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27 Jan

Cooperation, competition and warfare in bacteria: from model systems to the microbiome

Professor Kevin Foster

3 Feb

Genetics of adaptation: the roles of pleiotropy and linkage

Professor Katie Peichel

10 Feb

Multi trophic level response to fragmentation in one of planet's most disrupted ecosystems

Dr Elizabeth Clare

17 Feb

From development to deep time: Reconstructing the evolution of diversity with a phenomic approach

Professor Anjali Goswami

24 Feb

Weldon Lecture: Predicting the forest from the trees

Professor Stephen W. Pacala

2 Mar

Do animals adapt to their density regimes? Looking for an answer with the Least Killifish

Dr Joseph Travis

20 Jan

Moving forward with spatial disease models: Movement ecology improves predictions for disease spread

David Daversa

14 Oct

The economic cost of alien invasive species worldwide

Professor Franck Courchamp

13 Aug

Professor Elizabeth McGraw

Zoology Research and Administration Building

25 Jul

Blue Planet Movie Night

Oxford Martin School

24 Jul

Blue Planet Movie Night

Oxford Martin School

21 Jun

T cell control of HIV - Prospects for Cure

Dr Bruce Walker

20 Jun

Functional trait mini-symposium

Dr Cyrille Violle

13 Jun

Use of imagery in conservation and how to get your message across

Alice Pennefather

13 Jun

Antigenic breadth - a missing component of an effective vaccine against herpes

Dr Edward Gershburg

5 Jun

Ageing mini-symposium

Dr Rob Salguero-Gomez

5 Jun

BBC Pandemic – informing infectious disease models with citizen science

Dr Petra Klepac

4 Jun

Workshop: Efficient data synthesis and visualisation

Gergana Daskalova

3 Jun

Tinbergen Lecture: Developmental symbiosis and the mapping of novel evolutionary trajectories

Professor Scott Gilbert

29 May

Genomic insights into Herpesviral evolution and pathogenesis

Professor Judith Breuer

28 May

Harcourt Science Communication Lecture: Fantastic beasts and how to film them: tales from a wildlife documentary maker

Dr Elizabeth White

24 May

Workshop: Tools for reproducible research in ecology and evolution

Tamora James

20 May

Extended heredity and evolution

Professor Russell Bonduriansky

16 May

Workshop: Introduction to capture-mark-recapture methods

Professor David Koons

15 May

Jenkinson Memorial Lecture: Recent progress in induced pluripotent stem cell research and application

Professor Shinya Yamanaka

15 May

The MHC class-II HLA-DR receptor mediates bat influenza A-like H17N10 virus entry into mammalian cells

Dr Efstathios Giotis

13 May

Ecological dynamics in a non-stationary world

Professor David Koons

19 Mar

Illegal Wildlife Trade Seminar

Seminar Room, Department of Zoology

18 Mar

Illegal Wildlife Trade Documentary Screening

Seminar Room, Department of Zoology

4 Mar

Jenkinson Memorial Lecture: 'Time to get up: awakening stem cells in the brain'

Professor Andrea Brand

27 Feb

Insights into the epidemiology of dengue and Zika from maps and models

Dr Oliver Brady

25 Feb

The evolutionary genetics of industrial melanism – an unfolding story

Professor Ilik Saccheri

20 Feb

Historical and modern rabbit populations reveal parallel adaptation to myxoma virus across two continents

Dr Joel Alves

18 Feb

The sweet taste of nectar: novel mechanisms for encoding taste revealed in bees

Professor Geraldine Wright

11 Feb

Haploid gametic selection in animals and its evolutionary consequences

Professor Simone Immler

6 Feb

How trypanosomatid parasites drive their swimming: New lessons from new light microscopy approaches

Dr Richard Wheeler

4 Feb

Development, selection, and species diversification: Semi-aquatic bugs as models

Professor Abderrahman Khila

28 Jan

Origins of diversity in islands: The nexus of ecology and evolution in community assembly

Professor Rosemary Gillespie

21 Jan

Insights from ancient DNA into the evolutionary history of M. tuberculosis

Professor Anne Stone

14 Jan

Using structured population models to help understand individuals and communities

Professor Stephen Ellner

28 Nov

Host MHC and genomic diversity retards experimental evolution of viral virulence

Professor Wayne Potts

26 Nov

How large animals shape ecosystem and planetary function

Professor Yadvinder Mali

21 Nov

Adapting protein quality control for intervention in immunity and neurodegenerative diseases

Dr Heidi Olzscha

19 Nov

Challenges for bees in a changing world

Dr Elli Leadbeater

14 Nov

Parallel Evolution and the Emergence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Viruses

Dr Marina Escalera-Zamudio

12 Nov

Neural circuit and genetic bases of behaviour in the planktonic larvae of Platynereis

