8th Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Symposium

Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology University of Kiel, Germany His main research interest is to investigate how pathogens and changes in nutrition and subsistence strategies have shaped our genome over the last millennia. The underlying evolutionary processes also have important implications for modern disease genetics, e.g. in civilization and inflammatory diseases.

Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland Her research is focused on the evolutionary ecology of sexual and asexual reproduction, analysis and management of animal populations, the evolution of reproductive and social strategies, sustainability science.

Finnish Museum of Natural History University of Helsinki, Finland His research interests go from biodiversity informatics and biogeography to conservation biology and spider taxonomy. He is currently mostly interested in understanding global drivers of extinction and the distribution of species and communities across space and time. To reach such goals he is also developing new statistical and computational tools to quantify extinction risk and biodiversity at all levels: taxonomic, phylogenetic, and functional.