Ernst Mayr Lecture 2022

Hopi E. Hoekstra moved to Harvard University in 2006, where she is currently the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Departments of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Molecular & Cellular Biology, the Curator of Mammals at the Museum of Comparative Zoology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She is broadly interested in the genetic basis of adaptation – from morphology to behavior – in vertebrates, primarily wild mice. Hopi E. Hoekstra is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

THE LECTURE SERIES

The Ernst Mayr Lecture is a lecture series in the field of the life sciences sponsored by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin  . The biennial lecture aims to communicate the development of biological thinking by leading scientists from various disciplines to a wider audience. The series thus refers to one of the main works of the ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr (1904-2005) entitled „The Growth of Biological Thought“ and was inaugurated by himself in autumn 1997.

PROGRAM

Welcome

• Christoph Markschies (President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities)

Introduction

• Dieter Ebert (Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg and Professor of Zoology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Basel)

Nature's Palette: How and Why Color Varies in the Wild

• Hopi E. Hoekstra (Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Departments of Organismic & Evolutionary Biology and Molecular & Cellular Biology at Harvard University)