biological Diversification (Patricio Salazar)

2009-12-04 17:00: A Bird's Eye View: Egg Pattern Mimicry by the Common Cuckoo (Mary Caswell Stoddard)

2009-12-04 17:30: Information and Energy Optimization in the Fly Visual System (Nikon Rasumov)

2010-01-15 17:00: The Influence of Phase Change on Learning and Memory in Desert Locusts (Patricio Simoes)

2010-01-15 17:30: Signatures of Historical Demography and Pathogen Richness on MHC Genes (Nouar Qutob)

2010-01-22 17:00: Integrating Costs into Priorities for Conservation Planning in a Biodiversity Hotspot (Jonathan Green)

2010-01-22 17:30: Top Tips for Organ Shape (Helen Weavers)

2010-01-29 17:00: Shells and Stones: Molluscan Analyses as a Means of Characterizing Hominin Habitats during the Pleistocene (Tom White)

2010-01-29 17:30: Analysis of Kinesin-1 function during Drosophila melanogaster oogenesis (Lucy Williams)

2010-02-05 17:30: Population Dynamics in Meerkats (Andrew Bateman)

2010-02-12 17:00: The Regulation of Motoneuron Dendrite Growth in the Fruit Fly Larva (Maarten Zwart)

2010-02-12 17:30: Identifying PCNA Interactors in Human Cells (Simon Cooper)

2010-02-19 17:00: A Total Evidence Analysis of Ruminant Systematics (Eva Baermann)

2010-02-19 17:30: Life-history trade-offs in the evolution of insect parental care (redux) (James Gilbert)

2010-02-26 17:00: Replication Fork Dynamics - In Vivo Analysis of PCNA-interacting Proteins (Shiphali Shetty)

2010-02-26 17:30: Organizational Principles of the Locomotor Network of Drosophila Melanogaster (Temur Yunusov)

2010-03-05 17:00: Exploring the Relationship between Extinction Risk and Skewed Adult Sex Ratios (Jo Venables)

2010-11-12 17:00: Jaws 5: The Beginning (Kelly Richards)

2010-11-12 17:30: The Ins and Outs of Fly Guts (Paula Cognigni)

2010-11-26 17:00: Scans and Skulls and Holes and Moles (Nick Crumpton)

2010-11-26 17:30: Developmental and functional crosstalk between the Drosophila gut and its neighboring tissues (Gerit Linneweber)

2010-12-03 17:30: Friday night at the movies: Fluorescence, lasers and 4D (Matt Benton)

2011-01-21 17:30: Planar Cell Polarity: pointing towards the right direction (Pedro Saavedra)

2011-01-28 17:00: The Arts of Aerobatics and Origami in Insect flight (Kristien de Clercq)

2011-01-28 17:30: How do cells coordinate entry to mitosis? (Agata Lichawska)

2011-02-04 17:00: The centipede Strigamia maritima and the evolution of arthropod head patterning (Vera Hunnekuhl)

2011-02-04 17:30: Landscape change and its biological consequences in the Amazonian forest (Jose Ochoa-Quintero)

2011-02-11 17:30: Investment and maternal strategies in cooperative breeders (James Savage)

2011-02-25 17:00: Neural Circuits Involved in Kicking and Jumping in Locusts and Crickets (Armando Castillo)

2011-02-25 17:30: Title to be confirmed (Tom Clements)

2011-03-04 17:30: The genetic basis of Mullerian mimicry in Heliconius melpomene (Carolina Pardo-Diaz)

2011-11-04 17:00: Genome re-sequencing reveals narrow islands of divergence among radiating butterflies.  (Simon Martin)

2011-11-04 17:30: Offspring sex ratio bias in meerkats (or a lack thereof).  (Kirsty MacLeod)

2011-11-25 17:30: Stripes and rings: how to make a centipede.  (Jack Green)

2011-12-09 17:30: Flies and cameras in times of economic crisis. (Francisco Hernandez)

2012-02-10 17:30: An invasive species as a biofilter to improve water quality: using the bad guys for good.  (Claire McLaughlan)

2012-02-10 17:30: Understanding locust phase-shift.  (Katja Stettin)

2012-02-24 17:30: Are epiphytes important in oil palm plantations?  (Graham Prescott)

2012-02-24 17:30: Roles of sperm factors in the nuclear reprogramming. (Marta Teperek)

2012-03-16 17:30: Startle displays: halting predator attack.  (Alexandra Torok)

2012-03-23 17:30: A window to the past: Does adult ornamental plumage reveal early life environments? (Leila Walker)

2012-04-20 17:30: Ecological Transactions go Bonk. (Yangchen Lin)

2012-05-25 17:30: Intensification of West African agriculture: socio-economic processes and gender-influenced patterns in bird distribution.  (Hope Usieta)

2012-05-25 17:30: Migrants in winter: how do ecological conditions in Africa affect the individual success of trans-Saharan migratory birds? (Marjorie Sorensen)

2012-11-09 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Yanmin Zhou)

2012-11-09 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Pieter Santema)

2013-02-08 16:00: Title to be confirmed (Dave Daversa)

2013-02-08 16:30: In the Belly of the Beeb (Nick Crumpton)

2013-02-22 16:30: Do mites influence social interactions in the burying beetles, Nicrophorus vespilloides? (Ornela De Gasperin Quintero)

2013-03-08 17:00: Jumping without slipping: spiders need sticky feet for take-off (Hanns Hagen)

2013-03-22 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Marius Somveille)

2013-03-22 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Ramona Mogling)

