Seminars on Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour
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 |