Programme - MiLS meeting on Quantitative approaches to evolution in biology and culture

The eight Mathematics in Life Sciences (MiLS) meeting will focus on "Quantitative approaches to evolution in biology and culture". It will take place on the 11th of December 2018 from 11am to 5pm, at the University of Southampton, in Ketley Room, Level 4, Building 54 (Mathematical Sciences).


Schedule:

11:15 Martina Testori (Mathematical Sciences, Southampton): Can psychopathic traits help communities to survive?

12:00 Jim Allen (Zoology, Cambridge): The evolution of “anti-teaching”.

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Justin Travis (Biological Sciences, Aberdeen): Opportunities and challenges in using IBMs to understand, forecast and manage the eco-evolutionary responses of species to environmental changes.

14:45 Greta Bocedi (Biological Sciences, Aberdeen): Understanding evolutionary and eco-evolutionary dynamics through a mechanistic and genetically-explicit modelling approach.

15:30 Sandrine Willaime-Morawek (Medicine, Southampton): Transgenerational diet effect on memory.

16:15 Close


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We look forward to welcoming you in Southampton.