Winter semester seminars programme is alive!

Seminars take place every Tuesday from 3 to 4:30 PM. 

Seminars traditionaly take place in the B2P seminar room (Viničná 7, 2nd floor, attic). Joint seminars of more departments in Velká zoologická lecture room (Viničná 7, 2nd floor), Krajinova lecture room (Benátská 2, 2nd floor) or Entomologie lecture room (Viničná 7, 1st floor, B121). If not specified, the primary language of all seminars is English. If allowed by presenters, the talks will be recorded and shared later, but not streamed live online.

For any further information please contact Tereza Petrusková (tereza.petruskova@natur.cuni.cz) 

• 3 October
  Introductory information for students: courses and events in winter semester 2023 (B2P lecture room)
• 10 October         
  Presentations of 1st year MSc students
  (B2P lecture room)
• 17 October
  Lenka Caisova
  (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
  Shedding light on evolution of auxin signaling in early green plants. (B2P lecture room)
• 24 October
  Presentations of 1st year MSc students
  (B2P lecture room)
• 31 October
  Barbara Manachini
  (Dept. of Agricultural, food and forest sciences, University of Palermo , Italy)
  The ecological importance of nematodes. (with part of Dept. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 7 November      
  Pavel Duda
  (Dept. of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia) 
  On the origin of (seemingly) maladaptive behaviors: Cultural evolution of marriage, costly rituals and sexual taboos. (with part of Dept. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 9 – 10 November
  PhD Meeting – Presentations of 1st and 3rd year PhD students
  (Kostelec nad Černými Lesy castle)
• 14 November    
  Audrey Dussytour
  (Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition Animale, Université Toulouse III – CNRS, France)
  Problem solving in slime molds.
  (with part of Dept. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 21 November    
  Ondřej Mottl
  (The Center for Theoretical Study & Dept. of Botany, Charles University)
  A window to the past: Data-driven insight into past vegetation trends using fossil pollen.
  (with Dept of Botany; Krajinova lecture room)
• 28 November    
  Uwe Fritz (Museum of Zoology, Senckenberg Dresden, Germany) 
  Time travel through 20 years of using herpetological collections for DNA sequencing.
  (with part of Dept. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 5 December
  Pavel Linhart (Dept. of Zoology, Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia)
  Look who's talking. Principles and applications of individual identity signals in animal vocalizations.
  (with part of Dept. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
• 12 December
  UNCE  - seminar of the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics
  (with Depts. of Zoology and Botany; Krajinova lecture room)
• 19 December
• Department Christmas trip
• 5 January
  Poster session – Presentation of 2nd year MSc students (Room for presentation will be udated then 3rd floor)

Programs of UNCE (12 December) and of presentations of 1st year MSc. students (10 & 24 October) will be updated online.

10 October - Presentation of MSc students (B2P lecture room)

Vojtěch Brož:  Phenotypic plasticity of Daphnia waterfleas related to microturbulence and invertebrate predator presence
​Adam Faško:  Effect of culture conditions on lipid composition of microscopic algae
Tereza Kubíková:  Song variability of two closely related species - Anthus campestris and A. berthelotii
Mariia Maslova: The Gonadal Transcriptome of the Leopard Gecko (Eublepharis macularius) During Environmental Sex Determination
Tereza Hájková: Ecological aesthetics of wetlands in the Třeboňsko region

24 October - Presentation of MSc students (B2P lecture room)

Jaromíra Zálišová: Seasonal changes in habitat use and their consequences for demography and range dynamics in European passerines
Zuzana Šimková: Reproduction of brachiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Notostraca) in the Czech Republic
Zuzana Matějková: Influence of local pollinator and plant composition on the degree of specialization in pollination networks
Kateřina Kašparová: Identification of the olfactory receptor for the queen pheromone in termites
Petra Kociánová: Seasonal patterns of microbial diversity in glacier-fed streams