10.10.2017 SEMINARS ON EVOLUTION, ECOLOGY & BEHAVIOUR: 4th Marcin Antczak Award ceremony and special ornithological lecture entitled 'Learning and decision-making in wood warblers' by awarded Jakub Szymkowiak (Adam Mickiewicz University) Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula, 12:15
PhD students from our Institute presented results of their research at the XV International Congress of Acarology in Antalya, Turkey. Natalia Szudarek (Department of Animal Morphology) received a top three placement in the 'Best Poster Presentation' and Alicja Laska (Population Ecology Lab) placed in the top three for the 'Best Oral Presentation'. Congratulations! [...]
03.10.2018 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled “Sex- and environment dependent mutation and selection” will be given by DAVID BERGER from Uppsala University. When: 03.10.2018, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
One widely accepted fitness advantage of being a masting plant (instead of just producing seeds every year) is the predator satiation. According to this mechanism, masting helps to increase seed survival through starving predators in non-mast years (famine cause the predator population to go decrease in numbers), and sparse predators are easy satiated in mast [...]
High-throughput sequencing (HTS) prompted development of novel, refined methods of analyzing immunological repertoires (e.g. immunoglobulins, TCRs). So far, despite a decade of progress, these techniques were mainly used in research involving model species and humans. Recently, Magdalena Migalska, Alvaro Sebastian and Jacek Radwan (Evolutionary Biology Group) published an article in Scientific Reports describing first use of HTS in TCR repertoire sequencing [...]
The 4th Marcin Antczak Award for the most inspiring ornithological paper published in 2017 in a peer-reviewed journal by young scientist who originates from Poland, the Czech Republic or Slovakia goes to dr Jakub Szymkowiak from Population Ecology Lab, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. The International Board of Marcin Antczak Award appointed by the Dean [...]
New study describing how apparent predation occurring between two sympatric oaks influence their recruitment rates was just published in Journal of Ecology. The Authors (Michał Bogdziewicz, Nathanael Lichti, Rafał Zwolak) wrote a short summary of their work: Numerous plants are dispersed by scatterhoarding animals such as corvids and rodents. These animals carry away and cache [...]
20.06.2018 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled “Functions of duets and chorus in chubb's cisticola” will be given by Michał Budka (Department of Behavioural Ecology). When: 20.06.2018, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
13.06.2018 We’re pleased to announce next SEEB. The lecture entitled “Host specialisation within a phytophagous insect community: The case of Tefritidae species in Reunion” will be given by Maud Charlery (University of Lisbon). When: 13.06.2018, 12:15 Where: Collegium Biologicum, Mała Aula
The paper by Bogdziewicz et al. on the role of environmental constraints in mast seeding was published in the latest issue of New Phytologist. We wrote about the research in the past post (link). In the same issue, Tanentzap & Monks published a positive commentary on that research. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/nph.15219
