Invited Talks (selection)

2011

The System Turn in Evolutionary Theory.
Symposium "Systems in Biology"
University of Vienna, Austria

Evolving Complex Organisms.
Symposium "From Chemistry to Evolution"
University of Vienna, Austria

The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory.
Evolution der Paläontologie, 82. Jahrestagung der Paläontologischen Gesellschaft, Wien, Austria

Die großen Veränderungen in der Evolutionstheorie.
Pro Scientia Sommerakademie "Entwicklung", Seggau, Austria

Conceptual Issues of an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis.
IHPST, Université Paris 1, Sorbonne, France

Die Erweiterte Synthese der Evolutionstheorie.
Deutsches Museum, München, BRD

2010

Elements of an Extended Synthesis in Evolutionary Theory.
Workshop Perspectives on the Evolution of Evolutionary Theory
University of Milano Bicocca, Milano, Italy

Emergence in Evolutionary Innovation.
Conference Genomes and the Synthesis of Life
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Organismal Form in Evolutionary Theory.
Biological and Physical Constraints on the Evolution of Form in Plants and Animals. 24th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology, Altenberg, Austria

Beyond Variation: The EvoDevo of Phenotypic Novelty.
Workshop Conceptual Change in Biological Science.
Max Planck Institute for History of Science, Berlin, Germany

Evolving Evolutionary Theory.
Congress: Evolutionstheorie und Schöpfungsglaube – neue Perspektiven nach dem Darwinjahr.
University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

2009

EvoDevo´s Theoretical Consequences.
Human EvoDevo: The role of development in human evolution
22nd Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology, Altenberg, Austria

Developmental Dynamics.
5th Meeting of the EUNICE Network, Elba, Italy

Extending the Evolutionary Synthesis.
UNESCO Darwin 200 Symposium: Basic Issues in Evolution
Istituto Veneto, Venezia, Italy

Evolutionäre Entwicklungsbiologie und die Synthetische Theorie.
Symposium Evolution: Die Grundlage für ein Verstehen des Wandels in der Welt. Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, Austria

EvoDevo: Towards an extended evolutionary synthesis.
Il Darwin Day speciale del bicentenario
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Milano, Italy

2008

The environment-development relation and the Biologische Versuchsanstalt.
From Cells to Developmental Systems and Beyond: A Symposium Honoring Ernest Everett Just.Howard University, Washington DC, USA

Thought patterns from developmental biology.
3rd Meeting of the EUNICE Network, Elba, Italy

Origin and diversification of EvoDevo.
"Origins of EvoDevo: A tribute to Pere Alberch"
20th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology, Altenberg, Austria

Epigenetic Innovation Theory.
"Towards an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis"
18th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology, Altenberg, Austria

EvoDevo then and now.
Symposium "The cradle of EvoDevo"
University of Valencia, Spain

2007

The role of plasticity in morphological innovation.
Workshop "Phenotypic and Developmental Plasticity"
Trivandrum, India

Internalism and the origins of organic form.
Symposium "Origins of form in life, mind, and art".
175th anniversary of the University of Durham, Great Britain

Emergence and the evolution of complex organisms.
"Seminar Week on Emergence"
63rd European Forum Alpbach, Austria

The EvoDevo revolution and its effects on neo-Darwinism.
Philosophy of Biology seminar of the IHPST,
Université Paris 1, Sorbonne, France

Graphing genes, cells, and embryos.
Introduction to the Workshop “Graphing Genes, Cells, and Embryos”,
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy

Where EvoDevo goes beyond the Modern Synthesis.
Symposium “What happened after the Modern Synthesis”
ISHPSSB International Meeting, Exeter, Great Britain

2006

The role of EvoDevo in evolutionary theory.
Venice Workshop on Evolutionary Developmental Biology:
The State of the Art and the European Agenda.
Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy

Conceptual issues of evolutionary innovation.
First and Founding Meeting of the European Society of Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Prague, Czech Republic

An epigenetic model of limb skeletal patterning.
First and Founding Meeting of the European Society of Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Prague, Czech Republic