Talks

Laurence Loewe: Here is a selected list of recent scientific talks I have given. Some can be downloaded as a pdf.

The following short overview highlights some of talks in the more detailed chronological list below.

Details of selected talks in chronological order

If download links are given, then you can choose between two forms with identical content:

ScreenPDF: A pdf with 1 slide/page that is best for viewing on screen, but still has a printer friendly white background
PrintPDF: A pdf with 4 slides/page that is best for printing, without wasting too much paper.

2008:

1 October 2008
Loewe L, "Approaches to modelling in biology and evolution", Download ScreenPDF PrintPDF
A high level overview talk over various approaches to building theoretical models in biology in general and evolution in particular.
Given at the Study Group "Reduced Dynamical Models with Biological Applications", organised by Nikola Popovic and Ben Leimkuhler, JCMB, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, UK.
30 July 2008
Loewe L “Designing a front-end for Bio-PEPA”,
7th Workshop on Process Algebra and Stochastically Timed Activities, 30-31 July 2008, Edinburgh, UK. http://pastaworkshop.org/
7 Februar 2008, invited
Loewe L, "The distribution of mutational effects on fitness”,
Given at the Bioinformatics Lunch, Department of Biology, University of York, UK.

2007:

18 December 2007
Loewe L & Charlesworth B, "The distribution of mutational effects on fitness within genes",
Given at the 41st Population Genetics Group Meeting, 17th - 20th Dec 2007, University of Warwick, UK.
28 August 2007
Loewe L, "High deleterious genomic mutation rate in stationary phase of Escherichia coli",
Given in the group of Dan I. Andersson at the Intitute for Medical Biochemistry and Microbiology, Uppsala Biomedicinska Centrum, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden.
27 August 2007
Loewe L, "Testing hypotheses about Muller's ratchet in mtDNA",
Given in the group of Otto G. Berg at the Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden.
16 May 2007, invited
Loewe L, "Pollution, Muller’s ratchet and possible extinctions of Poecilia formosa”,
Given at the Seminar in the Department of Biology, University of Hull, UK.
11 January 2007
Loewe L, "Background selection in single genes may explain patterns of codon bias",
Given at the 40th Population Genetics Group Meeting, 10th - 12th Jan 2007, University of Manchester, UK.

2006:

4 December 2006, invited
Loewe L, "The effects of Muller's ratchet on the Human Y, mtDNA and unisexual fish",
Given at the Population Genetics Analysis Workshop (EU Marie Curie Research Training Network “From Sex to Asex: a case study on transitions and co-existence between sexual and asexual reproduction”), 4th - 6th Dec 2006, Malham Tarn Field Centre (near Sheffield), UK.
24 March 2006
Loewe L “Genomic decay and the importance of perfect transmission of the best solution”
Given at the Joint Half-Day Workshop on Evolutionary Computation and Population Genetics with Applications to Electronic Engineering, Hudson Bare Building, King's Buildings, University of Edinburgh, UK.
15 February 2006, invited
Loewe L, "The effects of Muller's ratchet on the Human Y, mtDNA and unisexual fish",
Given at the Freshwater Biology Section, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium.

2005:

15 December 2005
Loewe L, "Estimating the strength of selection in Drosophila",
Given at the 39th Population Genetics Group Meeting, 14th-16th Dec 2005, Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
8 November 2005, invited
Loewe L, "Evolutionary consequences of deleterious mutations",
Given at the Animal Evolutionary Ecology Seminar, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
3 October 2005, invited
Loewe L, "Evolution@home: evolutionary systems biology, global computing and
Muller's ratchet in non-recombining genomes",
Given at the Molecular Pathobiology & Systems Biology Seminars, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, UK.

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This list might be updated at some time in the future to include talks that are even older.