when? Thursdays at 11:00 am
where? (Z) online via zoom; (H) lecture hall 12 (west wing, 1st floor right, location 4 on map); (8) lecture hall 8 (north building, 2nd floor, location 11 on map); (E) experimental field (exhibition area, location 1 on map) at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
UPCOMING:
22.05.25 (8) Dr. Daniela C. Rößler (Universität Bonn)
The spider sleeps tonight: an exceptional framework for comparative sleep research
05.06.25 (8) Eileen Straube (Universität Bayreuth)
Guardians of time and change: palaeontological records and their potential to inform conservation
12.06.25 (8) Korbinian Pacher (HU Berlin)
TBA
19.06.25 (8) Prof. Jostein Kjærandsen (The Arctic University of Norway of Norway)
Towards a fully illustrated manual of Nordic-Baltic fungus gnats (Diptera, Sciaroidea) covering 1200 species - with a near complete reference archive of DNA barcodes
26.06.25 (8) PhD talk: M. Antonio Galán Sánchez (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
TBA
03.07.25 (8) open
TBA
10.07.25 (8) Prof. Lena Wilfert (Universität Ulm)
Biodiversity of pollinator-plant-pathogen interactions
17.07.25 (8) open
TBA
ARCHIVE*
*incomplete; names, academic titles, and affiliations as announced at the time of the presentation
15.05.25 Dr. Carina Moura (Universität Freiburg)
What lies beneath: Land use change and its effect on plants and carbon storage
10.04.25 Prof. Torsten Scheyer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
The Late Triassic of Frick, AG – more than a ‘Plateosaurus graveyard’
03.04.25 Dr. Manja Voß (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Making aquaintance with the ICZN: the bio-juridical processes behind cases and opinions using the example of the Revision of the "Halitherium"-species complex (Mammalia: Sirenia)
27.03.25 Leo Otsuki, PhD (Institute of Molecular Biology, Vienna BioCenter)
How do axolotl cells use a memory of the past to regenerate a fully patterned limb?
20.03.25 Marie Gurke (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Asymmetric nuclear introgression during range expansion in Whiskered Bats revealed with support of a newly developed genotype imputation method
13.03.25 Sergei Tarasov, Ph.D. (Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki)
From language to data: computable phenotypes and taxonomic descriptions through semantic technologies
06.03.25 Josephine Franke (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Towards a holistic reconstruction of the ‘Baltic Amber Forest’ – Angiosperm diversity and its paleoecological implications
27.02.25 Vanuhi Hambardzumyan (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The evolutionary role of introgression: insights into speciation and biogeographical history of Natterer’s Bats in Mediterranean and Caucasian biodiversity hotspots
20.02.25 Alex Van Dam, PhD & Liliya Serbina, PhD (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Descriptron: Testing artificial intelligence for automating taxonomic species descriptions with a user-friendly software package
13.02.25 Prof. Niklas Wahlberg (Lund University)
Digging in the genetic goldmine of museum collections: from placing enigmatic taxa in the tree of life to investigating genetic variation in populations past
30.01.25 Prof. Michael K. Richardson (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
Expression of developmental patterning genes in adult vertebrates: implications for morphological evolution
19.12.24 Jan Koschorreck (Umweltbundesamt)
Time travelling for environmental protection with the German Environmental Specimen Bank
12.12.24 Dr. Benito Wainwright (University of St. Andrews)
Convergent sensory adaptation in tropical mimetic butterflies
05.12.24 Dr. Mathilde Tahar (University College of London)
Biological Agency: Thinking the role of non-human organisms in evolution
21.11.24 Achyuthan N. Srikanthan, PhD (Clarke University, MA)
Scaling scales - on the diversity and evolution of snake scales
14.11.24 Prof. Danilo Russo (University of Naples)
Climate crisis in the dark: can bats cope in a warming world?
07.11.24 Sofia Hayden (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Evolutionary consequences of past climatic change: understanding a complex of Cryptoblepharus skinks
12.09.24 Jarno Asmus (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Opportunities and challenges of automatic bat identification
05.09.24 Stefan Graf (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Inner morphology and possible function of modified ocelli in apoid wasps
25.07.24 Prof. Cynthia Moss (Johns Hopkins University)
Sorting echolocation and communication sounds in a bat cocktail party
11.07.24 Mario Ernst (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
West African rainforest refugia: tracking population dynamics in rainforest frogs to inform conservation strategies
04.07.24 Prof. Dr. Henrik Krehenwinkel (Universität Trier)
From DNA to ecosystems - the promise of metabarcoding biological archives for biodiversity monitoring
27.06.24 Dr. Russell Garwood (University of Manchester)
Adventures with computers and past life
24.06.24 Prosanta Chakrabarty, Ph.D (Museum of Natural Science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge)
Walking fish & the role of natural history museums in the age of genomics
13.06.24 Tzu-Ruei Yang, PhD (National Museum of Natural Science Taiwan)
Applications of biomechanics and thermal physics reveal a new picture of dinosaur nesting biology
06.06.24 Samuel Bernardes (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The molecular phylogenomics of the Atyidae family: unveiling an ancient history among crustaceans
30.05.24 Anja Bergmann (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Autumn swarming of bats: phenology and vocal communication of Myotis bats during swarming
23.05.24 Arnaud Rebillard (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Coprolites and regurgitalites as time capsules: discovering paleoecology through 3D exploration of bromalites
07.05.24 Bastien Papinot (University of Iceland, Reykjavik)
Bryosphere food web composition as a driver of ecosystem processes in a changing tundra
25.04.24 Alex Van Dam, PhD (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Applying metagenomic clustering to arthropod phylogenomics
18.04.24 Lydéric Portailler (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Diversity, ecology and functional traits of the medullosan seed ferns, widespread crucial plants in intramontane regions of early Permian tropical Pangea (central Europe)
14.03.24 Atal Pande (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The visual system of crab spiders and running crab spiders: conserved or convergent?
