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WEEK 9 26th February - 2nd March 2007

Monday

26/02/2007

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Jeroen Siebring: “Functional analysis of phosphofructosekinase orthologues of Streptomyces coelicolor. PFKA2 constitutes the major PFK”

Tuesday

27/02/2007

12.30 Blue Room, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Group: Jelmer Poelstra

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Colloquium Moses Wandago: “Body size and food webs” and 16.30 Colloquium Jobien Veninga: “Juncus effusus (soft rush) in Dutch nature. How does Juncus effusus become dominant in newly created nature?”

18.30 H010, TheoBio Games Night

Wednesday

28/02/2007

12.30 Blue Room, Journal Club Animal Ecology Group

***postponed to 14th March: Theory Club, Martin Hinsch : “The trials and tribulations of modelling the evolution of territoriality” ***

Thursday

01/03/2007

NO Literature Club

Friday

02/03/2007

13.00 D225, Colloquium Marcel Buczkiesicz: "Learning and mate choice"

 

WEEK 8 19th - 23rd February 2007

Monday

19/02/2007

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

10.30 Blue Room, Prof. Anders Hedenstrom (Lund University): “Windtunnel experiments on vertebrate flight”

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Colloquium Wout Overkamp: "How are type IV secretion substrates transported during conjugation or bacterial pathogenesis?"

13.15, Academie Building, Thesis defense Carola Schmidt-Wellenburg: “Costs of migration: short- and long-term consequences of avian endurance flight”

15.00 C3, Colloqium Luc te Marvelde: “Reinforcement – Avoiding hybridisation”

16.15, D225, Mariene Biology Colloquium P.Luyckx: “Community genetics: integrating genetics and community ecology

 

Tuesday

20/02/2007

9.00 C6, Joint work discussion MBP and LPP, Frank Lanfermeijer: “Brassinosteroid signalling”

12.30 E123, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting, Nick Horrocks: “Seasonal patterns of disease risk and immune function among larks in different environments”

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Janita Campagner: “Influence of fire on foraging behaviour by Burchell's Zebra and Black Wildebeest” and 16.00 Elske Koppenaal: “Green beaches in the Netherlands”

Wednesday

21/02/2007

15.15 , Oude Boteringestraat 52, room Omega: Dr. Dr. Gerhard Schlosser (Institut für Hirnforschung, Universität Bremen): "Developmental Modularity and Mosaic Evolution"

NO Theory Club

Thursday

22/02/2007

16:00 Red Lecture Hall, Prof. David Saunders (Prof. Emeritus, University of Edinburgh): “Photoperiodic induction of overwintering diapause in insects”

No Literature Club

Friday

23/02/2007

 

WEEK 7 12th - 16th February 2007

Monday

12/02/2007

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Marta Woszczynska: “Proteomics of microbody membrane from Penicillium chrysogenum"

Tuesday

13/02/2007

9.00 C6, Joint work discussion MBP and LPP: Talk by Renate Ellens (title to be announced) and colloquium Nicolaas Hermans: “The buds are bursting”

12.30 E123, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting: Talk by Jeffrey Oldenburger

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Colloquium Renske Hekman: “Life-history traits and predation” and 16.30 Janita Campagner: “White Rhino middens as nutrient hotspots in a savanna ecosystem”

Wednesday

14/02/2007

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Luc te Marvelde: Do helpers really help? Detailed analysis of prey types delivered & nestling growth in the cooperatively breeding Bell miner Manorina melanophrys.”

Thursday

15/02/2007

16.00 H010, Literature Club: Ana Duarte will lead the discussion of 

E. Bonabeau, G. Theraulaz & J.-L. Deneubourg's article "Quantitative Study of the Fixed Threshold Model for the Regulation of Division of Labour in Insect Societies" (1996, Proceedings: Biological Sciences, Vol. 263, 1376, pp. 1565-1569). (PDF [PDF])

Friday

16/02/2007

 

WEEK 6 5th - 9th February 2007

Monday

05/02/2007

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

15.15 D225 Werkbesprekingen - colloquia Mariene Biologie, Ivo Ros: Body kinematics during level, 90-degree turns in pigeons

16:00 Red Lecture Hall, Special CEES Lecture”, Prof. Jacob Höglund (University of Uppsala, Sweden): “Conservation and genetic variation in natural populations; neutral or selected markers?

