Zoology Seminars

3.March

Kyle Shanebeck, University of Alberta

The energetic costs of sub-lethal helminth parasites in mammals

Hamish Spencer, Department of Zoology

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

Nadine Strydom, Nelson Mandela University

Coastal fishes under the microscope: A South African biologist’s journey

Graham McCulloch, Department of Zoology

Anthropogenic evolution of New Zealand's endemic insects: rapid adaptation in a fast-changing world

Good Friday – No Seminar

Mid-semester break – No Seminar

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

Catherine Collins, Department of Anatomy

Piecing together the settlement of the Pacific: Applying the commensal model and genomics

Kevin Lafferty, University of California Santa Barbara

Parasites and food webs

Travis Ingram, Department of Zoology

The spread of freshwater fish and Ecology students across Rēkohu/Chatham Island

Matt Larcombe, Department of Botany

We need to rethink ecosourcing to promote resilient ecological restoration in Aotearoa

Charlotte King, Department of Anatomy

Secrets of the skeleton: Using tissue chemistry to reconstruct the lives of people and their animals

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