EvE Seminar

WHEN? Tuesdays at 12:15 WHERE? Currently in Zoom

The seminar is currently organised by Oliver Bossdorf and Madalin Parepa. Write us if you want to be added to the mailing list for annoucements, and follow us on https://twitter.com/EvoEcoTuebingen!

P.S. If you like evolutionary biology, don't miss the Hilgendorf Lectures, our flagship event jointly organised with colleagues from the Geosciences!

Summer 2021

Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95291770095?pwd=TTlDWnMwZTNyNXRoSjZ4cGwwd3hVQT09

Date	Host	Seminar
Apr 20
Apr 27	Plant Evol Ecol	Zhijie Zhang (Konstanz) - Coexistence of alien and native plants
May 4	EvE Institute	Christoph Ratzke (CMFI Tübingen) - Ecological systems biology - Ecological theory meets microbial model systems
May 11	Evol Biol Invertebr	Margarita Yavorskaya - Evolution of head structures in beetles with special emphasis on the feeding apparatus and miniaturized forms
May 18	Comp Zool	Nadja Simons (Darmstadt) - Drivers of insect decline in grasslands - Mechanisms and solutions
May 25		Whitsun break
Jun 1	Plant Ecol	Marzieh Safari - Plant-associated microbes and their impact on crop-environment interactions
Jun 8	Anim Physiol Ecol	Heinz Köhler - Solar radiation stress in terrestrial snails - from thermodynamics to microevolution
Jun 15	Evol Biol Invertebr
Jun 22	Comp Zool	Katharina Foerster - Spatial recognition in harvest mice
Jun 29	Plant Ecol	Rafaella Canessa Mesías - Plant-soil interactions along the Chilean coastal range
Jul 6	Anim Physiol Ecol	Bernd Pelster (Innsbruck) - Living in an acidic and often hypoxic environment - physiological adaptations of Amazonian fishes
Jul 13	Plant Evol Ecol	Robert Rauschkolb - Back to the Future - Seed banks as a tool to investigate recent adaptation to global change
Jul 20	Anim Evol Ecol	Wolfgang Fiedler (MPI Radolfzell) - Movements of southwest German Red Kites: tracking a "politically relevant" raptor
Jul 27	Anim Evol Ecol

Guidelines for speakers

Please keep your presentation to around 35 minutes so that there is still some time for discussion.
Keep in mind that you have a rather broad audience, with a mix of students and more experienced reseachers, and people from different disciplines. Don't assume too much, explain terms, avoid specialized jargon.

Guidelines for hosts

Shortly introduce the speaker at the beginning of the seminar.
Encourage everybody, in particular students, to ask questions. In Zoom, questions can be indicated through "raised hands" or posed directly in the chat. Try to keep an overview and call people individually. If there are students and/or women with questions, give them priority.
Particularly for external speakers: get in touch with them prior to the seminar, organise chats with students and postdocs (this can also be done in Zoom), and organise dinner (post-Covid19). Ask other EvE groups that may be interested to participate.

Past seminars

Winter 2020/21

Nov 3 - Uta Grünert - Multi-strain responses of calcifying algae to lake carbon dynamics

Nov 10 - Oliver Betz - Linking insect functional morphology to ecology, evolution and biomimetics

Nov 17 - Holger Schielzeth (Jena) - Evolutionary ecology of a widespread green-brown polymorphism in grasshoppers

Nov 24 - Isolde van Riemsdijk - Searching for moving hybrid zones in amphibian species with big genomes

Dec 1 - Göran Bengtsson (Lund) - "So soll es sein, so wird es sein" - on the scientific support for the odd interaction between Sweden and the Corona virus

Dec 22 - Ramona Irimia - Plant performance traits and invasion - a global field survey of Japanese knotweed

Jan 19 - Anke Stepphuhn (Hohenheim) - The many layers of defence against herbivores in solanaceous plants

Jan 26 - Robert Junker (Marburg ) - The emergence and functionality of multidiversity in alpine succession

Feb 2 - Jake Soscha (Virgina Tech) - Organismal biomechanics & bioinspired engineering

Feb 9 - Mona Schweizer - Why pH is crucial - Toxicity assessment and modelling approahc of ionisable substances using the Fish Embryo Test (FET)

Feb 16 - Leonie Fischer (Stuttgart) - Urban nature: where people and biodiversity meet

Feb 23 - Christian Voolstra (Konstanz) - The metaorganism frontier - we are not alone

Summer 2020

Apr 14 - Sara Tomiolo - Fight, flight or encroach: how do abiotic stress and biotic interactions affect plant growth and behaviour?

May 12 - Philip Steinhof (Greifswald) - Lifestyle matters: Functional role and plasticity of brain areas in spiders

May 19 - Sara Heshmati - Effect of white clover and perennial ryegrass population on the productivity and yield stability of grass-clover and grass-clover-forb mixtures

Jun 23 - Gesche Blume-Werry (Greifswald) - Invasive earthworms unlock plant nitrogen limitation in arctic tundra

Jun 30 - Nils Anthes - Evidence-based conservation approaches for farmland birds

Jul 7 - Catherine Peichel (Bern) - Genetics of adaptation in sticklebacks

Jul 14 - Oliver Bossdorf - Understanding the secret microbes in plants: effects of a common endophytic fungus on invasive knotweed and its native competitors

Jul 21 - Joscha Beninde (UCLA) - Connectivity and gene flow in urban areas

Winter 2019/20

Oct 22 - Christina Richards - Using genomics approaches to understand mechanisms of response to complex environmental conditions in non-model plants

Oct 29 - Nico Michiels - Do small fish use subtle illumination tricks to detect cryptic predators?

Nov 5 - Jiri Dolezal (Czech Academy of Sciences) - Cold climate plants in a warmer world: 20 years of research in W Himalayas

Nov 26 - Maximiliane Herberich - The emergence of plant community dynamics and functional traits in response to the hydrological regime

Dec 10 - Pieter De Frenne (Ghent) - Microclimatic buffering below forest canopies

Jan 14 - Trishna Dutta (Göttingen) - Carnivore ecology, connectivity, and conservation in a fragmented world

Jan 28 - Anton Morath - The meaning of torsion for a snail's body plan - textbook misconceptions

Feb 4 - Sebastian Büsse (Kiel) - Hunting with catapults: the predatory strike of the dragonfly larva