Past seminars

Seminars on Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour

2022/2023

05.10.2022	Tom Cameron	School of Life Sciences, University of Essex, UK	Demographic approaches to population ecology and evolution: our why every question is a mite question!
12.10.2022	Rocco Notarnicola	Evolutionary Biology Group, AMU	An Alpine plant's responses to warming temperatures: from plasticity to molecular pathways
26.10.2022	Jan Jedlikowski	Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw	8th Marcin Antczak Award for an outstanding ornithological paper(s) published in 2021: What can we find by studying elusive Rallide bird species?
09.11.2022	Neha Pandey	Evolutionary Biology Group, AMU	Density-dependent selection and its effect on population dynamics and stability in fruit flies
30.11.2022	Katarzyna Malinowska	Population Ecology Lab, AMU	Making virtual species less virtual by reverse engineering of spatiotemporal ecological models
18.01.2023	Joanna Rutkowska	Institute of Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Biology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland	Family secrets revealed: meta-analytical insights into non-genetic maternal and paternal effects
08.03.2023	Sylwia Pustkowiak	Institute of Nature Conservation PAS, Kraków	The effect of social information and habitat heterogeneity on the distribution of birds
15.03.2023	Thomas M. Wolfe	Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection, Austria	The influence of horizontally aquired Wolbachia on invasive cherry fruit fly populations: A multi-perspective study
22.03.2023	Małgorzata Niśkiewicz	Dept. of Behavioural Ecology AMU, Poznań	Singing like a bongo: acoustic communication of African wood-doves
29.03.2023	Justyna Kubacka	Museum and Institute of Zoology PAS, Warsaw	Inbreeding depression in a rare songbird, the Aquatic warbler
05.04.2023	Lars Raberg	Lund University, Sweden	Host-pathogen coevolution in voles and man
19.04.2023	Izabela Stachowicz	Dept. of Geobotany and Plan Ecology, University of Łódź	Different faces of disturbances - habitat loss, hunting and wildfire in Venezuela
24.05.2023	Andrew Hacket-Pain	University of Liverpool, UK	Combining tree growth and reproduction to understand forest responses to climate change
31.05.2023	Valentin Journé	Forest Biology Center AMU, Poznań	A black box in ecology: seed production in perennial plants
07.06.2023	Dave Kelly	University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
21.06.2023	Larissa Arantes	Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Germany	Unravelling the evolutionary history and conservation threats of endangered species through Genomics

2021/2022

13.10.2021 11:30	Katerina Sam	Biology Center Academy of the Czech Republic & University of South Bohemia	6th Marcin Antczak Award ceremony and special lecture by awarded Katerina Sam: "Birds - their senses and ecological importance"
13.10.2021 11:30	Paweł Mirski	University of Białystok & Estonian University of Life Sciences	7th Marcin Antczak Award ceremony and special lecture by awarded Paweł Mirski: "The use of birds of prey movement data in landscape ecology"
17.11.2021	Maciej Ejsmond	Genomics and Experimental Evolution Group, Jagiellonian University, Poland	How adaptive immunity shapes life histotry evolution
24.11.2021	Joseph Tomkins	School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia	The evolution of dizygotic twinning in humans
15.12.2021	Anna Roberts	Institute of Human Biology and Evolution, AMU Poznań, Poland	Social brain hypothesis and gestural communication in wild chimpanzees
12.01.2022	Tom Price	Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK	Male fertility and climate change
19.01.2022	Zuzanna Rosin	Department of Avian Biology and Ecology, AMU, Poznań, Poland	Village modernization: an overlooked driver of farmland bird declines?
26.01.2022	Przemysław Kurek	Department of Plant Ecology and Environmental Protection, AMU Poznań, Poland	Seed dispersal in forests - natural processes in unnatural landscapes
02.02.2022	Michał Brzozowski	Department of Hydrobiology, AMU Poznań, Poland	The ecological and applicable role of charophytes in aquatic ecosystems in the time of climate change
23.03.2022	Agata Staniewicz	Department of Behavioural Ecology, AMU Poznań, Poland	Incorporating acoustic surveys into the monitoring of threatened crocodiles
30.03.2022	Paweł Szymański	Department of Behavioural Ecology, AMU Poznań, Poland	Passive acoustic monitoring: a non-invasive method to eavesdrop on vocal taxa
13.04.2022	Magdalena Herdegen-Radwan	Department of Behavioural Ecology, AMU Poznań, Poland	The role of associative learning in evolution of sexual preferences
20.04.2022	Soumen Mallick	EcoBio, Université de Rennes, France	Distantly related neighbours of host trees can prevent insects from matching tree traits: insect phenotypes and leaf damage on oak trees
27.04.2022	Jonathan Parrett	Evolutionary Biology Group, AMU Poznań, Poland	The role of sexually selected traits in shaping genetic variation
25.05.2022	Agnieszka Majer	Population Ecology Lab, AMU Poznań, Poland	Dynamics of the niche and fitness differences in the light of modern coexistence theory
08.06.2022	Gary Hein	Department of Entomology, University of Nebraska – Lincoln, USA	An invasive found to be right at home in North America: the effects of host, dispersal, and environment

