Biological Colloquium

Natalie Pilakouta (University of St Andrews, invited by Timo Thünken, BIOB2): “Predicting responses to climate change: from molecules to populations and ecosystems”

Tim Böhnert (BIOB1, invited by Max Weigend, BIOB1): “Plant evolution and systematics from the Atacama to the Mediterranean”

James Galbraith (University of Edinburgh, invited by A. Suh, LIB): “Massive genome expansion and rearrangement in androdioecious scale insects”

Yifan Pei (LIB, invited by A. Suh, LIB): “Recent timescales of the evolution of the germline-restricted chromosome in passerine birds”

Edgar Gonzalez (UNAM, Mexico / on sabbatical at the University of Bonn, invited by Juliano Sarmento Cabral, BIOB3): “Reading population histories: demographic models for inference under environmental change”

Vinicius Galvão Bastazini (BIOB3, invited by Juliano Sarmento Cabral, BIOB3): “The Architecture of Collapse: Linking Biodiversity Extinction Risk and Interaction Network Topology to Assess Ecological Fragility”

Nadja Fröbisch (MfN Berlin, invited by Thomas Martin, BIOB5): “High Regenerative Capacities & Life History Evolution in Tetrapods – A Deep Time Perspective”

Julia Ganz (University of Michigan / on sabbatical in Heidelberg, invited by A. Böhne, LIB) “The brain in the gut: development and regeneration of the enteric nervous system in zebrafish”

Daniela Winkler (BIOB5, invited by A. Suh, LIB): “Big Teeth, Microscopic Traces: Reconstructing Dinosaur Ecology through Dental Microwear Texture Analysis”