Genomic analyses of the evolution and loss of distyly in Linum reveal convergent evolution at the molecular level

Prof. Tanja Slotte (Stockholm University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Reconstructing brain evolution, one cell at the time

Dr Maria A Tosches (Columbia University).

Online.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 13:00-14:00

Laying (turbanate) eyes on morphological novelties

Dr Isabel Almudi (University of Barcelona).

Online.

Wednesday 31 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

A flexible evolutionary toolkit for neural development

Dr Angelika Stollewerk (Queen Mary, University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

Heterochrony and developmental system drift as the forces shaping spiralian development

Dr Chema Martin-Duran (Queen Mary, University of London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

The evolutionary origin of neuronal signalling machinery and animal cell differentiation

Dr Pawel Burkhardt (Sars Centre, University of Bergen).

Online.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

To regenerate or not to regenerate? Recovering shape and function in damaged jellyfish

Dr Chiara Sinigaglia (Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls-sur-Mer).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

The developmental origin of colour patterns in birds

Dr Marie Manceau (College De France).

Online.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

The origins of land plant complexity: interpreting development in the Devonian

Dr Sandy Hetherington (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

Unravelling 3-dimensional growth in plants

Dr Laura Moody (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

From rocks to RNA: Reconstructiong pathways in animal ontogeny and evolution

Prof Andreas Wanninger (University of Vienna).

Online.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Origin and early evolution of vertebrates

hybrid

Professor Philip Donoghue (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

The evolution of regular patterning in plants and animals

hybrid

Renske Vroomans (Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

The dynamics of hybridization following recent secondary contact

hybrid

Dr Sonya Clegg (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 13:00-14:00

Genotype-phenotype maps: which way to slice the pie?

Prof Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna).

Online.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

How to reduce body size: dimorphic development of the bone-eating Osedax (Annelida)

Katrine Worsaae (University of Copenhagen).

Online.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and Development of the vertebrate nervous system: from lampreys to humans

On Zoom only, ask organisers for link

Dr Dorit Hockman.

Zoom.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

One-size-fits-all? Evo-Devo of petal patterning in Hibiscus flowers

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Edwige Moyroud.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

On chemical and synaptic brains and the evolution of nervous systems

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Gaspar Jékely.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Studying stem cells and differentiation in regenerating animals using single cell transcriptomics

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Dr Jordi Solana.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 May 2022, 13:00-14:00

Development and Evolution of the skeleton in echinoderms

Hybrid, ask organisers for link

Prof Paola Oliveri.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 13:00-14:00

The role of FoxN3 in the development of the chondrocranium and associated head muscles in the African Clawed-frog, Xenopus laevis

Lennart Olsson, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 April 2020, 13:00-14:00

The genetic basis for leaf development and diversity: from understanding to reconstructing [CANCELLED]

Miltos Tsiantis, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Decoding evolution and development: from gene-regulatory structure to function

Justin Crocker, EMBL.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

TBC

Dr Anna Schönauer, Oxford Brookes University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 13:00-14:00

TBC

Dr Marketa Kaucka Petersen, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

How to build an animal: combining cell cleavage and cell fate to understand annelid development

Dr Mette Handberg-Thorsager, Max Planck Institute for Cell Biology and Genetics.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Adaptation for life on land – remodelling the pharynx in development and evolution

Professor Anthony Graham, King's College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Extreme morphogenetic canalization of ascidian embryonic development

Dr Patrick Lemaire, Montpellier Cell Biology Research Center.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

From development to deep time: the macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration in living and extinct tetrapods

Prof Anjali Goswami, Natural History Museum, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

TBC

Prof Tatjana Sauka-Spengler, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Segmentation dynamics and diversity in an arthropod cell-based field

Professor Hiroki Oda, JT Biohistory Research Hall, Osaka, Japan.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

The origin and diversification of birds: Big questions, and developmental directions

Dr Daniel Field, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Dynamical models and morphogenetic fields in evolution and development

Dr Yogi Jaeger, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Neuronal correlates of behavioral plasticity in social insect brains - approaching the next level of detail

Dr Thomas S. Muenz, University of Würzburg.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Developmental origins of heart size and shape differences in Astyanax mexicanus populations

