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Autumn Symposium and Mixer is CEE event at the start of the academic term in September hosted at the Linnean Society. We bring together speakers from all the committees for a series of 10 min talks.
Friday 8th September 2023 - King's College London
Speakers
Anish Banerjee, Imperial College London - 'Understanding the drivers of spatiotemporal patterns of the fox and badgers of Silwood Park'
Patricia Brekke, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London - 'Using long-term datasets to understand adaptation in wild, threatened species'
Aline Da Silva Cerqueira, King's College London - 'Climate Change on the North and Northeastern Coasts of Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities for Supporting Biodiversity and Coastal Livelihoods'
Julian Drewe, Royal Veterinary College - 'Climate change and infectious disease epidemiology'
Ebenezer Foster-Nyarko, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - 'Genomic diversity of Escherichia coli from human-habituated monkeys in the Gambia'
Cristina Garcia, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'Genetic, phenotypic, and environmental factors driving tree responses to extreme drought events'
Patrick Hooper, The Natural History Museum, London - 'Protist diversity in cyanobacterial mats decreases with latitude across the Canadian Arctic (55-83°N)'
Aaron Le Blanc, King's College London - 'Constraints, selective pressures, and the convergent evolution of "mammalian enamel": new case studies in fossil and extant lepidosaurs'
Joanne Littlefair, Queen Mary, University of London - 'Answers in the air: monitoring changes in terrestrial biodiversity with environmental DNA'
Hana Merchant, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'Local adaptation in South African mole-rats (Cryptomys hoLentotus hoLentotus) populations along an aridity gradient'
Richard Nichols, Queen Mary, University of London - 'Adapting to climate change - don't be ridiculous'
Charlie Outhwaite, University College London - 'The interactive effects of land use and climate change on global insect biodiversity'
Natalie Pettorelli, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London - 'Conservation under rapid climatic changes: the case for rewilding'
Samual Pironon, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew - 'Adapting agriculture to climate change: plant agrodiversity to the rescue'
David Redding, The Natural History Museum, London - 'Climate change impacts on zoonotic diseases'
Androniki Psifidi, Royal Veterinary College - 'How genomic selection may improve the interaction between livestock and the environment'
Marybel Soto Gomez, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew - 'Genome size is positively correlated with extinction risk in herbaceous angiosperms'
Joseph Williamson, University College London - 'Too Hot to Handle'
Speakers
Elisabeth Busch-Nentwich, Queen Mary, University of London - ‘Exploring phenotypic robustness during development using zebrafish’
Masaya Iijima, Royal Veterinary College - ‘Discovery of a Bronze Age crocodylian Hanyusuchus from southern China and its human-induced extinction’
Elli Leadbeater, Royal Holloway, University of London - ‘Ecology dictates the value of memory for foraging bees’
Florencia Camus, University College London - ‘Contribution of mitonuclear genomes to local adaptation’
Francesc Col, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine - ‘Harnessing bacterial within-host diversity to study short-sighted evolution and adaptation of bacterial pathogens’
Mahika K. Dixit, Imperial College London - ‘Surprising consistency of insect pollinator body-size through time, despite differences in responses among life-history groups’
Juri Felix, Royal Holloway, University of London - ‘Consequences of climate matching for oak resistance to herbivory’
Carla Greco, The Natural History Museum, London - ‘Under the ice: Investigating Antarctic stromatolites using next-generation sequencing’
Dr Nicola Kühn, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - ‘Belowground traits to cope with Climate Change’
Dr Benedikt Kuhnhäuser, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - ‘Innovating species identification through next-generation DNA barcoding’
Christopher Laumer, The Natural History Museum, London - ‘Nanopore transcriptome skimming: a promising strategy for meiofaunal biodiversity assessment’
Alice Leavey, Royal Veterinary College - ‘Modelling the effect of different skeletal proportions on hindlimb kinematics in frogs’
Andrew Leitch, Queen Mary, University of London - ‘Genome downsizing after polyploidy: mechanisms, rates and selection pressures’
Jason Lynch, University College London - ‘Re-building Reefs through digital visualisation’
Heidi Ma, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London - ‘Hainan gibbon conservation in a human landscape – challenges and opportunities’
Donal Smith, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London -Sponsorship
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- Friday 20th September 2019 - The Linnean Society of London
Speakers
David Allen, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - 'Understanding virus evolution in the human population'
Chris Basu, Royal Veterinary College - TBC
Monika Bohm, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London - 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Ten years+ of the Sampled Red List Index'
Alex Bond, Natutal History Museum - 'The shearwater and the bottlecap: plastics pollution and its effects on wildlife'
Jessica Bryant, University of Roehampton - 'Does the early baboon catch the (Guinea) worm? Understanding how baboon ecology contributes to Guinea worm transmission in Ethiopia'
Peter Gasson, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew - 'Seeing the wood from the trees – wood inside and out'
James Hansford, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London - 'How did animals go extinct before the Anthropocene?'
