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Abstract: Bdelloid rotifers are microscopic filter-feeding invertebrates, less than half a millimetre long, that live in moss and soil throughout the world. Over 400 species have been described, and all seem to be exclusively female. Individuals lay unfertilised eggs that hatch into identical asexual daughters. The success of this lineage across millions of years is […]

Speaker: Dr. Laurent Frantz (Queen Mary University of London/ The University of Oxford) Title: Understanding domestication in the genomic era Where: Anatomy G04 Gavin de Beer LT, UCL (Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT) When: 31 May 2018, 17:30 Abstract: Beginning with dogs over 15,000 years ago, the domestication of plant and animals has played a key role in the development

Speaker: Dr. Pontus Skoglund (The Francis Crick Institute) Title: Learning about evolution from ancient genomes Where: Anatomy G04 Gavin de Beer LT, UCL (Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT) When: 24th April 2018, 17:30 Abstract: Evolution is defined as genetic change through time, and the only direct way to study such temporal processes in humans and other populations over longer time

Speaker: Dr. Andrea Dixon (Rothamsted) Title: At the edge of the species: the effects of gene flow on fitness Where: Medawar Building G02 Watson LT, UCL (Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT) When: 25th April 2017, 18:30 Abstract: Species ranges that are distributed across environmentally heterogeneous landscapes can be constrained by the efficacy of natural selection at range edges. Constraints on

Speaker: Prof. Nigel Nicholson (London Business School) Title: Adaptive and unadaptive leadership: an evolutionary perspective Where: UCL, Drayton House B05 (30 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AX) When: 20th February 2017, 18:00 Abstract:Leadership serves the need for coordination and direction in social groups of many species, and for humans it has special properties and significance. We notice when it fails more than when it

Speaker: Dr. Camilla Power (University of East London) Title: The Revolutionary Sex: can sexual conflict theory help explain the emergence of language and culture? Where: UCL (South Wing 9 Garwood LT) When: 12th October, 18:00 Abstract: Across species, sexual selection and sexual conflict – where the evolutionary interests of the sexes differ – provide the arena for the evolution of

Tuesday, the 21st June 2016. Chris Jiggins, from the University of Cambridge, “A constructive role for introgression in generating novelty in butterfly wing patterns”. Abstract:  We are increasingly able to study evolutionary processes such as adaptation and speciation on a genomic scale. I will outline our work to assemble chromosomal-level assemblies of butterfly genomes using