CIBIO Advanced Course

See more information on this and other advanced courses, workshops and seminars at the CIBIO webpage (Education & Training). 

CBA Advanced Courses

We recall that during 2013 several Advanced Courses CBA will take place at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon.

Below we detail the courses with closer deadline of applications.

Biodiversity and Plant Evolution - to be held between January 14 and 22, 2013. Deadline for applications January 5, 2013, email to be sent to Helena Cotrim.

Lichens as a tool for interpretation of environmental change – to be held between January 28 and February 1, 2013. Deadline for applications January 10 2013, email to be sent to Cristina Máguas. 

Practical course on Phylogenetics – to be held between February 4-8 2013. Deadline forapplications January 11 2013; email to be sent to Octávio Paulo.

Natural History Collections and Biodiversity – to be held between February 5-8 2013. Deadline for applications January 11 2013; email to be sent to  Maria Judite Alves.

See more informations at the CBA webpage.

CIBIO - Advance Seminar Series

The Conference "The evolution of Darwin finches" is included in the BIODIV Advance seminars and it's free for BIODIV students upon previous inscription (please send confirmation to Sara Ferreira, cibio.up@mail.icav.up.pt).

A Conferência "A evolução dos tentilhões de Darwin" está incluída nos seminários avançados do BIODIV. A entrada é gratuita para os alunos do Programa devendo para tal fazer a sua inscrição prévia no Cibio (Sara Ferreira, cibio.up@mail.icav.up.pt).

CIBIO Advanced Seminars Series

Profiting from the stay in CIBIO of Profs. David Wake (University of California at Berkeley, USA) and Darren Irwin (University of British Columbia, Canada) for the PhD thesis of Ricardo Pereira, we will have the opportunity of attending two top-level Seminars next thursday, 10 March, at 15h, at the Auditorium, in CIBIO!

The titles of the Seminars are as indicated below:

1. On the origin of bird species of the boreal forests

Prof. Darren Irwin
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, CANADA

2. Adaptive Radiation of Salamanders in Tropical America: A Remarkable Adaptive Radiation at Risk of Extinction

Prof. David Wake
MVZ and Department of Integrative Biology
University of California at Berkeley, USA

CONFERENCES

"The genetic basis of speciation in house mice."

Michael Nachman

EEB

University of Arizona

USA

 

"Detecting signatures of selection using whole genome resequencing"

Leif Andersson

Department of Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala University
Department of Animal Breeding and Genetics,

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden

2 December, 15-18h 

University of Porto, Faculty of Sciences, Dep Biology, auditorium 040

CONFERENCE

Development by design: blending landscape level planning with the mitigation hierarchy. 

Joseph Kiesecker

November 30, 15h00, CIBIO - Campus Agrário de Vairão.

Summary. Compensatory mitigation, or biodiversity offsets, provide a mechanism for maintaining or enhancing environmental values in situations where development is being planned, despite detrimental environmental impacts. Offsets are generally intended as an option for addressing any remaining environmental impacts of a development plan, after efforts have been made to avoid, minimize, or restore on-site impacts. Although offset programs require that developers adhere to the mitigation hierarchy to avoid, minimize, and restore biodiversity on-site before considering an offset for residual impacts, no quantitative guidelines exist for this decision-making process. What criteria are needed to require that impacts be minimized or avoided altogether? Here, we examine how conservation planning can provide a way to address this issue. By blending landscape-level conservation planning with application of the mitigation hierarchy, we can ensure that the use of biodiversity offsets is consistent with sustainable development practices.

Biographical sketch. Dr. Joseph Kiesecker is a Director of Science for The Nature Conservancy (USA). In this capacity his main responsibilities include developing new tools, methods, processes, and techniques that improve conservation. He also conducts his own research in areas ranging from disease ecology, to the effectiveness of new conservation tools such as conservation easements. Dr. Kiesecker's training was in ecology, conservation biology and animal behavior, with a Ph.D. from Oregon State University in 1997. He has held faculty appointments at Yale University, Penn State University and University of Wyoming. He has been a Donnelly Fellow, and has received funding for his research from National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the IUCN and numerous private foundations. Kiesecker has published over 100 articles, on topics ranging from climate change to the effectiveness of conservation strategies; examples of his work have been published in Nature, PNAS, Plos One, Ecology and Conservation Biology. His past research has focused primarily on the conservation and ecology of freshwater systems. In particular, he has been interested in the global amphibian decline phenomenon. This line of research has involved investigating how perturbations resulting from climate change and land use changes can stress organisms, making them more susceptible to disease. His recent work includes developing new tools to blend landscape level planning with the mitigation hierarchy in attempts to better inform land-use decisions. He began his job with TNC in 2004 with the challenge of putting years of classroom teaching and academic research into conservation practice in the real world. 

CIBIO Advanced Seminars Series

TiBE2010 - Trends in Biodiversity and Evolution

9-10th December 2010, CIBIO, Campus Agrário de Vairão

The TiBE conferences aim at joining worldwide scientific researchers and students working on the field of evolutionary biology to present and discuss cutting-edge findings in relevant topics related with speciation, molecular evolution, comparative genomics, population and conservation genetics research, among others.

The four sessions of TiBE2010 Conferences, Divergence and Gene Flow, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Study Speciation, Molecular Evolution, and Evolutionary Genomics will be considered as Advanced Seminars (3h each) for BIODIV students.

Attendance is free for BIODIV students but inscription is mandatory (see http://cibio.up.pt/tibe).