Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2022-23
The next seminar is on Thursday 17th of November (12h15 in D 0.39):
Jana Tesikova (EVECO) Virus hunting: the diversity of selected rodent-borne viruses.
Valentina Burskaya (EVECO) Does hybridization facilitate explosive speciation of Lake Baikal amphipods?
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2021-22
18/11 Jamie McLaren (FunMorph) Measuring the Monsters of the Maas: Quantifying the 3D functional morphology of mosasaurs
02/12 Luci Kirkpatrick (EVECO) Disentangeling social and spatial drivers of disease transmission
16/12 Valeria Colombo (EVECO) The Bioroddis project: Preliminary results
13/01 Simon Baeckens (FunMorph) Convergent evolution of functional skin surfaces in lizards
27/01 Nicky Staes (BECO) Evolution of the primate social brain: A hologenomics approach
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2020-21 part 2
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2020-21 part 1
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2019-20
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2018-2019
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2017-18
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2016-17
D.042, 4/11
Nina Dehnhard (BECO) Foraging behaviour of sympatrically breeding Antarctic fulmarine petrels
Tess Driessens (FM) The Anolis dewlap from a functional and evolutionary perspective
B.015, 18/11
Glenn Borgmans (FM) Assessment of welfare for reptiles and amphibians in captivity
Thomas Raap (BECO) Early life exposure to artificial light at night affects the physiological condition
B.015, 2/12
Bert Thys (BECO) The female perspective of personality variation in the great tit (Parus major)
Sandra Geiger (Leipzig University) It’s (not) all about feet – investigating equine and bovine distal limb biomechanics with XROMM
16/12: Zoology Conference
13/1: Research Day Faculty of Sciences
D.039, 27/1
Omid Ekrami (EVECO) Using high density meshes acquired from 3D scanners in the study of the adaptive value of masculinity and fluctuating asymmetry in human bodies and faces
Maaike Griffioen (BECO) Turn taking/conditional cooperation in Blue tits
D.039, 10/2
Amélie Chastagner (EVECO) The structuration of rat populations on the Faroe Islands
Sarah Brosnan (Georgia State University, USA) The evolution of (un)fairness
D.021, 24/2
Jiachen Sun (BECO) Retrospective examination of environmental stressors in European predatory birds
Joachim Marien (EVECO) Movement patterns and abundance of rodents in Lassa fever endemic villages in Guinea
D.039, 10/3
Menelia Vasilopoulou-Kampitsi (FM) Morphological and kinematical analysis of balance in lacertid lizards
Reinaldo Marfull (GELIFES, RUG/NL) Begging signals in blue tits
B.008, 24/3
Jamie McLaren (FM) There and back again - examining the locomotor morphology of extinct perissodactyls
Bram vanden Broecke (EVECO) Can personality affect virus transmission?
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2015-16
6/nov (CDE) B.032
Ana Antia Lopez (BECO) Identification and quantification of the effects of agricultural pesticides in the red legged partridge in Spain
Emina Šunje (FunMorph) Comparative biology of continuous Alpine populations of Salamandra atra atra with isolated, fragmented Dinaric populations of Salamandra atra prenjensis
20/nov (CGB) U.025
Marielle Kaashoek (FunMorph) Zebrafinch orientation strategies & Seahorse: From fin to flow
Raïssa de Boer (BECO) 'Out of tune': The effects of inbreeding on bird song
4/dec (CDE) R.109
David Costantini (BECO) Digging at oxidative stress’ roots: how early life experiences fine-tune the oxidative phenotype
David Lee (University of Nevada) Bipedal Walking Dynamics of Humans, Birds, and Machines
18/dec (CDE) B.032 Christmas Special
15/jan (CGB) U.025
Nolwenn Fresneau (BECO) Parental food allocation and between sibling communication according to size hierarchy and hunger in blue tit broods
Alejandro Sotillo (TEREC UGhent) Modelling foraging distribution of Larus fuscus in a changing landscape
29/jan (CDE) B.032
Anneleen Rutten (EVECO) Agricultural damage by wild boars in Flanders
Rui Diogo (Howard University) Evolutionary Developmental Pathological Anthropology: bringing together anatomy, human evolution, development, genetics, birth defects and medicine, with notes on external/environmental vs internal evolutionary forces
12/feb (CGB) U.025
Marwa Kavelaars (BECO) Equality in investment: female and male nest attendance during incubation
Lisa Furu Baardsen (EVECO) Exploring nest arthropod communities and the effect of urbanization
26/feb (CDE) B.032
Frederik Van de Perre (EVECO) The relationship between species diversity and aboveground carbon storage is taxon-specific
Charlotte Van Moorleghem (FunMorph) The evolution and ecological role of chemical senses in lizards
11/mar (CGB) U.025
Dries Van de Lock (EVECO/TEREC UGhent) On short term post-fledging survival in a tropical passerine
Simon Baeckens (FunMorph) Do environmental conditions shape the chemical signalling signature of lizards?
