Dear all, Please find below, a list of upcoming CEE related events for the coming week. Events w/c 16th February ------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------ 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. ------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------ 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>