The Hilgendorf lecture series aims at promoting evolutionary thinking across our university by inviting internationally highly regarded scientists. We expect to attract broadly interested academics from advanced students up to professors from various fields, also outside the natural sciences.

The lecture series is financed by a grant from the Volkswagen Foundation which was awarded to EvE in the context of the university contest "Curriculum Evolutionary Biology"

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The series is named after Franz M. Hilgendorf (1834-1904), a palaeontologist from Tuebingen who, in 1863, constructed the first phylogenetic tree of fossil organisms using snail shells. He thus provided the first fossil proof of gradual evolution and speciation as proposed by Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Talks will take place at the Institute for Geoscience, Hölderlinstr. 12, lecture hall S320 at 18:15.   Get-together with coffee and tea from 17:30.

 

Upcoming talks:

Prof Dr Jens Krause, Leibniz-Inst. Freshwater Ecol & Inland Fisheries Berlin
Collective Behaviour and Swarm Intelligence
Mon, 14 May 2012, 18:15 

Prof Dr Paul Brakefield, Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge
TBA (evolutionary developmental biology)
Mon, 25 June 2012, 18:15

Dr Nicole Dubilier, MPI Marine Microbiology, Bremen
TBA (symbionts of marine invertebrates)
Mon, 09 July 2012, 18:15

 

Previous talks:

Prof Dr Andrei Lupas, MPI Developmental Biology Tuebingen
The origin of folded proteins
23 April 2012 

Prof Dr Bill Rice, University of California (Santa Barbara)
A new form of intragenomic conflict between sex chromosomes
23 January 2012

Prof. Dr Helmut Segner, University of Bern
Why has ecotoxicology left no mark in ecology? A personal view
16 January 2012

Prof. Dr. David Lordkipanidze (General Director of the Georgian National Museum) 
The hominins of Dmanisi and the earliest peopling of Eurasia 
2 December 2011 (Meeting StEvE) 

Dr Michael Herdy, INPRO Berlin (Innovationsgesellchaft für fortgeschrittene Produktionssysteme in der Fahrzeugindustrie mbH)
Optimization of industrial processes using principles of evolution
28 November 2011

Prof Dr Hans-Dieter Sues, National Museum of Natural History, Washington, US
The end-Triassic Mass Extinction in Continental Ecosystems
20 June 2011

Prof Dr Janis Antonovics, University of Virginia, US 
Linnaeus, Darwin and the Germ Theory of Disease 
23 May 2011

Prof Dr Paul Koch, University of Santa Cruz, US
The Rise and Fall of Elephant Seal Breeding Colonies on Antarctica: Insights from Fossil Record
02 May 2011

Prof Dr Francesco d'Errico, University of Bordeaux, France
When and how did humans became behaviourally modern?
10 January 2011

Prof Dr Madelaine Böhme, University of Tübingen, Germany
The late middle Miocene vertebrate fauna of Gratkorn - an exceptional fossil locality 
06 December 2010

Prof Dr Jeff Ollerton, University of Northampton, UK
The biodiversity of plant-pollinator interactions: an overview of research 1990-210
25 November 2010 (Meeting Steve)

Prof Dr Katharina Foerster, University Tübingen, Germany
Understanding evolution: The power of long-term field data
08 November 2010

Prof Dr Dieter Ebert, University of Basel, Switzerland
Antagonistic coevolution
4 June 2010

Prof Dr Eörs Szathmary, Collegium Budapest, Hungary
The origin of the genetic code
17 May 2010

Prof Dr Ran Nathan, University of Jerusalem, Israel
An emerging movement ecology paradigm
03 May 2010

Prof Dr Thomas Cavalier-Smith, University of Oxford, UK
The eukaryote tree: deep phylogeny and the evolution of protist body plans
08 February 2010

Prof Dr Duncan Irschick, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, US
The evolution of animal performance: from microevolution to macroevolution
18 January 2010

Prof Dr Bill Hansson, MPI Cemical Ecology Jena, Germany
Olfactory Evolution
03 December 2009 (Meeting StEvE)

Prof Dr Tad Kawecki, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Evolutionary biology of learning: insights from Drosophila
09 November 2009

Prof Dr Mike Benton, Bristol University, UK 
New Methods of Studying Dinosaurian Radiation and Success
29 June 2009

Prof Dr Russel Gray, University of Auckland, New Zealand 
The Pleasures and Perils of Darwinising Culture
15 June 2009

Prof Dr Nicholas Conard, Tübingen University, Germany
A female figurine from the basal Aurignacian of Hohle Fels Cave in southwest Germany
25 May 2009

Prof Dr Joan Roughgarden, Stanford University, US
Reproductive Social Behavior: Old and New Evolutionary Theories
04 May 2009

Prof Dr Franjo Weissing, University of Groningen, Netherlands
The Evolution of animal personality
02 February 2009

Prof Dr. Volker Loeschcke, University of Arhus, Denmark
Thermal adaptation and environmental stress: from selection experiments to gene expression studies and field releases
12 January 2009

Dr Hans Breeuwer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Evolutionary consequences of reproductive parasites in spider mites
28 November 2008 (Meeting StEvE)

Prof Dr Laurent Keller, Universtiy of Lausanne, Switzerland
Behaviour, the role of interactions between genes and social environment
27 October 2008