Professor Gaspar Jekely

9 Nov

Optimal decision making to control ecological systems

Dr Sam Nicol

5 Nov

Inbreeding and inbreeding avoidance in a population with severe inbreeding depression

Professor Josephine Pemberton

29 Oct

Reverse-engineering animal flight: unravelling the evolutionary co-tuning of physics, physiology, and behaviour

Professor Graham Taylor

24 Oct

Environmental DNA for wildlife epidemiology and outbreak investigation

Dr Sébastien Calvignac

22 Oct

WELDON PRIZE LECTURE: Immunology that counts: the population biology of immunity

Professor Dame Angela McLean

15 Oct

Using mechanistic experiments and macroecological models to understand biodiversity in a changing world

Professor Nate Sanders

10 Oct

Sheep in Wolves Clothing: Insect-specific viruses of mosquitoes exploited as novel platforms for diagnostics and vaccines

Professor Roy Hall

8 Oct

Understanding and controlling the spread of zoonoses – from bovine TB to Ebola

Professor Christl Donnelly

2 Oct

A long way from home: four years studying nature's greatest travellers

Dr Oliver Padget

25 Sep

Understanding and controlling the spread of disease within and between animal populations

Dr Meggan Craft

24 Sep

Saving the Unorthodox Whales of Sri Lanka

Dr Asha de Vos

22 Jun

Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 in the United States

Professor Joel Wertheim

21 Jun

Parasites under the spotlight: applications of vibrational spectroscopy to parasitology

Professor Bayden Wood

7 Jun

TINBERGEN LECTURE: Earth observation through animals

Professor Martin Wikelski

6 Jun

CANCELLED: Adapting protein quality control for intervention in neurodegenerative diseases

Dr Heidi Olzscha

21 May

JENKINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: An expanding job description for the Zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1

Professor Elizabeth Robertson FRS

16 May

The population genetics of malaria-blocking mutations

Dr Bridget Penman

14 May

Evolution of pathogen plasticity

Professor Sylvain Gandon

9 May

Seasonality and endemicity of Melioidosis: the impact of phages

Dr Edouard Galyov

2 May

3D microfluidic liver cultures are a physiological model to study Hepatitis B virus

Dr Ana Maria Ortega-Prieto

30 Apr

Plant-animal mutualistic networks: the architecture of biodiversity

Professor Jordi Bascompte

25 Apr

T-reg and T-effector subsets dynamics in viral infections

Dr Nabila Seddiki

23 Apr

Achieving high-level conservation goals with connectivity (with a marine bias)

Dr Maria Beger

18 Apr

Archaeovirology: uncovering the history of viral pathogens

Professor Klaus Hedman

5 Apr

Skin and Fur Processing in Prehistory: An Experimental Approach

Dr Theresa Kamper

5 Mar

Mapping information gaps: towards and index of knowledge for every vertebrate species

Professor Dalia Conde

26 Feb

Developing the flatworm Macrostomum lignano as a model organism for research on stem cells, regeneration and ageing

Professor Eugene Berezikov

19 Feb

Animal movements in heterogeneous landscapes: wapiti, wolves, and prions

Professor Evelyn Merrill

12 Feb

Wolves for Yellowstone: predicting dynamics

Professor Mark Boyce

5 Feb

The Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus aureus Infections

Dr Daniel Wilson

29 Jan

SOUTHWOOD MEMORIAL LECTURE - Organising World Health – Science and Politics from AIDS to Zika

Professor Christopher Dye

22 Jan

JENKINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: Genetic analysis of neural circuit assembly and organisation

Professor Liqun Luo

15 Jan

How behaviour changes evolution: experiments with Burying Beetles

Dr Rebecca Kilner

7 Dec

EGI Seminar: New approaches to unraveling the complexity of animal communication

Dr Adam Hayward

27 Nov

The naturally short-lived African turquoise killifish sheds light on the evolutionary basis of vertebrate ageing

Dr Dario Valenzano

23 Nov

Responding to emerging epidemics: how can pathogen genomics help?

Professor Oliver Pybus

20 Nov

WELDON LECTURE: Puzzles in Ecology — Extreme events, and Evolution — Menopause

Professor Shripad Tuljapurkar

13 Nov

Epi-Evo: insights into epigenetic mechanisms from evolutionary analyses

Dr Peter Sarkies

6 Nov

Predatory Bdellovibrio bacteria- evolution of predation and application of predators against AMR infection

Professor Liz Sockett

30 Oct

The physiological costs of reproductive effort in male primate

Dr Alexander Georgiev

23 Oct

Genes as cues: integration of genetic and epigenetic information from a Darwinian perspective

Dr Sasha Dall

Cooperation, competition and warfare in bacteria: from model systems to the microbiome

Genetics of adaptation: the roles of pleiotropy and linkage

Multi trophic level response to fragmentation in one of planet's most disrupted ecosystems

From development to deep time: Reconstructing the evolution of diversity with a phenomic approach

