Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series

 

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series page!

This weekly seminar series aims to provide a platform for researchers in the fields of evolution and ecology from across the UK to showcase their work here at Silwood Park.

Location

Seminars are in person in the Oak lecture theatre, Hamilton building, Silwood Park campus, Thursdays at 13.00. The seminars are recorded on Panopto (provided the speaker is happy for this to happen), and are accessible by request there.

Meeting a speaker

If you would like to meet with the seminar speaker, please contact the host listed below.

Inviting a speaker

If you are faculty or a postdoc and have a speaker you would like to invite to give a seminar, please see the timetable below for available slots.

Once you have a speaker provisionally interested in giving a talk and you have agreed a slot for them to come, please email silwood.seminars@imperial.ac.uk with contact information and the preferred slot. We will double-check availability and provide further details to the speaker. Accommodation can also be arranged if required. Hosts are in charge of organising the day for their invited speaker (greetings, meetings, dinner, etc...).

PhD students: You are very welcome to invite speakers, though please bear in mind that you will be responsible for hosting the speaker while they are at Silwood.

Please be aware the timetable is not updated daily.

Speaker expenses / budget

When speakers are on site we can cover some costs with our yearly budget. The maximum amount that can be claimed when hosting seminar speakers is £200 per speaker, and includes travel expenses, one night accommodation and dinner for host and speaker. Please bear this budget in mind when considering invitations. Travel should be booked using cheap, advance options in line with the College’s Expenses Policy (requires College login). Entertainment costs are detailed in the Expenses Policy. Normally speakers should be travelling from within the UK. Exceptionally we can include speakers from Europe if they can travel here within budget: in such cases, the host must notify the seminar organizers for departmental approval ahead of time. Hosts are, of course, welcome to use any alternative source of funding to cover expenses above the £200 limit if required.

 Panopto recordings

Most presentations will be recorded/uploaded using Panopto (Imperial login required). You can find all of the recorded talks in the Silwood Ecology & Evolution Seminar Series folder, here. Note that not all talks are recorded, for various reasons.

Previous seminars

The schedules for previous terms (including links to Panopto recordings) can be found here.

Questions

The seminar is organised by a seminar committee (see here for a list of present and former members). Please email silwood.seminars@imperial.ac.uk with any queries.

Timetables

Schedules for upcoming terms are given below. Blank slots are free. Times given are based on UK time. 

AUTUMN TERM 2024:

Date Time Location Speaker Institution Host Title
10th October 1pm Oak Gergana Daskalova International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Cristina Banks-Leite Expected and surprising drivers of biodiversity change
17th October 1pm Oak Various Imperial   "Meet an academic" session
24th October 1pm Oak Silwood research groups Imperial N/A Research group introduction session
31st October 1pm Oak Jie Deng Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) / University of Oxford Quqiming (Danica) Duan Understanding community changes in ecological systems: a probabilistic perspective
7th November 1pm Oak Ambre Salis Imperial N/A (Internal) Exploring Sparrows’ semantics
14th November 1pm Oak Samraat Pawar Imperial N/A (Internal)  
21st November            
28th November            
5th December 1pm Oak Gustavo Burin Ferreira Durham University Cristina Banks-Leite  

 

SPRING TERM 2025:

Date Time Location Speaker Institution Host Title
16th January            
23rd January 1pm   Douglas Kelley CEH (Wallingford) Vivienne Comyn-Platt Niche-dependent forest and savanna fragmentation in Tropical South America during the Last Glacial Maximum
30th January 1pm   Mike Hoffmann ZSL Rob Ewers  
6th February             
13th February            
20th February 1pm   Arran Folly Animal and Plant Health Agency Lauren Cator  
27th February            
6th March            
13th March 1pm   Claudia Wascher Anglia Ruskin University Ambre Salis  

SUMMER TERM 2025:

Date Time Location Speaker Institution Host Title
8th May 1pm   John Spicer Plymouth Cordelia Roberts Changes in the physiology of marine animals over the last century.
15th May 1pm   Deepa Senapathi University of Reading Jessica Williams  
22nd May            
29th May            
5th June            
12th June            
19th June            

BONUS SEMINARS:

Date Time Location Speaker Institution Host Title