[ceevol] Forthcoming events w/c 16th Feb

  • From: CEE.Secretary <cee@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "ceevol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ceevol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 16:46:25 +0000

Dear all,
Please find below, a list of upcoming CEE related events for the coming week.
Events w/c 16th February
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Multi-Cofactored Complexes for Small Molecule Chemistry–  Queen Mary’s Seminar 
Series

Date & Time:      18th Feb                                1:00pm
Speaker:              Corinna Hess (Technische Universität München)
Host:                     Tony Vlcek
Venue:               Peoples Palace LT1, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile 
End Rd, London E1 4NS
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Title To Be Confirmed – Imperial Seminar Series
Date & Time:      19th Feb                                1:00pm
Speaker:              Guy-Bart Stan (Imperial)
Venue:               Imperial College London - Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst 
Road, Ascot, West Berkshire SL5 7PY
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Can we unify mechanisms of the hormonal control of ecdysis in arthropods? –  
Queen Mary Seminar Series
Date & Time:      19th Feb                  1:00pm
Speaker:              Professor Simon Webster (Bangor University)
Venue:                Fogg LT, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Rd, 
London E1 4NS
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Coffee and climate change: understanding the problems and finding the solutions 
–  The Linnean Society
Date & Time:      19th Feb                  6:00pm
Speaker:              Dr Aaron Davis (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew)
Venue:                The Linnean Society of London, Burlington House, 
Piccadilly, London, W1J 0BF

Details:
Coffee is said to be the world’s most important beverage, with around two 
billion cups consumed each day. Throughout the tropical regions of the world 
coffee production supports the economies of numerous countries, and the 
livelihoods of millions of farmers. Many factors influence the productivity and 
sustainability of coffee production, but perhaps the most worrying and 
pervasive comes for accelerated climate change.

Dr Aaron Davis, from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is the leader of a team 
investigating the influence of climate change on coffee production and wild 
coffee genetic resources in Ethiopia, under the project Building a Climate 
Resilient Coffee Economy for Ethiopia. During the meeting Aaron will provide an 
overview of coffee natural history and then focus on the team’s approach to 
providing a risk strategy and action plan for understanding and building 
resilience for the Ethiopian coffee sector.

This meeting is free and open to all; registration is not necessary. Tea and 
coffee will be served in the Library from 17:30 and a wine reception will 
follow.
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Friends for sharks –  The Natural History Museum
Date & Time:      20th Feb                  11:00am
Venue:                Neil Chalmers Seminar Room, Natural History Museum, 
Cromwell Road, London
Details:
Please note that external visitors are welcome, however they need to follow the 
instructions listed 
here<http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/news-events/seminars/attending/index.html>
 prior to attendance.
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GM and food security; part of the solution, not part of the problem –  The 
Linnean Society
Date & Time:      20th Feb                  6:30pm
Speaker:              Prof. Jonathan Jones, The Sainsbury Laboratory, Norwich.
Venue:                Lecture Theatre B33, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, 
London.
Details:

World population projections show that there will be many more mouths to feed 
in coming decades. This need will follow the actual population trend, but 
meeting it depends on many other factors. Food production will continue to 
depend upon half a dozen staple food plants. There is a potential fragility in 
maintaining production that depends upon land availability, soil fertility, 
water supplies, freedom from pests, appropriate technologies and suitable crop 
varieties. Equally important is whether the primary crops are eaten by us, or 
used less efficiently for meat production. Food can be lost in storage and 
transportation. In an increasingly urbanised world, some see the solutions in 
energy-intensive, industrial scale farming, fisheries and food distribution, 
whilst others advocate smaller scale, local activity. Much of this will be 
affected by climate change.

This lecture series explores the issues and tries to answer some of the 
questions. Further details of the six individual lectures, and a reading list, 
will be available later.

To receive these, please email ecssoc@xxxxxxxxx<mailto:ecssoc@xxxxxxxxx> , 
consult the website 
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/geds/ourresearch/ecss/free-public-lectures, or pick up a 
copy at one of the lectures
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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>





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