16.15 D225, Werkbesprekingen - colloquia Mariene Biologie, Robert Buitenwerf: Phylogenetic approaches to community ecology”

Tuesday

06/02/2007

9.00 C6, Joint work discussion MBP and LPP: Talk by Reza Shirzadian

12.30 Blue Room, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting Rob Gordijn: "Laying order and offspring sex in the blue tit”

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Sophie Jaquier: "Variation in the innate immunity of larks from arid and mesic environments" and 16.30 Marloes Poortvliet: "Factors shaping the latitudinal diversity gradient in the deep sea

Wednesday

07/02/2007

12:30 C6, Werkbespreking Evolutionaire Genetica, Hanneke Everts: "Sex determination genes in Nasonia"
13.00 Red Lecture Hall, C olloquium Michael Briga: "The evolution of menopause

14.15 D225, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Colloquium Tina Keller: "The microbiology of sponges

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Tim Fawcett: "Learning and condition-dependent mate preferences"

Thursday

08/02/2007

NO Literature Club

16.00 Green Lecture Hall, Dr Agnar Helgarson (University of Reykjavik, Iceland): "Tracing the footprints of natural selection in the human genome: Implications for understanding common diseases

Friday

09/02/2007

 

WEEK 5 29th Jnuary - 2nd February 2007

Monday

29/01/2007

Verweij-PhD Meeting, Lunteren (29th – 31st January)

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Cluster of Microbiology, Wieb Meijer: "Microbody localized CoA ligases and their function penicillin producion"

15.15 D225 Werkbesprekingen - colloquia Mariene Biologie, Ingmar Hans: “Marine biocalcification in a high CO2 world”

Tuesday

30/01/2007

9.00 C6, Joint work discussion MBP and LPP: Talks by Joana Polko and Gerja

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Anne Vollmer: “The effects of light pollution on wildlife”

Wednesday

31/01/2007

12.30 Blue Room, Journal Club Animal Ecology. Paper to discuss: Moller, A.P., Martin-Vivaldi, M., Merino, S. et al 2006. Density-dependent and geographical variation in bird immune response. OIKOS 115(3): 463-474

12.30 C3, Willemien Smith-Kleefsman: "Role of neutral and adaptive processes in metapopulation differentiation"
 
NO Theory Club

Thursday

01/02/2007

15.00 D225, Theoretical Biology Seminars, Joachim Hermisson (U niversity of Munich ): "Soft selective sweeps: New patterns for the molecular footprint of positive selection" and 16.00 D225, Pleuni Pennings ( University of Munich ):"A simple model for competition driven sympatric speciation"

Friday

02/02/2007

10.30 Green lecture hall, Colloquium Serinde van Wijk: When to change your sex? Sequential hermaphroditism in coral reef fish"

13.15 Academiegebouw, Thesis defence Renate Geerts: “Insecticide resistance in Drosophila melanogaster: genetic basis, fitness costs and compensatory evolution”

 

WEEK 4 22nd - 26th January 2007

Monday

22/01/2007

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Cluster of Microbiology, Marrit Habets: “Prions: enemies or allies?! Structure, function and occurrence of infectious proteins”

15.15 D225 Werkbesprekingen - colloquia Mariene Biologie, Ivo Ros: “Bird flight and LEVs: Leading-edge vortices on a flapping artificial swift wing”

Tuesday

23/01/2007

9.00 C6, Joint work discussion MBP and LPP, Wouter Patberg: “The importance of buoyancy-driven water flow in Sphagnum dominated peat bogs”

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Colloquium Kirsten Jalvingh: “The Evolution of Endothermy” and 16.30 Colloquium Niek Scheepens: "Prehistoric vegetation reconstruction of the Swifterband archaeological site

Wednesday

24/01/2007

12:30 C6, Werkbespreking Evolutionaire Genetica, Stephan Kirchmaier: "Identification and characterisation of a period ortholog in Nasonia"

Rectification: Lecture Dr. Dr. Gerhard Schlosser on 21 February!!!