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2014-15
7/nov (D.023 CDE)
Anke Vermeulen (ETHO) On the trade-off between immune activation and reproduction in female great tits
Diana Samuel (FM) The 'stick-ability' of tree- and torrent frogs
21/nov (U.025 CGB)
Thomas Raap (ETHO) Disruption of sleep behaviour by artificial light at night: an experimental study in free-living birds
Lieven Therry (KULeuven) Evolutionary ecology of a range expanding damselfly
5/dec (D.004 CDE)
Jana Goyens (FM) Extreme stag beetle weapons: an interaction between fight and locomotion performance
Benny Borremans (EvoEco) Scaling of contact rates with population density
19/dec (D.-105 CDE)
Christmas special
16/jan (CGB U.025)
Jamie Maclaren (FM) Locomotor morphology of a living fossil - using 3D morphometrics to investigate tapir limb osteology
Manrico Sebastiano (ETHO) Stress and herpes infections in the frigatebird (Fregata magnificens): an experimental evolutionary physiological approach
30/jan (CDE D.023)
Nicky Staes (ETHO/ZOO) The role of vasopressin receptor gene variation as a proximate mechanism for differences in sociability between bonobos and chimpanzees.
Dominic Cram (Cambridge University) Oxidative load-lightening: the costs of reproduction in a cooperatively breeding bird
6/feb CGB
Glenn Borgmans (FM) Assessing animal welfare for reptiles and amphibians in captivity. An in depth study on Green anoles
Raoul van Oosten (EvoEco) Host specificity in ticks
20/feb (CDE D.023)
Arne Iserbyt (ETHO) Sexually antagonistic selection in canaries not generated by testosterone-related intra-locus sexual conflict
Lisa Arvidsson (EvoEco) Individual variation in information sampling and information use
6/mar CGB
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3/apr CDE D.004
Julia Myatt (University of Birmingham) Linking studies of behaviour, habitat and morphology: What can we learn?
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2013-14
The Seminars in Ecology and Evolution are a joined initiative of the research groups Functional Morphology, Evolutionary Ecology and Ethology. They primarily function as a platform for our PhD students to present their research, combined with invited speakers that work on topics related to their reserach projects. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact Katleen Huyghe, Dieter Heylen, Diederik Strubbe, Raoul van Damme, or me.
CGB (U.025) 8 November
Nina Dehnhard (ETHO) Potential consequences of climate change for rockhopper penguins
Sophie Gryseels (EVO – ECO) Comparative phylogeography arenaviruses and their hosts
CDE (D.023) 22 November
Simon Baeckens (FunMorph) The Role of the Physical Environment in the Evolution of a Chemical Communication System - A Family-Wide Comparison of Femoral Pore Numbers in Lacertid Lizards
David Costantini (ETHO) Oxidative stress in evolutionary ecology
CGB (U.025) 6 December
Carsten Lucass (ETHO) Co-adaptation of parental provisioning and offspring begging in a wild bird species, the blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus)
Luc De Bruyn (Evo-Eco) The difficulties of vegetarians to find decent food
CDE (D-115) 20 December
Christmas Special Lecture
CGB 10 January
Frank Cezilly (France) Population biology and behavioural ecology of a tropical monogamous bird species, the Zenaida dove, Zenaida aurita : phenotypic and genetic effects.
Nolwenn Fresneau (ETHO) Genetic and phenotypic mechanisms of begging in birds
CDE (D.007) 24 January
Morgan David (ETHO) Reproduction-related activities in the light of the pace-of-life syndrome hypothesis in wild great tits
Arvidsson Elisabeth (Evo-Eco) Exploration in different contexts: Individual variation in spatial movement
CGB (U0.24) 7 February
Tess Driessens (FunMorph) Is the dewlap a signal for individual performance in Anolis sagrei?
Philippe Helsen (EVO-ECO) The power of genetics in conservation
CDE (D.007) 21 February
Raissa de Boer (ETHO) Condition-dependent expression of sexually selected traits in the canary
Strubbe Diederik (EVO-ECO) Within-taxon niche structure and the conservation of phylogeographic lineages during biological invasions.
