We are seeking knowledge about biodiversity and phylogenetic relationships among organisms by studying morphologies, DNA, behaviour, ecology and distributions. We use computational methods to estimate phylogenetic trees. We use trees to infer events in the history of evolution and to classify groups of organisms in monophyletic groups

23. June: David Reid - Natural History, Biogeography and Evolution of Mangrove-Associated Molluscs

Lille Auditorium (rom 2142) HIB Datablokken kl. 13:00

2010

28. May: Jan Yde Poulsen - “Scopelomorph phylogeny from mt nucleotides and gene order.”

Science Building Room 1104 (RFB:M1104) kl. 14:00

30. April: Alexander Plotkin - "Sponge family Polymastiidae: morphology and phylogenetic hypotheses."

16. April: Gunnar Kvifte - "The origin of insects."

29. January: Heidi Solstad (UiO) - "Towards an understanding of arctic and alpine poppies - Papaver sect. Meconella."

2009

30. November:  Humberto Fonseca Mendes - "Biogeography of Brazilian chironomids."

28. September: Bjarte Jordal - "Cybertaxonomy. Present possibilities and future perspectives."

14. september: Paco Cardenas - "Report from the MBL workshop on Molecular Evolution, August 2009."

8. juni:  Steffen Roth - "Neuropeptides as a new character set to study insect phylogeny"

18.  May: Jan Yde Poulsen - "Higher and lower mitogenomic relationships of deep-sea Alepocephaliformes (Pisces: Otocephala) and problems in the use of amino acid data as compared to nucleotides"

11. May: Paco Cardenas - "Porifera Phylogeny, focusing on the Astrophorida order (Demospongiae)"

4. mai: Ingvar Byrkjedal - "New developments in bird phylogenetics"

23. mars: Endre Willassen - "Species tree from gene trees using BEST"

9. mars:  Louise Lindblom - One bipolar taxon or two distinct taxa? -  A systematic investigation using haplotype networks"