Departmental Seminar: Evolutionary Biology
Summer Term 2026
Tuesdays 11:30-13:00
Lecture Hall 3, University of Vienna Biology Building, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna
300142 SE Evolutionary Biology (2026S)
Departmentalseminar for Masterstudents
2.00 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 30 - Biologie
Continuous assessment of course work
General information for participants:
Termino link to book your time slot for giving a talk:
https://www.termino.gv.at/meet/de/p/e1c9b84565c4acad16d5fe38721bbec0-540165
When registering, please write your supervisors name respectively in case of invited speakers the name of the host in brackets!
There are two slots for two student talks (each 30 min incl. discussion) each week. External speakers are asked to give a 45 min presentation and thus get a double time slot - please reserve both slots in Termino.
Please remember that all Master and PhD students are supposed to give at least two talks at the departmental seminar, one at the start and one at the end of their thesis period (usually not in the same semester).
General seminar language is English (except for MEd candidates).
After choosing a time slot, please send the title of your talk to sonja.matus@univie.ac.at as soon as possible.
For the announcement of the seminar talks on our website please send an abstract and photo and/or image no later than one week prior to the talk.
Program
| March 3rd | Andreas Wanninger General information |
| Nicole Grunstra Is human childbirth uniquely difficult among mammals? |
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| March 10th | Philipp Mitteröcker Evolutionary adaptation, reproductive timing, and why we have to die |
| March 17th | Attila Sachslehner (Pavličev) About the molecular evolution of tetrapod cornification and its origin in aquatic ancestors |
| March 24th | Mihaela Pavličev Evolution of the maternal-fetal interface in mammals- a closer view |
| April 14th | Himani Sachdeva Genetic variation as a window into complex (polygenic) phenotypes |
| April 21st | Benjamin Wipfler (Schwaha) Evolutionary history of the insects with a focus on the tracheal system |
| April 28th | Nikolaos Papadopoulos A practical introduction to LLMs: what they are, how they work, why they won’t be replacing you any time soon, and how the university wants us to use them |
| May 5th | Simon Maynollo (Kruckenhauser) The Bombyliidae of Austria: Creating an Identificaiton Key and DNA Barcoding Reference Data |
| May 12th | Sophia Geiger (Schönenberger) Flowerbeds as stepping stones in the city: movement and floral resource use of bumblebees (Bombus spp.) in urban green spaces |
| May 19th | Clemens Schweiger (Brenneis) Neuroanatomy of the Malleolar Pathway in Solifugae |
| Maximillien Jadin (Wollesen) Molecular patterns of adhesion gene expression and lectin moieties in Acanthochitona fascicularis |
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| May 26th | Lina Waschek (Fiedler) Phylogenetic Diversity of European Ennominae (Geometridae, Lepidoptera) |
| Markus Rainer (Fiedler) Population trends of the Austrian Scarabaeoidea |
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| June 2nd | Paul Arthur Höller (Brenneis) New insights into (no-)body patterning: studying Hox gene expression during sea spider development |
| Antonia Grausgruber (Wanninger) Exploring differential gene expression underlying developmental arrest in a vermetid gastropod |
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| June 9th | Jonas Kristl (Fiedler) Integrative taxonomic revision of the Lucanus cervus species group |
| Lena Bernauer (Fiedler) Distribution modelling of Donaciinae in Austria: Merging Collection and Citizen Science Data |
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| June 16th | Daniela Hofmeister (Gollmann) Distribution, Population Estimation and Habitat Suitability of Triturus carnifex in Vienna |
| June 23th | Julia Amtmann (Pavličev) The process of in-vitro uterine decidualization in mouse |
| June 30th | Laura Scherzer (Pavličev) Transcriptomics of mouse decidualization |