Seminar
February 6, 2019 at Botanical Garden, University of Zurich
Speaker:
- Tanja Slotte, Stockholm University, Sweden
Title: Genetic causes and genomic consequences of plant mating system variation
Sponsored Conference: Biology19 - The Swiss annual meeting of biologists
February 7 - 8, 2019 at University of Zurich
Keynote Speakers:
- Meghan Duffy, University of Michigan, USA
- Virpi Lummaa, University of Turku, Finland
- Walter Salzburger, University of Basel
- Tanja Slotte, Stockholm University, Sweden
- Barbara König, University of Zurich
Seminar
March 8, 2019 at Botanical Garden, University of Zurich
Speaker:
- Tia-Lynn Ashman, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Title: The secrets of plant sex determination as revealed by strawberries
Seminar
March 28, 2019 at Irchel Campus, University of Zurich
Speaker:
- Jonathan Wendel, Iowa State University, USA
Title: The wondrous cycles of polyploidy in plants
Informal Get-Together
April 4, 2019 at Bar Münster in Zurich
Sponsored Conference: TNAM 11 - The 11th Tri-National Arabidopsis Meeting
April 10 - 12, 2019 at University of Zurich
Keynote Speakers:
- Wolf Frommer, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany
- Tetsuya Higashiyama, Nagoya University, Japan
PhD Student Guest Speaker Seminar
May 3, 2019 at Botanical Garden, University of Zurich
Speaker:
- Martin Mascher, IPK Gatersleben, Germany
Title: Prospects of pan-genomics in barley
Site Visit
May 28 - 29, 2019 at Schloss Au, Au ZH, and Irchel Campus, University of Zurich
Speakers:
- Chiara Barbieri, University of Zurich
- Yagmur Erten, University of Zurich
- Alexandre Figueiredo, University of Zurich
- Matthew Horton, University of Zurich
- Marion Müller, University of Zurich
- Luca Murer, University of Zurich
- Mark Robinson, University of Zurich
- Alessia Russo, University of Zurich
- Anne Roulin, University of Zurich
- Verena Schünemann, University of Zurich
The program further comprised a poster session, discussion rounds and a workshop.
Sponsored Symposium: Perspectives on Human Body Height
June 5, 2019 at University of Zurich
Speakers:
- Andrea Rodriguez Martinez, Imperial College London, UK
- Adrian Jaeggi, University of Zurich
- Tim Cole, University College London, UK
- Zoltán Kutalik, University of Lausanne
- Sabine Rohrmann, University of Zurich
- Ulrich Woitek, University of Zurich
- Gert Stulp, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Barry Bogin, Loughborough University, UK
Sponsored Conference: Modelling Ecology & Evolution Zurich (MEEZ)
June 27 - 28, 2019 at University of Zurich
Keynote Speakers:
- Florence Débarre, Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Paris, France
- Jeremy Draghi, Brooklyn College, USA
- Melissa Penny, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Insitute, Basel
- Antoine Guisan, University of Lausanne
Sponsored Conference: 5th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Evolution, Medicine and Public Health (ISEMPH 2019)
August 13 - 16, 2019 at University of Zurich
Keynote Speakers:
- Kayla King, University of Oxford
- Bernard Crespi, Simon Fraser University
- Dario Valenzano, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing
- Verena Schünemann, University of Zurich
Special Informal Get-Together
August 14, 2019, Chocolate Event at ISEMPH 2019
Scientifica
August 30 - September 1, 2019 at ETH and University of Zurich
Booth: Täuschung im Reich der Pflanzen
Annual Retreat 2019
September 11 - 13, 2019 at Sunstar Alpine Hotel in Grindelwald
Key Note Speaker:
- Anna-Liisa Laine, University of Zurich
The program comprised progress reports from all research projects of the URPP Evolution in Action, a poster session, discussion rounds and a career workshop.
Sponsored Symposium: Evolutionary Ecology and Human Health
October 30, 2019 at University of Zurich
Speakers:
- Daniel Nettle, Newcastle University, UK
- Abigail Page, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
- Mahiri Gibson, University of Bristol, UK
- Jonathan Stieglitz, Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse, France
- Carol Worthman, Emory University, USA
Seminar
November 12, 2019 at Irchel Campus, University of Zurich
Speaker:
- Mark Stoneking, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Title: Genes, culture, and human evolution
Seminar
November 15, 2019 at Botanical Garden, University of Zurich
Speaker:
- Damon Lisch, Purdue University, USA
Title: Transposable elements as both causes and consequences of subgenome differentiation in polyploids
Informal Get-Together
November 28, 2019 at Stall6 in Zurich
Seminar
December 9, 2019 at Irchel Campus, University of Zurich
Speaker:
- Greger Larson, University of Oxford, UK
Title: The bio-cultural and evolutionary history of domesticated animals
