Eco-Evolutionary Seminar and EES Colloquium 2025/26

Ecological seminar and EES Colloquium series of talks for internal and external speakers.

Song Thrush (Turdus philomelos)

Image: Holger Schielzeth

The Eco-Evolutionary Seminar (ES) features talks from our Population Ecology Group. The EES Colloquium (EES) is organized jointly by the research groups of the Institute of Biodiveristy, Ecology and Evolution de and usually hosts external guest speakers. Both lecture seriers take the same time slot on Wednesdays at 14:15h and alternate biweekly. Talks of the Eco-Evolutionary Seminar are held in room R501 Dornburger Str. 159 and for the EES Colloquium in the lecture hall "Am Planetarium 1".

Date	Speaker	Title
15/10/2025 (ES)	Maximilian Bröcher (Population Ecology)	Plant diversity increases temporal persistence in arthropod communities
22/10/2025 (EES)	Franziska Merle WillemsExternal link (Marburg University)	From pressed petals to present fields and forests: How climate and land use shape flowering time
29/10/2025 (ES)	Lilian Cabon (Population Ecology)	Green-brown polymorphic grasshoppers: Do they choose patches of their own colour?
05/11/2025 (EES)	Andreas Schmidt-RhaesaExternal link (University of Hamburg)	Priapulida - new data from an old phylum
12/11/2025 (ES)	Elio Castillo (Population Ecology)	Karyotype dynamics and bidiversity of European grasshoppers
19/11/2025 (EES)	Rudolf MeierExternal link (Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin)	Digitally native species discovery: Tackling insect diversity with robots, megabarcoding, and artificial intelligence
26/11/2025 (ES)	Xinyi Cheng (Population Ecology)	Exploring the mechanism of coloration underlying the green-brown polymorphism in grasshoppers
03/12/2025 (EES)	Julia BechtelerExternal link (FSU Jena)	Tough performers - Biodiversity, evolution and ecology of drought and desiccation tolerant land plants
10/12/2025 (ES)	Gabe Winter (Population Ecology)	Individual stability of microbiomes in vertebrates: a meta-analysis
17/12/2025 (EES)	Tba	Tba
07/01/2026 (ES)	Chongyi Jiang (Population Ecology)	Tba
14/01/2026 (EES)	Benoit NabholzExternal link (University of Montpellier)	What drives genome size evolution in animals? Transposable elements, genetic drift, and many open questions
21/01/2026 (ES)	Benjamin Wildermuth (Population Ecology)	Contrasting effects of changes in arthropod community composition on associated biomass across gradients of plants species richness and land-use intensity
28/01/2026 (EES)	Martin HusemannExternal link (Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe)	Evolution of band-winged grasshoppers: world-wide case studies
04/02/2026 (ES)	Walter Espindola (Population Ecology)	Plant species richness strengthens temporal stability in arthropod communities, herbivory and predation