CBA Seminars
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A major objective of the CBA is to enhance information exchange via external visitors.
We welcome suggestions throughout the year from CBA members on potential visitors and speakers.
See here for more information on CBA's Visiting Scientist Support funding.
Contact
Claire Stephens
02 6125 9492
Past events
Dr Peter Crisp, visiting from the University of Queensland, will discuss his work on sequencing epigenetic variation in plant hypomethylomes.
Explore how innovative PCR-based methods are enabling high-quality long-read data generation from the trickiest samples.
Professor Fred Allendorf from the University of Montana will discuss the relationship between effective population size and allelic variation and its implications for species conservation status.
A day of talks from leading experts on mechanistic and population modelling with insights into some of the opportunities long-term datasets provide to address their integration.
In this seminar, Paul Frandsen, visiting from Brigham Young University, will explore the evolution of silk genes and the links between the silk genotype and phenotype in insect order Trichoptera (caddisflies).
CBA Director Justin Borevitz will present his group's progress mapping and modelling crop, pasture and tree cells and their functions for global accounting for environmental and planetary health.
Adam Leaché, from the University of Washington, will present a special CBA seminar on modern integrative species delimitation methods.
Led by Erinn Fagan-Jefferies from the University of Adelaide, Insect Investigators brings together expert taxonomists, educators and communicators to help school students collect and identify new species of insects.
Dr. Oskar Hagen from the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) will talk on the history of modelling biodiversity and its change across space and time.
Bruce Walsh from the University of Arizona will discuss how the ability to whole-genome sequence from museum specimens has fundamentally changed the way we view the value of collections.
Brian Tilston Smith, visiting from the American Museum of Natural History, will present an overview of his research program on avian evolution through a series of vignettes on topics that include comparative landscape genomics, convergent evolution, and phylogenetic discordance.
What is evolutionary science? Who is an evolutionary scientist? What role does evolutionary science have to play in the future of Australian science? How can we shape that future?