Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Life and Environmental Sciences

Seminar Series 2013

Seminars will be held every Friday, where possible, from 2:00pm

WP room Wrnbl room Bwood room Host/s Date Speaker Title of Talk University/Organisation
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 John Endler 15-Feb-13 Prof Johanna Mappes Evolution and maintenance of variation in antipredatory defences University of Jyvaskyla (Finland)
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Marcel Klaassen 22-Feb-13 Prof Scott McWilliams The fat of the matter (fatty acid nutrition and affects on performance) University of Phode Island, Kingston
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05   1-Mar-13      
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05   8-Mar-13      
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Pete Biro 15-Mar-13 Dr Vincent Careau Energy expenditure, Life-History, and Behavious: variation among species, breeds and individuals Centre for Integrative Ecology, Deakin University
ka4.207 B3.03 L1.05 Kate Buchanan 22-Mar-13 John Lesku A bird's eye view of sleep La Trobe University
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Andrew Bennett 5-Apr-13 Dr Rose-Marie Muzika Controversies and considerations of fire in eastern North America University of Missouri, USA
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Christa Beckmann 12-Apr-13 Beata Ujvari Isolation breeds naivety: island living robs Australian varanid lizards of toad-toxin immunity via four-base-pair mutation The University of Sydney
ka4.207 B3.03; T3.05 Ty Matthews 19-Apr-13 Brian Fry Tuna Talk: Feeding Ecology and Fish Movement in the Equatorial Pacific Griffith University
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Craig Sherman 26-Apr-13 Dr Nick Murphy Conserving evolutionary relics: invertebrate diversity in desert springs La Trobe University
ka4.207 B3.03 L1.05   3-May-13 NO SEMINAR - CIE STAFF MEETING #1
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Kate Buchanan/Andy TD Bennett 10-May-13 Prof Simon Griffith Conflict and cooperation in social monogamy Macquarie University, Sydney
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Lee-Anne Rollins 17-May-13 Prof Katherine Belov Can we save the Tasmanian devil from extinction? The University of Sydney
ka4.207 B3.03; T3.05 Alecia Bellgrove 24-May-13 Winthrop Prof Gary Kendrick UWA Marine Ecology Group's recent focus The University of Western Australia
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Paul Jones 31-May-13 Chris Austin   Monash University
        7-Jun-13

NO SEMINAR - RESEARCH DAY AT WARRNAMBOOL

ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Matt Symonds 14-Jun-13 Phil Taylor   Macquarie University, Sydney
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Dale Nimmo 21-Jun-13 Michael Bode   University of Melbourne
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Matt Symonds 28-Jun-13 Janet Gardner Body size and climate change: insights from Australian birds Monash University
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Lee Ann Rollins 5-Jul-13 Prof Anna Lindholm   University of Zurich, Switzerland
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Rebecca Lester 12-Jul-13 Carmel Pollino   CSIRO, Canberra
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 19-Jul-13 Jim Thomas 10 years in PNG and now ready for research Tenkile Conservation Alliance
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Alecia Bellgrove 26-Jul-13 Sean Connell   University of Adelaide
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Andy TD Bennett 2-Aug-13 Prof Rod Connolly Fish can swim: the critical role of connectivity in ecosystem resilience Griffith University, QLD
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Dale Nimmo 9-Aug-13 Assoc Prof David Watson Parasitic plants as drivers of ecological communities: patterns, predictions, processes Charles Sturt University, NSW
        16-Aug-13 NO SEMINAR
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Dale Nimmo 23-Aug-13 Brett Murphy Using carbon to pay for fire management and biodiversity conservation in northern Australia's savannas
Melbourne University
ka4.207 J2.19 T3.05   30-Aug-13 NO SEMINAR - CIE STAFF MEETING #2
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 6-Sep-13 Dr Euan Ritchie Nature red in tooth and claw: An update on my predator research Deakin University
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 John Endler 13-Sep-13 Dr Michelle Hall Personalities' in superb fairy-wrens: Do they have them, and what difference does it make? University of Melbourne
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 20-Sep-13 Ben Phillips   James Cook University, QLD
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Craig Sherman 27-Sep-13 Dr Peter Macredie Human and climate impacts on seagrass ecosystems University of Technology, Sydney
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 4-Oct-13 Assoc Prof Gary Luck The promise and pitfalls of ecosystem services: an ecologist's perspective

Charles Sturt University

 

ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 11-Oct-13 Dr Leonie Valentine Ecosystem services of Asutralias' digging marsupials University of Western Australia
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 18-Oct-13 Damien Fordham   University of Adelaide
        25-Oct-13 NO SEMINAR - CIE HDR CONFERENCE
ka4.207 B3.03 L1.05 Lee Ann Rollins 1-Nov-13 Clare Holleley Sex in Dragons: Do lizards with temperature dependent sex-determination also have cryptic sex chromosomes? University of Canberra
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 8-Nov-13 Heloise Gibb   La Trobe University
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 15-Nov-13 Dr Brett Goodman The thermal biology, locomotor performance and burrowing performance in limb-reduced lizards University of Adelaide
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 22-Nov-13 Prof Richard Hobbs Effective ecosystem interventions: puzzles and possibilities University of Western Australia
ka4.207 B3.03 T3.05 Euan Ritchie 29-Nov-13 Sam Banks How does wildfire affect the genetic diversity and demography of mammal populations? The Australian National University
ka4.207 J2.19 T3.05   6-Dec-13 NO SEMINAR - CIE STAFF MEETING #3

Updated: 18 February, 2013

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16th April 2013