Wednesday 3 June 2015

• 16:00 - Natural capital – how to protect and enhance the natural environment
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA
  School of Geography and the Environment
• 16:00 - Natural capital – how to protect and enhance the natural environment
  Prof. Dieter Helm (University of Oxford)
  Biodiversity Institute talks

Wednesday 31 August 2022

• 13:00 - Using Technology for Wildlife Applications
  Dr Kayleigh Fawcett Williams (WildlifeTek)

Tuesday 6 September 2022

• 14:00 - UK Biodiverse Habitats What Where When WHY?
  Mike Cunningham (9Trees)

Wednesday 5 October 2022

• 14:00 - Gametes to zygotes to self-cloning plants: the importance of being egg-centric
  Venkatesan Sundaresan (UC Davis)

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 16:30 - Root dynamics
  Philip Benfey (Duke)

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 13:00 - Making the most of your mutualistic partner
  Guillaume Chomicki (University of Sheffield)

Monday 31 October 2022

• 16:00 - The power of real-time observations in understanding cellular decision making: Jenkinson Memorial Lecture 2022
  Nancy Papalopulu (Faculity of Life Sciences, University of Manchester)

Monday 14 November 2022

• 16:00 - Modelling the Covid-19 Pandemic in the UK: The Weldon Memorial Prize Lecture 2022
  Professor Graham Medley (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), Professor Julia Gog (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 16:00 - Re-connect people and nature through compelling animated stories
  Giuseppe Forestieri (Motion Aptitude)

Monday 20 February 2023

• 16:00 - The Hox timer: Evolution, Function and Mechanism: Jenkinson Memorial Lecture
  Professor Denis Duboule (Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL))

Monday 27 February 2023

• 09:00 - Understanding age and society using natural populations
  Please note this is a Royal Society (not Oxford University) event, organised in part by members of the Department of Biology. Please refer to the Royal Society link for up-to-date information.
  TBA

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 18:00 - Unseen Workers: the essential role of microbes
  TBA

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 13:00 - Fortifying vitamins in tomato using genome editing (Mary Snow Lecture)
  Cathie Martin (John Innes Centre)

Thursday 7 September 2023

• 13:00 - Plastid Preview 2023
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 15:00 - The battle of the sexes is highly polygenic
  Professor Mark Kirkpatrick (University of Texas)

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 14:30 - Darwinism without Mendelism: W F R Weldon's vision for biology, at Oxford and beyond
  Professor Gregory Radick (University of Leeds)

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 16:00 - The Evolution of Monotremes: New Fossils, New Insights
  TBA

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 14:30 - "The pre-animal origins of gene regulatory pathways, from DNA methylation to pluripotency"
  Dr Alex de Mendoza (Queen Mary University of London)

Thursday 30 May 2024

• 13:00 - Mary Snow Lecture: Harnessing plant metabolic diversity for food and health applications
  Professor Anne Osbourn (John Innes Centre, Norwich)

Monday 30 September 2024

• 13:30 - Water user impacts in rivers in South Africa
  TBA

Monday 7 October 2024

• 18:00 - Biology Week: The quest to save the world’s largest flowers
  Chris Thorogood (Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum)

Tuesday 8 October 2024

• 15:30 - Biology Week: The greatest traders on Earth
  Lindsay Turnbull (University of Oxford)

Thursday 10 October 2024

• 15:30 - Biology Week: The science of why we exist
  Professor Tim Coulson (Department of Biology)

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 11:30 - Evolutionary co-option of LINE-1s and endogenous retroviruses in immune regulation
  Dr Helen Rowe (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 28 October 2024

• 12:00 - “A Fresh Water Perspective on Ecosystem Processes in a Changing World: Insights from field experiments”.
  Professor Mark Gessner (IGB)

Monday 11 November 2024

• 12:00 - Digestion of photosynthetic symbionts by reef corals helps to explain the "Darwin Paradox"
  Professor Joerg Wiedenmann (University of Southampton)

Monday 25 November 2024

• 13:00 - Advances in Vaccines and Antibodies for Blood-Stage Malaria
  Prof Simon Draper (Department of Biochemistry)
• 16:00 - Weldon Memorial Prize Lecture: Endless forms most beautiful: geometry, physics, and biology
  Professor L. Mahadevan (Harvard University)

Tuesday 17 December 2024

• 18:00 - The magic and mysteries of mistletoe
  Oliver Spacey (Department of Biology, University of Oxford)