• WiSe 2018/19

    • Organizers: Dr. Francesco Catania, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Gadau, Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz, Dr. Vanessa Kloke, Dr. Kristina Wensing
    • Course language: English
    • Duration: October 2018 - January 2019
    • First meeting: 25 October 2018, 18:15, Seminar room (room 6) at Hüfferstr. 1a (yellow house next to the IEB)
    • Contents:
      • Journal Club: Thursdays, 25 October 2018 -  24 January 2019, 18:15 - 19:30, Seminar room (room 6) at Hüfferstr. 1a
      • Lectures: Mondays, 29 October 2018 - 28 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:15, Seminar room (ground floor) in the Kavaliershäuschen (Schlossplatz 6)
    • Students' tasks:
      • Attendance of the "The Growth of the Evolutionary Thought" lecture series / Journal Club and Seminar
      • Preparation of a presentation and a short essay about an interdisciplinary topic
    • VL-No.: 134092

  • Timetable lecture series WiSe 2018/2019

    Mondays, 17.00 - 18.15 in the northern Kavaliershäuschen (Schlossplatz 6, seminar room on the ground floor)
    Date Speaker Title Faculty
    29.10.2018 Prof. Dr. Harald Strauß Early earth, early life - Co-evolution of klife and the environment recorded in the rock record Geosciences
    05.11.2018 François Pellet Disease: An opinionated introduction Philosophy

    12.11.2018

    Prof. Dr. Karin Busch No eukaryotic cell without mitochondria? Biology
    19.11.2018 Dr. Florian Horn Evolution and medicine Medicine, Innsbruck
    26.11.2018 Nora Schulz Phenotypic plasticity, non-genetic inheritance and epigenetic modifications - lessons from the red flour beetle Biology
    03.12.2018 Dr. Sebastian Grönke Forever young? The new biology of ageing
    MPI for Biology of Ageing, Cologne
    10.12.2018 Prof. Dr. Michael Hippler The interplay of robustness and plasticity: Evolution and function of photosystem I supercomplexes Biology
    17.12.2018 Prof. Dr. Ralph Tollrian Living in a dangerous world: Ecology and evolution of inducible defenses Biology, Ruhr-University Bochum
    07.01.2019 Dr. Ulrich Ernst Honeybee royalty and locust swarms - physiological basis and epigenetic control Biology
    14.01.2019 Prof. Dr. Eva Liebau Worms under stress Biology
    21.01.2019 Prof. Dr. Frank Thuijsman Evolutionary game theory and studies on cancer Maastricht University

    28.01.2019

    Dr. Niklas Kästner Of anxious males and angry females - how internal and external factors shape anxiety-like and social behaviour in mice Biology

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