2020/2021

04.11.2020 12:00-13:30	Martyna Molak-Tomsia	Laboratory of Paleogenetics and Conservation Genetics, Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw, Poland	A window to the past. Ancient DNA in population genetics, phylogenetics and epidemiology.
18.11.2020 14:30-16:00	Jessica Stephenson	Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, USA	Host behaviour drives parasite transmission and evolution in wild guppy populations
25.11.2020 12:00-13:30	Małgorzata Gazda	Institut de Biologie de l’École normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL, Paris, France	Genetic basis of carotenoid coloration in birds
02.12.2020 12:00-13:30	Mathieu Mahamoud-Issa	Department of Behavioural Ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	The Yellow Breasted Barbet (Trachyphonus margaritatus) uses specific calls to introduce duets and choruses
16.12.2020 12:00-13:30	Sándor Zsebők	Behavioural Ecology Group, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary	The sequential organization of animal signals - what can we learn from the collared flycatcher
13.01.2020 12:00-13:30	Szymek Drobniak	Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland School of Biological, Environmental and Earth Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia	Bird brain: not so social after all
20.01.2020 14:30-16:00	Aneil Agrawal	Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Canada	Evolution with two sexes

2019/2020

09.10.2019 Mała Aula 12:00-14:00	Łukasz Jankowiak	Department of Vertebrate Zoology and Anthropology, Institute for Research on Biodiversity, University of Szczecin, Poland	5th Marcin Antczak Award ceremony and special lecture by awarded Łukasz Jankowiak: "Seks, starzenie się i przeżywalność w wielkim mieście. Z perspektywy kosa"
10.10.2019 czwartek Mała Aula 12:00	Maria A. Rodrigo	Cavanilles Institute for Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain	Restoration of coastal habitats, mainly wetlands
16.10.2019		WYDARZENIE SPECJALNE: KURS BIOLOGII TROPIKALNEJ	Spotkanie z prowadzącymi kurs oraz studentami, którzy wzięli w nim udział w 2019 r. oraz spotkanie informacyjne dla studentów zainteresowanych wyjazdem w roku 2020
23.10.2019	Karl-Heinz Frommolt	Museum for Natural History, Leibnitz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, Germany	Bioacoustic monitoring of birds
06.11.2019	Mateusz Konczal	Evolutionary Biology Group, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	The role of sexual reproduction, hybridization and local adaptation in parasite evolution: insights form population genomics of a monogenean fluke
20.11.2019	Piotr Minias	Department of Biodiversity Studies and Bioeducation, University of Łódź, Poland	The black-headed gull: a model in behavioural and genetic research
27.11.2019	Rob Knell	School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University in London, UK	Sexual selection, adaptation and extinction
11.12.2019	Krzysztof Argasiński	Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academy of Sciences	What is Darwinian fitness? From individual interactions to population growth
22.01.2020	Tomasz Osiejuk	Department of Behavioural Ecology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	When a male looks like a female, he must have a whistle (solos and duets in the yellow-breasted boubous)
29.01.2020	Shinichi Nakagawa	Inter-Disciplinary Ecology and Evolution Lab, Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, Sydney, Australia	A behavioural ecologist meets meta-analysis and falls in love…
04.03.2020	Piotr Zieliński	Genomics and Experimental Evolution Group, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland	Heterogeneous introgression in newt hybrid zones

