Archive - Department of Biology, University of York

Scaling microbial processes in soil from single cells to the global carbon cycle

Thursday 25 May 2023

Dr Ashish Malik presents their research on identifying microbial life history strategies based on their traits, and on ways to representing these strategies in models simulating different environmental conditions.

Evolution and ecology of adaptive immunity in bacteria

Thursday 18 May 2023

Dr Sean Meaden presents the results from several studies that focus on the role of ecological conditions in shaping one such defence: CRISPR-Cas.

Understanding the distribution and abundance of terrestrial vertebrates in a changing world

Thursday 20 April 2023

Dr Christine Howard (Durham University) presents the outcomes of several macroecological studies exploring the mechanisms underlying large-scale patterns of species’ distributions and abundance.

Ecology of tropical seafood systems: connecting climate, coral reefs and human health

Thursday 9 March 2023

Dr James Robinson discusses how marine heatwaves are transforming coral reefs.

Rescuing mitochondria in peril under oxidative stress

Friday 3 March 2023

Mitochondria have defence mechanisms to respond to stresses, Professor Kostas Tokatlidis discusses these processes in further detail.

CANCELLED: How can we move beyond measuring status and change with environmental monitoring data?

Thursday 2 February 2023

Dr Fiona Seaton from the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, joins us to discuss long term, national scale environmental monitoring schemes and using them to understand and develop data analysis techniques to better understand the drivers of environmental change.

Interactions between plants and soil microbiota as drivers of plant species coexistence

Thursday 26 January 2023

Dr. Dina in ‘t Zandt, from the Institute of Botany, Czech Academy of Sciences, joins us for this seminar discussing what drives plant species coexistence.

Plant-soil feedbacks: missing links

Thursday 19 January 2023

Plant-soil feedbacks (PSFs) are caused by plants modifying their soil environment, which has a knock-on effect on the next generation. While this general principle has been known about for thousands of years, we are only now in a position to truly understand how plants signal to microbes and soil fauna to recruit a unique rhizosphere community- the ‘extended phenotype’.

From the sea to the land: the ecosystem functions and services provided by marine carrion

Thursday 8 December 2022

In this talk, Dr Martina Quggiotto (University of Stirling) will reveal the past, present and future ecosystem services provided by marine carcasses, and reflect on the role that we, humans, play in maintaining them.

Freshwater invaders: drivers and impacts of invasive non-native plants

Thursday 1 December 2022

Dr Zarah Pattison joins us for this seminar covering biodiversity and biological invasions of non-native species

Innovation and elaboration on the avian tree of life across evolutionary scales

Thursday 17 November 2022

Dr Thomas Guillerme, of the University of Sheffield, joins us for this seminar.

Three axes of life history strategies to rule them all

Thursday 3 November 2022

Dr Roberto Salguero-Gomez of the University of Oxford joins us to discuss his latest research on life history theory.

SEMINAR CANCELLED DUE TO TRAIN STRIKES

Thursday 23 June 2022

SEMINAR HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO TRAIN STRIKES: Discover the past, present and future ecosystem services provided by marine carcasses, and reflect on the role that we, humans, play in maintaining them.

Polyploidy and Plant Diversification

Thursday 24 June 2021

Professor Pamela S. Soltis, University of Florida

The foraging gene as a modifier of behavior: gene regulation, pleiotropy and plasticity

Thursday 17 June 2021

Professor Marla Sokolowski, University of Toronto

Lovely Ladybirds!

Thursday 10 June 2021

Dr Tamsin Majerus, University of Nottingham

Seabird Phylogenomics: Rate variation and rapid radiations

Thursday 3 June 2021

Dr Adreanna Welch, University of Durham

Cancelled

Thursday 18 March 2021

Dr O'Connell will present her work.

Antimicrobial treatment without antimicrobial resistance: anti-evolution countermeasures

Thursday 11 March 2021

Professor Andrew Read, Penn State University, USA

(pp)pGpp - signalling nucleotides required for bacterial stress adaptation

Thursday 4 March 2021

Dr Rebecca Corrigan, University of Sheffield

Ralstonia solanacearum plant pathogenic bacterium can rapidly evolve more tolerant to volatile organic compounds produced by competitors

Thursday 18 February 2021

Waseem Raza introduces his work on volatile organic compounds (VOCs) produced by soil microbes.

Molecular approaches for the study of social behaviour

Thursday 11 February 2021

Dr Manfredini will present his work.

Experimental evolution of cancer cell lines

Thursday 4 February 2021

Dr Johnson will present her work.

Gone with the wind: What makes a spider fly?

Thursday 28 January 2021

Prof Goodacre will present her work.

Identifying drivers of pathogen transmission within and among species

Thursday 21 January 2021

Dr Biek will present his work.

Patterns of Codon Usage Across Unicellular Eukaryotes

Thursday 3 December 2020

Dr Martin Carr will present his work.

Dosage constraints and the evolution of gene copy number and gene expression

Thursday 26 November 2020

Professor McLysaght will present her work

CRISPR, herd immunity and transduction - an unexpected way of how bacteria have sex

Thursday 19 November 2020

Dr Payne will present his work

Effects of early-life stress on avian social learning strategies

Thursday 12 November 2020

Dr Neeltje Boogert, Unviersity of Exeter

Death and decay in the soil microbiome: how viruses, microfauna and resource availability shape the fate of soil carbon

Thursday 5 November 2020

Dr Jennifer Pett-Ridge will present her work.

Evolution and consequences of a social circulatory system

Thursday 29 October 2020

Adria LeBoeuf will present her work.

Local adaptation and speciation in Littorina

Thursday 22 October 2020

Professor Roger Butlin will present his work

Emerging Pathogens: Ecology, Economics and Evolution

Thursday 15 October 2020

Professor Andy Dobson will present his work.

Detecting selection in genomes using deep learning

Thursday 8 October 2020

The application of deep learning, a branch of machine learning based on multi-layer neural networks, to biological data appears to be a revolutionary step to address complex questions, even in evolutionary biology.

Busy 'bout the tree of life: Discoveries from telomere to telomere genomes

Thursday 1 October 2020

Professor Mark Blaxter will present his work. The seminar will be hosted using Zoom. A Google calendar invite featuring the Zoom link will be sent to Biology staff and students before the seminar date.

CANCELLED (to be postponed until a later date)

Thursday 18 June 2020

Dr Payne will present their research.

CANCELLED (to be postponed until a later date)

Thursday 11 June 2020

Dr Biek will present their research.

CANCELLED (to be postponed until a later date)

Thursday 4 June 2020

Dr Manfredini will present their work.

CANCELLED (to be postponed until a later date)

Thursday 21 May 2020

Dr Fumagalli will present their work.