SPEAKER: Associate Professor Dieter Hochuli, Integrative Ecology Research Group, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney

DATE: Friday, 8th September 2017
LOCATION: Melbourne Campus at Burwood – Burwood Corporate Centre (attendees-please report to reception for room details on the day)
TIME: 1:30pm

Seminar will also be video linked to the following campuses: Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds – room ka4.207; and Warrnambool Campus, Room J2.22

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ABSTRACT: We often think of cities as concrete wastelands, where humans and their structures dominate and degrade our natural systems. The reality is that a surprising number of animals and plants manage to persist in cities. Some even thrive, seemingly better off in our modern cities than in their natural habitats.   I will outline the ways in which animals and plants respond to ecological pressures as diverse as habitat loss, pollution, and exotic invasion, identifying how ecological interactions can be maintained in these highly modified urban systems.   I will also discuss the human dimension of urban ecology, identifying how promoting biodiversity in these degraded systems enhances wellbeing and the ultimate sustainability of cities.

BIO: Dieter Hochuli heads the integrative ecology research group at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on the ecology of insects and spiders and their interactions with the environment.  His recent work in urban ecosystems examines how human activities in cities affect ecosystem health, and conversely how human wellbeing is affected by the nature we interact with.

Appointments with guest speaker may be made via e.ritchie@deakin.edu.au.

SPEAKER: Dr Carlos Rodriguez Lopez, Environmental Epigenetics and Genetics Group (EEGG), School of Agriculture Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide

DATE: Friday, 25th August 2017
LOCATION: Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds- room ka4.207
TIME: 1:30pm

Seminar will also be video linked to the following campuses: Melbourne Campus at Burwood – Burwood Corporate Centre (attendees-please report to reception for room details on the day); and Warrnambool Campus, Room J2.22

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ABSTRACT: Epigenetic mechanisms are a key interface between the environment and the genotype. These mechanisms provide agility and plasticity by regulating gene expression in response to developmental and environmental changes, to ultimately affect the organism’s phenotype. DNA methylation is an epigenetic modification well known for regulating gene expression but also for providing good diagnostic biomarkers for a range of applications. Here I will focus on the use of methylation sensitive Genotyping By Sequencing to generate DNA methylation biomarkers to be used as: 1) a prognostic tool to for pregnancy complications in humans and 2) as a forward genetics tool to identify epiallelic variation in grapevine associated to wine quality traits regulated by plant’s age and location.

BIO: I am originally from the Canary Islands (Spain) where I graduated in Biology (Botany) at the University of La Laguna. I did my postgraduate studies (MSc and PhD) at the University of Reading (UK). Since then I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Biomedicine (Valencia, Spain), The Royal Botanical Garden (Madrid, Spain) and in the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University (Wales, UK). I currently lead the Environmental Epigenetics and Genetics Group (EEGG)) based at the School of Agriculture Food and Wine (AFW) at the University of Adelaide. I am also the Coordinator of Epigenetics Research at AFW and of the Waite Campus Epigenomics Platform. My current research is focused in the field of environmental epigenetics including epigenome/environment interactions in crop and wild species, grapevine epibreeding and biomarker discovery for human health.

Appointments with guest speaker may be made via lee.rollins@deakin.edu.au.

SPEAKER: Dr Ruth Thurstan, Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Integrated Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University

DATE: Friday, 4th August 2017
LOCATION: Melbourne Campus at Burwood – Burwood Corporate Centre (attendees-please report to reception for room details on the day)
TIME: 1:30pm
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ABSTRACT: Human-induced ecological change spans much longer periods of time than most formal monitoring data. Therefore, to understand the magnitude and dynamics of past ecosystem change, we need to seek data on past change from alternative sources.

Marine historical ecology is an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to understand our past interactions with marine ecosystems and the ecological and social outcomes of these. However, despite a growth in research efforts over the past few decades, the integration of historical time-series into modern day management approaches is still lacking, particularly when it comes to fisheries.

In this talk, I will discuss the outcomes of my efforts over the past few years to collate and integrate historical data from archival sources and resource user interviews into marine management and conservation initiatives.

BIO: Ruth Thurstan is an Alfred Deakin Postdoctoral Research Fellow, based at the Warrnambool campus. Her research focuses on changes to coastal marine ecosystems over the last 100-200 years, with a particular interest in collating historical, social and ecological data to inform sustainable management of commercial and recreational fisheries.

