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Welcome to Episode 27 of Slightly Evolved! This week our guest is Ghazal Alavioon, a PhD student at Uppsala University. Ghazal talks to us about her research on the evolutionary dynamics of sperm. We talk about how haploid selection is a unde
Welcome to Episode 26 of Slightly Evolved! This week our guest is Dr Luisa Orsini, lecturer at the University of Birmingham, UK.Luisa talks to us about her work on Daphnia, a fascinating system where you able to "resurrect" dormant individual
Welcome to Episode 25 of Slightly Evolved! This week we talk to Dr Mark Ravinet, a researcher at the University of Oslo. Mark takes us on a journey from his roots as a geographer to working on one of the most hotly debated topics in evolution
Welcome to Episode 24 of Slightly Evolved! This week our guest is Samridhi Chaturvedi, PhD student at Utah State University.Samridhi talks to us about her work on adaptation in butterflies. We discuss adaptation to a new host plant species, v
Welcome to Episode 23 of Slightly Evolved! On our first episode back from summer break our guest is Dr Jeremy Yoder, Assistant Professor at California State University Northridge. Jeremy talks to us about his work on coevolution, including h
Welcome to Episode 22 of Slightly Evolved! This week we have a special episode from the Evolution 2017 meeting, held at the Oregon Convention Centre in Portland, Oregon, between 23-27th June 2017. We talk to several attendees about their conf
Welcome to Episode 21 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Toby Hammer, a PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder.Toby tells us about his research on the microbiotic diversity (or lack thereof...) of Lepidoptera! We talk about the rece
Welcome to Episode 20 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Susan Johnston, Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.We talk to Susan about how genomics can solve some long standing evolutionary puzzles. We talk
Welcome to Episode 19 of Slightly Evolved! No guest this week, but instead I talk about the divide between scientists and the public. Is the public really tired of experts or can we do better in the ways that scientists engage with them?Here
Welcome to Episode 18 of Slightly Evolved! It's a slightly different format this week. Ilkka Hanski was Professor of Ecology at the University of Helsinki, but sadly died in May 2016. Ilkka made huge contributions to the fields of ecology, evol
Welcome to Episode 17 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Erica von Essen from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.Erica is a hunting sociologist and her research has focused on human-wildlife conflicts, hunting and animal ethics
Welcome to Episode 16 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Adam Dobson from University College London.Adam tells us about his research from studying immunity in beetles to ageing in fruit flies. We discuss what flies can tell us about getting
Welcome to Episode 15 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Elizabeth Jones, a PhD student at University College London.Elizabeth is a historian of science and for her PhD has been investigating the development of ancient DNA research from early
Welcome to Episode 14 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Olga Vinnere Pettersson, project coordinator at the National Genomics Infrastructure @ SciLifeLab, Uppsala University.Genome sequencing has promised to transform the way we can study
Welcome to Episode 13 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Rachel Penczykowski from the University of Wisconsin at Madison, who is soon to start a faculty position at Washington University in St Louis. This week we are talking about disease!
Welcome to Episode 12 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Professor Craig Primmer, Academy Professor at the University of Turku, and soon the University of Helsinki. Craig tells us about his career path and how the field of population genetics
Welcome to Episode 11 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Carly Lynsdale, a PhD student at the University of Sheffield. This week we are talking about parasites and elephants! Carly tells us about her research on the evolutionary ecology and co
Welcome to Episode 10 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Lewis Spurgin, a BBSRC research fellow at the University of East Anglia. We talk to Lewis about balancing selection and what forces can help maintain genetic diversity even in small,
Welcome to Episode 9 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Patrick Goymer, Chief Editor of Nature Ecology and Evolution.This week we enter the world of science publishing. Patrick tells us about his journey from a research career to an editor
Welcome to Episode 8 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Germán Orizaola, an associate researcher at Uppsala University.The Chernobyl incident was one of the worst disasters of the 20th century. The area was rapidly evacuated and since 1986
Welcome to Episode 7 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Jessica Abbott, a senior university lecturer at Lund University.This week we are talking about sexually antagonistic selection. Jessica tells us how selection on traits that might be g
Welcome to Episode 6 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Nancy Chen a NSF postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Davis.This week we are talking about how evolution can occur even on short, ecological time scales. Nancy tells us
Welcome to Episode 5 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Patrícia Pečnerová a PhD student at Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History.This week we are talking about what the extinction of the mammoth can tell us about curr
Welcome to Episode 4 of Slightly Evolved! Our guest is Dr Joona Lehtomäki, a postdoctoral researcher in the Environmental Geography research group at VU Amsterdam. This week we are at the science policy interface. We talk to Joona about how h
Welcome to Episode 3 of Slightly Evolved! This weeks guest is Homa Papoli Yazdi a 3rd year PhD student at Uppsala University.We talk about her work on sex chromosome evolution, the importance of discovery for society, and how learning the vio
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