Jocelyn Tang, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and regulation of developmental plasticity: body size and pigmentation in Drosophila

Dr Elvira Lafuente, University of Helsinki.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Looking with different eyes: exploring visual systems diversity with the crustacean Parhyale hawaiensis

Dr Patricia Ramos, Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle de Lyon.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Communication between chromosomes: the evolution and function of long noncoding RNAs in the Hox complex

Dr Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Regulation of Cell-Type Specific Regulatory Programs in the Sea Anemone Nematostella vectensis

Dr Heather Marlow, Institut Pasteur, Paris.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Mouse Hox gene enhancers analysed in cell culture; and some proposals on the significance of Hox gene collinearity

Dr Stephen Gaunt, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Left-right asymmetry determination in amphioxus

Dr Guang Li, School of Life Sciences, Xiamen University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Deep homology of insect and vertebrate midbrain-cerebellum circuitry

Dr Frank Hirth, King's College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 October 2018, 13:00-14:00

Determinants of embryo polarity in the evolution of flies

Professor Urs Schmidt-Ott, University of Chicago.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 17 September 2018, 14:00-15:00

Life in the dark: can deep sea fishes see colours?

Zuzana Musilova (Charles University, Prague).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Gene re-usages constrained the evolvability of the animal body plan?

Naoki Irie (University of Tokyo).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Mechanics and Evolution of Cell Sheet Folding – Embryonic Inversion in the micro-alga Volvox

Stephanie Höhn (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 May 2018, 13:00-14:00

Dorsal closure in dipterans: epithelial rupture, contraction and seaming in embryos of the scuttle fly Megaselia abdita

Juan Fraire-Zamora (Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 April 2018, 13:00-14:00

Using single-cell technologies and planarians to study stem cells, their differentiation and their evolution

Jordi Solana (Oxford Brookes University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 March 2018, 13:00-14:00

Modularity, criticality and evolvability of a developmental GRN

Berta Verd (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

Amphibian Evolution through Deep Time: Fossils, Genes and Regeneration

Nadia Fröbisch (Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 February 2018, 13:00-14:00

The role of choanocytes in the sponge stem cell system and their suggested homology with choanoflagellates

Shunsuke Sogabe (University of St Andrews).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Neuropeptidergic signalling in the anterior nervous system of Platynereis larvae and evolution of neurosecretory brain centers

Gaspar Jekely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Multi-level characterisation of cell types in Platynereis

Hernando Martinez Vergara (European Molecular Biology Laboratory).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 17 January 2018, 13:00-14:00

Probing human brain evolution in a dish

Madeline Lancaster (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

MicroCT from zoology to pathology

Brian Metscher (University of Vienna).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Molecular mechanisms of biomineralisation in sponges and molluscs and their relevance to the Cambrian explosion

Daniel Jackson (University of Göttingen).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Taxon-restricted genes at the origin of morphological novelty and ecological opportunity in water-striders

Emilia Santos (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 November 2017, 13:00-14:00

Seeing with Sunscreens: How mantis shrimp build and utilize nature’s most elaborate ultraviolet receptor array

Michael Bok (University of Bristol).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 October 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of limb and fin regeneration

Associate Professor Igor Schneider (Federal University of Pará).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 July 2017, 13:00-14:00

Time and space in insect segmentation

Erik Clark (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 June 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evo-devo of vertebrate cartilage and oropharyngeal skeleton

Dr David Jandzik (University of Colorado Boulder).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 31 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

Evolving a big brain: developmental evolution of the vertebrate cerebellum

Dr Thomas Butts (University of Liverpool).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 May 2017, 13:00-14:00

The Evolution of Arthropods: From Limb Transformation in Crustaceans to Color Variation in Butterflies

Nipam Patel (University of California, Berkeley).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 06 April 2017, 13:00-14:00

Shared developmental rules predict patterns of size evolution in vertebrate segmented structures

Kathryn Kavanagh (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Amphioxus provides unexpected insight into evolutionary processes

Ildiko Somorjai (University of St Andrews).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

Regulatory evolution and the diversification of pigmentation patterns in Drosophila

Nicolas Gompel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 March 2017, 13:00-14:00