Prior to moving to Deakin, she worked on marine historical ecology projects in the UK and Queensland. She chairs the International Council for Exploration of the Seas Working Group on the History of Fish and Fisheries. You can follow the ICES Working Group updates via Twitter on #WGHIST.

Appointments with guest speaker may be made via Ruth Thurstan.

SPEAKER: Professor John Woinarski, Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL), Charles Darwin University

DATE: Friday, 28th July 2017
LOCATION: Melbourne Campus at Burwood – Burwood Corporate Centre (attendees-please report to reception for room details on the day)
TIME: 1:30pm
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ABSTRACT: Predation by the introduced red fox and domestic cat has driven the decline and extinction of many Australian mammal species. However, there is far less evidence available on the extent to which these predators have had an impact on Australian bird species.

We used a recent analysis of the density of feral cats across Australia, and a collation of results from many studies of cat diet, to derive estimates of the numbers of individual birds killed by cats in Australia (per cat, per km2 per year, and per year across Australia).

The highest kill rates by cats are on islands, in heavily modified environments and in arid areas. We also scoured the literature, museum records and other sources to collate records of about 350 Australian bird species (including about 30 threatened species) that are known to be killed by cats. Predation by cats is most likely for bird species that nest or feed on the ground, occur on islands, and weigh 100-300 g.

We conclude that it is likely that predation by cats is having a chronic impact on the population size and conservation outlook for many Australian bird species, and that there is much scope for more targeted research on population-scale impacts of cats on individual bird species.

BIO: Professor John Woinarski is a conservation biologist with many decades of experience spent in research and management of many different components of Australian biodiversity, particularly in northern Australia. He has also been substantially involved in the development and application of environmental policy. He is currently a Deputy Director of the Threatened Species Recovery Hub of the National Environnental Science Programme, and is based (virtually) at Charles Darwin University.

He has authored and edited seven books, and more than 200 scientific papers and book chapters. The most recent major publication is the co-authored Action Plan for Australian Mammals, published in June 2014.

His work has been recognised with the Eureka Prize for biodiversity research (2001), the Serventy Medal for life-time contribution to Australian ornithology (2001), the Northern Territory Chief Minister’s Award for Research and Innovation (2008), and the Australian Natural History Medallion (2011).

Appointments with guest speaker may be made via Euan Ritchie.

SPEAKER: Assoc. Prof. Monica Gagliano, Centre for Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia, WA

DATE: Friday, 23rd June 2017
LOCATION: Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds – room ka4.207
TIME: 1:30pm
Seminar will also be video linked to the following campuses: Melbourne Campus at Burwood – room T3.22; and Warrnambool Campus – room J2.22

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ABSTRACT: Across all species, individuals thrive in complex ecological systems, which they rarely have complete knowledge of. To cope with this uncertainty and still make good choices while avoiding costly errors, organisms have developed the ability to exploit key features associated with their environment.

That through experience, humans and other animals are quick at learning to associate specific cues with particular places, events and circumstances has long been known; the idea that plants are also capable of learning by association had never been proven until now.

Here I comment on the recent paper that experimentally demonstrated associative learning in plants, thus qualifying them as proper subjects of cognitive research. Additionally, I make the point that the current fundamental premise in cognitive science, that we must understand the precise neural underpinning of a given cognitive feature in order to understand the evolution of cognition and behavior, needs to be re-imagined.

BIO: Monica Gagliano is a research associate professor of evolutionary ecology, an adjunct senior research fellow at the University of Western Australia and a former research fellow of the Australian Research Council.

She is the author of numerous scientific articles in the fields of animal and plant behavioral and evolutionary ecology and is co-editor of The Green Thread: Dialogues with the Vegetal World (Lexington, 2015) and The Language of Plants (Minnesota University Press, 2017).

She has pioneered the new research field of plant bioacoustics and extended the concept of cognition to plants, reigniting the discourse on plant subjectivity and ethical standing.

Appointments with guest speaker may be made via Jessica Hodgson.

SPEAKER: Dr Kylie Soanes, School of Ecosystem and Forest Science, University of Melbourne

DATE: Friday, 16th June 2017
LOCATION: Burwood Corporate Centre (BCC) – attendees to report to reception for room details on the day
TIME: 1:30pm
Seminar will also be video linked to the following campuses: Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds – room ka4.207; and Warrnambool Campus – room J2.22

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ABSTRACT: When thinking of places that are ideal for conserving threatened species, the word ‘urban’ rarely springs to mind. Urban habitats are often considered too small, too degraded or too dangerous to truly be valuable for conservation.

