Departmental Seminar: Evolutionary Biology

Winter Term 2026

Tuesdays 11:30-13:00
Lecture Hall 3, University of Vienna Biology Building, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna

300142 SE Evolutionary Biology (2026W)
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/6590f5a6c09206e9e856636b5377d05a-624489

When registering, please write your supervisors name respectively in case of invited speakers the name of the host in brackets! 

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 25 min incl. discussion) each week. External speakers are asked to give a 50 min presentation and thus get a double time slot - please reserve both slots in Termino.

Please remember that all Master and PhD students of the Department of Evolutionary Biology 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.

October 6th Gerhard Steiner
General information
Susanne Reier(NHM)
NOBIS Austria: A Community for Biological Systematics
October 13th Nikolaos Papadopoulos
What is version control and why should I care?
Nikolaos Papadopoulos
Data management - Sharing and archiving data: when, where, and how
October 20th Katrin Martic (NN)
tba
Eva Pletzenauer (Fischer)
Predicting the morphology of the opposite sex in extinct hominin pelves
October 27th Zagorsek (Schwaha)
tba
November 3rd Patricia Matic (Wanninger)
Beyond Segmentation: Exploring Segment Polarity Gene Expression in the tusk-shell Antalis entalis (Scaphopoda)
NN (NN)
tba
November 10th Malien Laurien (Wanninger)
tba
NN (NN)
tba
November 17th Parvathy Surendranadh (Sachdeva)
Genetic analysis of a flower colour Antirrhinum majus hyrbid zone.
November 24th Milena Pröbstle (Fusani)
Survival rate of the Great Spotted Woodpecker (Dendrocopos major) at the Wilhelminenberg, Vienna
Spitzer (Schwaha)
tba
December 1st NN (NN)
tba
NN (NN)
tba
December 15th NN (NN)
tba
NN (NN)
tba
January 12th Tabea Bege (Kruckenhauser)
Population genomics of European Eubranchipus grubii
NN (NN)
tba
January 19th Angela Faast (Pavlicev)
Deconstructing the decidulization reaction
NN (NN)
tba
January 26th NN (NN)
tba
NN (NN)
tba