The Biological Anthropology Seminar Series hosts talks by international scholars in Biological Anthropology.
Seminars for the academic year 2020-2021 term - Online!
Registration essential - click on individual titles below for more information
Contact name:
Amélie Beaudet, Lucía Nadal Urías and Matthew Van Schalkwyk
Contact email:
Event location:
Online via Zoom (sign up via the dedicated link for each talk)
Events In This Series For This Academic Year
| Session Name | Date | Event speaker |
|---|---|---|
| The Global Microbiome Conservancy - understanding and preserving our microbial heritage | Wednesday, 14 October, 2020 - 16:30 | Dr Mathieu Groussin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Evolutionary demographic models reveal the strength of purifying selection on susceptibility alleles to late-onset diseases | Wednesday, 21 October, 2020 - 16:30 | Dr Samuel Parvard, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris |
| Communication, cooperation and culture in Shark Bay dolphins | Wednesday, 28 October, 2020 - 16:30 | Dr Stephanie King, University of Bristol |
| Multiple burdens of malnutrition among Maya families in Yucatan and how language impacts health outcomes | Wednesday, 4 November, 2020 - 16:30 | Dr Inês Varela-Silva, University of Loughborough, with Hugo Azcorra, Maria Teresa Castillo-Burguete, Sabine Little |
| Assessing the double burden of malnutrition in sub-Saharan Africa: lessons from the Birth to Twenty Plus (Bt20+) cohort | Wednesday, 18 November, 2020 - 16:30 | Lukhanyo Nyati, University of the Witwatersrand |
| Assessing the locomotor behaviour of early humans using biomechanical modelling | Wednesday, 25 November, 2020 - 16:30 | Dr Ashleigh Wiseman, Royal Veterinary College |
| BioAnth Seminar Series PhD research presentations | Wednesday, 2 December, 2020 - 16:00 to 17:30 | Current PhD students |
| Carnivore taphonomy and the importance for early hominin evolution | Wednesday, 3 February, 2021 - 16:30 to 17:30 | Dr Mari Carmen Arriaza |
| Genetic diversity and olfactory perception | Wednesday, 10 February, 2021 - 16:30 to 17:30 | Dr Harilanto Razafindrazaka |
| Synchrotron and laboratory X-ray CT in natural and cultural heritage | Wednesday, 17 February, 2021 - 16:30 to 17:30 | Dr Vincent Fernandez |
| From brain structure to brain function in human evolution | Wednesday, 24 February, 2021 - 16:30 to 17:30 | Dr Alexandra de Sousa |
| Planet of the Apes: Dispatches from the great Miocene empire in Africa | Wednesday, 3 March, 2021 - 16:30 to 17:30 | Dr Isaiah Nengo |
| PhD Student Research Talks | Wednesday, 10 March, 2021 - 16:30 to 17:30 | |
| The Pensive Primate: Emergence of modern cognition | Wednesday, 17 March, 2021 - 16:30 to 17:30 | Dr Ian Tattersall |