20 February: Hitching a ride: Incorporating infection into our understanding of animal movement and performance. Sandra A. Binning, University of Montreal, Canada (behavioural ecology)
27 February: RNA regulation in warm environments. Rodrigo Reis, University of Bern (plant physiology)
13 March: Transposable elements and regulatory evolution. Cédric Feschotte, Cornell University, USA (evolutionary genetics)
20 March: From adversaries to guardians: the multifaceted role of microbes in plant health. Pascale Flury, University of Basel (microbiology)
27 March: Microbial Gatekeepers of Soil Carbon in a Changing Alpine World. Jeremy Puissant, CNRS Grenoble, France (functional ecology)
3 April: Groundwater-surface water interactions in headwaters. Clément Roques, CHYN, University of Neuchâtel (soil biodiversity)
17 April: The role of life history and movement in spatial population synchrony: Theoretical and empirical investigations. Ellen Martin, Swiss Ornithological Institute (conservation biology)
8 May: Fitness landscapes for the study of ecology and evolution across biological scales. Claudia Bank, University of Bern (biodiversity genomics)
15 May: Cell-to-cell transport in differentiated roots. Marie Barberon, University of Geneva (cell and molecular biology)
22 May: Understanding Ecological Dynamics with Incomplete Information. Chuliang Song, Uni California, Los Angeles (chemical ecology)
6 June:Can We Understand an Insect Society? Raghavendra Gadagkar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (behavioural ecology)