Faglige arrangementer - Side 6
Doctoral candidate Tor Erik Eriksen at the Natural History Museum will be defending the thesis "A macroinvertebrate‐based biomonitoring tool for diagnosing environmental conditions of rivers in Myanmar – a novel approach in a biodiversity hotspot" for the degree of PhD (Philosophiae Doctor).
Professor Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan is a world renown palaeo-biologist at the University of Cape Town. Her research on the microscopic structure of mineralised tissues has led to a better understanding of the biology of a variety of extinct animals, such as, dinosaurs (including birds), the flying reptiles, and the mammal-like reptiles (therapsids). She has published extensively - both in high-ranking international scientific journals as well as, in the popular press, and her free online MOOC on “Extinctions - Past and Present” ranks in the Top 50 worldwide. In addition, she has authored two academic books, The Microstructure of Dinosaur Bone (Johns Hopkins University Press, USA, 2005) and "The Forerunners of Mammals: Radiation. Histology. Biology" (Indiana University Press, USA, 2012), as well as four popular level books: "Famous Dinosaurs of Africa" (RandomHouseStruik, SA, 2008); “Fossils for Africa” (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Dinosaurs of Africa (RandomHouseStruik, 2021); Dinosaurs and other Prehistoric Life (Dorling Kindersley, UK, 2021).
Dr Nathan Upham from Arizona State University will give our Tangled Banks Seminar on April 21st at 15:00. This talk will be given via Zoom. Dr Upham is an ecologist and evolutionary biologist with core interests in how species-species, species-environment, and species-pathogen interactions have evolved through time and across the tree of life. For more information, please visit his website .
Please email Dr Emma Whittington for the zoom link (emmawh@uio.no)
We are happy to announce, our Tangled Banks Seminar speaker on April 7th at 14:30 will be Professor Knud Andreas Jønsson from the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Professor Jønsson is a systematist, biogeographer and evolutionary ecologist who uses a combination of field and lab work to study the origin, dispersal, differentiation, adaptation and persistence of species' diversity and distribution.
Email Dr Emma Whittington (emmawh@uio.no) for the link.
We are happy to introduce Dr Ariel Kahrl as our Tangled Banks speaker on Thursday, March 24th at 14:30. We expect this seminar to be held in person. Dr Kahrl is a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University, in the lab of John Fitzpatrick. She uses a combination of fieldwork, computational analyses, and experimental biology to study the evolution of sexually selected traits. Here talk will focus on comparative analyzes of sperm morphology across taxa.
Igjen arrangerer vi 2-dagers kurs i Natur i Norge. Limniske systemer presenteres her etter NiN 2.3. Meld deg på via nettskjema innen 15. mars. Maksimalt 250 deltakere. Kurset er gratis.
Se fullstendig program i PDF her.
I am happy to announce a last-minute addition to the Tangled Banks seminar series. Dr William Jones will give a talk this Thursday (March 10th) at 14:30. Dr William Jones is a postdoctoral researcher currently working with the ÉLVONAL Shorebird Science group, based at the University of Debrecen in Hungary. He is an evolutionary ecologist with a broad range of interests including survival and demography, host-parasite interactions and speciation. For more information please visit his website https://williamjonesresearch.wordpress.com/.
I am excited to announce our first Tangled Banks speaker in 2022 will be Dr Murielle Ålund. Dr Ålund is a researcher based at Uppsala University in Professor Anna Qvarnström's lab. She is interested in how changes in climate, and breeding and distribution ranges affect interactions within and between closely related species, mating behaviour, and host-parasite interactions, all contributing to the maintenance of biodiversity. For more information see her website here.
Doctoral Candidate Jan Sulavik at the Natural History Museum will be defending the dissertation "Learning from the past, assessing the present, discerning the future: a comprehensive evaluation of restoration success in alpine environment using ecosystem-, community-, and population-level studies", for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
Doctoral Candidate Julien Vollering at the Natural History Museum will be defending the dissertation "Forecasting the continued naturalization of wildly planted alien conifers: on Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) in Norway", for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.