The evolutionary and embryonic origins of the gnathostome axial skeleton

Kate Criswell (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Lizards, skulls and reptile communities

Johannes Müller (Leibniz Institute for Research on Evolution and Biodiversity, Berlin Natural History Museum).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 16:00-17:00

How the breakdown of Meckel’s cartilage offers clues to mammalian evolution

Neal Anthwal (King's College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 February 2017, 13:00-14:00

Gene regulatory complexity in chordate neural patterning

Sebastian Shimeld (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 January 2017, 13:00-14:00

Expression of segment polarity genes in brachiopods supports a non-segmental ancestral role of engrailed for bilaterians

Bruno Vellutini (Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

Evo-devo in cartilaginous fishes - teeth, scales and the cartilaginous skeleton of the catshark Scyliorhinus canicula

Mélanie Debiais-Thibaud (University of Montpellier).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 November 2016, 13:00-14:00

5, 4, 3, 2 or 1 – Evolution of digit number through modification of embryonic Sonic hedgehog signalling

Megan Davey (University of Edinburgh).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

The evolution of embryonic form: a genetic and cellular analysis of arthropod development

Matt Benton (University of Cologne).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Maternal effects in Speckled Wood butterflies: an eco-evo-devo approach

Casper Breuker (Oxford-Brookes University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 October 2016, 13:00-14:00

Flies, bees, aphids and frogs: what can this menagerie tell us about the evolution of developmental processes?

Elizabeth Duncan (University of Leeds).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 June 2016, 13:00-14:00

Progress and future prospects of resolving the animal tree of life in the era of genomics

Gonzalo Giribet (Harvard).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of the Animal Face: from Principles to Mechanisms

Arkhat Abzhanov (Imperial College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 13:00-14:00

Isolated branches in the phylogeny of Platyhelminthes

Christopher Laumer (EMBL-EBI and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

TCF/Lef regulates the Gsx ParaHox gene in central nervous development in chordates.

Myles Garstang, University of St Andrews.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 April 2016, 13:00-14:00

The Evolution of Developmental Regulation in Spiders and Flies: Diversification of Body Plans and Body Parts

Alistair McGregor (Oxford Brookes University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 March 2016, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of animal body axes: insights from the oral-aboral axis of the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

Chiara Sinigaglia.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Comparative Analyses of Neuromesodermal Progenitor Dynamics in vivo

Ben Steventon (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

Three phases of Wnt signaling define three phases of axis development in the hemichordate S. kowalevskii

Jens Fritzenwanker (Stanford University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

Endodermal contribution to orofacial structures in non-teleost fishes: How ancient is the pre-oral gut?

Martin Minařík (Charles University, Prague).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of eye development in Astyanax blind cavefish

Hélène Hinaux .

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

The molecular basis of developmental buffering: a key to understanding the interface between environment and evolution?

Dr Atsuko Sato (Ochanomizu University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 August 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plasticity and Evolution of Body Size and Shape

Christen Mirth (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Gill arch serial homology and the origin of jawed vertebrates

Andrew Gillis (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 May 2015, 13:00-14:00

Exploring the genetic toolkit for pattern formation and diversification in butterfly wings

Arnaud Martin (UC Berkley).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Monday 27 April 2015, 13:00-14:00

Plant Sciences Departmental Seminars

An integrated structural biology approach to flower development

Francois Parcy, Grenoble.

Department of Plant Sciences, Large Lecture Theatre.

Thursday 19 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Regulatory Programme and Evolution Underlying the Development of Echinoderm Skelton

Paola Oliveri.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 18 March 2015, 11:00-12:00

Raising the shield: How cell migration changes got the turtle its shell (NOTE UNUSUAL TIME)

Scott Gilbert.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 March 2015, 16:00-17:00

The curious incident of the seal in the pond

Jukka Jernvall (University of Helsinki).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 March 2015, 13:00-14:00

Fishing for the genetic basis of skeletal evolution and disease

Vahan Indjeian (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 February 2015, 13:00-14:00

The earliest deuterostomes, or something else entirely?

Simon Conway Morris (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

The development and evolution of vertebrate oxygen-sensing cells

Dorit Hockman (University of Oxford).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 January 2015, 13:00-14:00

Bdelloid rotifers: unveiling the mystery of an evolutionary scandal

Chiara Boschetti (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

How does an alga become a parasite?