14.12.23 Eva Mardus (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The study of physical cognition in bats
07.12.23 Dr. Emma Dunne (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen)
Bones of contention: How palaeontology's past shapes our understanding of the history of life on earth
23.11.23 Jean-Sebastien Steyer, PhD (Natural History Museum Paris)
Permian and Triassic insects and vertebrates from France bring new data on Pangaean biotas
16.11.23 Prof. Rolf G. Beutel (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
The evolutionary history of beetles in the late Palaeozoic and Mesozoic
09.11.23 Elena Ghezzo, PhD (University of Venice)
Multispectral satellite imageries for fossil detection
19.10.23 Dr. Shan Huang (University of Birmingham)
Environmental impacts on the evolution of mammalian body size
12.10.23 Brunno Bueno da Rosa, PhD (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Integrating genomic and fossil evidence to elucidate the evolutionary history of psenid wasps
05.10.23 Dr. Michael Orr (Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart)
Enduring challenges and next steps in insect biodiversity research
28.09.23 Dr. Romain Angeleri (Bern University of Applied Sciences)
Unbarking saproxylic diversity: The White-backed Woodpecker as an indicator of forest naturalness
14.09.23 Marvin Schäfer (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Chemical ecology in West-African saber-toothed frogs
07.09.23 Francisco Hita Garcia, PhD (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
ANTSCAN or how to generate 3D phenomic data for the whole ant tree of life
31.08.23 Max Wenzlaff (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
A Prosqualodon cranium (Mammalia, Odontoceti, Prosqualodontidae) from the early/middle Miocene of the Patagonian Molasse
29.06.23 Vincent Fernandez, PhD (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility: Grenoble)
BM18, a new X-ray computed tomography beamline a the European Synchrotron partly dedicated to Natural and Cultural heritage
22.06.23 Imran Ejotre (Molecular Parasitology, IfB, HU Berlin)
Investigation of haemosporidian parasites in epauletted fruit bats in Uganda in context of One Health
15.06.23 Alexis Cornille (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Paleopathology in Late Triassic phytosaurs as a window in early archosauriform paleoecology, behavior and bone healing
08.06.23 Mikkel Brydegaard, PhD (Lund University)
Photonic sensing of insect species richness in situ
01.06.23 Darko D. Cotoras, PhD (Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt)
Intraspecific niche partition without speciation: individual level web polymorphism within a single island spider population
25.05.23 Prof. Manuela Nowotny (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Talk to me darling – intraspecific communication in bushcrickets
11.05.23 Dr. Juan Cantalapiedra (Alcalá University, Madrid)
Metabolic scaling predicts the tempo of megaherbivore collapse in Africa
04.05.23 Ivo Jurisch (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Less can be more! - Wing reduction in aculeate wasps
27.04.23 Antonia Kaffler (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Diversity mechanics: biomechanics as a driver of changes in phenotypic diversification and adaptation in mammals
25.04.23 Dr. Lara Urban (Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, Helmholtz AI, Technical University of Munich)
Real-time genomics for one health
23.03.23 Jean-Renaud Boisserie, PhD (University of Poitiers, France)
Evolution of the Hippopotamidae: from phylogenetic conundrum to questioning environmental drivers
09.03.23 Antoine Verriere (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Anatomy, ontogeny and ecology of mesosaurs, the first secondarily aquatic amniotes
02.03.23 Donald Davesne, PhD (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Tracking the palaeontological origin of warm-bodied teleost fish with bone histology
21.02.23 Prof. Karen Lips (University of Maryland)
Ecological challenges in a globalized world: patterns and impacts of biodiversity loss across multiple scales
16.02.23 Malika Gottstein (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The hidden foresters of the rainforest: bats and primates as seed dispersers
09.02.23 Hannah Byrne, PhD (Uppsala University)
Biotic turnover at the Devonian-Carboniferous boundary of East Greenland
19.01.23 Dr. Paula Eterovick (TU Braunschweig)
Eat, grow, survive: tadpole challenges in the food web
17.01.23 Prof. Craig Moritz (Australian National University)
Speciation, diversity and conservation in a tropical biome
12.01.23 Dr. David Lazarus (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The MfN micropaleontology collections: history, current growth and future research opportunities
08.12.22 Apolline Alfsen (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Secondary adaptation to aquatic life in Cetartiodactyla
01.12.22 Prof. Marc Gottschling (LMU München)
The importance of the MfN Ehrenberg-collection for contemporary applications in the microscope domain
24.11.22 Robert Černý, PhD (Charles University in Prague)
Haeckel's phylotype extended: on the early pharyngeal organizer in the new vertebrate head
18.11.22 Bernardo F. Santos, PhD (Natural History Museum Paris)
Linking form, function and genomes in parasitic wasps
10.11.22 Volkan Özen (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Marine Diatom Response to the Eocene-Oligocene Climatic Events
20.10.22 Marcio R. Pie, PhD (Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, UK)
Exploring the mechanisms that generate and maintain biodiversity at different spatial and temporal scales
06.10.22 David C. Blackburn, PhD (Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida)
Increasing the impact of natural history collections through 3D-imaging
29.09.22 Dr. Daniel Benesh (HU Berlin)
The evolution of complex life cycles in parasitic worms
22.09.22 Lena Dressler (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Acoustic communication in neotropical proboscis bats
