Semester 1, 2023
When: Friday, 12:00 midday
Where: Benham Seminar Room (B215), Department of Zoology
Zoom link is available through the ZooBulletin or by contacting the organisers
3.March | Kyle Shanebeck, University of Alberta The energetic costs of sub-lethal helminth parasites in mammals |
10.March | Hamish Spencer, Department of Zoology What I did on my summer holiday: Birding in South America |
17.March | Alvin Setiawan, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) The farming of kingfish in New Zealand, or how my office car park became a fish farm |
24.March | Nadine Strydom, Nelson Mandela University Coastal fishes under the microscope: A South African biologist’s journey |
31.March | Graham McCulloch, Department of Zoology Anthropogenic evolution of New Zealand's endemic insects: rapid adaptation in a fast-changing world |
7.April | Good Friday – No Seminar |
14.April | Mid-semester break – No Seminar |
21.April | Aaron Bertoia, Department of Zoology Critters in the cold: Understanding how large-bodied invertebrates respond to introduced predators and climate change, and improving invertebrate monitoring methods in alpine regions of New Zealand |
28.April | Catherine Collins, Department of Anatomy Piecing together the settlement of the Pacific: Applying the commensal model and genomics |
5.May | Kevin Lafferty, University of California Santa Barbara Parasites and food webs |
12.May | Travis Ingram, Department of Zoology The spread of freshwater fish and Ecology students across Rēkohu/Chatham Island |
19.May | Matt Larcombe, Department of Botany We need to rethink ecosourcing to promote resilient ecological restoration in Aotearoa |
26.May | Charlotte King, Department of Anatomy Secrets of the skeleton: Using tissue chemistry to reconstruct the lives of people and their animals |
2.June | Daniela De Angeli Dutra, Department of Zoology How can host migration shape parasite transmission? Using avian haemosporidians to elucidate the role of host migration on parasite ecology and evolution |
Contacts: Zoology Reception (479-7976) or Nic Rawlence (e-mail)