The aim of the SOBI Seminars is to provide a forum for novel scientific findings and ideas in all areas of plant and animal sciences which are addressed within the Section for Organismal Biology. In order to fulfill this aim a two-monthly seminar series is organized. The seminars will be held every other week on Friday, alternating between internal and external speakers.

30. October: Travis Glare


Insect pathology at the Bio-Protection Research Centre, New Zealand

Professor Travis Glare

Bio-Protection Centre, Lincoln University 

In this talk I will discuss my group’s research on entomopathogenic microbes, particularly our model systems of the fungi Beauveria and the bacterium Brevibacillus laterosporus. Our research ranges from genomic studies on both groups, direct insect infectivity and toxicity, endophytic colonisation of plants, through to field application and product development. The research is conducted in the Bio-Protection Research Centre, a multi-partner virtual institute funded by the New Zealand government as a Centre for Research Excellence. I will also briefly describe the Centre, its aims and some of the research conducted on systems other than insect pathology and some travelogue of New Zealand.



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8. October: Christian Damgaard


Measuring plant ecological processes with the pin-point method

Professor Christian F. Damgaard

Institute for Bioscience - Terrestrial Ecology, University of Aarhus

In order to develop process-based ecological models we need to develop the measurement framework of plant abundance.
The pin-point method is one objective method for measuring plant abundance and different statistical and simple modeling. Examples using pin-point data will be demonstrated.
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