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Ana Duarte: "Division of labour in ants - integrating self-organization and evolution"

Thursday

25/01/2007

14.00 Grote zaal, Information-briefing: RUG workstation

12.00 Blue Room, Symposium (25/26 January) “ Causes and consequences of individual variation in (basal) metabolic rate” (www.rug.nl/biologie/onderzoek/onderzoekgroepen/dieroecologie/agenda/)

16.00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES, lecture Prof. Roger D. Finlay ( Uppsala , Sweden ): "Connectedness and integration in terrestrial ecosystems -lessons from plant-soil-microbe interactions involving mycorrhizal symbioses and filamentous fungi"

Friday

26/01/2007

9.20 Blue Room, Symposium “ Causes and consequences of individual variation in (basal) metabolic rate” , 2nd part

 

WEEK 3 15th - 19th January 2007

Monday

15/01/2007

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Cluster of Microbiology, Bart de Vries: "A molecular analysis of Pex14p in peroxisome degradation”

16.30 Academiegebouw, Studium Generale, Prof.dr. Christine Mummery: “Everything you always wanted to know about… Stamcellen”

Tuesday

16/01/2007

9.00 C3, Joint work discussion MBP and LPP: Hossein Moradi

12.30 E123 , Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Goup: Els van de Zee

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Robert Buitenwerf: "Termite activity across different spatial scales in a savanna ecosystem”

Wednesday

17/01/2007

12.30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionairy Genetics, Albert Kamping: "Sex determination in Nasonia"

 

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Matthias Spichtig: "Evolution in Optional Prisoner's Dilemma Games"

Thursday

18/01/2007

15:30 D225, Dr. Mahesh Sankaran (Leeds University): "Dynamics, structure and function of savanna ecosystems: the role of resources, fire and herbivory."

Friday

19/01/2007

15:30 D225, Dr. Jayashree Ratnam (Leeds University): "Micro- and macro-nutrient profiles of soils and plants across the Kruger National Park: Implications for herbivore distribution and dynamics."

    

WEEK 2 8th - 12th January 2007

Monday

08/01/2007

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Coenie Goosen: “Biochemical Characterization of Glycoside Hydrolase Family 32 (GH32) Enzymes from Aspergillus niger

Tuesday

09/01/2007

9.00 C3, Joint work discussion MBP and LPP: Talk by Theo Elzenga

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Goup: Yvonne Verkuil

16.00 G104, Evolutionary Genetics paper discussion: Leo Beukeboom will lead the discussion ofJ Jaenike, KA Dyer, C Cornish & MS Minhas’s article “Asymmetrical reinforcement and Wolbachia infection in Drosophila” (2006, PLoS Biol 4(10): e325)

Wednesday

10/01/2007

12:30 C3, Evolutionary Genetics Werkbespreking, Laura Ross: "The evolution of cooperation and conflict resolution in the mealybug Planococcus citri”

NO Theory Club

Thursday

11/01/2007

16:00 Canteen, NEW YEARS' reception

Friday

12/01/2007

13.00 E123, Prof.dr. David W. Winkler (Cornell University, Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca): "Dispersal and migration in swallows"
 
16.15 Academiegebouw, Thesis defence Jeroen Reneerkens: "Functional aspects of seasonal variation in preen wax composition of sandpipers (Scolopacidae)

    

WEEK 51 18th - 22nd December 2006

Monday

18/12/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Green Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Martine Bos ( Utrecht University ): “Outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria”

Tuesday

19/12/2006

9.00 C3, Joint work discussion with MBP and LPP, Jos Schipper: “ The SufE domain of old5 an The SufE domain of old5 and NADH biosynthesis

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology, Arjen Pilon: “The role of nest site quality on mating success and parental care in penduline tits Remiz pendulinus”

