tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5238861302504049082024-03-27T06:38:08.444+00:00BioTalks@Swansealuca borgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606889211932191718noreply@blogger.comBlogger256125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-10508093950073618432021-11-16T14:53:00.006+00:002021-11-23T13:45:43.658+00:00BioMaths Colloquium 01/12/2021<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><h3 style="color: #222222; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">BioMaths Colloquium Series - 2021/22</span></h3><h3 style="color: #222222; margin: 0px; position: relative;"> </h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">01 December 2021 - </span><span style="color: #cc0000;">4pm</span></span></h3><h3 style="color: #222222; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="color: #222222; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Online only - Zoom link: <a href="https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYkd-uprz0jGdKrH2iz3Kg2JyuGvRGY-7bh ">register here</a>)</span></h3><div style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; position: relative;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;">Insights from mathematical models of spheroids for drug uptake & cancer spread</span></h2><h3 style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/mathematical-sciences/staff/rachel-bearon/" style="color: #888888;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Professor Rachel Bearon</span></span></a></span></span></h3></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 18px;"><h3 style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><u><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span></u></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">(</span><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span><a href="https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/mathematical-sciences/"><span face="arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif">Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Liverpool</span></a></span></span></span></u><u style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span><span>)</span></span></u></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKBRTWcfzIpgQerFWXV-PR6L95UasEgkNfFd3Thj_bgPpozkvxG5LykufHZXoG9yul-qdM-iUnv7ECgrOeSj5liwtHlija2DrJgvZsbrxjicE4tiKoSDF_2pF2T5WKb9KOP5jaR0flh3aJBClSSQctTQAPwSyUYRICmwcz6PbfBkmcdihCuzHwJlpp=s1498" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1498" data-original-width="1498" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjKBRTWcfzIpgQerFWXV-PR6L95UasEgkNfFd3Thj_bgPpozkvxG5LykufHZXoG9yul-qdM-iUnv7ECgrOeSj5liwtHlija2DrJgvZsbrxjicE4tiKoSDF_2pF2T5WKb9KOP5jaR0flh3aJBClSSQctTQAPwSyUYRICmwcz6PbfBkmcdihCuzHwJlpp=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #222222;">Our BioMaths Colloquium Series continues with </span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">a seminar by </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Professor Rachel Bearon</b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;"><b> </b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">from the Department of Mathematical Sciences</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> at the University of Liverpool. Rachel Bearon is Head of Department and member of the mathematical biology research group. She has extensive experience of developing models bridging spatial and temporal scales to make biological predictions concerning the movement of cells within complex environments, and applying mathematics to health challenges. Furthermore, she has significant expertise working directly with experimental biologists to develop novel frameworks for processing and integrating imaging data. Her PhD studying bacterial chemotaxis in biological fluid dynamics (Prof Tim Pedley, University of Cambridge) was followed by postdoctoral research into the spatial-temporal dynamics of motile phytoplankton cells in turbulent environments (working with Prof Danny Grunbaum, University of Washington). From her appointment as Lecturer in 2005 at UoL she has developed a track record of productive collaborations with biologists. Rachel applies and develops mathematics to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of a wide range of biological systems across multiple scales, ranging from bacterial chemotaxis, cancer cell motility and phytoplankton in turbulence, to modelling cell-signalling pathways, intracellular protein dynamics and drug transport.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Abstract</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mathematical models can aid discovery in the life sciences, by providing predictive tools, and allowing efficient testing of ‘what-if’ scenarios. However, identifying the ‘right’ model, and suitably parameterizing it, is a challenging task which mathematicians are well-placed to contribute. I will discuss two projects based upon an experiments on 3D spheroid cell culture systems [1,2]. Cells cultured in such system have been shown to more closely resemble the functionality and morphology of cells in-vivo, and so there is increasing interest in using these systems for example in drug toxicity studies and for better understanding cancer metastasis.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">[1] Leedale, J. A., Kyffin, J., Harding, A., Colley, H., Murdoch, C., Sharma, P., Williams, D., Webb, S. & Bearon, R. (2020). Multiscale modelling of drug transport and metabolism in liver spheroids. Interface Focus, 10(2). doi:10.1098/rsfs.2019.0041</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">[2] Scott, M., Zychaluk, K. & Bearon, R. (2021) A mathematical framework for modelling 3D cell motility; applications to Glioblastoma cell migration. Mathematical Medicine and Biology, 38(3) doi.org/10.1093/imammb/dqab009</div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #222222;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.48px;">Hope to see many of you!</span></div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #222222;">For the list of forthcoming seminars, see </span><a href="https://biomaths.swansea.ac.uk/colloquium/"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></span></div></div>Noemi Piccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17935159672554317476noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-17171519009427428722021-10-23T07:46:00.003+01:002021-11-16T14:58:55.686+00:00BioMaths Colloquium 03/11/2021<p> </p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">BioMaths Colloquium Series - 2021/22</span></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"> </h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: large;">03 November 2021 - 3pm Singleton Campus & on Zoom</span></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Wallace 218, Singleton Campus, Zoom link: <a href="https://swanseauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqcOmgpz0uE9cwTNQ1RsoN5s-ufnCWG8qA">register here</a>)</span></h3><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; position: relative;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;">Using molecular modelling to answer a variety of biological questions</span></h2><h3 style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/2045274-menzies-georgina" style="color: #888888;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dr Georgina Menzies</span></span></a></span></span></h3></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 18px;"><h3 style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><u><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span></u></h3><h3 style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u><span>(</span><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span><a href="https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/biosciences">School of Biosciences, Cardiff