The Mangelsdorf Distinguished Speaker, University of North Carolina (2013)

The Albert L. Tester Lecture, University of Hawaii, HI (2010)

The Jack & Pat Bryan Distinguished Lecture, Syracuse University (2010)

The Storer Foundation Lecture, University of California-Davis, CA (2010)

The John Tyler Bonner Lecture, Princeton University, NJ (2009)

The John Maynard Smith Award Lecture, University of Aahrus, Denmark (2001).

2019

Plenary lecture: "Control Theory of Evolution" Evolution Evolving: Process, Mechanism and Theory conference, Cambridge University, UK

Keynote lecture: "Unforgettable. Untitled". Nature Photography Association meeting, LV,  US

2018

Plenary lecture: "Islands in a sea of possibilities: What determines tempo and mode of avian coloration evolution?" The First Russian Ornithological Congress, Tver', Russia

"Inheritance: Local and Express. Historical scaling of a key evolutionary concept". "Integrating Development and Inheritance" conference. Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA.

2017

"Evolving out of control: Does controllability of a system coevolve with its complexity"? Invited symposium: “Networks in Biology and Medicine”. XVI Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology. Groningen, The Netherlands.

2016

"Breaking the curse of complexity in adaptive evolution of complex traits". Symposium: Evolutionary Endocrinology: Hormones as mediators of evolutionary phenomena, Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Portland OR.

“The earlier the investment, the greater the return: The Heckman Curve in the evolution of maternal effects”. Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group, Chicago.

"Lighting the pathway: Photographing as learning and exploring". International Nature Photography Festival 2016, Gesellschaft Deutscher Tierfotografen (GDT), Lünen, Germany.

2015

Keynote lecture. "Making sense of biological diversity in the era of genomics". Banquet Plenary The 2015 iNBRE/NIH (Network of Biomedical Research Excellence/ National Institute of Health) Conference, Town Hall, Fayetteville, AR, United States.

2014

Plenary lecture. "Colors of the Past: Can ancient metabolic pathways direct contemporary avian color evolution?". Joint Meeting of the American Ornithologists’ Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society, and the Society of Canadian Ornithologist, Estes Park, CO, United States

"Illuminating Exposures: Using the camera to answer questions, make discoveries and tell stories". Wildscreen Photography Festival 2014. Royal Geographic Society, London. UK. Also, WPY Masterclass, Natural History Museum, London, UK.

2013

"Epigenetic resolution of the “curse of complexity”. Symposium "Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Nongenetic Effects", Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.

"From emergence to evolution: Phenotypic integration of complex offspring sex-bias”. Symposium “Hormone-mediated sex ratio adjustment in vertebrates”. Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Francisco, United States.

"Structuring evolution: biochemical network view of avian color diversification". XXV Reunion Packard Fellows Conference, Colorado, United States.

"Tradeoff between robustness and elaboration produces cycles of avian color diversification". Invited Symposium “Frontiers in Science”. Kavli Foundation and National Academy of Sciences Meeting, Irvine, CA, United States.

2012

Plenary lecture."Paving the road to evolutionary change with physiological adaptability". The 2012 EcoGenes Conference " Global change in the Mediterranean: Learning from experiences worldwide". European Commission and Spanish National Research Council. Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain.

2011

"Origin of the fittest: cycles of developmental emergence and genetic determination in evolution". Invited speaker for symposium “Evolutionary implications of non-genetic inheritance”. XIII Congress of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Tuebingen, Germany.

“Specializing in Impossible”, Plenary, WildPhotos 2011 Congress. Royal Geographic Society, London. UK.

2010

Plenary. "Stress and the origin of novelty in evolution". International symposium "Stress and Evolution", Universität Münster, Münster, Germany.

"Integration with feather growth networks facilitate genetic assimilation of novel carotenoid compounds". Symposium "Eco-Devo: Adaptation in Real Time", European EvoDevo Meeting, Paris, France

“Epigenetic regulation of development links adaption and diversification of skeletal phenotypes”. Symposium: "Anatomical variation: genetic, developmental, and comparative perspectives" (with R. L. Young). Annual Meeting of American Association of Anatomists, Anaheim, CA.

“Colorful phenotypes of colorless genotypes: Origin and evolution of diet-derived pigmentation in animals". 2010 Packard Fellows Meeting, Monterey, CA

2009

Plenary lecture: "New perspectives in evolutionary ornithology". 79th Annual meeting of the Cooper Ornithological Society, USA

"Parental effects in development and evolution". Symposium "Nuture goes molecular: Epigenetic mechanisms and the innate/acquired distinction". (with T. Uller). The 2009 meeting of the International Society for History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology. Brisbane, Australia.

 

2008

Keynote address. "Maternal effects as generators of evolutionary change". 2nd Workshop in Evolutionary Biology, University of Wollongong, Australia.

"Developmental evolution of mating strategies indicated by diet-dependent color displays". Symposium: "Pathways to Novelty and Diversity: The Causes and Consequences of Polyphenism". 45th Meeting of ABS, Snowbird, US.

"Developmental evolution of sexual displays: model and a test of feather growth and pigmentation". XX Reunion Packard Fellows Meeting, Park City, US.

"Developmental accommodation of muscle activity in the mammalian mandible". Symposium: "Canalization, Robustness, and Developmental Stability". 2nd European Evolutionary Developmental Biology Meeting, Ghent, Belgium (with R. L. Young).

