Events at CCB

Thursday 19. April
Henrik Pärn and Thor Harald Ringsby will give a lecture about "The demographic consequences of introduction of house sparrow at Vikna". Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room.
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Wednesday 28. March
In relation to the project Evolvability of Allometry, C. Pélabon is organizing a workshop on allometry. During the first day of the workshop, results obtained the last two years will be presented to everyone interested in allometry in a series of seminar discussion. The workshop will be in the CCB room and there will be lots of time for discussion.
Preliminary schedule

List of participants: Jean Michel Gaillard, CNRS University of Lyon France; Carole Toigo ONC Grenoble France; Mathieu Garel ONC Grenoble France; Anne Loison CNRS Chambery France; Arnaud Le Rouzic CNRS France; Mihaela Pavlicev Vienna university Austria; Scott Armbruster Portsmouth, NTNU; Thomas F. Hansen UiO; Kjetil Voje UiO; Thomas Solvin UiO; Geir H. Bolstad, NTNU; Ivar Herfindal NTNU; Gunilla Rosenqvist NTNU; Camilla K. Egset, NTNU; Christophe Pélabon NTNU.
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Friday 16. March
Irja Ida Ratikainen will defend her PhD-thesis entitled "Foraging in a variable world: adaptions to stochasticity". The two opponents are Professor David Stephens, University of Minnesota, and dr. Melissa Bateson, Newcastle University. Irja will first give a trial lecture on the assigned topic "Theoretical and empirical approaches to studying foraging decisions: the past and future of behavioural ecology". The trial lecture is in room EL2 at 10:15, and the dissertation starts at 13:15 in auditorium R8.
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Thursday 15. March
The opponents at Irja Ida Ratikainen's PhD-defence will give guest lectures today. Dr. Melissa Bateson, will talk about "Anxiety: an evolutionary approach" at 14:15, and Prof. David Stephens will talk about "Why experience matters: reliability and uncertainty in the evolution of learning and plasticity" at 15:15. Both lectures will be in room R8.
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Tuesday 14. February
Prof. Donald Blomqvist, Department of  Zoology, Göteborg University, will give a talk on "At the brink of extinction. Population dynamics and genetics in a metapopulation of dunlins". Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room.
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Friday 10. February
Prof. Hans J. Skaug, Department of Mathematics, University of Bergen will give a talk on "A flexible framework for fitting mixed models in ecology." Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room.
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Tuesday 31. January
Post-doc. Edwige Bellier will give a talk about "Combining counts and incidence data : an efficient approach for estimating the species abundance distribution and diversity indices". Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room.
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Tuesday 17. January
Post-doc. Bernt Rønning will give a lecture about "What is basal metabolic rate, and what causes inter- and intra-individual variation in this metabolic trait?" Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room.
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Thursday 15. December
Dr. Francesca Cagnacci from the Research and Innovation Centre Edmund Mach Foundation will give a talk about "Migration in ungulates as a behavioural continuum: the case of roe deer". Time and place: 14:15 in auditorium R2.
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Tuesday 13. December
Jens Åström is visiting CCB and will give a talk entitled "The Big Picture from Small Landscapes - Investigations of Spatial Patterns and Processes using a Model Metacommunity". Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room (EU2-145).
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Tuesday 6. December
Jon Wright will inform us about "Correctly characterising phenotypes" at 12:00 in the CCB lunch room (EU2-145).
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Friday 2. December
Kari Bjørneraas will defend her PhD-thesis entitled "Spatiotemporal variation in resource utilisation by a large herbivore, the moose". The two opponents are dr. Jean-Michel Gaillard and Prof. Kjell Danell. Kari will first give a trial lecture on the assigned topic "Fitness consequences of resource use and selection: theoretical foundation and empirical evidence". The trial lecture is in room R9 at 10:15, and the dissertation starts at 13:15 in the same room.
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Thursday 1. December
The two oppontents at Kari Bjørneraas' PhD-defence will give talks today. At 14:15, Prof. Kjell Danell will talk about "The last war of Sweden: Killing the large predators". At 15:15, dr. Jean-Michel Gaillard will present "When demography meets the concepts of evolutionary ecology". Both talks will be in room R2.
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Friday 18. November (postphoned to December, more information to come)
Dr. Francesca Cagnacci, Research and Innovation Centre, Edmund Mach Foundation, Italy, will give a guest lecture entitled "Migration in ungulate as a behavioural continuum: the case of roe deer". Time: 14:00, place: the CCB lunch room (EU2-145).
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Tuesday 25. October
Rocio Perrez-Barales will give a seminar about: "The role of pollinators in the evolution of floral polymorphism"
Time 12.00
Place: EU2-145
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Tuesday 18. October
Prof. Anne Loison will give a lecture at 12:00 in the CCB lunch room: "Alternative reproductive trajectories according to longevity in an iteroparous mammal (chamois, Rupicapra pyrenaica)"
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4. October
Peter and Rosemary Grant are visiting CCB, and will give a lecture at 14:15 in auditorium R9. The title of the talk is "Evolution of Darwin's finches".
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Friday 23. September
Camilla Kalvatn Egset will today defend her PhD-thesis entitled "The evolvability of allometry: a case study". She will start by giving a trial lecture at 10:15 in auditorium R8, with the title "Scaling: Why is Animal Size so Important?". The public defence will take place at 13:15 in the same room.
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Thursday 22. September
The two opponents of Camilla Kalvatn Egset's defence will give guest lecture today. The topics are:
Prof. Fred Nijhout from Department of Biology Duke University (http://www.biology.duke.edu/nijhout/) on "The Developmental Physiology of Body Size in Insects" at 14:15 in R8, and
Prof. Trine Bilde from the Department of Biological Sciences Aahrus Unviersity (http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/trine.bilde@biology.au.dk): "Evolution of cooperation and inbreeding mating systems - insights from social spiders" at 15:15 in R8
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Monday 19. September
Today we will have two talks. DJ de Koning, SLU, Uppsala, Sweden, will talk about "From QTL to functional mutatuin in 257 easy and straightforward steps", and Tytt Vanhala, Forestry Comission, UK will talk about "How far can you hop? The case of forest hopping wood cricket. Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room (EU2-145).
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Tuesday 6. September
Prof. Steinar Engen will give a talk about "A quantitative approach to fluctuating r- and K-selection". Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room (EU2-145).
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28. August - 2. September
Ben Bolker will be visiting CCB in order to shed some light on the use of mixed models in ecological and evolutionary research. On Tuesday 30. August, Ben will give a general talk about analysing grouped data in ecology and evolution. On Wednesday 31. August, we will have a more informal seminar for the members of CCB, with more emphasis on specific questions relevant to research activity at CCB. In relation to the seminar, it would be relevant for the members to address questions for their own research. In order to organise this better, we ask you to send your questions about analysing grouped data to us as soon as possible. Well in advance of the seminar, we will then provide Ben Bolker with some "frequently asked questions" or "hot topics" that we find relevant for most CCB members, so that he can prepare for the seminar accordingly. More information about Ben Bolker can be found here.

