Research Seminars - Spring Term 2012

1.05 p.m. Lecture Theatre B75

Monday 16th January

Dr Steve Torr (Agriculture, Health and Environment Department, University of Greenwich)
Sleeping sickness in sub-Saharan Africa: improved control of the tsetse vector.
(Host: Richard Wall)

Monday 23rd January

Professor Howard Griffiths (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)
Photosynthetic carbon concentrating mechanisms: from algal origins to smart crops of the future.
(Host: Alistair Hetherington)

Monday 30th January

Dr Vincent Janik (School of Biology, University of St Andrews)
From Psychophysiology to Animal Communication: The role of basic mechanisms in pinniped reactions to sounds.
(Host: Andy Radford)

Monday 6th February

Professor Bob Elwood (School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University Belfast)
Understanding how animals fight: using Lloyd Morgan's Canon.
(Host: Innes Cuthill)

Monday 13th February

Professor Patrick Hussey (School of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, University of Durham)
The Plant Cell's Division Machine, the Cytokinetic Phragmoplast.
(Host: Alistair Hetherington)

Monday 20th February

Dr Beverley Glover (Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge)
Gilding the lily: angiosperm diversity through petal evolution and development.
(Host: Simon Hiscock)

Monday 27th February

Professor Jeremy Thomas (Department of Zoology, University of Oxford)
The biology and conservation of insects that live with ants.
(Host: Gareth Jones)

Monday 5th March

Professor Michael Begon (School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool)
Predicting plague outbreaks in Kazakhstan.
(Host: Luca Giuggioli)

Monday 12th March

Dr Lukas Ruber (Natural History Museum, Bern, Switzerland)
The past, present and future of the Southeast Asian freshwater fish fauna.
(Host: Martin Genner)

Monday 19th March

Dr Frederic Bartumeus (Centre d'Estudis Avancats de Blanes, Spain)
Random Animal Motility: The use of Model Organisms to study Stochastic Search Strategies.
(Host: Nigel Franks)

 


All staff, postgraduates, undergraduates and academic visitors are welcome. Unless otherwise stated, seminars will start at 1.05pm in B75. Please feel free to bring your lunch.

For any queries, contact Marc Holderied (0117-331-8049).