Seminars

For this seminar we are delighted to host Prof. Andrew Leitch from Queen Mary University of London who will be giving an exciting talk on the evolution of flowering plants from a genomics perspective. Date: Thursday, 17th July 2014 at 6pmVenue: G22 LT Pearson Building (North East Entrance), UCL Here I explore the factors influencing genome structures […]

Venue: Tuesday 3rd June, 5pm, Medawar Building (G01 Lankester Lecture Theatre) at UCL. Secrets of Sleep: Predators, Parasites and the Evolution of Sleep in Mammals – Dr Isabella Capellini ABSTRACT:Sleep is an essential requirement for animal life. While we have a good understanding of the major proximate mechanisms controlling sleep, we know much less about the

This month we have Dr Aelys Humphreys speaking about the evolutionary significance of higher taxa. Venue: Thursday 22nd May, 5pm, Medawar Building (G02 Watson Lecture Theatre) at UCL. Above the Species: The Evolutionary Significance of Higher Taxa Identifying biodiversity units is fundamental to studying how diversity evolves. Species are widely regarded to represent discrete, evolutionary units

The London Evolutionary Research Network is delighted to announce the next event in our evolution seminar series, to be held on the 24th of April at 5pm in the Medawar Building (G02 Watson Lecture Theatre) at UCL. Dr Mark Sutton of Imperial College London will be presenting a talk entitled “Digital Organisms: Simulating macroevolution in silico from

The Imprinted Brain Theory: How Evolution Explains Mental Illness by Christopher Badcock, PhD Thursday, June 6 at UCL – 5:30 PM For more information on Christopher, checkout his blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-imprinted-brain Here are the slides from the lecture: Dr.Badcock_Slides_6Jun13 For more information on Dr. Badcock’s work visit his blog or check out his book on the subject.

Join us on the 9th of May at 5:30 to hear Professor Rook discuss his work on evolution and stress resilience. We are very pleased to announce that Professor Graham Rook will be speaking for LERN on Thursday, the 9th of May at UCL. Professor Rook is part of UCL’s Centre for Clinical Microbiology and

We are happy to announce that Nathan Oesch from University of Oxford is coming to speak to us on his recent research. He will present his paper, “The Dating Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Emerging Science of Human Courtship” on March 20th  (Wednesday) at UCL .  As always, entry is free and all are welcome! We look forward to