Past events

22
Sep
2023

The structuring of avian genomes across time and space »

10.30am 22 September

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.

13
Sep
2023

Introduction to AusTraits »

10am 13 September

An introduction to the open-source database AusTraits - the largest collation of trait data for Australian plants.

15
Aug
2023

How science and maths influence environmental policy »

5.30pm 15 August

University of Canberra's 2023 Krebs Lecture will be given by Professor Hugh Possingham

13
Jul
2023

Genome Diversity: Insights from long-read sequencing »

13 July

The Centre for Biodiversity Analysis is hosting a symposium on new advances in 3rd-generation genomics in genome assembly, haplotypes, pangenomes, and structural variation.

31
May
2023

Stochastic modelling meets evolutionary biology »

9.30am 31 May

A technical training workshop that will provide an overview of models from matrix-analytic-methods (MAMs) and how they could be used in practical applications.

30
May
2023

Evolutionary science for a changing world »

12.30pm 30 May

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 »

11am 1 May

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 »

9.30am 1 May

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

01
May
2023

Leveraging morphological and genomic data to elucidate evolutionary patterns  »

1 May

Emma Sherratt and Mario Dos Reiswill present a workshop and seminar each on using genomic and morphological data to study the tree of life.

20
Apr
2023

Advancing taxonomy discussion  »

1.30pm 20 April

A round table discussion with Rudolf Meier from Museum fur Naturkunde, on how his rapid, accurate, scalable, and cost-effective species discovery and delimitation methods can benefit Australian systematics and taxonomy.

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