Weldon Lecture: Predicting the forest from the trees

Do animals adapt to their density regimes? Looking for an answer with the Least Killifish

Cognition, collective intelligence and cultural evolution

Wild non-human primate microbiomes, flies and pathogens in changing ecosystems

The molecular basis of complementary sex determination in honeybees

Factors that affect the rate of adaptive protein evolution

The ecology of infection and immunity in a wild rodent system

Tracking and tackling emerging fungal threats

Understanding rotavirus dynamics in response to vaccination

Southwood Lecture - Every record counts: engaging people in recording wildlife

Ebola virus: Vaccines, survivors and molecular epidemiology

The evolution of recombination rate variation in the wild

Moving forward with spatial disease models: Movement ecology improves predictions for disease spread

The economic cost of alien invasive species worldwide

Professor Elizabeth McGraw

Blue Planet Movie Night

Blue Planet Movie Night

T cell control of HIV - Prospects for Cure

Functional trait mini-symposium

Use of imagery in conservation and how to get your message across

Antigenic breadth - a missing component of an effective vaccine against herpes

Ageing mini-symposium

BBC Pandemic – informing infectious disease models with citizen science

Workshop: Efficient data synthesis and visualisation

Tinbergen Lecture: Developmental symbiosis and the mapping of novel evolutionary trajectories

Genomic insights into Herpesviral evolution and pathogenesis

Harcourt Science Communication Lecture: Fantastic beasts and how to film them: tales from a wildlife documentary maker

Workshop: Tools for reproducible research in ecology and evolution

Extended heredity and evolution

Workshop: Introduction to capture-mark-recapture methods

Jenkinson Memorial Lecture: Recent progress in induced pluripotent stem cell research and application

The MHC class-II HLA-DR receptor mediates bat influenza A-like H17N10 virus entry into mammalian cells

Ecological dynamics in a non-stationary world

Illegal Wildlife Trade Seminar

Illegal Wildlife Trade Documentary Screening

Jenkinson Memorial Lecture: 'Time to get up: awakening stem cells in the brain'

Insights into the epidemiology of dengue and Zika from maps and models

The evolutionary genetics of industrial melanism – an unfolding story

Historical and modern rabbit populations reveal parallel adaptation to myxoma virus across two continents

The sweet taste of nectar: novel mechanisms for encoding taste revealed in bees

Haploid gametic selection in animals and its evolutionary consequences

How trypanosomatid parasites drive their swimming: New lessons from new light microscopy approaches

Development, selection, and species diversification: Semi-aquatic bugs as models

Origins of diversity in islands: The nexus of ecology and evolution in community assembly

Insights from ancient DNA into the evolutionary history of M. tuberculosis

Using structured population models to help understand individuals and communities

Host MHC and genomic diversity retards experimental evolution of viral virulence

How large animals shape ecosystem and planetary function

Adapting protein quality control for intervention in immunity and neurodegenerative diseases

Challenges for bees in a changing world

Parallel Evolution and the Emergence of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A Viruses

Neural circuit and genetic bases of behaviour in the planktonic larvae of Platynereis

Optimal decision making to control ecological systems

Inbreeding and inbreeding avoidance in a population with severe inbreeding depression

Reverse-engineering animal flight: unravelling the evolutionary co-tuning of physics, physiology, and behaviour

Environmental DNA for wildlife epidemiology and outbreak investigation

WELDON PRIZE LECTURE: Immunology that counts: the population biology of immunity

Using mechanistic experiments and macroecological models to understand biodiversity in a changing world

Sheep in Wolves Clothing: Insect-specific viruses of mosquitoes exploited as novel platforms for diagnostics and vaccines

Understanding and controlling the spread of zoonoses – from bovine TB to Ebola

A long way from home: four years studying nature's greatest travellers

Understanding and controlling the spread of disease within and between animal populations

Saving the Unorthodox Whales of Sri Lanka

Molecular Epidemiology of HIV-1 in the United States

Parasites under the spotlight: applications of vibrational spectroscopy to parasitology

TINBERGEN LECTURE: Earth observation through animals

CANCELLED: Adapting protein quality control for intervention in neurodegenerative diseases

JENKINSON MEMORIAL LECTURE: An expanding job description for the Zinc finger transcriptional repressor Blimp1/Prdm1

The population genetics of malaria-blocking mutations

Evolution of pathogen plasticity

Seasonality and endemicity of Melioidosis: the impact of phages

3D microfluidic liver cultures are a physiological model to study Hepatitis B virus

Plant-animal mutualistic networks: the architecture of biodiversity

T-reg and T-effector subsets dynamics in viral infections

Achieving high-level conservation goals with connectivity (with a marine bias)

Archaeovirology: uncovering the history of viral pathogens

SOUTHWOOD MEMORIAL LECTURE - Organising World Health – Science and Politics from AIDS to Zika