University</a></span></span></span></u><u><span><span>)</span></span></u></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1j7cE_dC4Lucyqan9JSE4WjlijkDZ1NMsD9r7-1QlyB0a-7lQL_LSJOcWKMEfWD7kKWWWU50nsx81ypXxINp0lEGekKC9Z2SOjHIEUZVNsOu9d6SRX-P1FvtbenYujl9CoVUQxFri1czfz8qT5huiizHBLxS6qBKv-meBVDIfWonzEQwO9dZCD66V=s214" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="150" data-original-width="214" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1j7cE_dC4Lucyqan9JSE4WjlijkDZ1NMsD9r7-1QlyB0a-7lQL_LSJOcWKMEfWD7kKWWWU50nsx81ypXxINp0lEGekKC9Z2SOjHIEUZVNsOu9d6SRX-P1FvtbenYujl9CoVUQxFri1czfz8qT5huiizHBLxS6qBKv-meBVDIfWonzEQwO9dZCD66V" width="214" /></a></div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #222222;">Our BioMaths Colloquium Series continues with </span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">a seminar by </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Dr. Georgina Menzies</b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 255); color: blue;"><b> </b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">from the School of Biosciences</span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> at Cardiff University. </span>Georgina gained her BSc(Hons) in Forensic Science from the University of Glamorgan, studied for a MSc in Molecular Modelling from Cardiff University and for her PhD focused on the structure of DNA in cancer hotspot sites at Swansea University. After a Ser Cymru II fellowship to study the functional outcomes of dementia genetics, she took up a lectureship at the School of Biosciences in Cardiff University.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her main research interests involve studying DNA repair pathways and in particular the protein and DNA structural interactions using molecular modelling techniques. She also collaborates with a number of other researchers and research groups to provide structural and functional information for their biological structure of interest. This ranges from drugs to anti-boides and proteins. Most of her research involves modelling techniques including molecular dynamics, coarse grain and mathematical modelling.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">Abstract</span></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(39, 78, 19);">TBA</span></span></div><div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #222222;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.48px;">Hope to see many of you!</span></div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #222222;">For the list of forthcoming seminars, see </span><a href="http://swantalks.blogspot.com/p/swansea-biology-mathematics-meetings.html"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></span></div></div>Noemi Piccohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17935159672554317476noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-6047728382420294122021-10-06T13:08:00.000+01:002021-10-06T13:08:12.810+01:00Biomath Colloquium 06/10/2021<p> </p><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">BioMaths Colloquium Series - 2021/22</span></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"> </h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: large;">06 October 2021 - 3pm Bay Campus & on Zoom</span></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;">(Lecture Theatre 002, Computational Foundry, Bay Campus)</span></h3><div style="font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; position: relative;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: x-large;">Modelling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales</span></h2><h3 style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/science/maths/lucini-b/" style="color: #888888;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: large;">Prof Biagio Lucini</span></span></a></span></span></h3></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 18px;"><h3 style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><u><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span></u></h3><h3 style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-size: small;"><u style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: blue;">(</span><span style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue; text-decoration-line: none;"><a href="https://www.swansea.ac.uk/maths/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: blue;">Department of Mathematics</span></a></span></span></u><u><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #222222;">, </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.swansea.ac.uk/"><span style="color: blue;">Swansea</span> <span style="color: blue;">University</span></a></span><span style="color: #222222;">)</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span></span></u></span></h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Sjql0MF2JqeUuO-plurb12TDVMfhKHKrh6_GBnbirePfTXGxxtZaY78XeHiSyDEDLEe2EZF7VTWKLE0ohyphenhyphenDCAJ5ruwtAzgyAkbCw3y_9aT7qjMfapAvn3DfNVMSiaACZSDuxo8FPSroX/s1600/Coronavirus_3D_illustration_by_CDC_1600x900.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1600" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0Sjql0MF2JqeUuO-plurb12TDVMfhKHKrh6_GBnbirePfTXGxxtZaY78XeHiSyDEDLEe2EZF7VTWKLE0ohyphenhyphenDCAJ5ruwtAzgyAkbCw3y_9aT7qjMfapAvn3DfNVMSiaACZSDuxo8FPSroX/w400-h225/Coronavirus_3D_illustration_by_CDC_1600x900.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="color: #222222;">We are extremely excited that our BioMaths Colloquium Series resumes after a Covid-19-induced break, with a fantastic set of speakers (see <a href="Biagio Lucini took his Ph.D. from Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy) in 2000. He then moved to Oxford University with a postdoctoral fellowship in the Theoretical Physics Department, before becoming Marie Curie Fellow in the same institution. After taking a postdoctoral position at ETH Zurich from October 2003 to September 2005, he returned to the UK with a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, held at Swansea University, his current institution, where he became Professor in 2011. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and currently holds a Wolfson Research Merit Award and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. His main research interests are in Monte Carlo calculations in complex systems with applications to Particle Physics and Statistical Mechanics. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, he began to explore applications of these methodologies to modelling of infectious diseases. On this subject, as a member of an interdisciplinary team including epidemiologists, computer science researchers and research software engineers at the Supercomputing Wales project, he has developed a model that produces dynamical scenarios for the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemics in Wales. Results from this modelling effort have informed and keep informing policies of the Welsh Government. ">here</a>) and will today be opened for the winter term with </span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">a seminar by </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: blue;"><b>Prof Biagio Lucini </b></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222;">from the </span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="https://www.swansea.ac.uk/maths/" style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Department of Mathematics</b></span></a> at Swansea University. Biagio Lucini took his Ph.D. from Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy) in 2000. He then moved to Oxford University with a postdoctoral fellowship in the Theoretical Physics Department, before becoming Marie Curie Fellow in the same institution. After taking a postdoctoral position at ETH Zurich from October 2003 to September 2005, he returned to the UK with a Royal Society University Research Fellowship, held at Swansea University, his current institution, where he became Professor in 2011. He is a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales and currently holds a Wolfson Research Merit Award and a Leverhulme Research Fellowship. His main research interests are in Monte Carlo calculations in complex systems with applications to Particle Physics and Statistical Mechanics. In the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, he began to explore applications of these methodologies to modelling of infectious diseases. On this subject, as a member of an interdisciplinary team including epidemiologists, computer science researchers and research software engineers at the Supercomputing Wales project, he has developed a model that produces dynamical scenarios for the evolution of the COVID-19 epidemics in Wales. Results from this modelling effort have informed and keep informing policies of the Welsh Government.