Departmental Seminar: Evolutionary Biology
Winter Term 2025
Tuesdays 11:30-13:00
Lecture Hall 3, University of Vienna Biology Building, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna
300142 SE Evolutionary Biology (2025W)
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:
www.termino.gv.at/meet/de/p/59eae4b2e0caac6621f02ec0dfdaff08-468384.
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.
Programme
| October 7th | Andreas Wanninger General information |
| Yoko Matsumura Overview of my research: the past, present, and future |
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| Koto Kon-Nanjo Evolutionary Origin of Polyneoptera: Insights from Phylogenetics and Morphological Investigation |
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| October 14th | Brian Metscher Really helpful tips on giving seminar talks. |
| October 21st | David Ebmer (Schwaha) Nasal mites in pinnipeds: in-situ and ex-situ research on neglected respiratory parasites |
| October 28th | Nikolaos Papadopoulos POSTPONED! Datamanagement - Sharing and archiving data: when, where, and how |
| November 4th | Nikolaos Papadopoulos Datamanagement - Sharing and archiving data: when, where, and how |
| November 11th | Oliver Link (Technau) Surveying a cell-type progenitor niche in scyphozoan cnidarians |
| November 18th | Luka Gašpar (Fiedler) Taxonomic diversity of nocturnal moths (Erebidae-Arctiinae) during succession in reforestation areas in the Golfo Dulce region of Costa Rica |
| Jan Engelhardt Evolution of Epigenetics in Coleoptera |
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| November 25th | Elisabeth Haring (NHM) Across the branches of life: A personal evolutionary journey |
| December 2nd | Katrin Martic (Mitteröcker) Variation in enamel-dentine junction (EDJ) morphology in extant apes and fossil hominins |
| Sophia Stoll (Pavličev) Endometrial effect of a mutation in Wnt4 at single-cell level |
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| December 9th | Ines Müller (Brenneis) Comparative study of SIFamide-like immunoreactive neurons in the euchelicerate central nervous system. |
| David Sainitzer (Edwin Kniha) Molecular Detection of Vector-Borne Pathogens in Ticks collected from Companion Animals in the Republic of Kosovo |
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| December 16th | Franziska Chowanietz (Bernhard Wallner) Social relationships of adolescent male Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) |
| Lina Waschek (Fiedler) Macroecology and Spatial Phylogeny of Ennominae in Europe (Geometridae, Lepidoptera) |
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| January 13th | Eva Pletzenauer (Fischer) Estimating sex differences in hominin pelves from incomplete fossil records |
| Johannes Süß (Kruckenhauser) Population genomic analysis to reconstruct the introduction history and inter-island dispersal of the invasive Smooth-billed Ani (Crotophaga ani) in the Galápagos Islands |
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| January 20th | Frank Zachos (NHM) Evolution on trial – Austrian contemporary press coverage of the famous 1925 “monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee |
| January 27st | Stefan Pavloski (Pavlicev) Co-option of fibroblast activation in the origin of uterine decidualization |
| Maximillien Jadin (Wollesen) tba |