Semester 2, 2018
When: Friday, 12:00 midday
Venue: Benham Seminar Room (B215), Department of Zoology
13.July | Professor Malcolm MacIver, Mechanical Engineering and Neurobiology, Northwestern University, USA Can ecology induce cognition? |
| 20.July | Anh Tuan Nguyen, Department of Zoology Biological functions of gonadotropic hormones during the early stages of ovarian development in shortfinned eel |
| 27.July | Professor Robert Poulin, Department of Zoology Division of labour and the secret social lives of parasites |
| 3.August | Professor Gerry Closs, Department of Zoology Larvae and life history: do larval needs drive freshwater fish distribution and life history? |
| 10.August | Luke Easton, Department of Zoology Taxonomy and genetic management of New Zealand native frogs |
| 17.August | Professor Malcolm Forster, Philosophy of Science, Fudan University, Shanghai Statistics and the challenge of complexity: An illustration from ecology |
| 24.August | Dr Travis Ingram, Department of Zoology The dimensionality of individual niche variation |
| 31.August | Mid-semester Break |
| 7.September | Professor Alison Mercer, Department of Zoology Oh, Beehave! |
| 14.September | Marine Richarson, Department of Zoology Bullied bullies: Effects of antagonistic interactions on individual specialisation of a small native fish |
| 21.September | Dr Priscilla Wehi, Landcare Research, Dunedin Scientific explorations in the socioecological interface |
| 28.September | Professor Robin Kundis Craig, University of Utah Interaction between climate change, water management and law |
| 5.October | Ann-Kathrin Schlesselmann, Department of Zoology Linking science and management for effective long-term conservation: A case study of black-fronted terns |
| 12.October | Dr Kalinka Rexer-Huber, Department of Zoology A birds’ eye view of Southern Ocean change: abundance, connectivity and tracking of circumpolar petrels |
| 19.October | Dr. Luke Eberhart-Phillips, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Seewiesen, Germany Avian breeding systems: Diversity, origins, and implications for conservation |
Contacts: Zoology Reception (479-7976) or Liz Slooten (e-mail)
