SEMINARS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY 

Seminars take place every Tuesday from 3 to 4:30 PM. If allowed by presenters, the PDFs of talks will be shared later, but presentations will not be streamed live online (except when the Department of Zoology joins, as the large lecture room is out of order during the whole winter term). Note that locations of seminars vary.

If not specified otherwise, the primary language of all seminars is English.

For further information contact Tereza Petrusková (tereza.petruskova@natur.cuni.cz)

  • 30 September
    Department introduction (B2P lecture room)
  • 7 October
    Deidre Mattiske (University of Melbourne, Australia): Bringing Back the Past to Protect Our Future: Thylacine De-Extinction(with Depts. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
  • 14 October
    Piet Spaak     (SeeWandel project, Switzerland): The invasion of the Quagga Mussel (Dreissena bugensis) in Swiss lakes: its spread, consequences and possible control measures (with Dept. of Invertebrate zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
  • October 21
    Liran Samuni     (German Primate Center, Göttingen, Germany): What can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about the evolution of cooperation and conflict? (with Depts. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
  • 28 October
    State holiday
  • 4 November
    Presentations of 1st year MSc students     (B2P lecture room)
  • 13 – 14 November
    PhD Meeting – Presentations of 1st and 3rd year PhD students     (Kostelec nad Černými Lesy castle)
  • 11 November
    Tonia Schwartz & Daniel Warner     (Auburn University, USA): Using island populations of reptiles to study phenotypic plasticity and evolutionary divergence in morphology and reproduction (with Depts. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
  • 18 November
    UNCE     - seminar of the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics (with Depts. of Zoology and Botany; Krajinova lecture room, Benátská)
  • 25 November
    Presentations of 1st year MSc students     (B2P lecture room)
  • 2 December
    Aleš Buček     (Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice): Termites, their parasites and parasitoids - macroevolution and ecology (with Depts. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
  • 9 December
    Lucyna Halupka     (University of Wroclaw, Poland): Effects of climate change on birds (with Depts. of Zoology; Velká zoologická lecture room)
  • 16 December
    Department Christmas trip
  • 6 January
    Poster session – Presentation of 2nd year MSc students (location will be announced)

Seminar of the Centre for Biodiversity Dynamics - Winter Semester 2025
(presentation of “junior“ team members of UNCE SCI/006 and their research; joint seminar of the departments of Ecology, Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University)
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 3 to 4:30 PM
Krajinova lecture room, Benátská 2

  • Marie Altmanová (Dept. of Ecology): Asexual reproduction in reptiles: Origins, mechanisms and consequences
  • Adam Hastie (Dept. of Botany): Amazonian peatlands: the key to resolving the remaining imbalances in the Amazon carbon cycle
  • Ondřej Korábek (Dept. of Zoology): The mysteries of land snail snail mitogenomes
  • Jan Hošek (Centre for Theoretical Studies): Environmental and hydroclimatic change in the Eastern Sahel since the Late Pleistocene