2018/2019

03.10.2018	David Berger	Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Sweden	Sex- and environment dependent mutation and selection
10.10.2018	Jakub Szymkowiak	Population Ecology Lab, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	4th Marcin Antczak Award ceremony and special lecture by awarded Jakub Szymkowiak: "Strategie uczenia się i podejmowania decyzji u świstunki leśnej"
17.10.2018	Shawn Meagher	Department of Biological Sciences, Western Illinois University, USA	DNA barcoding and anatomy reveal 3 cryptic species of white grub (Posthodiplostomum spp.) infecting fishes in an Illinois lake
24.10.2018	Gerald Heckel	Computational and Molecular Population Genetics, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, Switzerland	Evolutionary and ecological feedbacks between rodent and virus speciation
07.11.2018	Rafał Zwolak	Department of Systematic Zoology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	Replication crisis and why it is not a problem for ecologists
28.11.2018	Freerk Molleman	Department of Systematic Zoology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	Evolutionary ecology of bodily damage: butterfly wing damage as a window on predation
12.12.2018	Silvia Cattelan	University of Padova, Italy	Harsh conditions shift the balance between pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection
09.01.2019	Karol Zub	Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Białowieża, Poland	Effect of climate change and human activity on population dynamics of small mammals
23.01.2019	Roger Colominas-Ciuró	Dept. of Vertebrate Zoology, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland	Ecophysiological factors and life history strategies in marine top predators
13.02.2019	Sharina van Boheemen	Department of Ecology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic	The relationship between plumage colouration & song performance in the yellowhammer Emberiza citrinella
27.02.2019	Olaf Thalmann	Dept. of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Metabolic Diseases at Poznań University of Medical Sciences, Poland	The genomic impact of Bioinvasions – a case study of two aliens
13.03.2019	Jacek Radwan	Evolutionary Biology Group, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	Evolution of alternative, sexually selected phenotypes
20.03.2019	Jonathan Parrett	Oxford University, UK	The effect of sexual selection on adaptation and extinction: insights from the laboratory and field
27.03.2019	Magdalena Migalska	Evolutionary Biology Group, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	Evolution of the number of MHC genes: testing the optimality hypothesis
03.04.2019	Jamie Winternitz	Dept. of Animal Behaviour, Bielefeld University, Germany	Individual MHC immune gene diversity: implications for fitness and communication in humans and banded mongooses.
24.04.2019	Piotr Bentkowski	Sorbonne Université, Institut Pierre Louis d'Épidémiologie et de Santé Publique, France	Data-driven modelling of influenza diffusion and evolution: how to understand a disease using computers and data?
15.05.2019	Agata Plesnar-Bielak	Molecular and Behavioral Ecology Group, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland	Investigating mechanisms and ecology of sexual conflict
22.05.2019	Lechosław Kuczyński	Population Ecology Lab, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	The niche, co-existence and biotic interactions
29.05.2019	Pedro Leitão	Department Landscape Ecology and Environmental Systems Analysis, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany	Bird responses to forest structure in Central European forests: a case study in the Zuricher Canton