15.09.22 Siri Kellner (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Works in Process: Exhibiting contemporary biological research online
08.09.22 Eva-Maria Bendel (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Form, function and evolution of the hypercarnivorous Gorgonopsia (Therapsida, Synapsida)
01.09.22 Denise Jäckel (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Evaluation von Citizen Science für die Dialektforschung am Gesang der Nachtigall (Luscinia megarhynchos)
25.08.22 Dr. Alice C. Hughes (University of Hong Kong)
Science based approaches for conservation prioritisation and target setting
23.06.22 PD Dr. Torsten Scheyer (Paläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich)
Of Swiss Long-Necks and South American Giants - exploring the histology, anatomy and development of extinct reptiles
16.06.22 Piotr Łukasik, PhD (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
Insects are largely about their symbiotic microbes! The roles of symbionts in insect community ecology
09.06.22 Ana Setyastuti (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Biodiversity and systematics of Indonesian sea cucumbers: general introduction and initial results
19.05.22 Anne-Claire Fabre, PhD (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Development as a driver or a brake of morphological diversity?
12.05.22 Prof. Alistair McGregor (University of Durham, UK)
How to build a spider: investigating the genomics and development of spiders and other arachnids
05.05.22 Stefan Graf (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Comparative morphology and phylogenetic significance of modified ocelli in digger wasps
21.04.22 Dr. Michela Johnson (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart)
Body size distribution and macroevolution of teleosauroids (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) of the Posidonienschiefer Formation (Germany)
14.04.22 Lauren Sumner-Rooney, PhD (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Why do some animals have so many eyes?
07.04.22 Philipp Knaus (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Chewing over the evolution of mastication: Functional herbivore morphology of early Permian tetrapods from the Bromacker locality
31.03.22 Daniel Smith Paredes, PhD (Yale University)
Studying the development and evolution of tetrapod limb musculature
17.02.22 Marie Gurke (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Evolutionary consequences of hybridization in insect-predatory bats in Western and Central Asia
10.02.22 Dr. Carl Reddin (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The role of the thermal niche in marine invertebrate extinction responses in past warming worlds
27.01.22 Sophie Ewert (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Bats in an agricultural and semi-natural landscape matrix in Germany
13.01.22 Vanuhi Hambardzumyan (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Gene flow between lineages of Myotis nattereri in the Caucasus contact zone
06.01.22 Till Ramm (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Integrative conservation paleobiology: Effects of Quarternary climate change on Australian reptile communities
16.12.21 Dr. David Marjanović (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Aïstopods: everything you never knew you wanted to ask
09.12.21 Kim Kean (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The Simplification of the Dermatocranium in Early Tetrapods and Lissamphibians
04.11.21 Sami Asad (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Amphibian community responses to different logging regimes in Bornean production forests
28.10.21 Dr. Davide Foffa (National Museum of Scotland)
The Triassic Elgin Reptiles: new information from µCT data
07.10.21 Vivien Bothe (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Effects of ontogeny and life history strategy on limb regeneration in salamanders
30.09.21 Simon Beurel (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Reconstructing fossil-rich East Asian amber forests using inclusions of seed plants
13.09.21 Guillaume Demare (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Freshwater community shifts following the removal of large mammals in Comoé National Park, Ivory Coast
16.09.21 Ulla Lächele (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Development and loss of the mammalian vomeronasal system
02.09.21 Jasper Ponstein (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
How did early tetrapods adapt to herbivory? Evolution and biomechanics of the lower jaw
26.08.21 Samuel Bernardes (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
A phylogeny for the Atyidae family: unveiling an ancient history
19.08.21 Filip Thörn (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin/Swedish Museum of Natural History)
The evolutionary consequences of intergeneric introgression in Birds-of-Paradise
12.08.21 Ingo Müller (Stockholms Universitet/Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet)
Biogeography and patterns of hybridisation in New Guinean Honeyeaters (Genus: Melidectes) and Birds-of-Paradise (Genus: Paradisaea)
11.08.21 Nora Lentge-Maaß (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Testing a riverine radiation – Evolutionary systematics of an endemic, viviparous freshwater Gastropod in the Kaek River, Thailand
17.06.21 Luisa Pusch (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Evaluating the origin of Cynodontia (Synapsida, Therapsida) using 3D-imaging technologies
10.06.21 Dr. Ludwig Luthardt (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Deciphering the green evolution on Earth: Paleobotanic research at the MfN and its future perspectives
03.06.21 Mario Ernst (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Influence of past climate on the evolutionary and biogeographic history of forest-dwelling frogs in Upper Guinea, West Africa
27.05.21 Sofía Hayden (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Evolutionary consequences of climate change: Demography and diversification in Cryptoblepharus lizards
