Seminars
Scheduled seminars in Biosciences are listed below. University staff and students are welcome to attend any of the seminars.
Please note that all seminars will be held online for the foreseeable future due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Topics presented represent the wide range of research interests within the departments and are presented by experts in particular areas.
Every effort is made to keep to the scheduled programme, but changes do have to be made sometimes.
Animal and Plant Sciences
- Departmental seminars: aimed everyone in the Dept, and any staff or students outside who might be interested
- Research Group seminars: two seminar series (Ecology, Evolution and Environment & Robert Hill Institute) 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.
If you have any questions regarding our programme, please contact animal.plant@sheffield.ac.uk.
| Date | Series | Title | Speaker | Venue and time |
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| 8th February 2021 | Departmental | Limits of plasticity and capacity for adaptation to global warming in marine phytoplankton | Gabriel Yvon-Durocher - University of Exeter | 1-2pm |
| 8th March 2021 | Departmental | The Annual Margaret Savigear Lectures |
Professor Erika Edwards - Yale University Professor Jess Metcalf - Princeton University |
1-4pm Blackboard Collaborate |
| 19th March 2021 | Plant Science | Signalling in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in cereals | Uta Pazkowski - University of Cambridge |
1-2pm Blackboard Collaborate |
| 22nd March 2021 | Departmental | Biological time-keeping in an urbanising world: The role of light pollution |
Davide Dominoni - University of Glasgow |
1-2pm Blackboard Collaborate |
| 23rd March 2021 | Ecology and Conservation | Fading opportunities for mitigating agriculture-environment trade-offs in a South American deforestation hotspot | Dr. Elizabeth Law - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research |
1-2pm Google Meet |
| 24th March 2021 | Evolution, Behaviour and Genomics | Polymorphic inversions and local adaptation in the marine snail Littorina saxatilis | Dr Eva Koch - University of Sheffield |
1-2pm Google Meet |
| 26th March 2021 | Plant Science | The roots of change: global change and mycorrhizal symbioses through the Phanerozoic | Professor Katie Field - University of Sheffield |
1-2pm Blackboard Collaborate |
| 30th March 2021 | Ecology and Conservation | TBC |
1-2pm Google Meet |
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| 31st March 2021 |
Evolution, Behaviour and Genomics Symposium |
Evolution of colour and thermal performance in Heliconius butterflies Investigating the impact of facultative sex on speciation Evolution of the sexual genome New insights on the domestication of the watermelon crop Evolutionary genomics in wild vertebrate populations |
Dr Nic Nadeau Isobel Eyres and Nathan White Dr Alison Wright, Daniela Palmer, Thea Rogers and Peter Price Dr Guillaume Chomicki Professor Terry Burke |
2-4pm Google Meet |
| 1st April 2021 | Evolution, Behaviour and Genomics Symposium |
What can population genomic data tell us about evolution? Cooperation and conflict in social birds Reproductive behaviour and physiology of birds and applications to conservation Pan-genome variation and local adaptation in grasses Origins and consequences of novel adaptations in plants The evolution and mechanisms of dietary restriction and ageing The behaviour and ecology of fish and earthworms Evolutionary genomics in wild vertebrate populations How do new species form? |
Dr Kai Zeng Professor Ben Hatchwell Fay Morland (Nicola Hemmings' group) Dr Luke Dunning Dr Pascal-Antoine Christin Dr Mirre Simons Dr Penny Watt Professor Jon Slate Professor Roger Butlin |
1-4pm Google Meet |
| 20th April 2021 | Ecology and Conservation | Functional, floristic and stand dynamics across Amazon forests | Dr. Adriane Esquivel-Muelbert, University of Birmingham |
1-2pm Google Meet |
| 21st April 2021 | Evolution, Behaviour and Genomics | Causes and consequences of dispersal | Marion Germain, University of Sheffield |
1-2pm Google Meet |
| 23rd April 2021 | Plant Science | Decoding the developmental blueprint of grass stomata to decipher how form affects function |
University of Heidelberg |
1-2pm Blackboard Collaborate |
| 7th May 2021 | Plant Science | Discovering resistance genes for "smart" breeding of durable defence in rice against the parasitic weed Striga hermonthica | Professor Julie Scholes |
1-2pm Blackboard Collaborate |
| 10th May 2021 | Departmental | Reproduction in the ageing male: what goes wrong? | Irem Sepil, University of Oxford |
1-2pm Blackboard Collaborate |
| 11th May 2021 | Ecology and Conservation |
Woodland creation in the Peak District: an analysis of institutional arrangements and policy outcomes Trading species to extinction? Abundance impacts of the wildlife |
Suma Mani Oscar Morton |
1-2pm Google Meet |
| 12th May 2021 | Evolution, Behaviour and Genomics | Thermal Ecophysiology of Heliconius butterflies along altitudinal gradients | Patricio Salazar, University of Sheffield |
1-2pm Google Meet |
| 17th May 2021 | Departmental | Insect herbivory in tropical forests - a community level perspective | Sophia Gripenberg, University of Reading |
1-2pm Blackboard Collaborate |
| 18th May 2021 | Ecology and Conservation | Winners and losers of the Anthropocene | Andrew Suggitt, University of Northumbria |
1-2pm Google Meet |
| 25th May 2021 | Evolution, Behaviour and Genomics | Understanding the evolution of shell shape in snails | Jenny Larsson, University of Sheffield |
1-2pm Google Meet |
| 8th June 2021 | Ecology and Conservation | Freshwater Diversity in Hot Water | Dr Michelle Jackson, Oxford University |
1-2pm Google Meet |
| 22nd June 2021 | Ecology and Conservation |
Leaf structural adaptations to low temperatures Do Indigenous Lands avoid deforestation pan-tropically? |
Kanyanat Kasetsuntorn, UoS Jocelyne Sze, UoS |
1-2pm Google Meet |
Biomedical Science
Seminars will be presented via Blackboard. Please join all sessions via the link below:
Join Blackboard sessionsIf you have any questions regarding our programme, please contact Wendy Howard. All seminars start 12pm Noon, unless stated.
