PopBio on the Dark Side

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We are pleased to be back for another year! Join us next Thursday 1pm AEST.

Deepa Agashe (NCBS) @deepaagashe.bsky.social will present a seminar titled:

Founders, shapers: Colonizing individuals predict trait and population dynamics in new habitats

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Join us this Thursday, Hiromi Uno (Tohoku University) will give our last seminar for the year:

Insects, shrimps and fishes; river animal migrations and their ecological consequences

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YouTube video by PopBio on the Dark Side Meghna Krishnadas - Demographic responses of plants to abiotic and biotic drivers

Our most recent seminar from Meghna Krishnadas is now available to watch 🌳🦠🌳

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Meghna Krishnadas will present the next PopBio seminar:

The relative and interactive roles of abiotic and biotic drivers on demographic responses of plants

Join us online, Thursday Oct 30 1pm AEST.

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I-Ching Chen will present the next PopBio seminar:

Revisiting the Vulnerability of Mountain Biota under Rapid Warming

Join us online, Thursday Sep 25 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all so please share widely.

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For those who couldn't make it to our most recent seminar, the recording is now available on our Youtube with all of the other excellent talks from this year!

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Shaopeng Wang will present the next PopBio seminar:

"Biodiversity and Ecosystem Stability Across Spatial and Temporal Scales"

Join us online, Thursday August 28 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!

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Joe Wan will present the next PopBio seminar:

"A unified theory of community structure"

Join us online, Thursday July 31 1pm AEST. These seminars are open to all!

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Save the dates!

We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next three months (last Thursday of each month). These online seminars are open to all and the time of day is set for attendees in the Asia-Pacific.

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Starting in 30 minutes!

Andrew Barnes @barnesecodiv.bsky.social will present our next seminar:

"Deciphering the Multitrophic Consequences of Biodiversity Change Through an Energetic Lens"

Join us online Thursday 26th June 1pm AEST!

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Join us online this Thursday 1pm AEST.

Hye Jin Park @hyejinpark.bsky.social (Inha University) will present:

"Artificial selection for collective composition"

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NB. This seminar won't be recorded.

Next week we have our speaker for May, Hye Jin Park (details coming soon!).

And don't forget in the meantime you can see the talks from Ryan Chisholm and Akshit Goyal on our youtube!

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We have a YouTube channel!

You can see recordings of Akshit Goyal's talk from yesterday and Ryan Chisholm's talk from last month here:

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Starting in just over one hour. See you online!

Akshit will discuss the following papers:

journals.aps.org/prxlife/pdf/...

arxiv.org/abs/2503.10865

Join us online for our second seminar this Thursday 1pm AEST.

Akshit Goyal @akshitg.bsky.social (ICTS) will present:

"Predicting Ecosystem Responses to Perturbations via a Geometric Approach"

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NB. Time changes in SE Aus from last month!

This is starting in just under 2 hours at 1pm AEST! Some of our emails have gotten lost in spam filters so we are sharing the zoom link here: unimelb.zoom.us/j/8203296411...

See you online soon for some ecological theory 😎🧑‍💻

Join us for our first seminar on Friday: Ryan Chisholm will present:

A unified theory of niche assembly and dispersal assembly in community ecology

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For those in Australia note that 1pm AEST will be 2pm in Melbourne.

A list of seminar dates, speakers and titles for an online seminar 'PopBio on the Dark Side'.

We have an excellent line up of speakers for the next few months! Starting with Ryan Chisholm in March and then @akshitg.bsky.social @hyejinpark.bsky.social @barnesecodiv.bsky.social. Fill in this google form to receive announcements forms.gle/7vEiUQKJqeUL...

We are excited to announce our new seminar series highlighting research on population biology and theoretical ecology from academics and post-grads based in the Asia-Pacific. We have a great line up of speakers for the next few months. Stay tuned for more info!