2017/2018

25.10.2017 Mała Aula, 12:15-14:00	Michal Šulc	Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic (Brno)	3rd Marcin Antczak Award ceremony and special lecture by awarded Michal Šulc: 'The truth about Cuckoo's nest'
08.11.2017	Karl Grieshop	Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University, Sweden	Population implications of sexual conflict and sexual selection
15.11.2017	Jim Kaufman	Department of Pathology University of Cambridge, UK	Generalists and specialists: a new view of how MHC class I molecules are involved with disease
22.11.2017	Sara Magalhães	Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, University of Lisbon, Portugal	Polyandry and host-symbiont conflicts in spider mites
13.12.2017	Justyna Wolińska	Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology, Berlin, Germany	Parasites promote host diversity and ecosystem stability
10.01.2018	Michał Bogdziewicz	Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland & Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre, University Autonoma de Barcelona	Masting in trees: interactive effects of pollination, resources, and weather
24.01.2018	Maciej Błaszak	Institute of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	The predictive mind
21.03.2018	Piotr Tryjanowski	Instytut Zoologii, Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy w Poznaniu	Antropogeniczne źródła pokarmu: wpływ na populacje, gatunki i ekosystemy
28.03.2018	Witold Wachowiak	Evolutionary Biology Group, AMU, Poznań, Poland	Divergence and selection on evolutionary and ecological timescales in pines
11.04.2018	Maciej Grzybek	Department of Tropical Parasitology, Medical University of Gdansk	PolVole Project - a long term biomonitoring of bank voles from N.E. Poland
25.04.2018	Krzysztof Kowalski	Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland	Rola jadu rzęsorka rzeczka w polowaniu i gromadzeniu zapasów pokarmu
23.05.2018	Małgorzata Arlet	Institute of Anthropology, AMU	Reproductive strategies and their health consequences in African arboreal primate
30.05.2018	Tobias Lenz	Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön, Germany	Trade-offs between pathogen resistance and autoimmunity shape genomic variability of MHC immune genes
06.06.2018	Anne-Laure Geboes	University of Liège, Belgium	Corn bunting's dialects in a highly fragmented farmland habitat
13.06.2018	Maud Charlery	Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Changes, University of Lisbon, Portugal	Host specialization within a phytophagous insect community: The case of Tephritidae species in La Réunion
20.06.2018	Michał Budka	Department of Behavioural Ecology, AMU, Poznań, Poland	Functions of duets and chorus in Chubb’s cisticola

2016/2017

05.10.2016	Jiří Reif	Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic	2nd Marcin Antczak Award ceremony and special lecture by awarded Jiří Reif: "Mechanisms of speciation in two nightingale species: insights from ecology, behavior and genetics".
12.10.2016	Mateusz Konczal	Center for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona	Czego możemy się dowiedzieć badając genom biegusa łyżkodziobego?
26.10.2016	Zofia Prokop	Institute of Environmental Sciences, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland	Sex, genetic variation, and multiple paradoxes
23.11.2016	Łukasz Grewling	Aeropalynology Lab, AMU, Poznań, Poland	Spatio-temporal dynamics of pollen in the air: the role of production, release and dispersion
30.11.2016	Marcin Dziuba	Department of Hydrobiology, AMU, Poznań, Poland	Daphnia against climate change - old threats, new quality
07.12.2016	Tobiasz Druciarek	Dept. of Plant Pathology, Division of Agriculture, University of Arkansas, USA	Mites as vectors transmitting the Rose rosette virus
14.12.2016	Łukasz Michalczyk	Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland	To be or not to be a slag? A lesson from flour beetles
04.01.2017	Jan Jedlikowski	Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Poland	The adaptive value of habitat preferences from a multi-scale spatial perspective: a case study with rallies
18.01.2017	Mirka Dabert	Molecular Biology Techniques Lab, AMU, Poznań, Poland	Molekularna rewolucja w biomonitoringu, czyli plusy i minusy analizy eDNA
22.02.2017	David Richardson	University of East Anglia, UK	Telomeres as biomarkers of cost and quality in the Seychelles warbler
01.03.2017	Konrad Hałupka	Department of Behavioral Ecology, Wrocław University, Poland	Information flow in a network of dispersed signallers-receivers
29.03.2017	Rafał Zwolak	Department of Systematic Zoology, AMU	How individual variation in seed-dispersing animals matters for plants
05.04.2017	Stanisław Rusiecki	Department of Behavioural Ecologyy, AMU	The meaning of beauty. On ornaments of the Bluethroats.
12.04.2017	Karl Phillips	Evolutionary Biology Group, AMU	The host-parasite arms race in guppies
17.05.2017	Krzysztof Kościński	Institute of Anthropology, AMU	Dobór płciowy a ewolucja kobiecych piersi
24.05.2017	Pavel Linhart	Department of Behavioural Ecology, AMU	Is it good to sound different? Why and how to study information about individual identity in vocalizations?
31.05.2017	Wiesław Babik	Molecular and Behavioral Ecology Group, Jagiellonian University, Kraków	Balancing selection facilitates introgression of newt immune genes