However, there is a growing push to better recognise the contribution of cities and towns to biodiversity conservation and threatened species management, and investigate creative ways of overcoming urban threats. Are we undervaluing the contribution of urban areas to biodiversity conservation? What opportunities might we be missing? How might we use novel management actions to mitigate threats, and how can we tell if they work?

In this talk, I’ll highlight the opportunities (and challenges) for conserving Australia’s threatened species in urban landscapes. I’ll then discuss a case study in which we experimentally tested the success of crossing structures designed to reduce the negative impacts of roads on wildlife.

BIO: Kylie Soanes is an ecologist focusing on the impacts of roads and urban development of nature. She received her PhD in 2015 for her research project evaluating the effectiveness of road-crossing structures for arboreal mammals in Australia (You may have seen the possum ladders over the Hume?).

Kylie now works for the National Environmental Science Programme in the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub and Threatened Species Recovery Hub, investigating ways to promote biodiversity and conservation of native species in cities and towns. She is based in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Appointments with guest speaker may be made via Euan Ritchie.

SPEAKER: Dr Ceridwen Fraser, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU College of Medicine, Biology & Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT

DATE: Friday, 2nd June 2017
LOCATION: Warrnambool Campus – room B3.03
TIME: 1:30pm
Seminar will also be video linked to the following campuses: Melbourne Campus at Burwood – Burwood Corporate Centre (BCC) – attendees to report to reception for room details on the day; and Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds – room ka4.207

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ABSTRACT: Dispersal is a fundamental process that shapes the distributions of many plants and animals. Dispersal does not always result in ongoing gene flow among populations, but is critical for initial colonisation events, particularly following large-scale disturbances such as those resulting from climate change, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

In this talk I will give an overview of how dispersal and disturbance interact to structure spatial patterns of biodiversity. I will focus on examples from my biogeographic research on diverse Southern Hemisphere systems including shallow-water marine communities (especially seaweeds and associated invertebrates) in the sub-Antarctic, New Zealand intertidal ecosystems affected by last year’s earthquakes, and mosses and invertebrates on volcanoes in Antarctica.

BIO: Crid Fraser is a biologist / phylogeographer at the Australian National University, and is broadly interested in the influence of environmental conditions, including past and future environmental change, on global patterns of biodiversity.

She uses a wide range of techniques to address research questions, including ecological and genetic approaches, and has a particular focus on the high-latitude ecosystems of the Southern Hemisphere (the sub-Antarctic islands and Antarctica). She is the current ACT Scientist of the Year.

Appointments with guest speaker may be made via Alecia.Bellgrove.

SPEAKER: Dr Emma Vitikainen, Centre for Ecology and Conservation – Biosciences University of Exeter, UK

DATE: Friday, 26th May 2017
LOCATION: Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds – room ka4.207
TIME: 1:30pm
Seminar will also be video linked to the following campuses: Melbourne Campus at Burwood – room T3.22; and Warrnambool Campus – room B3.03

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ABSTRACT: Cooperative breeding is a reproductive strategy where individuals look after young that are not their own. A typical feature of such systems is that not all individuals provide and receive the same amount of care. This variation in the early life care can have profound consequences, impacting growth and life-history trajectories, as well as fitness and senescence of individuals.

I investigate patterns of cooperative care in the banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) where adult ‘escorts’ form exclusive caring relationships with pups born into communal litters. Pups compete over the escorts, with the largest pups receiving most care. In the absence of direct nepotism, co-breeding females compete by increasing their foetal pup size as the number of co-breeding females increases.

I will discuss maternal effects and the role of early life care on life history trajectories of wild banded mongooses, using results from a targeted feeding experiment of pregnant females in combination with 20 years of field observations and pedigree data from our long-term study located in Mweya, Uganda.

BIO: I am an evolutionary biologist studying cooperation and life-history variation in social animals. I finished my PhD on causes and consequences of inbreeding in ants, at the University of Helsinki, Finland, in 2010. I then moved onto larger and furrier creatures and joined the Banded Mongoose Research Project at University of Exeter, UK, for a post-doc on oxidative stress and ageing in the banded mongoose, together with Michael Cant and Jon Blount.

