Contact

Head of Division
Prof. Dr. Ole Seehausen

Administration
Susanne Maurer
Institute of Ecology & Evolution
Baltzerstrasse 6
CH-3012 Bern

Tel. +41 (0)31 631 30 09
Fax +41 (0)31 631 30 08
susanne.maurer@esh.unibe.ch

Universität Bern
Eawag

Fall Semester 2011

of Wednesday seminar of the Uni Bern IEE division
"Aquatic Ecology & Macroevolution"
at
Eawag Kastanienbaum
Center of Ecology, Evolution and Biogechemistry
   
Date Speaker/Title Time
September 2011
21.09.2011
The Role of Environmental Gradients and Food Web Interactions in the Diversification of Fishes

Travis Ingram
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

14.00 - 15.30
28.09.2011
Hard to see? Rapid changes in Swiss fish biodiversity.

Ole Seehausen
, Dept. of Fishecology & Evolution, Eawag & Institute of Ecology & Evolution, Dept. Aquatic Ecology, University of Bern
14.00 - 15.30
October 2011
05.10.2011
River fragmentation increases localized population genetic structure and enhances asymmetry of dispersal in bullhead (Cottus gobio)

Julian Junker
Dept. of Fishecology & Evolution, Eawag
14.00 - 15.30
12.10.2011

Finding genes that count in a hybrid fish

Arne Nolte
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology,  Plön

14.00 - 15.30
19.10.2011
The importance of niches for the maintenance of species diversity

Jonathan Levine
Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich

14.00 - 15.30
26.10.2011
Right-handed snakes and left-handed snails: A speciation gene for left-right reversal in snails results in anti-predator adaptation

Masaki Hoso
NCB naturalis, Leiden

14.00 - 15.30
November 2011
02.11.2011
Limited effects of river restorations on aquatic communities - the role of the local species pools

Stefan Stoll
Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Gelnhausen Abt. Limnologie und Naturschutz

14.00 - 15.30
09.11.2011
The effect of parasitism on the stability of mutualistic networks

Gabriel E Leventhal
Theoretical Biology,Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), ETH Zürich

14.00 - 15.30
16.11.2011
Multiple stressor effects of predation and pollution in green algae - impact of genetic diversity

Dr. Beat Fischer,
Dept. of Environmental Toxicology, EAWAG, Dübendorf
14.00 - 15.30
23.11.2011

Stochastic metacommunity theory: linking drift, dispesal limitation and niche-driven dynamics

David Alonso
Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (Barcelona) Spanish Research Council, Spain

14.00 - 15.30
30.11.2011  The structure and stability of interaction webs: what are the differences between mutualistic and antagonistic networks

Elisa Thebault
ENS Paris, France

14.00 - 15.30
December 2011
07.12.2011

Parasite-mediated selection acting on innate immune defence in wild rodents

Barbara Tschirren,
University of Zurich, Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

14.00 - 15.30
14.12.2011
Adaptive and nonadaptive radiations in parrots

Manuel Schweizer,
Naturhistorisches Museum der Bürgergemeinde Bern

14.00 - 15.30
21.12.2011
Phenotypic and genetic variation of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) in a highly dynamic natural system - Lake Mývatn, Iceland

Antoine Millet
Holar University, Iceland  

14.00 - 15.30
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