Talks and Seminars

Talks given and Seminars organised

2009

• Deutsche Physikalische Geselleschaft, Dresden, Germany - The pace of evolution across fitness valleys

2010

• Deutsche Physikalische Geselleschaft, Regensburg, Germany - Evolutionary Dynamics of multiplayer games
• German Society of Genetics, Koppelsburg, Germany - Evolutionary games and population genetics
• International Theory Workshop, Ploen, Germany - Evolutionary Dynamics of multiplayer games

2011

• European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology, Krakow, Poland - Evolutionary Dynamics of multiplayer games
• Visit - Joachim Krug, Koeln, Germany - Static and Dynamic fitness landscapes
• Theory Workshop Lisbon, Lison, Portugal - Winning the marathon: Multiplayer games in the mutation-selection equilibrium

2012

• The 15th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications Byšice, Czech Republic - Mutation-selection equilibrium in multiplayer games with multiple strategies
• Leiden workshop on Cooperation in Multi-Partner setting: Biological markets and Social Dilemmas, Leiden, The Netherlands - Credible information in multipartner interactions

2013

• Imperial College London, UK - Multiplayer Evolutionary Games: Thinking beyond the dyad
• Kavli Institute for Theoretical physics Santa Barbara, USA - Multiplayer Evolutionary Games: Thinking beyond the dyad
• Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany - Multiplayer Evolutionary Games: Thinking beyond the dyad
• Mathematical Modelling in biology Leicester, UK - Mutualism and multiplayer evolutionary games | Revisiting the Red King
• Models in Population Dynamics and Evolution Osnabrueck, Germany - Lotka and Volterra kill the Red Queen

2014

• 9th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology Gothenburg, Sweden - Organiser of a minisymposium “Game theory in ecology and evolution” with Mark Broom and Arne Traulsen.
  • Speakers: Chris Argasinski (Institute of Mathematics, Warsaw), Lars Bach (Lunds University),Ake Brannstrom(Umea University), Chris Cannings (The Uni- versity of Sheffield), Jacob Johannsson (Lund University), Vlastimil Krivan (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the University of South Bohemia), Kristian Lindgren (Chalmers University of Technology), Torbjorn Lundh (Chalmers & University of Gothenburg), Jacek Miekisz (University of Warsaw), David Ramsey (University of Limerick)
• The Japanese Society for Mathematical Biology/SMB Osaka, Japan - Dynamics of a combined Medea-Underdominant Population Transformation System

2015

• European Society for Evolutionary Biology Lausanne, Switzerland - Winning the marathon | multiplayer games in the mutation selection equilibrium

2016

• ALIFE XV - Fifteenth International Conference on the Synthesis and Simulaiton of Living Systems Cancun, Mexico - Origins of life and Evolutionary games: Exploring the nonlinearities in life
• Fungal Evolution Symposium Ploen, Germany - Host-parasite coevolution in a domesticated world
• International Society for Dynamic Games Urbino, Italy - Ecological dynamics in evolutionary games
• Visit - Hinrich Schulenburg, Kiel, Germany - On the persistence of phenotypic heterogeneity

2017

• Max Planck Institute Public Talk in German, Ploen, Germany - Evolutionäre Spieltheorie
• Summer school "Impacts and their role in the evolution of life", Saarema, Estonia, Impact of stochasticity on the origins and evolution of life
• Organised workshop Bionomics: The biology and economics of mutualisms with Jorge Peña
  • Speakers: Olivia Roth (Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research, GEOMAR), Michelle Afkhami (University of Miami), Megan Frederickson (University of Toronto), Erol Akçay (University of Pennsylvania), Claire Spottiswoode (University of Cape Town and University of Cambridge)

2018

• Organised seminar series Year of Mathematical Biology with Linda Odenthal-Hesse
  • Speakers: Hanna Kokko, Nick Barton, Michael Doebeli, Michael Lynch, Alison Etheridge, Pleuni Pennings
• Max Planck Day Public Talk in German, Ploen, Germany - Max Planck in Plön: Kleine Stadt Große Auswirkung
• University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia, Evolutionary games and ecological dynamics: from mutualism to antagonism
• European Astrobiology Institute workshop Tartu, Estonia, Engineering Cooperation: From hypercycles to synthetic biology

2019

• International Workshop on Mathematical Biology, Bohol, Philippines - Eco-evolutionary game dynamics : from cells to societies
• Workshop on the Dynamics of Interdependent Decision Delmenhorst, Germany, Eco-evolutionary game dynamics : from cells to societies
• Mathematical Models of Ecology and Evolution Lyon, France, Beliefs : A catalyst for cooperation

