Seminars

Scheduled seminars in APS are listed below. Everyone is welcome to attend any of the seminars, but the seminar series differ a little in their focus as indicated below.

Every effort is made to keep to the scheduled programme, but changes do have to be made sometimes. Please look out for posters in the Department, or notices on the APS home page for any late alterations.

• Departmental seminars: aimed everyone in the Dept, and anyone outside who might be interested

• Research Group seminars: three seminar series (Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour, Plant Science) usually on current research work, by both internal and external speakers.

• Graduate Seminars: current postgraduate students presenting their own research work. Usually two shorter seminars together.

Date Series Title Speaker Venue and time Tuesday 15 January 2013 Plant Science Using MAGIC to identify the genetic basis of complex traits in A. thaliana Dr Paula Kover, University of Bath BMS Conference Room (A225), A Floor, Alfred Denny Building at 4pm Monday 4 February 2013 Departmental The Good, the bad and the indifferent; the role of advantageous and deleterious mutations in evolution Adam Eyre-Walker, University of Sussex Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 1 at 1pm Monday 11 February 2013 Departmental Evolutionary forces shaping sexual attraction in moths Astrid Groot, University of Amsterdam Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 1 at 1pm Monday 25 February 2013 Departmental The recurrent assembly of C4 photosynthesis, an evolutionary tale Pascal-Antoine Christin, University of Sheffield Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 1 at 1pm Tueday 26 February 2013 Plant Science TBC Angela Hodge, University of York BMS Conference Room (A225), A Floor, Alfred Denny Building at 4pm Monday 11 March 2013 Departmental Ecological rationality and environmental complexity John McNamara, University of Bristol Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 1 at 1pm Tuesday 26 March 2013 Plant Science TBC Silke Robatzke, Sainsbury Laboratory Norwich BMS Conference Room (A225), A Floor, Alfred Denny Building at 4pm Monday 8 April 2013 Departmental Evolution in Darwin's Dreamponds: Adaptive radiation and explosive speciation in East African cichlid fishes Walter Salzburger, University of Basel Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 1 at 1pm Monday 15 April 2013 Departmental Genomic approaches to understanding plant hybridisation and responding to ash dieback Richard Buggs, Queen Mary, University of London Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre at 1pm Monday 22 April 2013 Departmental Shifting plant functional composition in the Arctic, & the domino effect on ecosystem functioning & services Phil Wookey, University of Sheffield Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 1 at 1pm Tuesday 23 April 2013 Plant Science TBC Maurice Moloney, Rothamsted Research BMS Conference Room (A225), A Floor, Alfred Denny Building at 4pm Monday 29 April 2013 Departmental Accidents and aeons • How coincidence and free oxygen changed the World forever John Allen, Queen Mary, University of London Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 1 at 1pm Monday 13 May 2013 Departmental Exploiting algal metabolism for bioenergy Alison Smith, University of Cambridge Alfred Denny Lecture Theatre 1 at 1pm Tuesday 14 May 2013 Plant Science TBC Richard Bardgett, University of Manchester BMS Conference Room (A225), A Floor, Alfred Denny Building at 4pm