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #274e13;">Abstract</span></div></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #274e13;">The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in huge strains on various aspects of our life. In Wales, the need to understand, adapt and respond to the evolving situation has generated unprecedented challenges for the devolved health policies. As a first urgent response, the Technical Advisory Cell was created, which identified modelling as a high priority. This request led to the formation of the Swansea Modelling Team, a multidisciplinary team of Epidemiologists, Mathematicians, Biologists, Computer Scientists and Research Software Engineers. Through numerical simulations that produce likely scenarios under evolving conditions, this modelling effort has been the main forward-looking input that has informed and keeps informing government policies and containment measures. In this talk, I will tell the tales on how the team got together and produced the earliest set of scenarios. Then, I will provide an overview of the underlying mathematical and computational methods and discuss the key results and findings. Finally, I will give an overview of the challenges moving towards future possible scenarios for the evolution of the pandemic.</span><span style="color: #274e13;"> </span></div><div><div><br /></div><div></div><div><br /><br /></div></div><div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><div style="color: #222222;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.48px;">Hope to see many of you!</span></div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="line-height: 18.48px;"><span style="color: #222222;">For the list of forthcoming seminars, see </span><a href="http://swantalks.blogspot.com/p/swansea-biology-mathematics-meetings.html"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a></span></div></div>luca borgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606889211932191718noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-76756746647214305172021-01-18T10:34:00.003+00:002021-01-18T10:34:40.692+00:00Wallace Coffee Talks - 26th January 2021<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wallace Coffee Talks - Winter 2021</span></b></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>26th January -</b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b> 1pm - Online (Zoom)</b></span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span>Fancy a cup of coffee or tea and learning more about the researchers at Swansea university and beyond? Come join us at the Wallace coffee talks: an informal seminar series where students, staff and others related to Swansea university speak about their research or personal interests.</span></span><br /><br /><div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b><a href="https://www.popecol.org/team/dominik-behr/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #888888;">Dominik Behr</span></a><span style="color: #888888;"> - University of Zurich </span></b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Quantifying multistate mortality with incomplete records: A case study of the endangered African wild dog </b></span></span><br /><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Mortality
is a key demographic process in ecology and unbiased estimation thereof is
paramount to understand and predict population dynamics. Studying mortality in
wild animal populations, however, is often impeded by incomplete records such
as, for instance, missing time of death of individuals that disappeared under unknown
circumstances. In this talk, I will introduce a Bayesian framework to estimate
mortality with incomplete records and present an application to a long-term
dataset on the endangered African wild dog (<i>Lycaon pictus</i>). Our findings
show that mortality during dispersal was lower than at philopatry in wild dogs
of either sex. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="Essay"><div class="Essay"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="Essay" style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQiGpDLHIuiMmRB7B8X5V5RdPYDwd0ed-OF73KTGw_2fGHdsahdxCTtnkz800KFdnv5hx9NQeZjmqtYiJ4P3U5RbiSR2KON8sxpC0n8eNC0rpeVut6ux7wTjMDWMjUZxNMpibyX51f-T5A/s2048/dominik+behr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2048" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQiGpDLHIuiMmRB7B8X5V5RdPYDwd0ed-OF73KTGw_2fGHdsahdxCTtnkz800KFdnv5hx9NQeZjmqtYiJ4P3U5RbiSR2KON8sxpC0n8eNC0rpeVut6ux7wTjMDWMjUZxNMpibyX51f-T5A/w455-h304/dominik+behr.jpg" width="455" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://twitter.com/dobehr" target="_blank">@dobehr</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">More information about Dominik's research project on African wild dogs can be found here:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.popecol.org%2Fresearch%2Fafrican-wild-dog-dispersal-and-demography%2F&data=04%7C01%7C787346%40swansea.ac.uk%7Cec9707a8a8164fea317b08d8bb975eed%7Cbbcab52e9fbe43d6a2f39f66c43df268%7C0%7C0%7C637465606117492236%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=KvFcXEl0Y3T3upPShyDLd7q3ajXqjxK%2BGaHhS6G4ZxY%3D&reserved=0" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; text-align: center;">http://www.popecol.org/research/african-wild-dog-dispersal-and-demography/</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>jess minetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007620338003859391noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-91047311528584125662020-12-01T15:10:00.003+00:002020-12-01T15:10:48.688+00:00Wallace Coffee Talks - 8th December 2020<p style="text-align: right;"><br /></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13.2px;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wallace Coffee Talks - Autumn 2020</span></b></span></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>1st December -</b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b> 2pm - Online (Zoom)</b></span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span>Fancy a cup of coffee or tea and learning more about the researchers at Swansea university? Come join us at the Wallace coffee talks: an informal seminar series where students, staff and others related to Swansea university speak about their research or personal interests.</span></span><br /><br /><div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Rowan Durrant</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Modelling a transmissible cancer epidemic </b></span></span><br /><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Devil facial tumour disease (DFTD) is a transmissible cancer
of Tasmanian devils. Despite only being first observed in 1996, DFTD has now
spread over most of the island of Tasmania and has caused devil population
sizes to decline by up to 90%. Models of disease can be useful tools for
predicting disease trajectory and evaluate mitigation strategies, but currently
most models of DFTD are restricted to the local spatial scale. We created an
individual-based metapopulation model that allowed us to investigate what
drives a regional outbreak, and to test out a potential DFTD management method.