2020

• Visit - Meike Wittmann, Bielefeld, Germany, Eco-evolutionary dynamics : from cells to societies
• Organised minisymposium in eSMB 2020 Eco-evolutionary dynamics across scales of organisation with Meike Wittmann, - Speakers: Paula Vasconcelos, Lynn Govaert, Charles Mullon, Joseph Sardanyes
• Translational Biology, Kiel Kiel, Germany, Eco-evolutionary dynamics in agriculture
• Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse Toulouse, France, Eco-evolutionary dynamcis : from cells to societies
• Institute for Advanced Study, Toulouse - Theory seminar Toulouse, France, Collective narratives catalyse cooperation

2021

• eVisit - Oana Carja, Carnegie-Mellon, USA, Eco-evolutionary dynamics : from cells to societies
• e - Society for Mathematical Biology online, Synthetic gene-drives and the control problem
• University of Muenster Biology Seminar series: The Growth of the Evolutionary Thought Muenster, Germany, Collective narratives catalyse cooperation
• Gene Drive workshop ANR - Florence Debarre online, Synthetic gene-drives and the control problem
• Evogames+ Winter School online, Evolutionary games : Thinking beyond the dyad

2022

• Santa Fe Institute - “Constructing and Deconstructing Collectives: Signals to Space and Society” (online) - Collective Narratives Catalyse cooperation
• Fifth Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution (ONLINE) - Plurality in evolutionary theory - games and genes
• Mathematics Symposium, City University, London (online) - Collective Narratives Catalyse cooperation
• Public Lecture at the MPI: Die Macht der Propaganda - Die Bedeutung von Geschichten für kollektives Handeln
• 3 May 2022, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Towards Molecular Complexity: At the crossroads between astrophysics and biochemistry - The ecology of evolutionary replicators
• 18 May 2022 EvoGames+ Summer School lecture, Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) - Stochastic evolutionary game dynamics
• 24 May 2022 Lecture Series in Ecology and Evolution, University of Bern, The power of belief - how collective narratives catalyze cooperation
• 11-12 June 2022 Graz, Austria Workshop on game theory in fauna and flora The power of belief - how collective narratives catalyze cooperation
• 14 June 2022 Vienna, Complexity Hub The power of belief - how collective narratives catalyze cooperation
• July 2022, NetSci 2022, Shanghai (online) Satellite Symposia – Evolutionary dynamics of trust in structured populations
• 27 October 2022 Paris, Workshop on Dynamic Games and Applications Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas Eco-evolutionary dynamics of collective beliefs catalysing cooperation

2023

• 1st March 2023, EAWAG: The power beliefs and trust in unstructured and structured populations

• 17-21 April 2023, Bernoulli Center, EPFL, Lausanne, Biological Evolution Across Scales: Mathematical modelling and statistical inference: Ecological processes and community cohesion: lessons from synthetic microbial communities

• 21 June 2023, Biocenter, Zoo3, Würzburg Translational research in agriculture

• 29 June 2023, Human Frontier Science Program, International Science Summit and Scientific Symposium, Theoretical biology for sustainable agriculture: a sociobiological conundrum

• 14-18 August 2023, Seoul, South Korea, International Conference on Biological Physics: ``Antibiotics at the root of microbial diversity``

  Cancelled due to visa processing delay

• September 2023, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Postdoc Retreat The role of AI in research

• 30-31st October 2023 “Evolutionary Theory” for Masters in Bioinformatics

• 21st November 2023 “Eco-evolutionary agriculture: from fundamental to translational research” 11:15 - 12:15 Onsite PER 04 0.110 Auditorium, Rue Albert-Gockel 3, Fribourg

2024

• 9th - 11th January 2024 IST Vienna “The power of collective beliefs in catalysing cooperation in unstructured and structured population”
• 6th - 9th February 2024 Minisymposium at the DSABNS conference Almada, Lisbon, “Theoretical Models in Sustainable agriculture- integrating ecology, evolution and economics”
• 7th May 2024 Rechtliche und ethische Aspekte in den Biowissenschaften, Würzburg - “Eco-evolutionary agriculture: theoretical approaches to sustainable practices”
• 19th - 24th May 2024 Banff International Research Station - "Modelling and Theory in Population Biology"

  Cancelled due to Visa processing delays from Canada

• 19th - 24th May 2024 GRC on Genetic Biocontrol - “Gene drives under ecological pressure”
• • 6th June 2024 European Astrobiology Institute - Subgroup “Coupling of compartment, metabolism, and heritable information in evolutionary systems”
• 10th June 2024 Benedict XVI Hall, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome - Naturam totam complectari animo: towards a relational ecology Talk: “Ecology defines the individual”
• 19th June 2024 Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology “Interdisciplinary Theoretical Biology”
• 3th - 5th September 2024 NC3 Conference, the University of Münster “Temporal scaffolding: How ecology defines the individual”
• 19th October 2024, Deutsche Studienstiftung, Würzburg Residenz Academy - “Population Transformation and Gene Drive”