Groningen Lectures in Theoretical Biology - Previous Lectures

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2017

• Yoh Iwasa (Kyushu University, Japan) - Will theoretical studies contribute to biology and life sciences? (18-05-2017)
• Mikael Puurtinen (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) - Evolution of male and female mate choice for inclusive and direct benefits (09-03-2017)
• Magnus Enquist (Stockholm University) - A potentially important difference between humans and other animals (16-02-2017)

2016

• Sergey Gavrilets (University of Tennessee, USA): Collective action and the internalization of social norms (27-10-2016)
• Han Olff (University of Groningen): Ecological interaction networks (23-06-2016)
• Corina Tarnita (Princeton University): Self-organized vegetation patterns and robustness to climate change (30-05-2016)
• Alexei Maklakov (Uppsala University) - Experimental evolution of ageing (28-04-2016)
• William Ratcliff (Georgia Tech, USA) - Exploring the origin of multicellularity through experimental evolution (01-04-2016)
• Nick Barton (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria) - Are genes necessary? (25-02-2016)
• Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich) - Towards cancer-aware life-history modelling (28-01-2016)

2015

• Maria Servedio (University of North Carolina) - Speciation and the evolution of premating isolation (25-06-2015)
• Marcus Feldman (Stanford University, USA) - Cultural contingency and genetic evolution (21-05-2015)
• Martin Ackermann (ETH) - Collective functionality through bacterial individuality (30-04-2015)
• Rampal Etienne (University of Groningen) - On the origin and dynamics of species assemblages (08-01-2015)

2014

• Suzanne Alonzo (University of California Santa Cruz) - Theory and data on social plasticity and interactions within and between the sexes (04-12-2014)
• Frank Johannes (University of Groningen, GBB) - In search of the epigenetic basis of complex traits (02-10-2014)
• Michael Doebeli (University of British Columbia) - Evolutionary dynamics in high-dimensional phenotype spaces (05-06-2014)
• James Marshall (University of Sheffield, UK) - From house-hunting honeybees to Weber's law and speed-accuracy trade-offs (03-04-2014)
• Andy Gardner (University of St. Andrews, UK) - Haplodiploidy and eusociality (06-02-2014)

2013

• Minus van Baalen (UPeMC, Paris) - Measuring information: why we need a good measure and the challenges ahead (06-05-2013)
• Wolf Mooij (NIOO, NL) - Time to model all life on earth? (07-11-2013)
• Rob de Boer (Utrecht University, NL) - Modeling immune cell migration (10-10-2013)
• Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews, UK) - Cause and effect in biology revisited (12-09-2013)
• Andreas Wagner (University of Zurich) - On the origins of evolutionary adaptation and innovation (04-07-2013)

2012

• André de Roos (IBED, UvA) - Ontogenetic asymmetry in energetics overturns basic ecological principles (14-06-2012)
• Eva Kisdi (University of Helsinki, Finland) - Adaptive dynamics and the evolution of pathogens (07-06-2012)

2011

• Tom Wenseleers (University of Leuven, Belgium) - The recent charge of Nowak and Wilson on inclusive fitness theory: What have we learned from it? (06-12-2011)
• Olof Leimar (Stockholm University, Sweden) - Feature saltation and the evolution of mimicry (27-10-2011)
• Bas Kooijman (VU Amsterdam, NL) - Dynamic Energy Budget theory (29-09-2011)

2010

• Robert Whittaker (University of Oxford, UK) - Scale and the dynamics of island biotas: a (mostly) macroecological perspective & Workshop: A critical evaluation of recent meta-analyses of the species richness-productivity relationship (19&20-05-2010)
• James Liao (University of Florida, USA) - Understanding how fish sense and exploit flows using optical, genetic and electrophysiological techniques (28-04-2010)
• Andrew Pomiankowski (University College London, UK) - Sperm, choice and female condition (10-03-2010)
• Stephen Pratt (Arizona State University, USA) - Collective decision-making by ants: The interplay of group and individual cognition (13-01-2010)

2009

• Troy Day (Queen's University, Canada) - The evolution of coral bleaching resistance (24-09-2009)
• Jordi Bascompte (Estación Biológica de Doñana CSIC, Spain) - Plant-animal mutualistic networks: The architecture of biodiversity (20-10-2009)
• Kirsten ten Tusscher (University of Utrecht, NL & Simula Research Laboratories, Norway) - The role of genome and gene regulatory network organization in polymorphism and sympatric speciation (28-09-2009)
• Klaus Reinhold (University of Bielefeld, Germany) - Two spotlights on the evolutionary ecology of variation: Selection and variation of sexual signals & how to exploit variation during foraging (11-05-2009)
• John McNamara (University of Bristol, UK) - Evolution in environments that vary in space and time (24-03-2009)
• Sonia Kéfi (University of Utrecht, NL) - Vegetation patchiness and indicators of desertification in arid ecosystems (09-02-2009)

2008

• Tom van Dooren (University of Leiden, NL) - Race against the machine: Comparing alternative responses to disruptive selection (05-11-2008)