Our findings show that DFTD-devil coexistence lies in a fine balance of
within-population mixing, disease transmission rates and long-distance
dispersal, and that DFTD management attempts can have potentially adverse outcomes
for devil populations.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="Essay"><div class="Essay"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="Essay" style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQlTflFvS_gMiW0G-a6Qs7e85KP4XaXzWekUm3hSVovyDnKhqeYLt6qpbzUJzTkl52pqhPetPIKFQriun0G63tRZWun0g4xcd_qKQKEWHzI3j0lXxBUKwMvqhXPVB68EmoeGVY5_JiUdnr/s661/Rowan+Durrant.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="535" data-original-width="661" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQlTflFvS_gMiW0G-a6Qs7e85KP4XaXzWekUm3hSVovyDnKhqeYLt6qpbzUJzTkl52pqhPetPIKFQriun0G63tRZWun0g4xcd_qKQKEWHzI3j0lXxBUKwMvqhXPVB68EmoeGVY5_JiUdnr/w301-h244/Rowan+Durrant.PNG" width="301" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://twitter.com/RowanGDurrant " target="_blank">@RowanGDurrant</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Charlotte Christensen </b></span></span></div><div><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Quantifying grooming budgets in wild chacma baboons (<i>Papio ursinus</i>) using tri-axial accelerometers</b></span></div><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Non-human
primates spend a considerable part of their day grooming. These sociopositive
interactions have been linked to both social benefits (increased tolerance,
coalition support) and physiological benefits, e.g. lower physiological stress
levels through modulation of hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis
activity. Accurately quantifying the total time invested in grooming
simultaneously for multiple individuals in a group, throughout day- and
night-time is an impossible task for a human observer. For my PhD, I used
tri-axial accelerometers (Daily Diaries) </span>which recorded data
continuously for 24 hours/day to obtain grooming budgets from chacma
baboons (<i>Papio ursinus</i>). Using machine learning (random forest models),
receiving and giving of grooming was identified with high accuracy (>79%)
and recall (>78%). Whilst self-grooming has been identified from
acceleration data in other species, this is the first-time social grooming
(allogrooming) has been successfully identified and quantified for a primate
species. Using absolute grooming budgets in combination with non-invasive
hormone sampling, I aim to test hypotheses on the proximate mechanisms underpinning
the link between sociality and HPA-axis activity. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCOvLwXkgr6UAIY9Xdc7Qb-IfYCyfZv6hb3d1P8DoaeDd8hz8HAm9BxWVZ8aJwoPNxYCdHYSe_hNc4lUQLIWQgrRTVDUMpyBKTM-b3s2QdEh6s20K8Dcg48nUzo1t19MmHqF1TV7gAVH28/s3390/TwoBabsGrooming_ACC_charlotte.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="3390" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCOvLwXkgr6UAIY9Xdc7Qb-IfYCyfZv6hb3d1P8DoaeDd8hz8HAm9BxWVZ8aJwoPNxYCdHYSe_hNc4lUQLIWQgrRTVDUMpyBKTM-b3s2QdEh6s20K8Dcg48nUzo1t19MmHqF1TV7gAVH28/w608-h165/TwoBabsGrooming_ACC_charlotte.jpg" width="608" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>jess minetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007620338003859391noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-82000835468592723572020-11-20T16:48:00.002+00:002020-11-20T16:48:44.778+00:00Wallace Coffee Talks - 1st December 2020<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wallace Coffee Talks - Autumn 2020</span></b></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>1st December -</b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b> 12pm - Online (Zoom)</b></span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span>Fancy a cup of coffee or tea and learning more about the researchers at Swansea university? Come join us at the Wallace coffee talks: an informal seminar series where students, staff and others related to Swansea university speak about their research or personal interests.</span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Nathan Thomas</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>The basic biology and biotechnology applications of the photosynthetic flatworm <i>Symsagittifera roscoffensis </i></b></span></span><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #201f1e; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><i><span lang="EN-US">Symsagittifera
roscoffensis </span></i><span lang="EN-US">or more commonly known as the mint source worm, is
an Acoel in the phylum Xenacoelomorpha (previously Platyhelminthes). </span><i><span lang="EN-US">Symsagittifera roscoffensis </span></i><span lang="EN-US">gets its common name
due to its vivid green colour, this colour is a result of symbiosis with the
algae </span><i><span lang="EN-US">Tetraselmis Convoluta</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. Symbiosis
means that all of the nutritional needs of these organisms are met by the
photosynthetic activity of the algae. While <i>S. roscoffensis </i>are present at
multiple locations within Europe, they only occur at one location within the
UK. The scientific literature is sparse on key details that allow us to fully
understand these organisms. My PhD focuses on understanding the basic biology,
symbiotic interactions and behavioral aspects of these worms. Join me for this
coffee talk where we will discuss the key research topics of my PhD and some
preliminary data.</span> </span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="Essay"><div class="Essay"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="Essay" style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9s7om0GkFrUt3jbyksTQKXKcUQ772kcemPcNVweFLxq33uCSasdvB6TcbhD2TvChiIsOpt3abG_nM_XQZx0ZM01QjftwkJmDIpIpt55hn1Jrbj31TWqaUaFRql9FAff-teyRWCU_KiGAl/s916/nathan.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="331" data-original-width="916" height="197" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9s7om0GkFrUt3jbyksTQKXKcUQ772kcemPcNVweFLxq33uCSasdvB6TcbhD2TvChiIsOpt3abG_nM_XQZx0ZM01QjftwkJmDIpIpt55hn1Jrbj31TWqaUaFRql9FAff-teyRWCU_KiGAl/w543-h197/nathan.png" width="543" /></a></div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><br /></div><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Hywel Evans </b></span></span></div><div><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Fungal functional traits: their structure and role in ecological processes </b></span></div><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Fungi
are critical components of terrestrial ecosystems. They recycle nutrients, create
habitats, support plant communities, provide food for a wide variety of
invertebrates and vertebrates and act as catalysts for Carbon and Nitrogen
cycles. Fungi are ubiquitous in nature, but large parts of their life histories
are unseen and difficult to quantify. The occasional fruiting body of some
fungi alerts us to their presence, but the largest part of a fungus is the
network of microscopic filaments called hyphae which it uses to burrow into its
substrate. Advancements in molecular biology and high-throughput sequencing,
has allowed us to study fungi in more detail, but due to their enormous
diversity and often-large intra-specific variation, this still comes with its
own set of challenges. Functional trait ecology can help us overcome some of
these challenges. Functional trait ecology aims to examine characteristics,
rather than individual species to help us better understand the fungal
community. This approach is already prevalent in plant ecology, but for fungi
it is still in its infancy. My research will consist of a meta-analysis of fungal
functional traits, specifically looking at functional traits in the wood
decomposing basidiomycetes, helping us to understand patterns in species