Ellen Nisbet (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 13:00-14:00

Morphogenesis and Molecular Regulation of Colour Patterning in Natural Populations

Marie Manceau (Collège de France).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 October 2014, 13:00-14:00

Deep Time and Modern Brains

Please contact the organiser, Liria Masuda-Nakagawa (lm546) if you would like to meet Professor Strausfeld after the seminar.

Professor Nicholas Strausfeld (University of Arizona).

Part II room, Department of Genetics. Please use the entrance by the Part II room and tea room underneath the external fire escape. Main entrance is not connected to Part II room due to refurbishment..

Friday 12 September 2014, 12:00-13:00

Amphioxus: A laboratory surrogate of the ancestral chordate giving insights into vertebrate head origins

Elia Benito Gutierrez (EMBL).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 04 June 2014, 13:00-14:00

Epigenetic conservation of vertebrate gene regulatory elements

This talk is kindly sponsored by eLife Sciences

Hannah Long (University of Oxford).

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Constraints? Why blind cavefish still have eye at embryonic stage

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto (University College London).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Using barcoding to understand British Collembola (Springtails)

Peter Shaw (University of Roehampton).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 May 2014, 13:00-14:00

Model species Daphnia: A Genome for the Environment

John Colbourne (School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of morphological patterns and sexual behaviors in Drosophila

Benjamin Prud’homme (Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille-Luminy).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 April 2014, 13:00-14:00

Floral quartets link flower development and evolution

Günter Theißen (Friedrich Schiller University of Jena).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

The evolution of branching patterns in plants

Jill Harrison (University of Cambridge).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 March 2014, 13:00-14:00

Integration in Morphological Structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves

Chris Klingenberg (University of Manchester).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Making similar embryos with divergent genomes

Patrick Lemaire (The tunicate group, CRBM, Montpellier, and INRIA Virtual Plants, Montpellier).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 19 February 2014, 13:00-14:00

Cracking the code of crocodile skin

Michel C. Milinkovitch (University of Geneva).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 January 2014, 13:00-14:00

The endocrine organs of Drosophila as new model to study extreme evolutionary divergence and epithelial to mesenchymal transitions during development

James Castelli-Gair Hombría (Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Seville).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 December 2013, 13:00-14:00

RNA regulation during development and evolution

Claudio Alonso (University of Sussex).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Mechanism of phototaxis in Platynereis larvae and the origin of visual eyes

Gáspár Jékely (Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Deciphering the onychophoran ‘segmentation gene cascade’: inferences about the evolution of segmentation

Ralf Janssen (Uppsala University).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 November 2013, 13:00-14:00

Developmental Modularity, and Evolvability of the Head Skeleton

Charles Kimmel (University of Oregon).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 October 2013, 13:00-14:00

Probing the molecular and cellular basis of developmental morphogenesis

Tassos Pavlopoulos, Max Planck Institute at Dresden.

Part II Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 27 June 2013, 14:00-15:00

Environmental effects on developmental progression and growth in Drosophila

Christen Mirth, Gulbenkian Institute, Portugal.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

Development and evolution of vertebrate electroreceptors

Melinda Modrell, University of Cambridge, UK.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Amphioxus: an unusual model gives insight into chordate development and regeneration

Ildiko Somorjai, University of St Andrews, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

Adaptive evolution of voltage-gated sodium channels: stories from electric fish, scorpions and mice

Harold Zakon, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

The developmental, genetic, and adaptive bases of morphological evolution: the case of water-walking insects

Abderrahman Khila, Lyon, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 March 2013, 13:00-14:00

Developmental plasticity and life history evolution in amphibians

Ivan Gomez-Mestre, Seville, Spain.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

The spider Parasteatoda tepidariorum as a model to study the ancestral mechanisms of bilaterian metazoan development

Note unusual day and time

Hiroki Oda, Osaka, Japan.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Friday 22 February 2013, 12:00-13:00

Evolution of gastrulation in flies

Steffen Lemke, Heidelberg, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Hydra, a model for deciphering the principles of stem cells and regeneration

Brigitte Galliot, Geneva, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 February 2013, 13:00-14:00

Integrative evolutionary biology: a need for interdisciplinary studies of development, ecology and population genetics

Ralf J. Sommer, Max-Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of body axes in Eumetazoa: what can we learn from Cnidaria?