20.05.21 Christian Bartel (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Amber harvestmen as a model for evolution and biogeography
12.03.20 Prof. Dr. Alexander Schmidt (Universität Göttingen)
What did the forests for all the invertebrates look like: Towards a holistic approach in the reconstruction of amber forests
05.03.20 Nora Lentge-Maaß (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Hard shell(s) to crack – diversity and speciation of the endemic freshwater gastropods Brotia in the Kaek River, Thailand
27.02.20 Prof. Dr. Jan Benda & Liz Weerdmeester (University of Tubingen)
Uncovering the secret lives of neotropical electric fish
20.02.20 Dr. Sara Raj Pant (University of Groningen)
Evolution of infidelity in the Seychelles warbler
13.02.20 Ahana Aurora Fernandez (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Vocal ontogenetic processes of the greater sac-winged bat Saccopteryx bilineata. Evidence for babbling in bat pups
12.12.19 Denise Jäckel (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Variability of nightingale song in time and space
05.12.19 Carolin Dittrich (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Behavioral ecology and developmental success in the European common frog
28.11.19 Dr. David Ford (University of Oxford)
The phylogeny of early amniotes and the affinities of Parareptilia and Varanopidae
21.11.19 Alina Janssen (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Habitat use of Lacerta agilis along railway tracks
07.11.19 Dr. Óscar Sanisidro
The rise and demise of rhinos. A new history of an old family
31.10.19 Dr. Jian Huang (Senckenberg, Dresden)
Karst forest: Longer history than expected?
24.10.19 Matthew Ford (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Freshwater fishes of the Maghreb: distribution, diversity and conservation status
17.10.19 Dr. Joshua Peñalba (LMU München)
Inferring dynamic history of gene flow during speciation in northern Australian birds
10.10.19 Dr. Nicolai Konow (University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Chewing across water-land transitions; implications for the Devonian fish-tetrapod split
26.09.19 Dr. Erin Maxwell (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart)
The importance of recognizing morphological variation in the fossil record
19.09.19 Dr. David Marjanović (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Evo-devo and the origin of lissamphibians
12.09.19 Prof. Dr. Susann Wicke (Universität Münster)
Eco-evolutionary consequences of parasitism in plants
22.08.19 Dr. Jörg Freyhof (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
New freshwater fish introductions to Europe – a shift in patterns?
15.08.19 Dr. Nicolas Fasel (University of Lausanne)
Evolution of post-copulatory characters in vesper bats
08.08.19 Dr. Eva-Maria Sadowski (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
A diverse world behind “amber forests” – reconstruction of habitats and botanical diversity
04.07.19 Dr. Stefan Hertwig (Naturhistorisches Museum Bern)
Deciphering the hidden amphibian diversity of Southeast Asia
27.06.19 Prof. Dr. Thomas Ziegler (Zoological Garden Köln)
Amphibian and reptile diversity in the last remaining rainforests of Vietnam and Laos - more than two decades of research and conservation activities
20.06.19 Prof. Lennart Olsson (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Development of the cranium and cranial muscles in amphibians
13.06.19 Jan Wölfer (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
The proximal limb bones of sciuromorph rodents in light of scaling, locomotor ecology and homoplasy
06.06.19 Adam Wilkins, PhD (Humboldt Universität Berlin)
Animal domestication: new ideas, new findings, and a new perspective on human evolution
29.05.19 Dr. Francisco Rodríguez Sánchez (Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Sevilla)
Integrative approaches to investigate climate change impacts on biodiversity
16.05.19 Prof. Dr. Philippe Keith (Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris)
Sicydiine gobies, an overview
09.05.19 Yara Haridy (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Osteocytes: What can fossil bone cells tell us about our own evolution
11.04.19 Dr. Stephan Lautenschlager (University of Birmingham)
New methods for old bones – functional morphology and biomechanics in the course of vertebrate evolution
04.04.19 Vivien Bothe (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
A morphological and histological investigation of imperfect lungfish fin regeneration
28.03.19 Dr. Mark MacDougall (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Upland localities of the early Permian: a unique window into the initial stages of terrestrial vertebrate evolution
21.03.19 Fabio Alfieri (Humboldt Universität Berlin/Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Convergent evolution and humeral/femoral functional morphology in slow arboreal mammals
14.03.19 Dr. Gayane Asatryan (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Paleogene polar plankton and a new methodology of studying radiolarians using 3D Xray micro-Ct imaging
07.03.19 Dr. Paul Lukas (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
The influence of nkx genes on amphibian head development and their role for the development of evolutionary novelties
28.02.19 Dr. Neil Brocklehurst (Oxford University)
Evolutionary ratchets and adaptive radiations: patterns of convergence in early tetrapod carnivores and herbivores
21.02.19 Dr. Matthias Nuss (Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden)
Diversity, phylogeny and systematics of Pyraloidea (Lepidopera)
14.02.19 Dr. David Lazarus (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Plankton evolution: a perspective from the deep-sea microfossil record – a review
07.02.19 Jana Gliwa (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Ostracod diversity patterns at the end-Permian mass extinction
31.01.19 Dr. Donald Davesne (University of Oxford)
The evolution of acellular bone in teleosts: a new structure-function relationship in fish bone histology?