15 .30 D225, Ecological Seminar, James Rosindell ( Leeds University ): “Species area curves and the neutral theory of ecology”

Wednesday

203/12/2006

12.00 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionary Genetics, Rinaldo Bertossa: “Fruitless update in Nasonia”

 

NO Theory Club

Thursday

21/12/2006

16.00 H010, Literature Club, Bram Kuijper will lead the discussion of A. Pischedda & A.K. Chippindale’s article “Intralocus conflict diminishes the benefits of sexual selection” (2006, PLoS Biology 4(11), e356) (PDF [PDF])

Friday

22/12/2006

14.45 Academiegebouw,Thesis defence P. Korsten: “Avian sex allocation and ornamental coloration - a study in blue tits”

    

WEEK 50 11th - 15th December 2006

Monday

11/12/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Green Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Ronan Kelly: “Evolution of cyclodextrin glycosyltransferases”

16.30 Extra Theory Club, Evelien Jongepier: “Sex ratios, concepts and research methods”

Tuesday

12/12/2006

9.00 C104, joint work discussion with MBP and LPP: Eelco Wallaart

10.15 Aula Academy Building, Symposium inspired by Serge Daan "Ultimate Questions in Behavioral Biology” (info www.rug.nl/fwn/why)

15 .30 D225, Ecological Seminar, Gerhard Zotz ( University of Oldenburg ): "Physiological ecology meets population ecology: changes in plant form and function during ontogeny"

Wednesday

13/12/2006

12.30 C 3, Werkbespreking Evolutionary Genetics, Magdalena Kozielska: “Distribution of sex determining factors in the housefly (Musca domestica) in Europe

NO Theory Club

Thursday

14/12/2006

15.00 D225, Colloquium by Johanneke Oosten: “It’s your fault I’m shy”

16.00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES lecture, Nicolas Bierne ( University of Montpellier ): "Genetics of a semi-permeable barrier to gene flow in marine mussels"

Friday

15/12/2006

    

WEEK 49 4th - 8th December 2006

Monday

04/11/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Green Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Herfitia Agustiandari: "LmrR regulates the major Multidrug Resistance pumps LmrCD in Lactococcus lactis”

Tuesday

05/12/2006

12.30 E123, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting : Fons van der Plas

Wednesday

06/12/2006

12.30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionary Genetics, Joanna Reszka: “Genetic basis of inbreeding depression - generating insights?”

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Michael Cant: “Reproductive competition, demography, and the evolution of menopause”

Thursday

07/12/2006

16.00 Theory Club, PhD project presentation Laura Ross : The evolution of cooperation and conflict resolution in the mealybug Planococcus citri”

ca. 17.00 sinterklaas@TheoBio!7december

Friday

08/12/2006

10.15 Red Lecture Hall, Symposium “Fish, Behaviour, and Speciation” (see below for programme )

13.15 Academiegebouw, Thesis defence M.S.O.M. Chevolot: “Assessing genetic structure of thornback ray, Raja clavata: a thorny situation?”

16.15 Academiegebouw, Thesis defence Peter Dijkstra: “Know thine enemy: intrasexual selection and sympatric speciation in Lake Victoria cichlid fish”

    

WEEK 48 27th November - 1st December 2006

Monday

27/11/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.45 Large Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Hidde Boersma: “Genes Without Frontiers: The role of pIPO2 and its type IV secretion system in naturalenvironments

Tuesday

28/11/2006

9.00 C3, Joint Work Discussion MBP/LPP: Talk by Jacqueline Stefels

12.30 E123, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting , Francisco Santiago Quesada: “Ecology of migrating black-tailed godwits in inland rice fields”

13.00-17.00, Het Trippenhuis KNAW, Kloveniersburgwal 29, 1011 JV Amsterdam, bijeenkomst voor jonge biowiskundigen in het teken van de Verkenning Biowiskunde

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminars, Kirsten Jalvingh: “Does social environment affect great tit natal dispersal and survival?”