Grigory Genikhovich, University of Vienna, Austria.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 December 2012, 13:00-14:00

The evolution of dorsoventral patterning in insects

Siegfried Roth, University of Cologne, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Developing innovation from regeneration: how the pufferfish got its beak

Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Control of segmentation clock period and segment number in the zebrafish

Christian Schroeter, University of Cambridge, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

Shedding light on lunar rhythms

Kristin Tessmar-Raible, Max F. Perutz Laborarories/ University of Vienna, Austria.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 November 2012, 13:00-14:00

From apical organs to the bilaterian forebrain: Duplication and divergence of neural circuits in central nervous system evolution

note unusual location

Detlev Arendt, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany..

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Developmental and Evolutionary Dynamics of the Gap Gene System

note unusual location

Johannes Jaeger, CRG Barcelona.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 June 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution, function and control of diverse products from microRNA loci

note unusual location

Matthew Ronshaugen, University of Manchester, UK.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Fitting pieces and further puzzles - What 'nobody' can tell about the evolution of arthropod neurogenesis

Georg Brenneis, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 May 2012, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of the molecular basis of thermotolerance, focussing on the embryos of an invasive marine invertebrate

note unusual time

Seb Shimeld, University of Oxford, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 May 2012, 12:00-13:00

The house mouse as a model system for evolutionary research

Diethardt Tautz, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Ploen, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Genome evolution as seen from each of its genes: what "phylomes" can tell us about newly-sequenced species

Toni Gabaldon, CRG, Barcelona.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

Morphological and molecular evolution of the arthropod nervous system: new insights from studies on the waterflea Daphnia magna

Angelika Stollewerk, Queen Mary, University of London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 29 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

What's in a Wing? Transcriptome analysis of bat limb development

Mandy Mason, NIMR, London, UK and University of Cape Town, South Africa.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 22 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Drosophila segmentation paradigm: A product of molecular co-option and the blind clock breaker?

Andrew Peel, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Crete.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 08 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

The gap junction protein Innexin7 is required for cellularization of the Tribolium blastoderm

Maurijn van der Zee, University of Leiden.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

Origin of developmental plasticity in basal chordates

Stefano Tiozzo, Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Axial homologies re-examined: a common ground plan at the base of Eumetazoa

Heather Marlow, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and development of morphology among populations and between species of Drosophila

Alistair McGregor, Oxford Brookes University, UK.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Setting up embryonic polarity in the hydrozoan Clytia hemisphaerica

Evelyn Houliston, Developmental Biology Unit, CNRS/Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Villefranche-sur-mer, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Patterning of the anterior non-segmented part of the insect head

Gregor Bucher, Georg August University Göttingen, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

Oviparous chondrichthyans as emerging models of vertebrate development

(note unusual location)

Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, UK.

Main Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

The odontode explosion: the origin of tooth-like structures in vertebrates

Gareth Fraser, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 April 2010, 13:00-14:00

Gene cluster genesis, diversification and decay in animal evolution.

Sebastian Shimeld, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 March 2010, 13:00-14:00

The Choanoflagellates: Sister Group to Metazoa

Barry SC Leadbeater, University of Birmingham.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 February 2010, 13:00-14:00

The evolution of determinism: an evolutionary history of mechanisms underlying insect wing patterning

Robert Ray, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 January 2010, 13:00-14:00

Homeobox genes, genome organization and animal evolution

David Ferrier, The Gatty Marine Laboratory, University of St Andrews.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Limbs gone batty: A second wave of Sonic Hedgehog expression during the development of the bat limb

Dorit Hockman, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 December 2009, 13:00-14:00

Fingers, fins and faces: the role of fossils in documenting the assembly of modern bodyplans

Matt Friedman, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

Systematics, homology and speciation in time and space.

