• The Growth of the Evolutionary Thought" WiSe 2014/2015

    MSc Advanced Module / Lecture series

    • Organizers: Dr. Francesco Catania, Dr. Rebecca Schreiber, Prof. Joachim Kurtz
    • Course language: English
    • Duration: October 2014 - January 2015
    • First meeting: 21.10.2014, Social room (ground floor) in the IEB (Hüfferstraße 1) at 18:15
    • Contents:
      • Journal Club: Tuesdays, 18:15 - 19:30, Social room (ground floor) in the IEB (Hüfferstraße 1)
      • Lectures: Wednesdays, 8:45 s.t. - 10:00, Seminar room (ground floor) either in the Kavaliershäuschen (Schlossplatz 6) or in the Lecture Hall of the IEB (Hüfferstraße 1), see the timetable for details
    • Students' tasks:
    • Questions to Dr. Francesco Catania ( Email)
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  • Timetable lecture series WS 2014/15

    Date Venue Speaker Title
    22.10.2014 KH Prof. Joachim Kurtz A brief history of evolutionary theories
    29.10.2014 LH IEB Prof. Hans Kerp The Evolution of the Geological Timescale
    05.11.2014 KH Prof. Wojciech Makalowski Intelligent Design Ideology: Should We care?
    12.11.2014 KH Jun. Prof. Claudia Acquisti Environmental genomics: a revolution in evolution?
    19.11.2014 KH Dr. Juanma Vaquerizas Epigenetics and Evolution
    26.11.2014 KH Prof. Niko Strobach Life in Aristotelian and in modern biology – a structural comparison
    03.12.2014 LH IEB PD Alexander Mellmann Evolution of bacterial pathogens
    10.12.2014 KH Jun. Prof. Arndt Telschow Evolutionary games and biological markets
    17.12.2014 KH Prof. Kai Müller Solving Darwin's 'abominable mystery' - Angiosperm diversification through time
    07.01.2015 KH PD Jürgen Schmitz Horizontal gene transfer in animals
    14.01.2015 LH
    IEB    		 Prof. Michael Quante On the very idea of evolutionary ethics
    21.01.2015 KH Prof. Lindsay Matthews Developmental behavioural plasticity and adaptedness - can the animal tell us more?
    28.01.2015 LH IEB Dr. Claudia Fricke Sexual selection - can it benefit the adaptation process?
    • KH: Kavaliershäuschen (Schlossplatz 6, seminar room on the ground floor)
    • LH IEB: Lecture Hall of the IEB (Hüfferstraße 1)

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