Summer semester 2024-25.

Seminars take place in the Krajinova lecture hall (B14) at 3. p.m. Everybody is welcome. We expect all master and PhD students to take part.Guests welcome!

18. 2. Flash presentations   Zdeněk Kaplan, Ondřej Koukol, Jitka Klimešová, Petr Kuneš, Jiří Neustupa
25. 2. Leticia Botella Sánchez Department of Forest Protection and Wildlife Management, Mendel University, Brno Biological control of emerging forest fungal diseases
4. 3. Jalil Noroozi Department of Botany and Biodiversity Research, University of Vienna The alpine flora and vegetation of high mountains of the Iranian Plateau
11. 3. Milan Chytrý Vegetation Ecology Group, Masaryk University, Brno Vegetation databases and their use in biodiversity research
18. 3. Monika Janišová Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Science Historical (traditional) grassland management in the Carpathian Mountains
25. 3. Poster session    
1. 4. Ph.D. students seminar   Veronika Kantnerová: Understanding the mechanisms behind the formation of lichen symbiotic association; Petr Knotek: Evolutionary history of the genus Mallomonas (Chrysophyceae); Yu Cheng: Thermal effects on the origin and establishment of polyploids
8. 4. Kateřina Kopalová & Petr Jan Juračka Department of Ecology Antarctica: Looking for diatoms with one crazy photographer
15. 4. UNCE seminar (Velká Zoologická lecture hall, Viničná 7)   Stephen Schlebusch (Dept. of Zoology): Evolution of the germline-restricted chromosome in closely related songbirds; Rebeka Rmoutilová (Dept. of Anthropology and Human Genetics): Morphology of Neandertals and early modern humans; Lenka Procházková (Dept. of Ecology): Glacier ice and snow algae: ecophysiology and biodiversity; Lenka Dvořáková (Institute for Environmental Studies): Bird biodiversity conservation in non-forest woody vegetation of Central Europe
22. 4. Jörn Gerchen Department of Botany, Charles University Sex chromosome evolution in the plant genus Mercurialis
29. 4. Petr Sklenář Department of Botany, Charles University Tropical alpine plant life. Functional plant ecology of high mountain ecosystems
6. 5. Rodrigo Cámara Leret Institut für Systematische und Evolutionäre Botanik, Universität Zürich Cultural dimensions of biodiversity
13. 5. Ph.D. students seminar   Chonour Mahmoudi: Ecology and evolution of clonal growth forms of the vascular flora across biodiversity hotspots in Iran, with particular reference to Lamiaceae; Martin Freudenfeld: Sources of variation in pollen transferred on pollinator bodies; Sonia Kadyan: Diversification in clonal and nonclonal species; Gang Yang: Effect of drought on plant-soil interactions