assembly in wood decay communities and relationships between key traits. </span></div></div><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBftihsDUpbNdA28u8lx1Oc_CqgWvKRaP_-OIHdrg0XQR7bkH1wMud0tmKr95GOy24GQdwt8C84jUy-MwGi3ZMn7BhT6JkRcZmwpdxvddfh9TlpHaZbKVPtPD8gWhht1KGWXagJ0r7qsU/s957/hwyle.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="957" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUBftihsDUpbNdA28u8lx1Oc_CqgWvKRaP_-OIHdrg0XQR7bkH1wMud0tmKr95GOy24GQdwt8C84jUy-MwGi3ZMn7BhT6JkRcZmwpdxvddfh9TlpHaZbKVPtPD8gWhht1KGWXagJ0r7qsU/w547-h395/hwyle.png" width="547" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>jess minetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007620338003859391noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-50447834989922064892020-10-26T09:45:00.002+00:002020-11-04T08:38:34.288+00:00Wallace Coffee Talks - 3rd November 2020<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wallace Coffee Talks - Autumn 2020</span></b></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>3rd November</b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>- 12pm - Online (Zoom)</b></span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span>Fancy a cup of coffee or tea and learning more about the researchers at Swansea university? Come join us at the Wallace coffee talks: an informal seminar series where students, staff and others related to Swansea university speak about their research or personal interests.</span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Holly Stokes</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Nesting ecology of sea turtles in the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT): Combining UAV and Biologging technology to estimate the population of foraging immature turtles at an important developmental site</b></span></span><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: x-small;">Density
and abundance estimates are key to understanding population dynamics and trends
for use in conservation planning. Sea turtle population estimates can be
challenging due to their elusive nature. Subsequently, current assessments are
largely based on female adults using egg, nest, and track counts. The
overarching aims of my PhD concentrate on data collection from nesting females
and hatchlings, however, I was unable to conduct fieldwork due to COVID-19 this
year. So, this first chapter concentrates on using available data to
investigate immature foraging population estimates. There are several research
gaps in our understanding of immature sea turtles, particularly critically
endangered hawksbills in the Indian Ocean. We will explore how two techniques
can be combined (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and biologging tags) to
estimate the immature foraging population of green and hawksbill turtles at an
important developmental site in BIOT. In this talk, I will introduce my PhD
objectives and in relation to the first chapter, discuss the methods used and
preliminary results along with what I plan to do next.</span><span style="color: #201f1e; font-size: small;"> </span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="Essay"><div class="Essay"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="Essay" style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcHgcqEM9LUquLVUIRXQIn8xIBVYuNyzh4ZWCJXSt8-9t5zlUbzQ51umM7660JYs2Jf0bK6lMvwLzUpdajA1SW4f-NBHPRWA-0DG-EhHgH8lzpXdg9NTr_Pw0BEv3RiD3MlaueqBy51jC/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="338" data-original-width="602" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKcHgcqEM9LUquLVUIRXQIn8xIBVYuNyzh4ZWCJXSt8-9t5zlUbzQ51umM7660JYs2Jf0bK6lMvwLzUpdajA1SW4f-NBHPRWA-0DG-EhHgH8lzpXdg9NTr_Pw0BEv3RiD3MlaueqBy51jC/w525-h295/image.png" width="525" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RmNZ5v602oc" width="560"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/hollystokes94">@hollystokes94</a></span></span></div><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.marine.science/scientist/stokes-holly/" target="_blank">https://www.marine.science/scientist/stokes-holly/</a></div><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;" /><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Sarah Weil</b></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Life-history traits and long distance dispersal outcomes: the success of fast-paced chameleons </b></span></span><br /><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">A pressing challenge in ecology is establishing the mechanisms that underlie the distribution of life at a global scale. Why do some species have populations in many different geographical areas, while others are highly restricted in range? A key determinant is presumably a species’ ability to disperse over long distances to form populations away from its core range; and this ability likely varies between species according to their traits. In my PhD, I am using macroecological and macroevolutionary approaches to investigate how dispersal and life-history traits facilitate long-distance dispersal, tieing together patterns observed over evolutionary time, dispersal in the present, and future responses under climate change scenarios. In this talk, I focus on the first chapter of my PhD in which I analyse the role of life-history traits in the outcome of natural long-distance dispersals in the past. Using chameleons (Chamaeleonidae) as an example family, I test whether species with fast life-history traits have a higher probability of long-distance dispersal success. Employing trait-dependent biogeographic models, I find that in the past, fast chameleons, characterized by early sexual maturity, large clutches and short gestation time, were more successful long-distance dispersers than slow species. These results help us to better understand the role of life-history traits in global biogeography and the establishment of new populations.</span></div><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgRw0r-QS_uLkL1tpG_jNogElhPUVXRepoikNcGRAAIKi87fAXNy6af1-Gva2H0G9jY3utkTHkNdUWt4NTDjOtxCpk45jW9IVus6yX6oEPxg2rENRveLz7fCWemqMW1SKB8aVVyW4hMDwK/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="643" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgRw0r-QS_uLkL1tpG_jNogElhPUVXRepoikNcGRAAIKi87fAXNy6af1-Gva2H0G9jY3utkTHkNdUWt4NTDjOtxCpk45jW9IVus6yX6oEPxg2rENRveLz7fCWemqMW1SKB8aVVyW4hMDwK/w497-h361/image.png" width="497" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bOzqj_5hBgY" width="560"></iframe></div></span></div></div></div></div></div></div>jess minetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007620338003859391noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-42283354260964459512020-10-02T10:00:00.004+01:002020-10-07T14:56:18.564+01:00Wallace Coffee Talks - 6th October 2020<p style="text-align: center;"> <b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Wallace Coffee Talks - Autumn 2020</span></b></p><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>6th October </b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>- 1pm - Online (Zoom)</b></span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span face=""arial" , sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px;"></span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span>Fancy a cup of coffee or tea and learning more about the researchers at Swansea university? Come join us at the Wallace coffee talks: an informal seminar series where students, staff and others related to Swansea university speak about their research or personal interests.</span></span><br /><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #888888;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><b>Jack Cooper</b></span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Functional diversity of sharks through time: past, present and future.</b></span></span><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #201f1e; padding: 0cm;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">