CGB (V.009) 7 March
Maud Poisbleau (ETHO) Direct and indirect effects of temperatures on egg mass in rockhopper penguins
Raoul Van Oosten (Evo-Eco) Determinants of population structure and host specificity in the endophilic tick Ixodes arboricola
CDE (A0.36) 21 March
Amandine Delory (ETHO) Study of the personality of captive stalings, Sturnus vulgaris
Michalis Vardakis (Evo-Eco) - Discrete choice modeling of natal dispersal: “Choosing” where to breed from a finite set of fragmented areas
CDE (D.007) 4 April
Susannah Thorpe (University of Birmingham) The Orangutan Enigma: ‘King of the Swingers’ or Morphologically and Ecologically Defunct?
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2012-13
CDE 26 october
Bart Adriaansen (Functional Morphology/UA)
Personality and life-history in the wild: exploring behavioural variation in brown trout
Raoul van Oosten (Evolutionary Ecology/UA)
Population genetic structure of the tree-hole tick Ixodes arboricola
CGB 9 november
Shelley Edwards (Functional Morphology/UA)
Adaptations of lacertid lizards to the southern African landscape
Jonas Reijniers (Evolutionary Ecology/UA)
A curve of thresholds governs plague epizootics in Central Asia
CDE 23 november
Natalia Estramil (Ethology/UA)
An evolutionary ecological perspective on bird family life
Jana Goyens (Evolutionary Ecology/UA)
Density thresholds for Mopeia virus invasion and persistence in its host Mastomys natalensis
CGB 7 december
Stefanie Lahaye (Ethology/UA)
Hot or not: testosterone and female attractiveness
Nelika Hughes (Evolutionary Ecology/UA)
Dangerous liaisons: the predation risks of receiving social signals
CDE 21 december
Christmas Lecture
CGB 11 januari
Jessica Vroonen (Functional Morphology/UA)
Seasonal and sexual effects on colouration and immunity in Podarcis siculus
Liesbeth De Neve (TEREC, UGent)
Cooperative breeding strategies in a fragmented population of a tropical forest passerine
CDE 25 januari
Jonas Vergauwen (Ethology/UA)
Think outside the egg – integrating pre- and postnatal environmental effects
Benny Borremans (Evolutionary Ecology/UA)
Rodent contact rates and virus transmission
CGB 8 februari
Christophe Lebigre (Quantitative Conservation Biology Research team, UCL)
Measuring the indirect fitness benefits of male display in lekking species
Catherine Graham (Stony Brook University/USA)
Past processes and current spatial patterns in ecological communities
CDE 22 februari
Anke Vermeulen (Ethology/UA)
The story of baseline immunity - great tit nestlings living along a pollution gradient
Dieter Heylen (Evolutionary Ecology/UA)
Transmission dynamics of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in a bird tick community
CGB 8 maart
Kristijn Swinnen (Evolutionary Ecology/UA)
Beavers (Castor fiber) in Falnders, why and how do we study them?
Stefania Casagrande (Ethology/UA)
Carotenoid based signals: a physiological perspective
CDE 22 maart
Igor Eulaers (Ethology/UA)
Where to eat, and what to eat: implications for pollutant exposure
Lorenzo Perez Rodriguez
On feathers and fractals: a novel approach to complex colour traits
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2011-12
CDE 18 november
Tess Driessens (UA Functional Morphology Group)
Do bats recognize predators?