2013-04-05 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Alexander Hackmann)

2013-04-05 17:00: Title to be confirmed (David Labonte)

2013-05-03 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Krzysztof Kozak)

2013-05-03 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Alexis Braun)

2013-05-31 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Lina Maria Arenas)

2013-05-31 17:00: How to bridge the gaps between conservation science and practice (Jessica Walsh)

2013-06-28 16:30: Title to be confirmed (Kwaku Aduse-Poku)

2013-06-28 17:00: Title to be confirmed (Thanh-Lan Gluckman)

2013-12-06 16:30: Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services (Speaker to be confirmed)

2013-12-06 16:30: Finding the balance: agriculture, biodiversity, and ecosystem services (Speaker to be confirmed)

2014-01-24 16:30: Investigation of the molecular mechanisms of Minute competition in Drosophila (Iwo Kucinski (University of Cambridge))

2014-01-24 17:00: Diversity and function of stream invertebrates in tropical forest and oil palm ecosystems in Sabah, Malaysia: Effects of habitat conversion and strategies for conservation (Sarah Luke (University of Cambridge))

2014-02-07 17:00: The role of previous social experience on risk-taking and leadership behaviour in three-spined sticklebacks (Jolle Jolles)

2014-02-21 16:30: Modelling the Drosophila pair-rule gene system (Erik Clark)

2014-02-21 17:00: Cow vs. bird: Balancing food production and biodiversity conservation in the Neotropics (David Williams (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-21 17:00: Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species. (Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge))

2014-03-21 17:00: Cricket’s Playlist: an evolutionary neuroanalysis of the singing central pattern generators in different cricket species. (Pedro Jacob (University of Cambridge))

2014-07-11 17:00: Consistency in leaf use by tooth-billed bowerbirds (Carmen Panayi)

2014-07-25 16:30: Periodic incremental markings in the enamel of cynodonts and mammaliaforms: the origin of mammalian growth patterns (Rachel O'Meara)

2014-07-25 17:00: Antigenic variation among dengue viruses (Leah Katzelnick)

2014-08-08 16:30: Foraging ecology, distribution and individual specialisation of brown skuas (Ana Carneiro)

2014-08-08 17:00: Conservation of reef sharks in Arabia: between science and fisherman gossip (Dareen Almojil)

2014-08-22 16:30: The Bush-crow, the swallow, and a curious climate bubble (Andrew Bladon)

2014-08-22 17:00: Acoustic classification of New World bats based on phylogenetic and ecological constraints on call design (Veronica Zamora-Gutierrez)

2014-11-28 16:30: The Fitness Exchange Hypothesis (Ana Mosterin (University of Cambridge))

2014-11-28 17:00: Behavioural mechanisms limiting cheating behaviour in the cleaner wrasse Labroides bicolor (Max Gray)

2014-12-05 16:30: Simultaneous camouflage and conspicuous signalling in an island lizard (Kate Marshall)

2014-12-05 17:00: Heliconius butterflies: How do bird predators perceive them? (Denise DD (University of Cambridge))

2016-02-26 16:30: Rewilding and the Future of HNV Species – does restoring flood disturbance recreate suitable habitat for HNV species? (Tim Kasoar - Department of Zoology)

2016-02-26 17:00: Ancient genome reveals continuity in East Asia over the last 9,000 years (Veronika Siska - Department of Zoology)

2016-03-11 16:30: The role of individual differences in defining a species niche (Anne-Sophie Bonnet-Lebrun - Department of Zoology)

2016-03-11 17:00: An assessment of individual learning abilities and their phenotypic traits in wild chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) (Claudia Martina Luna - Department of Zoology)

2016-04-22 16:30: The comparative landscape of duplications in Heliconius melpomene and Heliconius cydno  (Ana Pessoa Pinharanda - Department of Zoology)

2016-04-22 17:00: Selecting For Plasticity in the Harlequin Ladybird (Lea Van De Graaf - Department of Zoology)

2016-11-11 16:30: Speciation in Heliconius butterflies: Pheromones and Female Choice (Kathy Darragh - Department of Zoology)

2016-11-25 16:30: Early life social behaviour and learning in juvenile Hihi (Victoria Franks - Department of Zoology)

2016-12-09 16:30: Walking response of crickets depends on surface structure of the substrate (Edith Julieta (Julie) Sarmiento-Ponce - Department of Zoology)

2016-12-09 17:00: Can phenotypic plasticity allow specialist parasites to colonise new hosts? (Gabriel Jamie - Department of Zoology)

2017-04-21 16:30: The role of p53 in cell competition and leader cell migration (Katarzyna (Kasia) Kozyrska - Department of Zoology)

2017-04-21 17:00: Communication and Coordination: how individuals shape groups (Riva Riley - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-05 16:30: How do predators use social information about defended prey? (Liisa Hämäläinen - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-05 17:00: Ageing Rates in Meerkats (Jack Thorley - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-19 16:30: How does exposure to prenatal cortisol affect foraging success in meerkats? (Tejasvini Chalikonda - Department of Zoology)

2017-05-19 17:00: Insects at the extreme: midges, beetles, DNA and physiology in the Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic regions. (Felipe Simões - Department of Zoology)

2017-06-02 16:30: Red vs. Yellow: Genetics of carotenoid coloration in weaverbirds (Hanlu Twyman - Department of Zoology)

2017-06-02 17:00: Competitive coexistence between phoretic mites: between ecology and biomechanics? (Syuan-Jyun Sun - Department of Zoology)