24.01.19 Dr. Laura Domingo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Isotopic Paleontology: paleoclimatic, paleoenvironmental and paleoecological inferences through the biogeochemical imprint of fossils
10.01.19 Dr. Nicolas Hubert (Institut de recherche pour le développement, Montpellier)
DNA barcoding Indonesian freshwater fishes: species delimitation, biogeography and community assembly
06.12.18 Richard A. Schneider, PhD (University of California San Francisco)
Developmental mechanisms linking form and function during jaw evolution
29.11.18 Dr. Christine Böhmer (Museum nationale d’histoire naturelle Paris)
The vertebrate neck as key innovation to understand evolvability
22.11.18 Dr. Björn Stelbring (Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen)
Biogeographic history and shell evolution in viviparid snails
08.11.18 Dr. René Dommain (Universität Potsdam)
Biodiversity of Southeast Asian peat swamp forests: patterns, drivers and threats
29.10.18 Pipit Pitriana (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Integrative taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripedia) from the Spice Islands, Indonesia
25.10.18 Dr. David Marjanovic (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Reproducibility in phylogenetics: the importance of accuracy in data matrices for phylogenetic analysis, with early tetrapods and dinosaurs as examples
18.10.18 Dr. Eli Amson (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Evolutionary adaptation of bone structure in xenarthrans, or how some sloths became aquatic
11.10.18 Dr. Joeri Witteveen (Utrecht University)
Freedom or anarchy? On the governance of taxonomic nomenclature
04.10.18 Marvin Schäfer (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Chemical communication in the Odontobatrachidae
27.09.18 Dr. Johan Renaudie (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The Cenozoic evolution of the diatom-climate system
20.09.18 Dr. Brandon Kilbourne (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Morphological diversification and adaptive evolution in Mustelidae
13.09.18 Sami Asad (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Stream amphibians: Habitat associations and responses to logging in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
30.08.18 Stephanie Niemeier (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Morphological trait change in amphibians along spatio-temporal gradients from near natural to urban/agricultural landscapes in the area of Berlin-Brandenburg
23.08.18 Parm Viktor von Oheimb & Katharina von Oheimb (Natural History Museum London)
Community assembly and convergent evolution of land snails (Cyclophorus spp.) on Vietnam's limestone karsts
09.08.18 Prof. Michelle Lawing (Texas A&M University)
On fossils, phylogenies, and climate change: new integrative comparative methods
17.07.18 Dr. Michael Hautmann (University of Zurich)
Why are there so many kinds of animals?
05.07.18 Juan Pascual Anaya, PhD (RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology, Kobe)
Hagfish and lamprey Hox genes reveal conserved whole-cluster temporal colinearity in vertebrates
21.06.18 Jana Gliwa (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Ostracod diversity and environmental conditions of the Aras Valley section (NW-Iran) during the end-Permian mass extinction
14.06.18 Valentin de Mazancourt (Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Paris)
The complex study of complexes: The first well-supported phylogeny of two species complexes within genus Caridina (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) sheds light on evolution, biogeography, and ecology
07.06.18 Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Krahe (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
The real-life challenges of acquiring sensory information: The electrosensory world of weakly electric fish
31.05.18 Dr. François Clarac (Uppsala University)
The early-tetrapod skull bone vascularization: A physiological adaptation to terrestrialization?