Best regards

Henrik Pärn (henrik.parn@bio.ntnu.no)
Ivar Herfindal (ivar.herfindal@bio.ntnu.no)
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Monday 15 August
Today we have two guest lectures.
At 12:00 Professor Evelyn Merrill, University of Alberta will give a talk about "Where paths cross: functional response and movement models for wolves in heterogeneous landscapes". This will take place in the CCB lunch room (EU2-145).
At 14:00 in room DU2-150 (note: NOT the CCB lunch room) Professor Mark S. Boyce, University of Alberta, will talk about "Selection, occupancy and persistence".
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Tuesday 21. June
Master student Erik Blystad Solbue will give a master's thesis talk about "Temporal changes in parameters describing stochastic population dynamics". Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room.
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Thursday 5. May
Today Line Kristin Larsen will defend her thesis "Life-history trait dynamics in experimental populations of guppy (Poecilia reticulata): the role of breeding regime and captive environment". The test trial "Evolution of ageing" starts at 10.15 and the defense at 13.00. Both events will be located in El 2 (Gamle Elektro, 2. etg., rom G212).
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Tuesday 2. May
At 12:00 in the CCB lunch room: Anne Loison will give a lecture entitled "Coexistence of large herbivores in mountains at multiple scales".
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Thursday 28. April
Post-doc. Arild Husby (University of Uppsala) will give a morning lecture named "A role for phenotypic plasticity in changing microevolutionary rates?" Time and place: 09:00 in the CCB lunch room (EU2-145).
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Tuesday 12. April
Anna Marie Holand will give a presentation entitled "Animal models and integrated nested Laplace approximations". Time and place: 12:00 in the CCB lunch room.
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Friday 1. April
Aline M. Lee will defend her doctoral thesis entitled "Stochastic modelling of mating systems and their effect on population dynamics and genetics". The public defence will take place at 13.15 in R8, Realfagbygget. At 10.15 the same thay, Aline will give a trial lecture on the assigned topic "Multiple mating: evolutionary causes and consequences". The trial lecture will be given in auditorium R5.
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Thursday 31. March at 14:15 and 15:15 in R8
Professor Hanna Kokko (The Australia National University, Canberra) will give a guest lecture about: "Is Mother Nature shortsighted, and does it matter?"
At 15:15 Professor Olof Leimar (Stockholm University, Sweden) will talk about: "Feature saltation and the evolution of mimicry".
Hanna Kokko and Olof Leimar are the opponents at Aline M. Lee's PhD defence.
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Tuesday 22. March at 12:00 in the CCB lunch room (EU2-145)
Bente Graae will give a talk entitled: "Behaviour and Impact of introduced and native Impatiens"
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Tuesday 15. March at 12:00
research fellow Maritt Linnerud will talk about: "Taylor's temporal power law and interspecific differences in population dynamics of British bird populations"
Place: The CCB lunch room (EU2-145).
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Friday 11. February.
Geir H. Bolstad will defend his doctoral thesis entitled "Evolution of Signals: Genetic Architecture, Natural Selection and Adaptive Accuracy". The public defence will take place in 13.15 in R8, Realfagbygget. At 10.15 the same thay, Geir will give a trial lecture on the assigned topic "Inbreeding depression and the conservation of threatened species". The trial lecture will be given in auditorium EL2.
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Thursday 10. February.
The opponents for Geir Bolstad's dissertation will each give a seminar on Thursday the 10 February.
At 14.15 Jon Ågren from Uppsala University will give a talk on "The evolutionary ecology of plant adaptation". After that John Willis of Duke University will give a talk on "Genetic basis of adaptation and speciation in Mimulus". Both talks will be held in R8.
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Tuesday 8. February.
dr. Jenny Hagenblad will talk about "The Dead Seed Society and the evolution of crops in Scandinavia" at 12:00 in the CCB lunch room.
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Tuesday 14. December. 
Today we will celebrate christmas with a gathering at the Department of Biology library (DU2-150). We start at 16:00 with two short presentations about moose.
Hallvard Haanes will talk about "Genetic divsision between north and south indicates different routes of colonisation in Norwegeian moose".