Aida Gomez-Robles, University College London - 'The evolution of human altriciality and brain plasticity in comparative context'
Peter Graystock, Imperial College London - 'Engineering bumblebee microbiomes to increase host tolerance to pesticides'
Danniella Hodgson, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'The dynamics, interaction and impacts of plastics on the Isle of Cumbrae, Scotland'
Debroah Harvey, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'Connecting children with the biodiversity in their school grounds'
Richard Nichols, Queen Mary, University of London - 'Geology meets genomics'
Jasmine Ono, University College London - 'Mapping of speciation genes that cause yeast hybrid sterility'
Abbey Page, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - 'Fathers, grandmothers and siblings: the future of studying cooperative reproduction in humans'
Stuart Semple, University of Roehampton - 'Compression as a universal principle of biological information systems'
Elisabetta Versace, Queen Mary, University of London - 'Where do ideas come from? The chick and the origins of knowledge'
Juan Viruel, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew - 'From specimen to spoon: squeezing out genomic information to provide food security and inform conservation in yams'
Bonnie Webster, Natural History Museum - 'The sex lives of schistosomes; interrelationships of the S. haematobium species group'
Ashleigh Wiseman, Royal Veterinary College - 'How to reconstruct hominin locomotion from fossil tracks: a biomechanical approach'Sponsorship
- Friday 28th September 2018 - The Linnean Society of London
Speakers
Emily Bailes, Royal Holloway, University of London – ‘Investigating the transmission of bee viruses at flowers’
Cristina Banks-Leite, Imperial College London – ‘Causes and consequences of community turnover in tropical ecosystems’
Julia Day, University College London – ‘Evolution and Ecology of African fish radiations’
Ryan Felice, Natural History Museum – ‘From head to tail: the developmental origins of vertebrate phenotype’
China Hanson, Queen Mary, University of London – ‘Hot bacteria in the cold Arctic: why are they there and what does it tell us about marine microbial biogeography?’
Zerina Johanson, Natural History Museum – ‘Evo-devo of a unique shark dentition’
Andrew Leitch, Queen Mary, University of London – ‘Genome size and polyploidy – selection pressures under nitrogen and phosphorus limitation’
Gwilym Lewis, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – ‘There`s far more to legumes than just peas and beans’
Laura Martinez-Suz, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – ‘Which factors control the main nutritional mutualism of dominant trees in Europe?’
Krijn Michael, Royal Veterinary College – ‘Functional morphological analysis of terrestrial feeding in amphibious fish’
Samraat Pawar, Imperial College London – ‘Metabolic constraints on complex ecosystems’
Alex Pigot, University College London – ‘Global warming and the timing of biodiversity exposure to novel climates’
Steve Portugal, Royal Holloway, University of London – ‘The inception of a killer: development physiology of avian brood parasites’
Chris Richards, Royal Veterinary College – ‘Frogs: built for jumping (and for everything else)’
Anne Visscher, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – ‘Extremophily in Aizoaceae seeds’
Sponsorship
- Friday 22nd September 2017 - The Linnean Society of London
Speakers
Florencia Camus, University College London - 'Diet and fitness: what we want is not always what we need'
Jorn Cheney, Royal Veterinarian College - 'Extra elastic skin: unusual patterns of elastin in bat wing skin and its potential consequences on flight'
Chris Faulkes, Queen Mary’s, University of London - 'African mole-rats - adaptations to extreme subterranean lifestyles'
Laurent Frantz. Queen Mary’s, University of London - 'Palaeogenomics of pre-Columbian dogs'
Lena Grinsted, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'The social life of spiders'Peter Olson, Natural History Museum - 'Planarians to parasitism: how to make a flatworm parasite'
Nathan Kenny, Natural History Museum - 'Evolution on ice: molecular adaptations to temperature in Antarctic sponge populations'
Laura Martinez Suz, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew - 'Drivers of ectomycorrhizal diversity'
Laura Porro, Royal Veterinarian College - 'One giant leap: reconstructing anatomy and locomotion in a fossil frog'
