Ecology and evolution seminars

Ecology and evolution seminars

Royal Society Publishing

This series features a selection of seminars covering outstanding contributions to the fields of ecology and evolution based on articles published in the Royal Society journals Proceedings B, Philosophical Transactions B, Biology Letters, Interface and Royal Society Open Science. Each talk is associated with a recent paper or theme issue, selected by the journal's editors as being particularly innovative or having had significant recent impact.

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Speakers
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Diego Vázquez
Professor Marcel Dorken
Dr Elizabeth A. Sinclair
Miss Jane Edgeloe
Asst. Prof. Michael G. Bertram
Audrée Lemieux
Dr Kristian Forbes
Dr Ingela Alger
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Diego Vázquez
Prof. Peter Vincent
Dr. Michael Roast
Prof Mirco Musolesi
Prof Christine Miller
Dr Pedro Vale
PhD Carlos Bautista
Nichola Hill
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An assessment of cetacean welfare in the Faroe Islands’ drive hunt
Nov 7 @ 2pm
Independent Sector

An assessment of cetacean welfare in the Faroe Islands’ drive hunt

Alick Simmons, Independent Sector
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Habitat and seasonal drivers of leukocyte profiles within and across Neotropical bat species
In preparation
University of Oklahoma

Habitat and seasonal drivers of leukocyte profiles within and across Neotropical bat species

Daniel Becker, University of Oklahoma
Population structure and inter-species admixture within a likely extinct yet formerly widespread Hawaiian honeycreeper
In preparation
Smithsonian Institution
University of Portsmouth

Population structure and inter-species admixture within a likely extinct yet formerly widespread Hawaiian honeycreeper

Natalia Przelomska, Smithsonian Institution and University of Portsmouth

Published seminars

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Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions
Oct 14
Keynote
University of California, Santa Barbara
Emory University

Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions

Laura Simone Lewis, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chaired by Elizabeth Lonsdorf, Emory University
City lizards are more social
Sep 24
Bielefeld University

City lizards are more social

Avery Maune, Bielefeld University
Linking Performance to Powerhouse: Mitochondria Aerobic Metabolism in Blood Cells Reflects Flight Endurance of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)
Sep 22
Universitat de València

Linking Performance to Powerhouse: Mitochondria Aerobic Metabolism in Blood Cells Reflects Flight Endurance of House Sparrows (Passer domesticus)

Riccardo Ton, Universitat de València
Rethinking Thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution
Sep 20
Universidade de São Paulo
University of Toronto

Rethinking Thecodonty: the influence of two centuries of comparative dental anatomy on our understanding of tooth evolution

Gabriel Mestriner, Universidade de São Paulo and University of Toronto
Foraging and thermally-induced phenotypic plasticity interact in the most northerly distributed freshwater fish
Sep 9
University of Glasgow

Foraging and thermally-induced phenotypic plasticity interact in the most northerly distributed freshwater fish

Kevin J Parsons, University of Glasgow
Hidden in plain sound: The scientific potential of house mouse squeaks
Aug 21

Hidden in plain sound: The scientific potential of house mouse squeaks

Sarah M. Keesom, Utica University
Lifespans of the first animals
Aug 15
University of Cambridge

Lifespans of the first animals

Emily Mitchell, University of Cambridge
Exceptional fossils from Peru and an integrative phylogeny reconcile the evolutionary timing and mode of Gavialis and its kin
Aug 4
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia

Exceptional fossils from Peru and an integrative phylogeny reconcile the evolutionary timing and mode of Gavialis and its kin

Camila Zamora-Vega, Museo de Historia Natural (UNMSM)
Arms race of physical defences: hooked trichomes of Macaranga ant-plants kill lycaenid caterpillars, but one specialist has a counter-defence
Jun 26
University of Cambridge

Arms race of physical defences: hooked trichomes of Macaranga ant-plants kill lycaenid caterpillars, but one specialist has a counter-defence

Ritabrata Chowdhury, University of Cambridge