Wednesday

29/11/2006

12.30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionary Genetics, Tosca Koevoets: “Post-zygotic isolation in Nasonia: the quest for speciation genes”

16.00 C3, Meeting CEES PhD students: Information and borrel

NO Theory Club

Thursday

30/11/2006

16.00 Literature Club, Laura Ross will lead the discussion of Engelstadter,J. & Hurst,G.D.D.’s article “Can maternally transmitted endosymbionts facilitate the evolution of haplodiploidy?” (2006, Journal of Evolutionary Biology 19, 194-202) (PDF [PDF])

Friday

01/12/2006

    

WEEK 47 20th - 24th November 2006

Monday

20/11/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Albert Ellen: “Protein secretion in the genus Sulfolobus"

Tuesday

21/1/2006

12.30 E123, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting, Chris Trierweiler: "Migration and wintering of Montagu's Harrier: preliminary results”

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminars, Martijn Perk: "Effects of ecological conditions on timing of spring migration" and Marloes Poortvliet: "Managed burns drive spatial habitat use in free-ranging African buffalo"

Wednesday

22/11/2006

12.30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionary Genetics, Marlies Westerhof : “Genetic rescue the answer to inbreeding depression? A Study on the possible negative side-effects of genetic rescue”

12.30 E123, Journal Club Animal Ecology (coordinator: Elske.Schut@rug.nl)

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Ivan Puga: "Grooming patterns in primates: a model"

Thursday

23/11/2006

16.00 D246: formal student presentations, Jelle Boonekamp: “Mate choice and egg hormones in junglefowl” and Wouter Lengkeek: grant application about market value and partner choice

NO Literature Club

Friday

24/11/2006

    

WEEK 46 13th - 17th November 2006

Monday

13/11/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Jan Warmink: “The role of type III secretion systems in the selection of bacteria in the mycosphere”

Tuesday

14/11/2006

9.00 C104, joint work discussion with MBP and LPP: Eelco Wallaart

12.30 E123, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting, Jeroen Reimerink: "Warbler survival on Denis Island "

14.00 Red Lecture Hall, Colloquium by Radoslava Trifonova

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminars, Aafke van Erk: "Termites as ecosystem engineers: species distributions and abiotic interactions in a savanna ecosystem” and 16.15 Maarten Schrama: "Termites as ecosystem enineers: an integrated hypothesis on Savanna ecosystem functioning”

Wednesday

15/11/2006

12.30 C3, Lennaert Roekx: "Competition between sex determining mechanisms in Musca domestica under different temperature conditions"

NO Theory Club, instead visit of Christopher Klausmeier to the TheoBio group (afternoon)

Thursday

16/11/2006

10.30- 16.00 Red Lecture Hall, PhD-organised mini-symposium “Experimental and theoretical approaches to biodiversity”, embedding the CEES-lecture by Christopher Klausmeier

16.00 D246, group meetings Behavioural Biology, progress report post docs: Teresa Fagundes ( Lisbon ): “Life history pathways in a fish with alternative reproductive tactics” and Albert Ros: “Paternal and maternal effects in cichlids”

16.00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES-lecture, Christopher Klausmeier ( Michigan State University ): “Theoretical approaches to phytoplankton ecology”

Friday

17/11/2006

11.00 E123, Grutto Meeting . Information J.C.Hooijmeijer@rug.nl

    

WEEK 45 6th - 10th November 2006

Monday

06/11/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

Cancelled: Behavioural and Chronobiology Seminar, Joel Levine ( University of Toronto , Canada ): “Love Stinks: social synchronisation in Drosophila”

Tuesday

07/11/2006

9.00 C3, joint work discussion with MBP and LPP: Luit De Kok

12.30 E123, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting: Bas van Schooten

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminars, Saskia de Vries: “Restoration of an island brackish vegetation”

Wednesday

08/11/2006

13.00 C6, Werkbespreking Evolutionaire Genetica, Eveline Verhulst:"Sex determination in Nasonia"

13.30 E123, Paper discussion (“The costs of immunity”) with Kirk Klasing

16.00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES Colloquium, Kirk Klasing ( University of California , Berkeley ): "Matching immune systems to life styles”

