The Darwin Seminars
The Department of Biological Sciences is hosting a series of seminars on the work of Charles Darwin to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of his birth, and the 150th Anniversary of the publication of "On the Origin of Species". Each of the following seminars will take place at 12:45pm in Gibbet Hill Lecture Theatre 1:
Date | Speaker | Topic |
9 October | Georgy Koentges (Warwick) | Evolution of neck and shoulder development |
16 October | William Amos (Cambridge) | The story of whales: how did evolution achieve so much so fast? |
23 October | Richard Ffrench-Constant (Exeter) | Molecular basis of natural selection in insects: sex, drugs and molecular biology |
30 October | John Parker (Cambridge) | Henslow legacy: Darwin's inheritance |
6 November | Peter Holland FRS (Oxford) | Genes, genomes and animal evolution |
13 November | Mark Jobling (Leicester) | Y chromosomes and human evolution |
20 November | Clive Gamble (Royal Holloway) | Evolution of the human social mind |
27 November | John Allen (Queen Mary) | The photosynthetic origin of free oxygen |
4 December | Bambos Kyriacou (Leicester) | Evolution of circadian rhythms |
11 December | Michael Akam FRS (Cambridge) | Arthropods and the invasion of the land |
The seminars will last for approximately 1 hour. They are free, and all are welcome to attend.