My current research focuses on influences of early life environment on life-history variation in the banded mongoose, using long term and experimental data from our 20-year field project in Uganda.

Appointments with guest speaker may be made via Lee Ann Rollins.

SPEAKER: Ms Catherine Cavallo, PhD Candidature, Monash University

DATE: Friday, 19th May 2017
LOCATION: Warrnambool Campus, Room B3.03
TIME: 1:30pm
Seminar will also be video linked to the following campuses: Melbourne Campus at Burwood – Burwood Corporate Centre (attendees-please report to reception for room details on the day) and; Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds – room ka4.207

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ABSTRACT: Predator diet is used to explore food web dynamics and ecosystem function, but few diet analysis tools reveal full diet. New developments in DNA dietary analysis allow accurate interpretation of large quantities of predator scats quickly and cheaply. Metabarcoding, facilitated by Next Generation Sequencing, can identify most prey DNA at species level within a scat sample, including prey that are overlooked by other methods.

I pair DNA analysis of scats with passive automated monitoring technology, allowing non-invasive, fine-scale and continuous monitoring of the diet and foraging behaviour of a marine top predator, the little penguin. Diet diversity varies with environmental characteristics, site and month, and includes previously unrecorded gelatinous taxa.

This non-invasive, high resolution and high coverage method provides valuable food web information and is being used to develop quantitative tools to track changes in marine food webs and ecosystems.

BIO: Cathy Cavallo is a PhD student at Monash University, where she is supervised by Richard Reina. Her PhD research is in partnership with Phillip Island Nature Parks, where she is supervised by Andre Chiaradia, and the Australian Antarctic Division, where she works under Bruce Deagle.

This research is being undertaken as part of an ARC Linkage grant to develop a novel top-down approach to ecosystem management using multivariate foraging strategies of little penguins, with collaborators at Deakin Warrnambool and the National Centre for Research in France.

Prior to her PhD, Cathy completed a Master of Science at the University of Melbourne, published her MSc research in Functional Ecology, and worked for 5 years with an ecological consultancy. In addition to her current research, Cathy volunteers as the Social Media Manager of Wild Melbourne, a not for profit nature engagement and science communication NGO.

Appointments with guest speaker may be made via Graeme Hays.

Dr Matthew Hall, School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Monash University

DATE: Friday, 12^th May 2017

TIME: 1:30pm

LOCATION:  Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds – room ka4.207

(Seminar will be video linked to the following campuses:

Melbourne Campus at Burwood – room T3.22 and Warrnambool Campus – room B3.03

ABSTRACT.  Sex and infection are intimately linked. Many diseases are spread by sexual contact, males are thought to evolve exaggerated sexual signals to demonstrate their immune robustness, and pathogens have been shown to direct the evolution of recombination. 

In all of these examples, infection is influencing the evolution of male and female fitness. Less well known is how sex differences influence pathogen fitness itself. A defining characteristic of sexual dimorphism is not only divergent phenotypes, but also a complex genetic architecture involving changes in genetic correlations among shared fitness traits, and differences in the accumulation of mutations-all, of which may affect selection on an invading pathogen. 

In this talk, I will outline the implications that the genetics of sexual dimorphism can have for host-pathogen coevolution and present some empirical and theoretical results that suggest how male-female differences influence more than just the environment that a pathogen experiences.

BIO. Matt is a Lecturer and DECRA Fellow within the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University. He completed his PhD on the quantitative genetics of sexual conflict under the supervision of Prof. Rob Brooks at UNSW, before moving to Switzerland to work with Prof. Dieter Ebert on questions relating to host-pathogen interactions. 

His research group blends together these two topics and investigates the genetic and environmental causes of variation in health and fitness. Every organism faces the same difficulty of finding a partner, fighting off pathogens, and coping with old age – but some are naturally better at it than others. Projects include understanding how host and pathogen genes interact to influence the severity of infectious disease; contrasting the role of males and females in the evolution of pathogen virulence; and, unraveling how invasion fronts can accelerate or hamper the spread of infectious disease. 

These projects make use of a variety of species of Daphnia, commonly known as the water-flea – a small crustacean that inhabits a range of freshwater habitats, from coastal rock-pools to alpine lakes, and are found throughout Australia and the rest of the world. 

For more info: www.mattdhall.com

https://www.monash.edu/science/schools/biological-sciences/staff2/matt-hall

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