Julie Hawkins, University of Reading.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 November 2009, 13:00-14:00

How the fly got its sexy legs: the origin and evolution of Drosophila sex combs

Artyom Kopp, Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California-Davis, USA.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Evolution and development of the deuterostome pharynx: insight from sharks and hemichordate worms

Andrew Gillis, Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 October 2009, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What is Consciousness For?

Professor Chris Frith, University College London.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 18:00-19:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

In Vivo Real Time Control and Imaging of Brain Circuits

Professor Karl Deisseroth, Stanford University, USA.

William Harvey.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:45-17:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Identifying the Network of Selectively Vulnerable Neurons Associated With Symptom Onset in Alzheimer¹s Disease.

Dr. Peter Nestor, Department of Clinical Neuroscience.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 16:00-16:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Gambling and the Brain

Dr Luke Clark, Department of Experimental Psychology..

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 15:30-16:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Glutamate, Spikes, and White Matter Disease

Dr. Ragnhildur Káradóttir, Department of Veterinary Medicine..

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 15:00-15:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Soft Matters – Neuromechanics in Development and Disorders

Dr. Jochen Guck, Department of Physics.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 12:30-13:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

What Can Worm Brains Tell Us About Big Brains?

Dr. William Schafer, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 12:00-12:30

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Visceral Neurons in Drosophila: What the Fly's Rear End Can Tell Us About the Brain

Dr. Irene Miguel-Aliaga, Department of Zoology.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital.

Thursday 19 March 2009, 11:30-12:00

Cambridge Neuroscience Seminar: New Approaches in Neuroscience

Processing and Storage Within Neurons

Professor Jeff Magee, Howard Hughs Medical Institute, Janelia Farm, USA.

William Harvey Lecture Theatre, School of Clinical Medicine, Addenbrooke's Hospital..

Thursday 19 March 2009, 10:05-10:50

Octopus: Old Friends Through the Looking Glass

Rahul Parnaik, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 11 March 2009, 13:00-14:00

Limb architecture in arthropods - how to build a uniramous leg

Carsten Wolff, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 February 2009, 13:00-14:00

Investigating stem cell differentiation and positional signaling in the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea

Aziz Aboobaker, Institute of Genetics, University of Nottingham.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 03 December 2008, 13:00-14:00

Using Papaver somniferum (opium poppy) to study the evolution of flower development

Sinead Drea, University of Leicester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 26 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Mexican blind cavefish as a model system for micro evolutionary research

Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, University College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 19 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Conserved regulatory networks in vertebrate development

Greg Elgar, University of London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Cardamine hirsuta: a new system for evo-devo studies.

Angela Hay. Plant Sciences Dept, Oxford University.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 05 November 2008, 13:00-14:00

Systems biology of phototaxis in marine zooplankton and origin of the proto-eye

Gáspár Jékely, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology (Germany).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 15 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

The Evolution of Dorsal-Ventral Patterning Among the Insects

Jeremy Lynch, Institute of Developmental Biology, University of Cologne (Germany).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 01 October 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of extraembryonic tissue and segmentation mechanisms in flies (Diptera)

Note changed location and time!!!

Urs Schmidt-Ott, Dept of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago, U.S.A..

Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 03 June 2008, 13:00-14:00

The genetic loci underlying phenotypic evolution in animals and plants: from single case studies to general principles

Note changed location!

Vigrinie Orgogozo, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.

Austin Building Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Understanding the evolution of developmental mechanisms: the role of non-coding RNAs in Hox gene regulation

Matthew Ronshaugen, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evo-devo in the tropics

Catherine Kidner, Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

Genetic Leverage: A Quantitative Measure of Evolvability

Please note location and time!

Alexis Gallagher, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 13 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Neurogenesis and its bearing on lophotrochozoan phylogeny and bodyplan evolution

Andreas Wanninger, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 May 2008, 13:00-14:00

The evolutionary origins of meiosis: a hypothesis

Adam Wilkins, Editor, BioEssays, Cambridge (in collaboration with Robin Holliday).