"Evolvability and robustness in color displays: Bridging the gap between theory and data." Conference "Phenotypic and Developmental Plasticity", Kerala, India

2007

"Developmental evolution of mating strategies indicated by diet-derived color displays". Fourth Kristineberg Symposium “Mating System Evolution”, The Wenner-Gren Foundation, Kristineberg Marine Research Station, Sweden.

"Origin and evolution of novel phenotypes: From environmental induction to genetic inheritance in color displays". Symposium: "Ecological dimorphisms in vertebrates: proximate and ultimate causes". 2007 Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Phoenix, US.

"Developmental evolution of recurring modules and generation of organismal diversity". XIX Annual Packard Fellows Meeting, Monterey Bay, CA, US.

"Developmental evolution of BMPs: From postnatal epigenetic remodeling to adaptive genetic divergence". Symposium: "Ecological dimorphisms in vertebrates: proximate and ultimate causes". 2007 Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Phoenix, US.

"Darwinism in the 21st century: Beyond the Modern Synthesis". The International Society for History, Philosophy, & Social Studies of Biology. The ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society Exeter, UK.

2006

"Generation and evolution of animal color diversity: Reconciling within-species continuity with species divergence". XVIII Annual Packard Fellows Meeting, Monterey Bay, US.

"Resolution of a trade-off between current reproduction and future sexual ornamentation: A novel physiological mechanism". Symposium: "Evolutionary and Ecological Perspectives of Sexual Selection". IV North American Ornithological Conference, Veracruz, Mexico.

"Colorful phenotypes of colorless genotypes: Towards a new evolutionary synthesis of animal color displays". Workshop "Integrated studies of genetic networks: A new evolutionary synthesis" National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, US.

2005

"Rapid evolution of an invasive species". Special Symposium “Evolution on ecological time scales". 2005 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting & the International Congress of Ecology, Montreal, Canada.

"Mycoplasmal conjunctivitis: factors influencing disease expression". Symposium "Parasite effects on birds on individual and population levels". 123rd Stated Meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union, Santa Barbara, US.

Plenary. "Maternal inheritance and rapid evolution of sexual size dimorphism: Passive effects or active strategies?" Conference "The evolution of sexual size dimorphism". The Centro Stefano Franscini Conference Center on Monte Verità, Locarno, Switzerland.

"Evolution as the control of development by ecology": Passive maternal effects and the evolution of sexual dimorphism. NSF (USA)/NSERC (Canada)/ESF (EU) Conference: "Maternal Effects". Seattle, US.

2004

"Evolution of plasticity in parental strategies: An endocrinological perspective." VIII International Congress on Avian Endocrinology, Phoenix, US.

"Integration and inheritance of adaptive environmental effects: an example with foraging apparatus of shrews". Symposium: "A mechanistic approach to evolutionary developmental biology".International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, US.

"Evolution of ontogeny of sexual dimorphism in a bird: proximate and ultimate mechanisms". American Society of Naturalists Vice-Presidential Symposium. SSE/ASN/SSB Meeting, Fort Collins, US.

"Evolutionary significance of stress-induced variation in morphology: Example with Soricid shrews". International Symposium on Systematics & Phylogeography of Mammals in Eastern Asia, Taiwan. (with K.R. Foresman).

"Adaptation and constraints in avian reproduction: integrating ecology and endocrinology". Conference “Integration of ecology and endocrinology” sponsored by European Science Foundation, National Science Foundation and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Wageningen, The Netherlands.

<2003

"Evolution of sexual size dimorphism: Ontogenetic perspective". Invited symposium talk at IX Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Leeds, United Kingdom.

"Evolutionary ecology of alternative life history strategies". Invited symposium talk at XXVIII International Ethological Conference, Florianópolis, Brazil.

"Evolution of multiple signals in birds: Functional and developmental integration in carotenoid plumage ornaments". Symposium "Signaling and Speciation". XXIII International Ornithological Congress, Beijing, China.

"Evolution of developmental and functional integration in shrew mandibles". The Second International Symposium on Advances in the Biology of Shrews. Carnegie Museum of Natural History, US. (with K.R. Foresman).

Plenary lecture. "Mothers against population extinction: A success story of a North American finch". Edward Grey Institute of Ornithology Conference, “Ornithology and Evolutionary Biology” University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

"Developmental and functional integration of sexual plumage colouration in a passerine bird". Invited talk for symposium “Evolution and development of color patterns”. VIII Congress of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, Aahrus, Denmark.

"Rapid divergence in sexual dimorphism in natural bird populations: The role of ontogenetic variation and parental effects". Young Insvestigators’ Symposium. 2001 ASN/SSE Meetings, Knoxville, TN, USA

"Selection on integration of sexual traits and reproductive behaviors". Symposium “New perspectives in evolution of sexual traits: Selection on integration of sexual traits and sexual behaviors” 2001 American Ornithologists’ Union Meeting, Seattle, US

"Causes and consequences of individual variation in dispersal and settlement decisions: An example with nesting habitat sampling". Symposium "Individual variation in dispersal behavior". 37th Annual Meeting of the Animal Behavior Society (2000), Atlanta, US

"Sexual dimorphism in colour in relation to phylogeny and ecology. Symposium "Bird Coloration: mechanisms, functions, and evolution". XXII International Ornithological Congress (1998), Durban, South Africa.