CBA Seminars
Upcoming events
10
Mar
2023
11.30am–12.30pm 10 March 2023
Dr Camille Roux, CNRS
Dr Camille Roux, visiting from Université de Lille, will present a seminar and workshop covering the theory and practice of demographic history and speciation genomics with emphasis on Bayesian methods from genomic data.
Past events
12
Jan
2023
Building, Using and Exploring the Plant Tree of Life »
With half a million species and representing a billion years of evolution, a better understanding of the green plant tree of life is crucial for the survival of humankind.
29
Nov
2022
Nanopore sequencing for biosecurity - science talks »
Workshop participants will share their experience using Nanopore sequencing for biosecurity applications in an afternoon of short talks.
22
Nov
2022
Thermal vulnerability across taxa: predicting climate change effects on biodiversity »
Leading international and local researchers will speak on using thermal tolerance limits to understand species susceptibility under climate change.
18
Nov
2022
Systematics and diversification of Indo-Pacific birds »
Jenna McCullough from the University of New Mexico will speak on the evolutionary dynamics of avian biodiversity across the complex island archipelagoes of Wallacea and Melanesia.
14
Oct
2022
CBA 10th anniversary science symposium »
A showcase of CBA-funded research to celebrate our 10th year.
16
Sep
2022
Plant invasions in the northern Andes: a socio-ecological perspective »
Gwendolyn Peyre talks about the taxonomic and functional diversities of invaded plant communities following roads along the forest-páramo elevation gradient in the Chingaza mountain range in Colombia.
18
Aug
2022
Climatic refugia in the coldest neotropical hotspot, the Andean páramo »
Gwendolyn Peyre talks about research that identified climatic refugia in the Andean páramo, one of the most biodiverse high-mountain region on Earth.
26
Oct
2021
eDNA test protocols: advances, applications and limitations »
An online mini-symposium on current eDNA test protocols advances, applications and limitations
17
Sep
2020
Humboldt Day evolutionary biogeography symposium »
As part of the Humboldt Day commemorations the CBA is hosting an online mini-symposium presenting recent insights into how historical climate change and trait evolution has shaped Australasian biogeography.
26
Mar
2020
From cricket songs to swarming locusts: Elucidating patterns and processes of orthopteran evolution »
Hojun Song from Texas A&M University will provide fascinating examples of how orthopteran insects (grasshoppers, crickets, katydids, wetas) can be used as model systems for elucidating patterns and processes of evolution.
05
Mar
2020
Bayesian molecular clock-dating of phylogenies: fossils, genomes and uncertainty »
Biologists have been greatly interested in estimating the times of divergence of organisms, that is, in placing geological ages on the nodes of the Tree of
27
Feb
2020
Exploring the evolutionary origin of insect wings from an evo-devo perspective »
Special BSB/CBA Seminar
02
Dec
2019
Evolutionary Science for a Changing World »
Evolutionary science (ES) underpins our ability to predict and manage change in dynamic biological and socio-economic systems and has made many important
12
Sep
2019
Invading the desert: allotetraploid Nicotiana sect. Suaveolentes (Solanaceae) radiates in the Australian arid zone in the last million years »
Long-distance dispersal was responsible for allotetraploid Nicotiana reaching Australia from South America about six million years ago (mya) based on molecular
24
Jun
2019
Why are there so many species? Form, function, and biodiversity in Papuan microhylid frogs »
Some groups of animals are inordinately speciose. A prime example are the microhylid frogs of New Guinea and its satellite islands -- with over 300 species, one