Program seminářů na zimní semestr 2019/2020

SEMINAR PROGRAMME winter term 2019/2020

Seminars take place every Tuesday from 15.00 to 16.30, in the B2P seminar room (Viničná 7, 2^nd floor, attic) if not specified. Joint seminars of more departments in Velká zoologická lecture room (Viničná 7, 2^nd floor), Krajinova lecture room (Benátská 2, 2^nd floor) or Entomologie lecture room (Viničná 7, 1^st floor, B121). If not specified, the primary language of all seminars is English.

• 1 October      
  Ken Thompson (University of Sheffield, UK) Darwin's ecology (with Dept. of Botany, Benátská 2, Krajinova lecture room)
• 8 October
  Klaus Schwenk (University of Koblenz-Landau) Molecular ecology of groundwater organisms: from cryptic species to drinking water (with Dept. of Zoology, Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 15 October
  Angelica Feurdean (Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Germany) Determining ecosystem resilience to disturbance by fire using palaeoecological records (with Dept. of Botany, Benátská 2, Krajinova lecture room)
• 22 October
  Irena Šímová (Dept. of Ecology and Center for Theoretical Study, PřF UK) Ecosystem functions in the Anthropocene: plant traits, vegetation models and human well-being (with Dept. of Botany, Benátská 2, Krajinova lecture room)
• 29 October
  Qi Zhou (Zhejiang University, China): Sex chromosome evolution of birds and bird-like mammals: from karyotype to 3D genome (with Dept. of Zoology, Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 5 November
  Presentations of 1st year MSc students I.
• 12 November
  Jiří Reif (Institute for Environmental Studies, PřF UK) Towards the understanding of the drivers of long-term population trends in European birds (with Dept. of Zoology, Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 14–16 November
  Ph.D. conference in Podhradí u Ledče nad Sázavou – presentations of 1st and 3rd years of Ph.D. students
• 19 November
  Vigdis Vandvik (University of Bergen, Norway) A burning issue: Understanding the imprints of humans on the ecology and evolution of coastal heathlands (with Dept. of Zoology, Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 26 November
  Presentations of 1st year MSc students II.
• 3 December 
  UNCE (with Depts. of Zoology and Botany, Benátská 2, Krajinova lecture room)
• 10 December
  Milan Říha (Insitute of Hydrobiology, Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice) Research of fish distribution in Czech reservoirs: From classic methods to Acoustic positioning system (with Dept. of Zoology, Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 17 December
  Christmas trip of the Department of Ecology (organised by MSc students)
• 7 January
  Presentations of 2nd year MSc projects: poster session (arranged by Adam)

Programme of UNCE (December 3)

• Michail Rovatsos (Dept. of Ecology): Evolution of sex chromosomes and dosage compensation mechanisms in amniotes
• Zuzana Musilová (Dept. of Zoology): Life in the dark: vision in the deep-sea and deep-freshwater lake fishes
• Martin Hora (Dept. of Anthropology and Human Genetics): Heat exchange modeling in studies of human evolution
• Martin Weiser (Dept. of Botany): Plant roots in heterogeneous environments

Presentations of 1st year MSc students I. (November 5)

• Jan Havelka: Changes of avian assemblages in CHKO Třeboňsko (supervisor: Ondřej Sedláček
• Vojtěch Macháček: Effect of volume and ratio of different forms of calcium in food of freshwater pearl mussel (Margaritifera margaritifera) on its survival and growth rate (supervisor: Jitka Horáčková)

Presentations of 1st year MSc students II. (November 26)

• Adriana Hološková: The impact of agriculture on food supply for birds in farmland (supervisor: Jiří Reif)
• Jan Kouřil: Cultural evolution: changes in yellowhammer song in time (supervisor: Tereza Petrusková)
• Daniela Schmitzová: Relationship between aesthetic and biological value of successional stages of mountain forests in the Šumava NP (supervisor: David Hořák)