Rudiger Riesch, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'Phenotypic diversity along a gradient of light'
Max Telford, University College London - 'Understanding Xenoturbella’s evolution: trees, genomes and cells'
Alexa Varah, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London - 'Minimising environmental trade-offs in the battle against herbicide resistance'
Maria Vorontsova, Royal Botanica Gardens, Kew - 'Using the grass herbarium to discover ancient Madagascar'
Bridget Wade, University College London - 'Ecology and Extinction in fossil planktonic foraminifera'
Sponsorship
- Friday 23rd September 2016 - Natural History Museum
Speakers
Selina Brace, Natural History Museum - TBC
Bill Baker, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - 'Building the Plant and Fungal Trees of Life'
Martin Brazeau, Imperial College London - 'Using the fossil record to reconstruct the evolutionary assembly of major features of vertebrate anatomy'
Austin Burt, Imperial College London - 'Understanding selfish genetic elements'
Monica Daley, Royal Veterinarian College - 'Scaling of avian bipedal locomotor dynamics from quail to ostriches’
Ester Gaya, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - 'Evolution of sunscreen in lichen-forming fungi’
Lee Henry, University London, Queen Mary's - 'The evolution of bacterial symbiosis with eukaryotic hosts'
Jan Janouškovec , University College London - 'Dinoflagellates: evolutionary race to ocean dominance'
Julia Koricheva, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'Forest diversity and ecosystem functioning'
Steve Portugal, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'The good, the bad, and the ugly: who is really benefiting from travelling in groups?'
Hannah Rowland, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London - 'Evolutionary ecology of prey defences and predator learning behaviour'
Angelika Stollewerk, University London, Queen Mary's - 'Evolution of sense organs in arthropods'
Seirian Sumner, University College London - 'Social behaviour: genes to phenotypes'
Jinliang Wang, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London - 'Development of population and quantitative genetic models for wild populations'
- Friday 11th September 2015 - The Linnean Society of London
Speakers
Celine Bellard, University College London – 'Invasions and climate change'
Sam Cartwright, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London – 'Investigating wildlife - livestock contact'
David Clayton, Queen Mary, University of London – 'Songbird neurogenomics'
Adriana De Palma, Natural History Museum – 'Bee sensitivity to land use'
Sarah Durant, Institute of Zoology, Zoological Society of London – 'Endangered species conservation'
Christophe Eizaguirre, Queen Mary, University of London – 'Evolutionary and conservation genetics'
Susan Evans, University College London – 'Palaeoherpetology and cranial mechanics'
Jason Hodgson, Imperial College London – 'Human population genetics'
Pepijn Kooij, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – 'Mycoviruses and fungal symbionts'
Ilia Leitch, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew – 'Genome size in plants'
Andy Purvis/Sandy Knapp, Natural History Museum - 'The Open Herbarium Project'
Rudy Riesch, Royal Holloway, University of London – 'Ecological speciation of fishes'
Julia Schroeder, Imperial College London – 'Genetic variation in birds'
Francisco Ubeda/Vincent Jansen, Royal Holloway, University of London - 'Evolution of Sex-specific Virulence'
- Monday 3rd November 2014 - University College London
Speakers
Michael Akam, University of Cambridge - 'The evolution of the segmentation gene network in arthropods'
Rebecca Dean, University College London (Genetics, Evolution and Environment) - 'Faster-Z evolution of gene expression'
Greg Elgar, NIMR - 'Bringing an ancient regulatory element into focus'
Vahan Indjeian, Imperial College London - 'Gene regulatory changes in fish and human skeletal evolution'
Henrik Kaessman, University of Lausanne - 'The evolution of mammalian tissue transcriptomes'
Bhavin Khatri, University College London (Infection and Immunity) - 'Evolution and speciation from simple biophysical models of gene regulation'
Paola Oliveri, University College London (Genetics, Evolution and Environment) - 'Gene regulatory network and evolution in echinoderm larval skeleton'
Serian Sumner, University of Bristol - 'The molecular basis of social behaviour'
Sander Tans, AMOLF Amsterdam - TBCSponsorship