31.05.18 Veronica Piazza (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Body size and ecology trends of benthic marine macroinvertebrates across the Early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) extinction event in the Lusitanian Basin, Portugal
24.05.18 Prof. Rafe Brown, PhD (Kansas University)
Phylogenomic data re-write (or not) an iconic story of colonization and evolutionary radiation in an island archipelago
17.05.18 Dr. Hendrik Müller (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Life-history evolution in African toads
03.05.18 Dr. Richard Hofmann (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Diversity partitioning in deep time
26.04.18 Gabriela Lima (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Insights into preaxial polarity of axolotl limb development
19.04.18 Prof. Dr. Marco Tschapka (Universität Ulm)
Flowers and bats – a not always easy partnership
17.04.18 Prof. Dr. Harald Schneider (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, CAS)
Predicting the impact of the Anthropocene on the plant diversity of SE Asia
12.04.18 PD Dr. Aimée Zuñiga (Universität Basel)
The making of digits: successful long-distance relationships in gene regulation
22.03.18 PD Dr. Jérémy Anquetin (JURASSICA Museum, Fribourg)
Peer community in evolutionary biology and peer community in paleontology: community-driven peer-review of preprints as an alternative to the costly academic publishing system
05.03.18 Dr. Daniel Field (University of Bath)
The birdwatcher's time machine: Fossils and the origin of modern avian biodiversity
22.02.18 Krista Patriquin (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Everything I know, I learned from bats
01.02.18 Dr. William Foster (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The role of the ‘Deadly Trio’ in earth’s greatest mass extinction
14.12.17 Dr. Roberto Rozzi (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The island syndrome in bovids: a research agenda
07.12.17 Dr. Juan López Cantalapiedra (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Fossil phylogenies — challenges and applications
30.11.17 Dr. Roland Sookias (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Towards more reliable phylogenies from fossil data
23.11.17 Dr. Sammy De Grave (Oxford University Museum of Natural History)
Twilight's last gleaming: the current state of decapod taxonomy
16.11.17 Antoine Verrière (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Anatomy, ecology and ontogeny of mesosaurs using 3D imaging technologies
09.11.17 Prof. Dr. Christoph Schubart (Universität Regensburg)
Molecular phylogeny and the geographic origins of neotropical freshwater crabs of the family Pseudothelphusidae (Crustacea, Brachyura)
26.10.17 Prof. Dr. Luís Fábio Silveira (Museu de Zoologia da Universidade de São Paulo)
New species and the taxonomy of Brazilian birds
12.10.17 Dr. Yannick Pauchet (MPI for Chemical Ecology, Jena)
A tough wall to break: Evolution of plant cell wall degrading enzymes in beetles of the Phytophaga
14.09.17 Dr. Pavel Skutchas (Universität St. Petersburg)
The Early Cretaceous of Siberia: a refugium for Jurassic vertebrate relicts
22.06.17 Marylène Danto (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Intercentrum versus pleurocentrum growth in early tetrapods: a paleohistological approach
08.06.17 Dr. Roland Schwarz (Evolutionary and Cancer Genomics, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine)
Inferring cancer evolution from somatic copy-number alterations
07.06.17 Aura Raulo (Oxford University)
Social transmission of gut microbiota in Red-bellied lemurs - in search of the role of immunity in the evolution of sociality
01.06.17 Dr. Vladislav Nachev (Institut für Biologie, HU Berlin)
Bat choices drive the evolution of low-quality flower nectars
18.05.17 Prof. Dr. Brian Kraatz (Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona, CA, USA)
Evolutionary morphology of the rabbit skull
11.05.17 Prof. Dr. Peter Kappeler (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin; Universität Göttingen; Deutsches Primatenzentrum Göttingen)
The evolution of sex roles in primates
04.05.17 Dr. Sara Varela (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
How can we link past climatic changes with species range shifts and extinction events?
20.04.17 Dr. Benedikt R. Schmidt (karch, Neuchatel & Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zürich, Switzerland)
Can we halt the decline of amphibians?
