FrEESymp 2018 Keynote Speakers:
Nick Lane
Nick Lane is Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry in the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. His research focuses on the way that energy flow has shaped evolution over 4 billion years, using a mixture of theoretical and experimental work to address the origin of life, the evolution of complex cells and downright peculiar behaviour such as sex. His talk will focus on the bioenergetic basis for the three domains of life
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Elizabeth Jeffers
Elizabeth Jeffers is a lecturer at the University of Oxford and is part of both the Oxford Long Term Ecology Lab and the Mathematical Ecology Research Group. Her research looks at the intersection of palaeo-, ecosystem and community ecology to answer exciting and pressing questions about how terrestrial ecosystems cope with long-term climate and environmental change. She will talk about the use of palaeoecological data, highlighting examples of unexpected findings from analysis of the fossil record, describe their relevance for ecosystem management and identify new opportunities for collecting and integrating ecosystem data across time scales.
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Brendan Godley
Brendan has been working on marine turtles for over twenty five years from countries as far apart as Cyprus, Cayman Islands, Ascension Island, Gabon and Brazil. He will overview his work using satellite telemetry to inform conservation. He will also share some the key lessons that he has learned in academia that he thinks might be worthy of note at a conference of young scientists.
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