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 LT3Ido 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