Timetable
All seminars at 12:15 unless otherwise noted – we will have a mixture of on site and zoom seminars, see details under each particular talk!
Seminar dates confirmed this far:
21st September Dr. Elina Immonen, University of Uppsala (zoom), “How to evolve to resolve sexual conflict?”
28th September Dr. Julian Melgar, University of Oulu, on site, room AT117 “Environmental harshness and the evolution of social complexity – a tale of ostriches and ants”
5th October, Dr. Ilkka Kronholm, University of Jyväskylä (zoom) “Influence of chromatin structure on spontaneous mutations and methylation changes in a filamentous fungus”
2nd November, Dr. Thomas Lilley, LUOMUS (Finnish Museum of Natural History),on site, room MA335 ”Boreal bats in a crossfire of climate change and green energy production”
9th November, Dr. Luigi Baciadonna, University of Turin (zoom), “Multi-sensory individual recognition in African penguin”
16th November, Dr. Cecilia Di Bernardi, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU (zoom) “Wolf feeding ecology in a multi-ungulate system – investigating the effect of individual predator traits and abundance of co-occurring species”
CANCELLED – hopefully we can reschedule this for next year – Dr. Sergii Glotov, State Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine & National Antarctic Scientific Center, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine (zoom), “Colours of the White Continent”
30th KAAMOS-symposium, no Thursday seminar!
https://www.oulu.fi/en/events/27th-kaamos-symposium-2023
7th December, AT 2pm live at Tellus backstage a special interdisciplinary double session on early-life effects, with Prof Julia Jäkel (Univ. Oulu, Faculty of education and psychology) on “Biological and sociocultural risk and resilience from infancy to adulthood” and Dr. Emma Vitikainen (Dept. of Biosciences, Univ. of Helsinki and FinnBrain project, Univ. Turku) on “Early life experiences and ageing: an evolutionary approach“
14th December, DR. Dieter Thomas Tietze, NABU (Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union), Germany, “Macroevolution of Tits with Tietze”
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25th January 2pm, on site, Prof. Janne Soininen, Univ. Helsinki “Diatom island biogeography”
8th February, on zoom, Prof. Caroline Isaksson, Univ. Lund, Sweden
“From macro-to microscale: The impacts of urban greenery, pollution and nutrition on birds’ performance”
14th March Ville Friman, University of Helsinki
“Ecology and evolution of phytopathogenic bacterium and its viral parasites in plant rhizosphere microbiomes”
4th April Fred Asiegbu, University of Helsinki, Forest Tree Microbiome: Friends or Foes
11th April, 3pm, on site, room SÄ110, Prof. Paula Mulo, University of Turku “New insights into regulation of photosynthesis: Chloroplast acetyltransferases and acetylation of chloroplast proteins”
18th April a double session 12-2pm Marianne Espeland, The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change & Bengt Hansson, University of Lund
Wednesday 8th May Monica Vasile, Maastricht University “The Decline and Rescue of the Vancouver Island Marmot: a History of Science and Conservation,1970s- 2020s“
16th May Tiina Mattila, Uppsala University, “Gene flow, isolation and kinship in Stone Age Eastern Europe and Scandinavia”
23rd May Tuomo Mantere, Faculty of Medicine, Univ. Oulu, “Next generation cytogenetics with optical genome mapping“
Note that students can get credits from the seminars (2credit points, code 750318A or 750618S) by attending and writing short summaries of 10 presentations (half a page to one page per seminar is enough). The seminars don’t need to be from a single semester, but can be gathered over a longer time period as well. In case there is lack of seminar in the Thursday seminar and you are in a hurry to get credits, you can also listen to related seminars from other suitable sources. There is no need to register, just send your summaries when you’re ready (as one doc or pdf) to heikki.helantera@oulu.fi
Biology Thursday Seminar 