Louis Thaler Lectures
The Louis Thaler Lectures
The CeMEB (Centre Méditerraneen Environnement et Biodiversité) is a consortium comprising ten research institutes and more than 600 researchers with permanent positions working in biodiversity, ecology and evolutionary biology in Montpellier and Perpignan.
The Louis Thaler Lectures are an annual event organized by the CeMEB, featuring high-profile and thought-provoking international researchers with broad views in these research fields. They were launched in 2003 in honour of Louis Thaler, who was one of the main architects of evolutionary biology in France, and the founder of the ISEM (Institut de Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier – member of CeMEB).
Visiting scientists
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2019 Virpi Luumaa Human evolution |
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2021 Ruth Shaw University of Minnesota, US Studying the adaptive process in the wild : purple coneflower and partridge pea |
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2018 Sandra Lavorel Ecosystem services for global change adaptation |
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2017 Jordi Bascompte Plant-animal mutualistic networks: the architecture of biodiversity (VIDEO) |
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2016
Princeton University, US
In search of the causes of evolution: Darwin's finches on the Galapagos (VIDEO) |
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2014
University of Edinburgh, UK
From butterfly wings to plant sex chromosomes: the evolution of suppressed recombination |
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2011
Indiana University, US
Mutation and evolution
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2011
Pennsylvannia State University, US
The future of infectious disease in a pharmaceutical age
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2009
University of Missouri-St Louis, US
Evolutionary diversification and the filling of ecological niche space
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2007
UC Davies, US
Time and Ecology
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2006
University of Rochester, US
The genetics of speciation in Drosophila
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