CBA Seminars
Upcoming events
20
Feb
2025
1–2pm 20 February 2025
Paul Frandsen, Brigham Young University, Utah
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).
Past events
28
Oct
2024
Comparative species delimitation: examples with lizards »
Adam Leaché, from the University of Washington, will present a special CBA seminar on modern integrative species delimitation methods.
09
Oct
2024
Working with schools to document insect biodiversity using DNA barcoding: impact and possibilities »
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.
30
Sep
2024
From German Romanticism to modern computational biodiversity models »
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.
02
Nov
2023
Leveraging museum specimens to ask ecological questions in the era of genomics »
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.
22
Sep
2023
The structuring of avian genomes across time and space »
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.
30
May
2023
Evolutionary science for a changing world »
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?
01
May
2023
Integrating morphology and genomes to infer speciation times »
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.
01
May
2023
Shape of Life: reading the evolutionary history of animals by measuring them »
This talk will discuss what can be learnt about evolution and development from comparing the shape of structures such as bones, exoskeletons, and leaves.
20
Apr
2023
Accelerating biodiversity discovery in hyperdiverse arthropod clades with robots and Nanopore sequencing »
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.
10
Mar
2023
How far can genes travel in the living world? »
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.
23
Feb
2023
MegaMove: informing global marine megafauna conservation »
The MegaMove team welcome you to join an open event to share ideas, meet new colleagues and initiate new collaborations.
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.