Organisms and Environment Division Seminar Series 2012-13
Seminars to be held on Thursdays at 13.10hrs-14.00hrs, in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre
(Room E/0.09), Biomedical Sciences Building, (except where marked).
11th October 2012
Dr Jo Setchell, Department of Anthropology, Durham University
Title: Microsmy revisited: Chemical communication in and Old World monkey
18th October 2012
Dr Peter Randerson, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: The influence of evapotranspiration on wastewater constructed wetland treatment efficiency
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Matteo Tamburini, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Comparing performances between two ornamental plants and two common macrophytes over two years in tertiary treatment constructed wetlands
Tuesday 23rd October 2012 - Law 2.27, Law Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 2 by Prof Eshwar Mahenthiralingam
Title: Good bugs, bad bugs - are some bacteria schizophrenic or just older and wise than us all?
25th October 2012
Dr Kathryn Monk, Science Strategy Manager, Environment Agency Wales, Cardiff
Title: Evidence-based policy making - what about the S(cience) word?
Tuesday 30th October 2012 - Law 2.27, Law Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 1 by Dr Eleanor Kean
Title: Animals stink: facts from faeces and curious carcasses
1st November 2012
Professor Jane Hurst, Mammalian Behaviour & Evolution, University of Liverpool
Title: Minding your pees and cues - on the scent of sexual attraction
8th November 2012
Dr Edward Guy, Head of Toxoplasma Reference Unit, Public Health Wales, Swansea
Title: Toxoplasma: Cat got your brain?
15th November 2012
Prof Brendan Godley, Centre for Ecology & Conservation, University of Exeter
Title Tracking turtles for conservation
22nd November 2012
Dr Carlos Garcia De Leaniz, Conservation and Evolutionary Ecology Group, Swansea University
Title: No salmon in the Yemen...: Learning from successes and failures in salmon and trout conservation
6th December 2012
Dr Andrew King, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter
Title: The AARC Sea Trout Project - Determining the at-sea movements of southern British sea trout
12th December 2012 at 1.10pm in 6th Floor Seminar Room,
Sir Martin Evans Building
Miss Jiayue Guo, Project Coordinator for UK, BGI Europe
Title: BGI-Genomic Centre and NGS Service Provider
13th December 2012
Mr Roy Davies (Author: 'Darwin-Wallace Story')
Title: The Darwin Conspiracy: Origins of a Scientific Crime
31st January 2013
Professor Jane Memmott, School of Biological Sciences, Bristol University
Title: The conservation, management and utilization of biodiversity in farming systems
7th February 2013 -POSTPONED
Dr Keith Jolley, Department of Zoology, Oxford University
Title: Integrating whole genome data with multi locus approaches to bacterial epidemiology and population biology
Friday 8th February 2013 - POSTPONED - John Pryde Lecture Theatre
(C/-1.01), Sir Martin Evans Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 2 by Dr Gabrielle Archard
Title: Causes and consequences of animal personality
14th February 2013
Professor Mark Vinney, Infection and Immunity Research Theme, University of Bristol
Title: What matters in a worm's world?
21st February 2013
Dr Lesley Morrell, Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Hull
Title: Hiding in the crowd: anti-predator aggregation in animals
28th February 2013
Dr David Clarke, College of Science, Engineering and Food Science, University College Cork (UCC)
Title: The regulation of symbiosis in the insect pathogenic bacterium, Photorhabdus
Friday 1st March 2013 - John Pryde Lecture Theatre
(C/-1.01), Sir Martin Evans Building at 1.00pm
Undergraduate Talk Year 1 by Dr Julian Marchesi
Title: Molecular microbial ecology of the human gut in health and disease: To me you're just a tube
7th March 2013
Dr Jon Bielby, Postdoc Research Assistant, Zoological Society of London
Title: Patterns and implications of variation in host susceptibility to the amphibian chytrid fungus
14th March 2013
Dr Paulo Prodohl, School of Biological Sciences, Queen's University, Belfast
Title: From multi-generation genetic tagging in lobsters to brown trout landscape genetics: - microsatellite DNA profiling at its best!
21st March 2013
Dr Michael Tunney, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacy, Queen's University Belfast
Title Anaerobic bacteria in chronic respiratory disease: pathogens or bystanders?
25th April 2013 - POSTPONED
Miss Kate Walker, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: TBA
2nd May 2013
Professor Steve Paterson, Institute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool
Title: Genetic diversity, immunity and pathogen resistance in the natural environment
9th May 2013 - POSTPONED
Dr Eleanor Kean, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University
Title: Landscapes of the Future: my Parliamentary Fellowship