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?

Discussion of recent advances using fossil information integrated in the form of morphometric data to allow simultaneous inference of speciation times, morphological rates of evolution and ancestral character reconstructions.

This talk will discuss what can be learnt about evolution and development from comparing the shape of structures such as bones, exoskeletons, and leaves.

Rudolf Meier, from the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin will discuss his novel methods to accelerate biodiversity discovery and monitoring of "dark taxa" using robotics, machine learning imaging and nanopore sequencing.