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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.

Contact

Claire Stephens

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02 6125 9492

Past events

20 Feb 2025 | 1 - 2pm

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).

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19 Feb 2025 | 12 - 1pm

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.

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28 Oct 2024 | 12 - 1pm

Adam Leaché, from the University of Washington, will present a special CBA seminar on modern integrative species delimitation methods.

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9 Oct 2024 | 1:30 - 2:30pm

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.

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30 Sep 2024 | 10 - 11am

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.

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2 Nov 2023 | 9:30 - 11am

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. 

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22 Sep 2023 | 10:30 - 11:30am

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.

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30 May 2023 | 12:30pm

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?

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1 May 2023 | 11am - 12:15pm

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.

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1 May 2023 | 9:30 - 10:45am

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

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20 Apr 2023 | 11am - 12pm

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.

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10 Mar 2023 | 11:30am - 12:30pm

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.

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