30.03.17 Dr. Randall Iris (National Museum of Utah)
An equatorial lost world: discovering the age of dinosaurs in Ethiopia
23.03.17 Dr. Hans-Dieter Sues (National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC)
The Triassic period and the origin of modern terrestrial ecosystems
16.03.17 Prof. Bernhard Ströbel (TU Darmstadt)
Aufnahme und Berechnung von kalibrierten 3D-Modellen genadelter Insekten in Echtfarbe
09.02.17 Dr. David Garfield (IRI Life Sciences, HU Berlin)
The properties of segregating genetic variation in developmental gene regulatory networks
19.01.17 Prof. Jonathan Jeschke (FU Berlin)
What we know and don’t know about invasive species and other novel organisms
17.01.17 Dr. Sébasitien Puechmaille (University of Greifswald)
Mechanisms of speciation and extinction: insights from a diverse Mammalian order (Bats)
05.12.16 Dr. Luis Valente (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Equilibrium diversification dynamics on islands: insights from birds and bats
21.11.16 Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitt (Vienna University)
Evolution of a complex trait - cuticular hydrocarbons in solitary Hymenoptera
14.11.16 Dr. Magdalini Christodoulou (Universität Würzburg)
Historical biogeography and phylogeny of Atyaephyra shrimps (Decapoda, Atyidae) based on mitochondrial and nuclear data
07.11.16 Carolin Dittrich (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Distribution and life history of the common frog (Rana temporaria) in a cultural landscape
31.10.16 Silvia Keinath (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Trait change in selected arthropod species along spatio-temporal gradients across urban to rural landscapes
24.10.16 Dr. Florian Witzmann (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Functional aspects of the open palate and its associated muscles in extant amphibians and early tetrapods
14.10.16 Gerry Carter, PhD (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute)
Cooperative food sharing in vampire bats
13.10.16 Dr. Yuseob Kim (Ewha Womans University, Seoul)
Snapshots of positive selection spreading over African fruit fly populations
09.07.16 Teague O'Mara, PhD (MPI for Ornithology, Randolfszell)
Finding social solutions to ecological constraints
12.07.16 Prof. Stuart L. Pimm (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)
Using science to prevent species extinction
13.06.16 Dr. Bert van Boxclaer (Ghent University)
Diversification in Darwin's Dreamponds: An integrative perspective on mollusk evolution in the African Great Lakes
30.05.16 Prof. Einar Árnason (University of Iceland)
Population genomics of cod-fish: admixture, introgression and speciation
24.05.16 Prof. Luke Harmon (University of Idaho)
All creatures great and small: the promise and peril of megaphylogenies
23.05.16 Dr. Jane Melville (University College London)
Integrating Next Generation Sequencing approaches into museum-based research to advance our understanding of the evolution and diversity of Australian lizards and frogs
17.05.16 Dr. Adnan Moussalli (Museum Victoria)
From transcriptomes to exon capture – a conceptual and technical overview
09.05.16 Dr. Matjaz Kuntner (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts)
Extreme female-biased sexual size dimorphism in spiders: A convergent evolutionary research agenda
02.05.16 Dr. Dionisios Youlatos (University of Thessaloniki)
Early primate evolution: extant arboreal tales
25.04.16 Dr. Jussi Eronen (Universität Helsinki)
Ecometrics, databases and fossils: Lessons from the past to guide the future
18.04.16 Dr. Anjali Goswami (University College London)
The macroevolutionary consequences of phenotypic integration: from development to deep time
14.03.16 Leon Hilgers (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The genetic basis of an evolutionary key trait - radula genes in the adaptive radiation of the freshwater snail Tylomelania
07.03.16 Dr. Nico Straube (Zoologische Staatssammlung München)
Hybridisation capture targeting exons across highly divergent fish species
22.02.16 Dr. Caroline Pannell (University of Oxford)
Wallace's Line and the contrasting biogeographies of vertebrates and trees in the Indo-Australasian Archipelago
18.02.16 Dr. Amy MacLeod (TU Braunschweig)
Molecular insights into the evolution and conservation status of the Galapagos marine iguana
15.02.16 Dr. Eli Amson (HU Berlin)
Contribution of bone histology and microstructure to palaeobiology - mammalian examples
08.02.16 Malte Timpte (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Die Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) - Wie werden WissenschafterInnen beteiligt?
01.02.16 Dr. Tilman Musch (Universität Bayreuth)
Snakes, men and plants: An interdisciplinary approach to envenomation and healing in Niger
18.01.16 Dr. Catalina Pimiento Hernandez (Universität Zürich)
The extinction of Megalodon: A deep-time perspective on apex predators
11.01.16 Dr. Bjarki Eldon (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Gene genealogies in highly fecund populations with skewed offspring distribution
16.12.15 Dr. John Nudds (University of Manchester, UK)
Exceptional preservation of dinosaur eggs and embryos from the Upper Cretaceous of Henan province, People's Republic of China
14.12.15 Stephan Spiekman (Leiden University/Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Bony skull development in marsupial mammals: a diet-based comparison
07.12.15 Dr. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez (Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid)
Does fragmentation increase extinction thresholds?
30.11.15 Indira Ritsche (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Inner ear morphology of fossil baleen whales and low frequency hearing capability
23.11.15 Dr. Alexandra Weyrich (IZW)
Paternal epigenetic adaptation to heat in a wild mammal species
16.11.15 Carolin Dittrich (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Adaptation potential of amphibians
09.11.15 Dr. Marco Tamborini (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin/PAN)
The paleontological crisis of identity: remaking German paleontology in the first half of the 20th century
26.10.15 Dr. Heike Feldhaar (Universität Bayreuth)
Eco-evolutionary dynamics in the invasive ant Anoplolepis gracilipes – moving towards speciation?
12.10.15 Prof. Dr. Thomas Junker (Universität Tübingen)
Moderne Kunst: eine Herausforderung für evolutionäre Kunsttheorien
28.09.15 Prof. Dr. Julia Clarke (University of Texas at Austin)
Evolutionary novelty and the origin of birds
13.07.15 Wessel van der Vos (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Morphological staging and limb development in the gecko Hemidactylus
06.07.15 Dr. Meta Virant-Doberlet (National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Insights into intra- and interspecific interactions in Aphrodes leafhoppers
29.06.15 Sebastian Kirchhof (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Does climate change drive extinction risk in Namibian lizards (Squamata: Lacertidae)?