As a follow-up on the topic of genetic differentiation in Norwegian moose, Ivar Herfindal will present "Moose body mass variation revisited - disentangling the effects of environmental conditions and genetic differentiation".
After the two presentations, dinner will be served together with some beverages. Please sign on for the food to Ingunn Yttersian.
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Tuesday 7. December at 12:00: dr. Bram Van Moorter will talk about: "Effects of the scale of spatial heterogeneity on animal habitat selection and distribution".
Place: The CCB lunch room (EU2-145).
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Friday 3. December: Yngvild Vindenes will defend her PhD-thesis entitled "Stochastic modeling of finite populations with individual heterogeneity in vital parameters". More information can be found here.
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Thursday 2. December at 14:15 in R8: Senior scientist Hal Caswell, Biology Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, will give a presentation: Beyond R₀: variability in lifetime reproductive output.
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Tuesday 30. November at 12:00:
Christophe Pelabon has been promoted Professor in Evolutionary Biology. We celebrate this with a talk by Professor Pelabon, entitled: "Adaptive accurracy and the adaptive landscape".
Place: The CCB lunch room (EU2-145)
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Thursday 25. November at 14:15 in R8: dr. Matti Leino, Swedish Museum of Cultural History, will give a talk: Preservation and exporation of cultivated plants in Sweden
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Wednesday 17. November at 14:15 in R3:
Prof. Alexandre Roulin (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) will give the lecture: "Signalling good genes: A good gene identified in the barn owl".
Prof. Roulin will visit CCB Tuesday 16th - Friday 19th. Please contact Henrik Jensen to book a meeting with Prof. Roulin.
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Tuesday 16. November at 12:00: post.doc Ditte Hendrichsen (NINA) will give a talk about "Zackenberg - ecosystem monitoring in High Arctic Greenland"
Place: The CCB lunch room (EU2-145)
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Tuesday 19. October at 12:00: Craig Jackson will talk about "Talking scents: using biologically relevant tools in the conservation of the endangered African wild dog"
Place: The CCB lunch room (EU2-145)

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Tuesday 12. October at 12:00: Thomas Kvalnes will talk about "Correlates of egg size variation in a population of house sparrow"
Place: The CCB lunch room (EU2-145)

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Tuesday 21. September at 12:00: Line Kristin Larsen will talk about "Evolution in an ecological context: Rapid juvenile growth is selected by parental cannibalism in the Guppy (Poecilia reticulata)"
Place: The CCB lunch room (EU2-145)

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Tuesday 14. September, NB! new room!:
We celebrate dr. Jarle Tufto's promotion as Professor with a talk by Prof. Tufto: "Spatial demography in continuous habitat: Estimating dispersal rate, longevity and population density from mark-recapture data".
Time and place: room D1 161/163 at 15:00.
This will also mark the start of the celebration of NTNU's 100 years anniversary, and snacks and beverages will be served. 
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Thursday 2. September at 14:15, Guest lecture: dr. Per Terje Smiseth, Institute of Evolutionary Biology, University of Edinburgh UK, will give a talk about "Parental care and family conflict in burying beetles"
Place: Auditorium R 8.
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Tuesday 1. June at 12:00, Prof David Houle will give a talk: "Measurement and meaning in biology"
Place: The CCB lunch room (EU2-145)
David Houle is professor at the Florida State University, Thalahassee. Read more here.
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Thursday 6. May at 12:00, Dr. Christophe Pélabon will give a talk about "A measurement theory perspective on allometry".
Note: Thursday 6. May 12:00 in the CCB-room.
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Monday 3. May at 12:00,
Dr. Charlie Cornwallis will give a talk about "Disentangling sexual behaviour to understand evolutionary patterns across populations and species". 

Time: Monday 3. May 11:00 

Place: CCB lunch room (EU2 145)

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Tuesday 27. April, Geir Hysing Bolstad will talk about "The effect of purging on orange colouration in guppies".
Time: Tuesday 27. April 12:00
Place: CCB lunch room (EU2 145)
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