Sophie Gryseels ( UA Evolutionary Ecology Group)
Landscape genetics of Mopeia virus and its host Mastomys natalensis
CGB 2 december
Lina Moreno Azócar (University of Comahue ‹ARG›/UA Functional Morphology Group)
Trying to catch the sun: A comparative study of thermal biology and morphological adaptations in Liolaemus goetschi lizards from Patagonia
Thijs Van Overveld (UA Evolutionary Ecology Group)
Personality and natal dispersal in the great tit
CGB 16 december
Robby Stoks (K.U. Leuven)
Evolution along latitudinal gradients in damselflies
CGB 6 januari
Jonas Meheretu (UA Evolutionary Ecology Group)
Infection dynamics of Bartonella species in sympatric rodent population
Samantha Farrell (UA Ethology Group)
Sibling interaction and the evolution of body size: the role of indirect genetic effects
CDE 20 januari
Egon Heiss (University of Vienna ‹AU›/UA Functional Morphology Group)
Fast and furious: Prey capture mechanisms in the Chinese giant salamander
Stuart Baird (CIBIO, Research Center in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources ‹P›)
Spatial genetics
CGB 3 februari
Anna Dubiec (University of Warsaw ‹PL›)
Blood parasites and reproductive decisions in the blue tit
Joëlle Gouy de Bellocq (UA Evolutionary Ecology Group)
Parasitism in the European house mouse hybrid zone
CDE 17 februari
Alex Kobler (UA Ethology Group)
Habitat use, movement and growth rate of a small stream fish in relation to temperament traits and heterozygosity
Clara ten Broek (UA Evolutionary Ecology Group)
Fluctuating Asymmetry in Deceased Human Foetuses
CGB 2 maart
Katleen Huyghe (UA Functional Morphology Group)
The lizard’s tail: size matters! Determinants of mating success in the common lizard
Raphael DeCock (INBO, Research Institute for Nature and Forest)
All about fireflies (Lampyridae)
CDE 16 maart
Hector Gutierrez (UA Ethology Group)
The Best of Great tits
Diederik Strubbe (UA Evolutionary Ecology Group)
Non-native birds in Europe: evidence for widespread climatic niche shifts during invasion
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2010-11
CGB 5 november
Jonas Vergauwen (UA, Ethology Group)
Female canaries adjust hatching asynchrony via the deposition of yolk testosterone but not via incubation behaviour
Joel White (UA, Evolutionary Ecology group)
Sexually transmitted bacteria affect female cloacal assemblages in kittiwakes
CDE 19 november
Alain van Hout (UA, Ethology Group)
Song rate in European starlings: a non-visual sexual signal affected by carotenoids
Pablo Iraeta ( University of Madrid )
Altitudinal variation of life-history traits in two lizard populations: a possible example of countergradient variation
CGB 3 december
Arne Iserbyt (UA, Evolutionary Ecology group)
Frequency-dependence in female polymorphic damselflies
Igor Eulaers (UA, Ethology Group)
Feathers reveal toxicological and ecological properties of predatory birds
CDE 17 december
Christmas Glühwein edition
CGB 21 januari
Natalia Estramil (UA, Ethology Group)
Parent-offspring conflict in canaries: individual plasticity, genetic basis and co-adaptation
Peter Korsten ( University of Edinburgh )
Sexual conflict in Soay Sheep
CDE 4 februari
Jeff VanCamp (UA, Ethology Group)
Signalling function of the dewlap in the green anole, Anolis carolinensis
Claudia Schmitt (UA, ECOBE)
Stimulated embryo production in freshwater snails as a consequence of exposition to xeno estrogens?
Cause – effect relationships and impacts on a field population
CGB 18 februari
Katrien Tersago (UA, Evolutionary Ecology group)
Ecological modelling of Puumala hantavirus infection dynamics in reservoir host populations
Job Aben (UA, Evolutionary Ecology Group)
Quantifying landscape connectivity from movement behaviour of forest birds
CDE 4 maart
Judith Morales ( University of Vigo )
Information exchange in family conflicts
Jessica Vroonen (UA, Functional Morphology Group)
Background matching and sexual dichromatism in island populations of Podarcis melisellensis: preliminary results
CGB 18 maart
Dries Bonte (Ghent University)
Dispersal in spatially structured landscapes: evolutionary mechanisms and consequences for (meta?)population persistence'
Seminars in Ecology and Evolution 2009-10
20 November
Diederik Strubbe “Distribution of ring-necked parakeets in Europe: a niche shift?”
Hector Rivera “Re-evaluating song repertoire plasticity in male great tits (Parus major)”
4 December
Bieke Vanhooydonck "Dewlap diversity in Anolis lizards: a Bahamian rhapsody"
Greet De Coster “Innate Immunity in the great Tit: Environmental, Age-Related and Temporal Variation”
18 December
Peter Aerts "The FunMorph X-mas recipe: a handful of adaptive puzzles with a pinch of ecology, tarred with a fun(ctional) dressing"
Drinks
8 January
Alex Kobler “Intra-population heterogeneity in stream fish movement: is there a link to individual temperament?”
Simon Neerinckx “Why is Plague where it is?”
22 January
Maud Poisbleau “What about hormones in rockhopper penguin eggs?”
Dieter Heylen "Host specificity and transmission in the tick Ixodes arboricola”
5 February
Evi van den Steen
“Effects of a class of flame retardants (PBDEs) in songbirds”
Benny Borremans
“Flower, fly and bee co-evolution in South-African fynbos: the importance of flower visitors not predicted by floral syndromes”
19 February
Stefi Lahaye
“Sexy fathers and maternal effects: Do female parrots invest more in the eggs of a preferred male?”
Joke Maes
“Selection on dispersion related traits in the natterjack toad (Bufo calamita)"
5 march
Ann Geens
“Carotenoid supplementation in the great tit: does it influence metal pollution related oxidative stress?”
Jonas Reijniers
“Modelling echolocation in bats "