Dear all, Please find below, a list of upcoming CEE related events for the coming week. Events w/c 23rd February ------------------------------------ Taming sulphur dioxide for synthesis and catalysis – Queen Mary’s Seminar Series Date & Time: 25th Feb 12:30pm Speaker: Mike Willis (University of Oxford) Host: Chris Jones Venue: Peoples Palace LT1, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Rd, London E1 4NS ------------------------------------ Show ‘n’ tell: The living glass – UCL Grant Museum of Zoology Date & Time: 25th Feb 1:00pm Speaker: Eleanor Morgan and Kate Hendry Venue: UCL Grant Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, UCL, 21 University St. London, WC1E 6DE ------------------------------------ Title To Be Confirmed – Imperial Seminar Series Date & Time: 26th Feb 1:00pm Speaker: Natasha Bloch<http://home.uchicago.edu/~nbloch/Site/Home.html> (University of Chicago) Venue: Imperial College London - Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, West Berkshire SL5 7PY ------------------------------------ Sustainable diets, eco-system damage and disease – The Linnean Society Date & Time: 27th Feb 6:30pm Speaker: Prof Tim Lang (City University) Venue: The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF ------------------------------------ Upcoming Seminars LERN – Medawar Lecture When: 11th of March, at 5:30 pm Where: Jevons LT, Drayton House, at UCL The evolution of the living time machine Nicola Clayton and Clive Wilkins, University of Cambridge Einstein supposedly said: Time only exists to prevent everything from happening at once. Although physical time proceeds forever forwards, mental time can travel backwards as well, indeed in every direction. Mental time travel allows us to re-visit our memories and imagine future scenarios. We make use of this process to define multiple realities; ones that define our sense of self in space and time. There is, however a downside, for the very nature of mental time travel impedes and disorientates memories. But are we unique among the animal kingdom in travelling mentally in time? What does this tell us about the evolution of mental time travel? Seminars outside of London Evolutionary Developmental Biology: Current debates This satellite meeting, to be held one day before the EHBEA (http://www.ehbea2015.org) Helsinki conference, has been generously sponsored by the Galton Institute, EHBEA, and the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology. Time: Saturday the 28th of March 2015 (from 9:00-16:00) Location: University of Helsinki (Fabianinkatu 33, 2nd floor) Topic: In recent years there has been much discussion about how to conceptualize the relationship between development and evolution: are developmental trajectories selected for, and how much does development influence evolutionary process? In this event we will excoriate the fundamental assumptions at work in several influential existing arguments, to look at the view of development within the modern synthesis, and to look at criticisms of this synthesis. Registration: There is a separate registration fee for this meeting: 50 € for full EHBEA members, 25 € for student EHBEA members and 80 € for everyone else. This includes teas/coffees, buffet lunch, and wine reception. You can sign up for the event by registering and paying the participation fee here http://www.ehbea2015.org/. Up to 70 participants can register. Registration is on a first come, first served basis. Refunds are not possible. Please note that the registration does not include hotel accommodation. Speakers and titles: Open reaction norms and human flexibility H. Clark Barrett, University of California, Los Angeles (Epi)mutational dynamics and bet hedging Ben Dickins, Nottingham Trent University Information as a loom to weave development and evolution Sinead English, University of Oxford Developmental changes in aggression and body size: an evolutionary perspective Tim W. Fawcett, University of Bristol Developmental niche construction Emma Flynn, Durham University Developmental plasticity in the European starling: Empirical observations and evolutionary interpretations Daniel Nettle, Newcastle University Organisers: Clark Barrett – UCLA Tom Dickins – Middlesex University Willem Frankenhuis - Radboud University Nijmegen Questions: Contact Tom Dickins at T.Dickins@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:T.Dickins@xxxxxxxxx> For abstracts see: http://tomsnonacademicwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/meeting-evolutionary-developmental.html If you would like to include a seminar, event or a seminar series to the CEE, please e-mail details of the event, at least two weeks before the seminar date, to cee@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:cee@xxxxxxxxx> . Once accepted your event will be publicized on the website calendar, via e-mail and to the twitter community. Chris Langridge CEE Administrator The Centre for Ecology and Evolution University College London Gower St., London, WC1E 6BT E: cee@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:cee@xxxxxxxxx>