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 30 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

Evolution of dorsoventral patterning in the honeybee Apis mellifera and the flour beetle Tribolium castaneum

Jessica Cande, Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California at Berkeley, U.S.A..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 23 April 2008, 13:00-14:00

A new view on arthropod limb evolution

Gerhard Scholtz, Institute for Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 March 2008, 13:00-14:00

Ecdysozoan phylogeny and the origins of crustacean complexity: new data from the Cambrian fossil record

Tom Harvey, Department of Earth Science, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 27 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

The little Amphioxus: Towards experimental Evo-Devo at the origin of chordates

Jordi Garcia-Fernandez, Department of Genetics, University of Barcelona, Spain.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 20 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Recapitulating ancestral mammalian incisor dentitions through disruption of NF-kB and Wnt signalling in the mouse

Jim Blackburn, Dept of Craniofacial Development, Kings College London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

Transgenic and transgenomic strategies for studying the genetic basis of phenotypic evolution: prospects and pitfalls

David Baum, Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 February 2008, 13:00-14:00

The centipede tree: an evolutionary framework for segmentation studies

Greg Edgecombe, Natural History Museum, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 16 January 2008, 13:00-14:00

The evolution of the Bilateria - insights from an acoel flatworm

Andreas Hejnol, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, U.S.A..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 December 2007, 13:00-14:00

The Great Divide: Life on Earth before and after the Ediacaran transition

Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Segmentation genes in the annelid Platynereis

Guillaume Balavoine, CNRS-CGM, Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Cells with a rooting function give new insights into land plant evolution

Benoit Menand, Laboratoire de Génétique et Biophysique des Plantes, Marseilles, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 November 2007, 13:00-14:00

Evolutionary dynamics on phenotype landscapes: where are the constraints?

Tom van Dooren, Institute of Biology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Comparative ontogenetic and palaeontological approaches to study the evolution of turtles

Marcelo Sanchez, Museum of Palaeontology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 10 October 2007, 13:00-14:00

Ontogeny, modularity, and morphological diversity of the mammal skull

Anjali Goswami, Dept of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 12 September 2007, 13:00-14:00

Expression and function of spider Wnt genes

Please note unusual time!

Alistair McGregor, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Tuesday 04 September 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution of Segmental Patterning: Molecular Mechanisms of Segmentation in Spiders

Please note location and time!

Wim Damen, Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 26 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Analyzing evolvability with an exact network algebra

Please note location and time!

Alexis Gallagher, Zoology Department, University of Oxford.

Basement Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Thursday 19 July 2007, 11:00-12:00

Evolution of Vertebrate Developmental Pathways

Please note different location!

Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Austin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 13 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

High-speed homeoboxes and wayward worms

Please note different location!

Peter Holland, Evolution & Development Research Group, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.

Austin Building Seminar Room, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 06 June 2007, 13:00-14:00

Gene Networks and Natural Selection

Andreas Wagner, Department of Biochemistry, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 09 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Gilding the Lily: The Evolution and Development of Specialized Petal Cell Types

Beverley Glover, Department of Plant Sciences, Cambridge.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 02 May 2007, 13:00-14:00

Sex Determination in Musca domestica, a Prime Example of Evolutionary Plasticity in Development

Daniel Bopp, Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 25 April 2007, 13:00-14:00

Pulling an Insect's Legs and Wings: Selected Evo-Devo Stories

Aleksandar Popadic, Department of Biological Sciences, Wayne State University, Detroit, U.S.A..

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 14 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Vertebrate EvoDevo and Genomics (CANCELLED)

Michael Richardson, Department of Integrative Zoology, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 March 2007, 13:00-14:00

Embryos and Ancestors

Phil Donoghue, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 28 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

The Evolution of Developmental Signalling in the Social Amoebas

Pauline Schaap, Division of Cell & Developmental Biology, University of Dundee.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 21 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Neanderthal Genomics

Please note different location and time!

Svante Pääbo, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

Seminar Room, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies.

Wednesday 14 February 2007, 17:00-18:00

The Amphioxus Model in Evo-Devo/Neofunctionalization of Retinoic Acid Receptors in Vertebrates

Hector Escrivà, Observatoire Océanologique de Banyuls sur Mer, France.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 07 February 2007, 13:00-14:00

Tweaking the Hinge and Caps: Testing a Model of the Organization of the Gnathostome Skull

Michael Depew, King's College, London.

Part II Lecture Theatre, Department of Zoology.

Wednesday 24 January 2007, 13:00-14:00