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Date |
Title |
Speaker / Host |
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Mon 8 February 2021 |
Sculpting the Vertebrate Heart – Multiscale Interactions between Forms, Forces and Fate |
Dr Rashmi Priya, Francis Crick Institute / Dr Emily Noel |
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Mon 15 February 2021 |
Defending the fates of developing cerebral cortical cells |
Prof David Price, University of Edinburgh / Prof Andy Furley |
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Mon 22 February 2021 |
Focus on the Individual; The importance of chromosome-specific biology in generating aneuploidy patterns in cancer |
Dr Sarah McClelland, Barts Cancer Institute London / Dr Ivana Barbaric |
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Mon 1 March 2021 |
Contact sites between PM, ER and mitochondria: connecting EGFR signalling to cell metabolism |
Dr Sara Sigismund, University of Milan / Prof Liz Smythe |
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Mon 15 March |
Neuronal ageing: the roles and regulation of microtubules |
Dr Natalia Sanchez-Soriano, University of Liverpool / Dr Stephen Brown |
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Mon 22 March 2021 |
Transgenerational small RNA inheritance in C.elegans nematodes |
Professor Oded Rechavi, University of Tel Aviv / Dr Anestis Tsakiridis |
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Mon 29 March 2021 |
Differential response of the limb neuromuscular system to changes in dactyly |
Dr Maëva Luxey, University of Basel / Dr Caitlin McQueen |
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Mon 12 April 2021 |
Botulinum neurotoxins: New findings on receptor binding and how they translate into innovative detection approaches |
Dr Brigitte Dorner, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin/ Prof Bazbek Davletov |
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Mon 26 April 2021 |
Where do the roads of normal and tumor development converge? |
Dr Sofie Mohlin, Lund University /Dr Anestis Tsakiridis |
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Mon 10 May 2021 |
Cellular senescence: A unifying biology from embryogenesis to aging |
Professor Judith Campisi, Buck Institute, California / Mr Mohamed El-Ghazaly |
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Mon 17 May 2021 |
How does morphogenesis cope with cell and tissue size? |
Prof Yohanns Bellaiche, Institut Curie / Dr Helen Strutt |
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Mon 14 June 2021 |
Title to be announced |
Dr Maja Matis, University of Münster / Dr Natalia Bulgakova |
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Mon 21 June 2021 |
Title to be announced |
Dr Shamik DasGupta, University of Bristol / Dr Andrew Lin |
Molecular Biology and Biotechnology
We host, on average three or four seminars each month, usually on a Wednesday at 1pm during term.
We invite a range of guest speakers with expertise covering all areas of molecular bioscience.
All students, academics and staff are welcome to attend.
Other bioscience seminars are hosted by the Imagine: Imaging Life project and the Florey Institute.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue and time |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBC | Upcoming seminars to be announced | TBC | TBC |
#Inspire lecture series
The Biosciences #Inspire lecture series champions excellent scientists from minority or marginalised groups in the biosciences. Its goal is to promote discussions about the issues that impact these groups, so that we might create a more inclusive working and learning environment, where everyone feels represented.
Upcoming events
| Date | Title | Speaker | Venue and time |
| TBC | Upcoming seminars to be announced | TBC | TBC |
Past events
| Date | Title | Speaker | Find out more |
| Tues 15th June 2021 | From biodiversity to biologists' diversity to celebrate Pride Month 2021. | Dr Jeremy Yoder, California State University Northridge | Listen again (University login needed) |
| Tues 16th March 2021 | Breaking barriers? Ethnicity and socioeconomic background impact on early career progression to celebrate International Women's Day 2021. | Professor Zenobia Lewis, the University of Liverpool | Listen again (University login needed) |
| Tues 20th October 2021 | Delivering Diversity & Inclusivity in STEM Curricula: Becoming a Student–Ready Faculty to celebrate Black History Month 2020. | Professor Bugewa Apampa, Birmingham City University | Listen again (University login needed) |