22.06.15 Dr. Matthias Stöck (IGB)
Anuran hybridization and sex chromosome evolution in space and time
15.06.15 Laura Sandberger-Loua (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
When grassland is not just grassland – Understanding the patchy distribution of an endangered montane toad in an apparently homogenous habitat
08.06.15 Dr. Ingmar Werneburg (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Evolution and development of the craniocervical system in turtles
01.06.15 France Gimnich (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Molecular approaches to the assessment of biodiversity in limnic gastropods (Cerithioidea, Thiaridae) with perspectives on a Gondwanian origin
26.05.15 Prof. Dr. Barry Sinervo (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Fifty-five million years of climate-forced extinction are in our future: physiological species distribution models for reptiles
18.05.15 Prof. Arndt Telschow (Universität Münster)
The role of Wolbachia in eukaryotic evolution – the untold stories
11.05.15 Dr. Manja Voss (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
The catacomb sea cow: when palaeontology meets archaeology
27.04.15 Dr. Johannes Strauß (Universität Gießen)
Sensory organs most beautiful: Diversity and evolution of the subgenual organ complex in orthopteroid insects
23.03.15 Dr. Faysal Bibi (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Faunal change in the Eastern African fossil record: pulsed or continuous?
16.03.15 Mareike Hirschfeld (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Adaptation ability of tropical anurans to changing environments
09.03.15 Dr. Michael Monaghan (IGB)
Genomic approaches to the study of aquatic insect diversification in Madagascar and Macaronesia
23.02.15 Dr. Michael Balke (Zoologische Staatssammlung München)
Evolution of arthropod diversity in the Indoaustralian Australasian Archipelago: complex pathways across biogeographic boundaries
16.02.15 Melanie Tietje (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Traits and extinction risk in fossil and recent species
09.02.15 Dr. Jobst Pfaender (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
From form and function to complex fitness landscapes
26.01.15 Prof. Dr. Lothar Beck (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Manche mögen´s heiß - Oasen des Lebens in der Tiefsee, evolutionsbiologische Aspekte
15.12.14 Marylène Danto (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Development of the vertebral centra in basal tetrapods
08.12.14 PD Dr. Sebastian Klaus (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Evolution of Southeast Asian Freshwater crabs
01.12.14 Linus Günther (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Male mating strategies and reproductive success in a bat with an exceptional mammalian dispersal pattern
24.11.14 Dr. Malin Ah-King (HU Berlin)
Genital evolution: why are females still understudied?
17.11.14 Sandra Triepel (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Gene expression patterns in salamander limb development and their potential role in the evolution of preaxial polarity
03.11.14 Sonny Walton (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Ammonoid morphology and evolution
27.10.14 Dr. Jan Beck (Universität Basel)
Community turnover patterns along elevational gradients
20.10.14 Maren Jansen (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Early evolution and anatomy of basal therapsids (Amniota: Synapsida) - ontogenetic trends and their impact on phylogeny
13.10.14 Dr. Hernán A. Burbano (MPI für Entwicklungsbiologie Tübingen)
Herbarium genomics: watching plant and plant pathogen evolution with historic and modern samples
06.10.14 Neil Brocklehurst (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Innovation, extinction and rates of cladogenesis in early amniotes
29.09.14 Nicolas Thiercelin (Universität Regensburg)
The Great American Schism: Diversification and speciation of brachyurans along the Panama Isthmus and western Atlantic
08.09.14 Manuela Sann (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
A novel target enrichment strategy for phylogenomic analyses of sphecid wasps
25.08.14 Prof. Dr. Alice Hughes (Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China)
Mapping a future for Southeast Asian biodiversity
07.07.14 Christiane Bramer (Universität Hamburg)
Evolution of adaptations to cardiac glycosides in the hemipteran subfamily Lygaeinae
30.06.14 Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitt (Senckenberg Dt. Entomologisches Institut Müncheberg)
Von der klassischen zur molekularen Biogeographie - Geschichten über Schmetterlinge, Pflanzen und andere interessante Organismen
23.06.14 Prof. Dr. Christian Klingenberg (University of Manchester)
Integration in morphological structures: how it affects evolution and how it evolves
16.06.14 Nora Maaß (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
To be or not to be - radiating snails in a river?
02.06.14 Dr. David Sepkoski (MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
Paper databases: data analysis in paleontology before the computer
05.05.14 Wolf-Christian Saul (TU München)
Taking an eco-evolutionary perspective on biological invasions: what can we learn?
07.04.14 Dr. Suzanne Williams (Natural History Museum London)
Taking an eco-evolutionary perspective on biological invasions: what can we learn?
31.03.14 Sabine Nürnberg (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Factors driving diversification in the deep-sea
24.03.14 Dr. Constanze Bickelmann (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
HOX expression in salamanders - towards understanding mechanisms of limb patterning