Spring 2010 SEMINARS

Wednesday Seminar series

The Wednesday series is usually for invited external speakers and occurs throughout the autumn and spring semesters at 4pm in LT3, Ashworth Labs (KB campus). Members of IEB invite speakers and direct them to this page so that they can choose suitable dates. Each host co-ordinates their speaker's visit, which involves setting up their presentation, introducing the talk, chairing questions, and arranging dinner afterwards. Claire Fox in the office will make any B&B arrangements required and takes care of posters and email adverts.

Organiser: Darren Obbard (Darren.Obbard@ed.ac.uk)

Happy Hour Seminar series (Returns Spring 2010!)

This series runs in the spring semester and is aimed at providing all members of IEB with the opportunity to talk to a more general audience than available at lab meetings and journal clubs. Please volunteer to talk - there will be 1 or 2 talks per slot and we are especially keen encourage PhD students and Postdocs. When the Weds series is full, the Happy Hour series can also accommodate visitors that are on sabbaticals etc. to help integrate them into IEB. Happy Hour talks start at 4.30pm in LT3, Ashworth Labs (KB campus).

Organisers: Ben Longdon (B.Longdon@ed.ac.uk) and Craig Walling (craig.walling@ed.ac.uk)

IEB seminars Happy Hour Seminars
Week starting Date Speaker & Title Host Date Speaker(s) & Title(s)
11th Jan 2010 13th Jan 2010 Ashworth Symposium

   
18th Jan 2010 20th Jan 2010 Lori Lawson Handley
University of Hull
"Human population genetics in a clinal world"
Deborah Charlesworth 22nd Jan 2010 CANCELLED
25th Jan 2010 27th Jan 2010 Luc Bussière
University of Stirling
"How fluctuating sexual selection promotes complexity and diversity"
Per Smiseth    
1st Feb 2010 3rd Feb 2010 Katie Hampson
University of Glasgow
"Movers and Biters - superspreading rabid dogs?"
Amy Pedersen 5th Feb 2010 Sarah Knowles
8th Feb 2010 10th Feb 2010 Gil McVean
University of Oxford
"A rapidly-evolving gene drives recombination hotspots in humans"
Brian Charlesworth    
15th Feb 2010 17th Feb 2010 Matthew Tinsley
Stirling University
"Tradeoffs between immune investment and senescence in Drosophila"
Darren Obbard 19th Feb 2010 Vincent Staszewski
22nd Feb 2010 24th Feb 2010 Willem Rens
University of Cambridge
"Sex chromosomes of monotremes: implications for evolution of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation"
Brian Charlesworth    
1st Mar 2010 3rd Mar 2010 Mid-season Break

5th Mar 2010 Nicole Mideo
8th Mar 2010 10th Mar 2010 Roger Butlin
University of Sheffield
"Winkles and the origin of species"
Darren Obbard 12th Mar 2010 Peter Simmonds, CID, University of Edinburgh
The evolutionary basis behind RNA virus recombination in nature and enabling host persistence
15th Mar 2010 17th Mar 2010 Michael Hofreiter
University of York
"25 years after the first quagga sequences: what - if anything - have we learned from ancient DNA?"
Deborah Charlesworth    
22nd Mar 2010 24th Mar 2010 Bill Hughes
University of Leeds
"Sex, size and parasites in social insects"
Tom Little 26th Mar 2010 Jarrod Hadfield
VACATION    
19th April 2010 21st April 2010 PostGrad Symposium

   
26th April 2010 Thusday!
29th April 2010

Time change:
11:00-12:00
in LT3
Ido Pen
University of Groningen
"Climate driven population divergence in sex determining systems"
Laura Ross 30th April 2010 (SBS Symposium)
3rd May 2010 5th May 2010 Karen Spencer
University of Glasgow
"Developmental stress: adaptation or constraint?"
Emma Cunningham    
10th May 2010 12th May 2010 Jon Bridle
University of Bristol
"Adaptation in response to ecological change: how easy, or how slow?"
Darren Obbard 14th May 2010 Mark Blaxter
"Why we must imagine Sisyphus happy: learning to love the deluge of sequence data"
17th May 2010 19th May 2010 Nick Priest
Univeristy of Bath
"Non-heritable additive genetic variation and other bizarre properties of maternal genetic effects"
Alastair Wilson    
24th May 2010 26th May 2010 Adam Eyre-Walker
University of Sussex
"The genetic architecture of complex traits; implications for fitness and genome wide association studies"
Peter Keightley 28th May 2010 Peter Korsten and Craig Walling
31st May 2010 2nd June 2010 Cancelled

   
7th June 2010 9th June 2010 Marcello Ruta
University of Bristol
"TBA"
Brian Charlesworth    
21st June 2010 Monday
21st June 2010
Note day!
Ally Phillimore
Imperial
"Macroecology meets quantitative genetics"
Brian Charlesworth