<div>Sharks are ecological linchpins, having stabilised worldwide
marine ecosystems for over 400 million years. Today, these ancient ocean
predators are among the most threatened groups with over a quarter of species
at risk of extinction. Traditionally, scientists have assessed the effects of
extinctions on ecosystems by focusing on changes in species diversity. However,
the ecology of species depends on their functional traits. The diversity of
these traits (functional diversity) dictates how communities stabilise
ecosystems and fill diverse niches. Such trait diversity can be recorded
through time in the fossil record, providing valuable information on the
ecological consequences of past extinctions. This talk will discuss why sharks
and their teeth are ideal models for studying changes in functional diversity through
deep time, and will lay out the key objectives of the upcoming PhD project to
assess these changes in the past, present and future.</div></span></span></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="Essay"><div class="Essay"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="Essay" style="text-align: right;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDD7F9yog1k9wbhFn3116Soyx-Kgp1FjjancvO5iH0v0V1tjDVaETu4qrgZEdCP4rcQyhnVdgdmueb1c_xn_ujJFVQFtBf9QvCTLkamK1hPr_S4aN-okUo6SqbbBqFHy5aqh0IcAmm1CoE/s400/Jack+and+tooth%255B26669%255D.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDD7F9yog1k9wbhFn3116Soyx-Kgp1FjjancvO5iH0v0V1tjDVaETu4qrgZEdCP4rcQyhnVdgdmueb1c_xn_ujJFVQFtBf9QvCTLkamK1hPr_S4aN-okUo6SqbbBqFHy5aqh0IcAmm1CoE/s320/Jack+and+tooth%255B26669%255D.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Here you can view <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEuBVAsHF-E">Jack's talk</a>:</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hEuBVAsHF-E" width="560"></iframe></div><div><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://twitter.com/CooperPalaeo">@CooperPalaeo</a></span></span></div><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.catalinapimiento.com/" target="_blank">https://www.catalinapimiento.com/</a></div><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"></span></span><br style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;" /><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: right;"><div style="margin: 0px;"><span face=""arial" , sans-serif" style="font-size: 13.3333px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit; font-size: small; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14.95px;">Jordi Sol</span><span style="line-height: 14.95px;">à</span><span lang="EN-US" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 14.95px;">-Codina</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><b>Do interactions between spatial environmental patterns drive the structure and functioning of ecosystems?</b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="xessay" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 18pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span style="border: 1pt none; color: #201f1e; padding: 0cm;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-size: x-small;">The study of environmental effects on species communities has produced a range of applications for ecosystem-based management. These types of relationships consist on understanding the magnitude and directionality in the community or species responses to specific environmental changes - in the form of environmental gradients. Beyond the study of these gradients, the arrangement of environmental differences over space - spatial environmental heterogeneity - contributes to shape how organisms interact with their surroundings and with one another. My PhD focuses on understanding how these differences in spatial organization of environmental factors drive the composition of communities and the processes occurring within ecosystems. In this first chapter of the PhD, I am looking at the interactions of the two main and essentially different spatial arrangements of environmental drivers -environmental gradients vs. spatial environmental heterogeneity- and how these shape community structure and ecosystem functioning. To this end, I am using an <i>in situ</i> experimental design to test the effects of two contrasting levels of spatial environmental heterogeneity on community structure and ecosystem functioning along the intertidal environmental gradient of the rocky shore. Through image analysis, I quantify community structure parameters and the functioning associated with these communities. The outcome of this study aims to explain the combined effects of heterogeneity and gradients to provide a view on the importance of heterogeneity for a) abiotic and biotic stress reduction, b) the reduction in abundance of dominant species, c) increase in diversity and consequent putative increase in species interactions, and d) the disparate role that specific heterogeneity traits can have along environmental gradients. In addition, the results in this study will contribute to the discussion around the role of spatial environmental heterogeneity in driving the response of communities along environmental drivers and its potential importance for conservation.</span></span></div></div></div></div><div class="Essay" style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="Essay"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYe0fl-hLMxpHVVY9Ddv8iUyeg0jiBSl7q8eMEyNDAzS5LsG1LVvtAG_9soXcDzKOvbBvJl5-cgvNs5qC-bxtgI-993hq16WMZQ2ITJl4Pq_qh3cIY3LeeAUrIHip-wN5aRyDqBqPyLKRl/s320/jordi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="320" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYe0fl-hLMxpHVVY9Ddv8iUyeg0jiBSl7q8eMEyNDAzS5LsG1LVvtAG_9soXcDzKOvbBvJl5-cgvNs5qC-bxtgI-993hq16WMZQ2ITJl4Pq_qh3cIY3LeeAUrIHip-wN5aRyDqBqPyLKRl/w484-h233/jordi.jpg" width="484" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">See <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjGPGYYAs38">Jordi's talk here</a>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sjGPGYYAs38" width="560"></iframe></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><a href="https://twitter.com/JordiSC03"><span style="font-size: x-small;">@JordiSC03</span></a></div>jess minetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01007620338003859391noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-68788741486038757182020-09-23T13:06:00.001+01:002020-09-23T13:22:33.278+01:00Biosciences Seminar Speaker 01 October 2020<p> </p><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #222222;">Biosciences Seminar Series - Autumn 2020</span><br /><span style="color: #222222;">01 October 2020 - </span><span style="color: #222222;">1pm</span><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><span style="color: #222222;">- on Zoom</span></span></h3></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><h2 style="font-stretch: normal; margin: 0px 0px 1em; position: relative;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Living on the Edge - Salt marshes under global change</span></h2><h4 style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="https://people.uea.ac.uk/s_nolte" style="color: #888888;"><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;">Dr Stefanie Nolte</span></span></a></span></span></h4></div><div style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: 18px;"><h3 style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.2px; margin: 0px; position: relative;"></h3><h3 style="margin: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><u><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">(</span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.uea.ac.uk/"><span style="color: blue;">University of East Anglia, UK</span></a></span></span></u><u style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;">)</span></span></u></span></h3><div><u style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span></u></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"></div><u style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6XlDfaUmVgT6MdRBQ39ju7-3IMPBOREtFcQwIyB6cSNmB5zdKT89yAmAPEHLLg1ZUlEiC9iWdHITfrmEmx0Tk7KbRzA1iwwiMptRFYIfIvnwHbcSxrZP8bL5JuYjwqpEadl81Die_rvc/s2048/ARIES-adphoto-NOLTE.