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This seminar will be given by Dr Mark Scherz from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and the University of Copenhagen. 

This seminar will be given by Professor Brent Mishler from the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Mishler is visiting us in person. 

Professor Mishler's book "What, if anything, are species?" is freely available here. 

This seminar will be given by Dr Camille Berthelot from the Institut Pasteur, Paris.  

This seminar will be given by Professor Shigehiro Kuraku from the RIKEN Centre for Biosystems Dynamics Research. 

This online seminar will be given by Professor Graham Budd from Uppsala University, Sweden. 

This seminar will be given by Dr Moriaki Yasuhara from the University of Hong Kong. Dr Yasuhara will be visiting in person. 

This seminar will be given by Dr Nadia Santodomingo from the University of Oxford. 

This seminar will be given by Dr Frances Dunn from the University of Oxford.

This seminar will be given by Dr Chiara Papetti from the University of Padova. Dr Papetti will be visiting in person. 

This seminar will be given by Dr Jurriaan de Vos from the University of Basel, Switzerland. Dr de Vos will be visiting in person.

This seminar will be given by Dr David Marques from NHM Basel. David will be joining us in person. 

This seminar will be given by Dr Nicolas Straube from the University of Bergen. Dr Straube will be visiting in person. 

This Seminar will be given by Dr Ana Riesgo from the Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. 

This seminar will be given by Professor Jon Bridle, from UCL.

This seminar will be given by Dr Rebecca Varney from UC Santa Barbara, on "Path dependence channels rapid convergent evolution of distributed visual systems in chitons".  

The first STADIS (previously Tangled Banks) seminar of autumn 2022 will be given by Dr Chris Cooney at the University of Sheffield on "The drivers of avian diversification". 

Our Tangled Banks Seminar on Thursday, May 5th at 14:30 will be given by Dr Patricia Brennan. Dr Brennan is an evolutionary biologist interested in how selection affects behavioural, physiological and morphological aspects of sexual reproduction, genitalia in particular. For more information please visit her website. 

We are happy to announce that Daniel Varajão de Latorre will give our Tangled Bank seminar on Thursday, June 2nd at 14:30. 

Daniel is a PhD student in the Marshall lab at Berkeley, California. He is investigating the biotic mechanisms that drive variation in speciation rate across groups and its relationship with extinction rate. He is interested in the processes that generate and maintain biodiversity across evolutionary time scales. His online bio also states an interest in the evolution and morphological diversity of the baculum.  

We are happy to announce the first Tangled Banks seminar of 2022. Our first speaker will be Dr Alex Slavenko, a Royal Society research associate based at the University of Sheffield. Dr Slavenko describes his research interests as “the intersection between macroevolution, macroecology, morphology and biogeography.” His current work looks to understand the interaction between trait evolution and dynamics of diversification using new models of trait evolution, simulations, and large datasets for macroevolutionary analyses. For more information, please visit his website https://alexslavenko.weebly.com/ (note for more information about the individual research projects described on the research page click on the picture).

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. 

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 10^th) 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/.