First EES Conference
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From now on, every year the academic activities of the Ecology, Evolution and Systematics Graduate School at the Ludwig Maximilian University (EES LMU) Munich, will start with a conference. The 2007 conference hosts two international speakers, four students who have won the EES prizes for best PhD thesis and best Diplomarbeit, and an award winning movie. The conference takes place in the Biozentrum in Martinsried.
The Program
9:30 Coffee
9:45 Welcome (Pleuni Pennings)
Chair: John Baines
10:00 Jonathan Bollback (Copenhagen): „Experimental evolution: the genetics of adaptation, parallel evolution and interference“
11:00 Break
11:10 Andrea Riebler (winner of best Diploma thesis 06-07): “Bayesian Methods for Detecting Selection in the Genome”
11:30 Alexander Varzari (winner of best PhD thesis 06-07): “Population history of the Dniester-Carpathians: evidence from Alu insertion and Y-chromosome polymorphisms” Talk was cancelled
11:50 Movie: Exhuming Adams Filmmakers: Brant Backlund & Thassilo Franke
12:20 Lunch buffet in the Biozentrum (if you haven't done so, please sign up by e-mail to k.k@lmu.de)
Chair: Susanne Renner
13:30 Stephan Behl(winner of best Diploma thesis 06-07): “Effects of species diversity on light and nutrient utilisation in phytoplankton communities”
13:50 Steffen Beisswanger (winner of best PhD thesis 06-07): “Selection and Population Structure in Drosophila melanogaster”
14:10 Break
14:30 Barbara Hellriegel (Zurich), title: „Spread of Innovations in animals: ecological versus social influences“
15:30 Closing of the day
Jonathan Bollback
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He obtained his B.Sc., Biology at the University of Maryland at College Park, USA, while both his M.Sc., Evolutionary Genetics and his Ph. D., Evolutionary Genetics were obtained at the University of Rochester, USA. He's currently carrying out his Postdoctoral Training at the Institute of Biology and Bioinformatics Centre University of Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information on the speaker please click here
Barbara Hellriegel
She studied Mathematics with Biology as minor subject at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and the Free University of Berlin Germany, where she obtained her Diploma (M.Sc.) in Mathematics. Her Ph.D. in Zoology, took place at the University of Basel, Switzerland, to then become a Postdoc and Senior Research Associate at the Zoological Museum and Zoological Institute of the University of Zürich, Switzerland. For more information on the speaker please click here
Details
- Where? Main Auditorium of the Biocenter. For information on how to get to the Biocenter please click here
- For more information about the conference or the EES program, please contact Pleuni Pennings at pennings@lmu.de, 089 2180 74 234 or 0176 2206 4109
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