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6XlDfaUmVgT6MdRBQ39ju7-3IMPBOREtFcQwIyB6cSNmB5zdKT89yAmAPEHLLg1ZUlEiC9iWdHITfrmEmx0Tk7KbRzA1iwwiMptRFYIfIvnwHbcSxrZP8bL5JuYjwqpEadl81Die_rvc/w400-h225/ARIES-adphoto-NOLTE.jpg" title="Photo by Stefanie Nolte" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: blue;"><br /></span></span></u></div></div></div><div style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: 18.48px;"><div style="text-align: right;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;">Our Biosciences Seminar Series resumes for the 2020 autumn term with a talk by </span><a href="https://people.uea.ac.uk/s_nolte" style="color: #888888;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dr. Stefanie Nolte</b></span></a><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222;">, Lecturer in Marine Ecosystem Services at the </span><span style="color: blue;"><b><a href="https://people.uea.ac.uk/en/organisations/centre-for-ocean-and-atmospheric-sciences(5d55a5e7-787d-48a7-a9e6-0e277298a7df).html">Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences</a></b></span></span><span><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif"><span><span style="color: #222222;"> at the </span><a href="https://www.uea.ac.uk/">University of East Anglia (UK)</a><span style="color: #222222;">. </span></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ulY2Gi4AAAAJ&hl=en">Stefanie</a></span><span style="color: #222222;"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ulY2Gi4AAAAJ&hl=en"> </a>is an ecologist and her research focusses on coastal ecology, </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222;">in particular on the effects of global change on biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and ecosystem services in coastal wetlands.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face=""arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div></div><div style="color: #222222; 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They are influenced by tides and therefore provide a valuable habitat for specialized plants and animals. Furthermore, they play an important role in climate change mitigation (carbon sequestration) and adaptation (coastal protection). Therefore, my research focusses on how this ecosystem, with its biodiversity, ecosystem processes and ecosystem services, is affected by anthropogenic effects and climate change. We studied how livestock grazing affects biodiversity, carbon cycling, and the ecosystems ability to withstand sea-level rise through sedimentation. Next to sea-level rise, increased storminess might be a threat to the ecosystem in the future. Therefore, we used a large-scale wave flume to investigate the effects of hydrodynamic forces on salt marsh plants and sediment surfaces. To study the effects of higher temperatures in a field experiment, open top chambers and electric heating cables are used to increase air and soil temperature, respectively. We can thereby assess effects of increased temperature on vegetation, soil fauna, greenhouse gas fluxes, decomposition, microbial communities, and ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and coastal protection in salt marshes.</span></div><div><div><br /></div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif" style="color: #38761d;"> </span></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div style="color: #38761d; line-height: 18.48px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;">Hope to see many of you - everyone most welcome to attend!</span><br /><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;">For the list of forthcoming seminars see <a href="http://swantalks.blogspot.com/p/speakers-for-series-spring-2014-venue_22.html" style="color: #888888;">here</a></span></span></div></div>luca borgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606889211932191718noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-81370750897694972692020-03-11T08:38:00.000+00:002020-03-11T08:40:19.911+00:00Wallace Coffee Talks - 17th March 2020<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
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of the parasitic salmon louse, </span><i style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Lepeophtheirus salmonis</i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> is perhaps the
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the costly salmon lice problem. However, production of lumpfish needs to
upscale to reach the industry demand. The production cycle of lumpfish has not
been fully closed and, therefore, relies on harvesting of sexually mature brood
stock, and artificial insemination. This supply of broodstock is not always
consistent, which can be problematic for production and harvested gametes can
go to waste. Cryopreservation of the sperm can help solve these issues. This
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are two urban centres, Swansea and Port Talbot, the main wastewater outfall is
located in the centre of the inner bay and shipping lanes are dredged to two
docks and three rivers. A regularly dredged tidal harbour is located next to
Port Talbot Steelworks. All dredge spoils are discarded at a disposal site in
the outer Swansea Bay. The bay is designated a Heavily Modified Waterbody under
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">A major challenge in malignant tumours is cell heterogeneity, which has been proposed to arise </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">due to temporal variations in nutrient supply caused by highly irregular vasculature. Such </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">variability requires cells to adapt to potentially lethal variations in environmental conditions. </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Risk spreading (“bet—hedging”) through spontaneous phenotypic variations is an evolutionary </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">strategy that allows species to survive in temporally varying environments. Individuals within </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">a species diversify their phenotypes ensuring that at least some of them can survive in the face </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">of sudden environmental change. We aim to investigate whether cancer cells may adopt this </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">strategy when dealing with rapidly changing levels of nutrient due to temporally -Varying blood </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">flow.