• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Professor Aziz Aboobaker (Zoology, Oxford) , Dr Rob Salguero-Gómez (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Mondays
• Web Address: http://www.zoo.ox.ac.uk/events

Monday 16 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Primitive cognition in slime moulds
  Dr Audrey Dussutour (University Paul Sabatier (Toulouse))

Monday 23 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Genes as cues: integration of genetic and epigenetic information from a Darwinian perspective
  Dr Sasha Dall (University of Exeter)

Monday 30 October 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The physiological costs of reproductive effort in male primates
  Dr Alexander Georgiev (Bangor University)

Monday 6 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Predatory Bdellovibrio bacteria-evolution of predation and application of predators against AMR infection
  Professor Liz Sockett (University of Nottingham)

Monday 13 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Epi-Evo: insights into epigenetic mechanisms from evolutionary analyses
  Dr Peter Sarkies (Imperial College London)

Monday 20 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - WELDON LECTURE: Puzzles in Ecology - Extreme events, and Evolution - Menopause
  Professor Shripad Tuljapurkar (Standford University)

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Naturally short-lived African Turquoise killfish sheds light on the evolutionary basis of vertebrate ageing
  Dr Dario Valenzo (Max Planck Institute Cologne)

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - How Behaviour Changes Evolution: Experiments with Burying Beetles
  Free nibbles and discussion between early career researchers and the speaker at New Radclifffe House, Walton St, Oxford OX2 6GG from 3.30pm
  Professor Rebecca Kilner (University of Cambridge)

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Genetic analysis of neural circuit assembly and organization
  You are welcome to join the speaker for a drink in the Wadham Room, Kings Arms, 40 Holywell Street, Oxford from 5.15pm to 6.30pm
  Professor Liqun Luo (Howard Hughes Medical institute, Department of Biology, Stanford University)

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Organising World Health – Science and Politics from AIDS to Zika
  Southwood Lecture
  Christopher Dye (Head of Strategy WHO)

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infections
  Free nibbles and discussion between early career researchers and the speaker at Oxford University Club, 11 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ from 2.30pm
  Associate Professor Daniel Wilson (Nuffield Department of Medicine)

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Wolves for Yellowstone: Predicting dynamics
  Free nibbles and discussion between early career researchers and the speaker at Oxford University Club, 11 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ from 2.30pm
  Professor Mark Boyce (University of Alberta)

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Animal Movements in Heterogeneous Landscapes: Wapiti, Wolves and Prions
  Free nibbles and discussion between early career researchers and the speaker at Oxford University Club, 11 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ from 2.30pm
  Professor Evelyn Merrill (University of Alberta)

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Developing the Flatworm Macrostomum Lignanon as a Model Organism for Research on Stem Cells, Regeneration and Ageing
  VENUE CHANGE: THIS LECTURE WILL NOW BE TAKING PLACE AT NEW RADCLIFFE HOUSE, WALTON STREET, SEMINAR ROOM 2 Tea and coffee & nibbles will be served after the seminar, please join us for the networking afterwards
  Professor Eugene Berezikov (European Institute for the Biology of Ageing)

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mapping Information Gaps: Towards and Index of Knowledge for Every Vertebrate Species
  Free Nibbles and Discussion Between Early Career Researchers and the Speaker at the Oxford University Club 11 Mansfield Road from 2.30pm
  Associate Professor Dalia Conde (Max Planck Odense Centre)

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Achieving high-level conservation goals with connectivity (with a marine bias)
  Free nibbles and discussion after the lecture with the speaker at University Club, 1st floor Common Area, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ
  Maria Beger (University of Leeds)

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Plant-animal mutualistic networks: the architecture of biodiversity
  Free nibbles and discussion after the lecture with the speaker at University Club, 1st floor Common Area, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3SZ
  Professor Jordi Bascompte (University of Zurich)

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Evolution of Pathogen Plasticity
  Dr Sylvain Gandon (CNRS Montpellier)

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Jenkinson Memorial Lecture: "An expanding job description for the Zinc fingre transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1"
  Drinks Reception, Wadham Room, Kings Arms
  Professor Elizabeth Robertson (University of Oxford)