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Here, we present a system of nonlocal partial differential equations modelling the evolutionary </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">dynamics of phenotype-structured cancer cell populations exposed to fluctuating oxygen </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">levels. In this model, the phenotypic state of every cell is described by a continuous variable </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">that provides a simple representation of its metabolic phenotype, ranging from fully oxidative </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">to fully glycolytic. The cells are grouped into two competing populations that undergo </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">hen'table, spontaneous, phenotypic variations at different rates. A combination of analysis and </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">numerical simulations indicates that under certain conditions the cell-oxygen dynamics can </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">lead to regions of chronic hypoxia (low oxygen level) and cycling hypoxia. Moreover, the </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">model shows that under chronic—hypoxic conditions lower rates of phenotypic variation lead to </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">a competitive advantage, whereas higher rates of phenotypic variation can confer a competitive </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">advantage under cycling-hypoxic conditions. In the latter case, bet-hedging evolutionary </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">strategies, whereby cells switch between oxidative and glycolytic phenotypes, can </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">spontaneously emerge. These results shed light on the evolutionary processes that may </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">underpin the emergence of phenotypic heterogeneity in vascularised tumours, and suggest </span><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">potential therapeutic strategies.</span><br />
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ability to delouse salmon and causing public concern. For this reason, it is extremely
important to identify when the welfare of the lumpfish is compromised in a
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pounds every year. At low infection density (ca. 5-10 per fish) lice induce
stress and form ulcers which can lead to secondary infections, at higher
infection densities (ca. 100 per fish) lice can kill their host. Salmon
cages stock fish at a high density, this provides the lice with a bountiful and
easy to reach supply of hosts, causing lice populations to increase
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are costly for the farms and also increase infection rates in wild salmonid
populations – this has been linked to the decline of some wild populations. New
and improved sea lice controls are therefore required, and to develop these the
industry needs a reliable supply of lice to test treatments on. However, the
only way to culture lice is by using a live host salmonid, this leads to a high
cost per louse and serious ethical issues. This talk will cover an MRes project which aims to culture sea
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luca borgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606889211932191718noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-30386051982428018662020-01-29T22:22:00.000+00:002020-01-29T22:22:40.023+00:00Biosciences Seminar Speaker 30 January 2020<div style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">
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luca borgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606889211932191718noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-86962660279799185072019-12-19T16:57:00.000+00:002019-12-19T16:57:20.183+00:00Wallace Coffee Talks - 07 January 2020<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
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luca borgerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13606889211932191718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523886130250404908.post-14374187476755963862019-11-05T15:15:00.000+00:002019-11-05T15:15:42.482+00:00Wallace Coffee Talks - 12 November 2019<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: center;">
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expansions. The assumptions of historic outbreak dynamics are largely based on tree
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">Our Biosciences Seminar Series continues for the 2019 autumn term with a talk by </span><a href="https://antharky.ucalgary.ca/profiles/amanda-melin" style="color: #888888; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Dr Amanda Melin</b></span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> from the </span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="https://www.ucalgary.ca/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>University of Calgary, in Alberta (Canada).</b></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222;"> </span><a href="https://antharky.ucalgary.ca/profiles/amanda-melin"><span style="color: blue;">Amanda</span></a><span style="color: #222222;"> is a behavioural ecologist and research in her lab involves questions concerning the </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">behaviour, sensory ecology, and dietary outcomes of nonhuman and human primates. The broad questions tackled are about </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">primate origins and evolution, and are adressed using </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">an integrative approach, combining assessment of sensory systems with molecular ecology, microbiome analysis, metagenomics, and field observations of primates.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Senses serve as the interface between animals and their environment and play a critical role in food detection and evaluation. Color and/or scent changes during ripening may attract frugivores and inform their investigation behaviors. While numerous studies have assessed the impact of color on fruit selection, comparatively little is known about fruit scent, and how olfactory and visual data are integrated during foraging.</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidUMToSx8f2r26uekA-2CGsYJ-zkFqXEq67GVqbG943017H0jadGFI1Yr8C8F5gatsV5GPq0JNpLMzqmVsKPU4BP_ATI_oZSrC9VkrgiQhhyphenhyphengbujVXZNOZO_ckw6eb7L9ZuA-iMizepWAn/s1600/Alouattapalliata1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="387" data-original-width="273" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidUMToSx8f2r26uekA-2CGsYJ-zkFqXEq67GVqbG943017H0jadGFI1Yr8C8F5gatsV5GPq0JNpLMzqmVsKPU4BP_ATI_oZSrC9VkrgiQhhyphenhyphengbujVXZNOZO_ckw6eb7L9ZuA-iMizepWAn/s200/Alouattapalliata1.jpg" width="140" /></a><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We combine behavioral data on white-faced capuchins, black-handed spider monkeys, and mantled howler monkeys with measurements of fruit reflectance spectra (color) and plant volatile organic compounds (scents) from 18 dietary plant species at different ripeness stages. We show that the frequency of sniffing behaviors – a proxy for reliance on the sense of smell – is positively correlated with increases in the volume of fruit odorants during ripening. Additionally, monkeys with red-green colorblindness (dichromacy) sniffed fruits more often, indicating that increased reliance on olfaction may be a general behavioral strategy that mitigates decreased capacity to detect red-green chromatic contrast. These results demonstrate a complex interaction among fruit traits, sensory capacities and foraging strategies. By examining fruit traits and sensory investigation of seed dispersing mammals, we help elucidate the evolutionary relationships between plants and frugivores and explain variation in primate behavior.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;">Hope to see many of you - everyone most welcome to attend!</span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18.48px;">For the list of forthcoming seminars see <a href="http://swantalks.blogspot.com/p/speakers-for-series-spring-2014-venue_22.html" style="color: #888888;">here</a></span></div>
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