NO Theory Club

Thursday

09/11/2006

15.00 E123 Prof. David Bryant ( University of Exeter ): "Making an effort for Avian Life Histories and Conservation

15.30 Canteen Farewell Reception dr. C.A.Vermeulen

16.00 E123 Prof.dr.Pat Monaghan ( University of Glasgow ): "Senescence in birds: evolutionary ecology meets developmental biology

16.00 D246, Formal Student presentations: Albert Raven: “Lateralization in cichlid fish and Rob Gordijn: “Workload in mice”

Friday

10/11/2006

11.00 E123 Prof.dr. David Stephens ( University of Minnesota ): "Why are animals so impulsive?"

13.15 Academy Building, Thesis defence Esther Chang: "The role of dispersal constraints in the assembly of salt-marsh communities"

14.45 Academy Building, Thesis defence Maaike de Heij: "Costs of avian incubation: how fitness, energetics and behaviour impinge on the evolution of clutch size"

16.15 Academiegebouw: Thesis defense Wouter Vahl: "Interference 
Competition among Foraging Waders"

    

WEEK 44 30th October - 3rd November 2006

Monday

30/10/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Green Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Cees Sagt (DSM Food Specialties, DSM, Delft ): "Construction of a novel secretion pathway in the eukaryotic cell: peroxicretion"

Tuesday

31/10/2006

9.00 C6, joint work discussion with MBP and LPP: Paul Dijkwel

12.30 E123, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting, Pedro Lourenco: "Some aspects of the spring stop-over of the European Black-tailed Godwit Limosa limosa in Iberian rice fields”

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminars, Pepijn Luijckx: "How do white rhino affect spatial heterogeneity? A modeling approach using local rules" and 16.15 Heleen Sharott: "Compensatory mortality in a neotropical palm. Effect of rodent abundance and fruiting density on ultimate seed fate"

Wednesday

01/11/2006

12.30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionaire Genetica, Barbara Feldmeyer: "Can temperature explain the geographical distribution of sex determining mechanisms in the housefly?"

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Aniek Ivens: Introduction of PhD project "Ants farming aphids:evolutionary stability of a mutualism"

Thursday

02/1/2006

10.00 -21.30, GLV-Idun Congress "Fusion from conjugation to sex", day programme at the Biological Centre and evening programme at the Academy Building (Info http://www.glv-idun.nl/congres)

Friday

03/11/2006

 

WEEK 43 23rd - 27th October 2006

Monday

23/10/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Green Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Philip Bechtluft: "Mechanical unfolding of maltose binding protein using optical tweezers”

16.15 D225, Mariene Biologie werkbesprekingen – colloquia: Marco de Graaff: “Antioxidant responses in temperate marine microalgae to natural solar radiation under fluctuating light regimes”

Tuesday

24/10/2006

9.00 C3, joint work discussion with MBP and LPP: Cordula Schmitz: “Metabolic scaling in plants: Adaptation effects the metabolism” and Marcel Sturre

Wednesday

25/10/2006

No Theory Club

Thursday

26/09/2006

10.30 D225, Behavioural and Chronobiology Seminar, Diego Golombek: “Ticking worms: looking for the elusive circadian clock in C. elegans”

15:30 D225, Behavioural and Chronobiology Seminar, Diego Golombek: “Catching the light: signal transduction pathways in a mammalian circadian clock”

16.00 D246, Group Meeting Behavioural Biology, Fleur Hermanides : “Androgens and lateralization in chicks” and Renske Hekman: “Personality in cichlids”

16.00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES-lecture, Ziheng Yang (London University College): "Detecting adaptive protein evolution"

Friday

27/10/2006

    

WEEK 42 16th - 20th October 2006

Monday

16/10/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, K.Smalla (Institut für Biochemie und Pflanzenvirologie, Braunschweig): “Effect of veterinary medicines on abundance, diversity and transferability of antibiotic resistance

Tuesday

17/10/2006

9.00 C3, joint work discussion with MBP and LPP: Aleksandra Koralewska

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Group, Elske Schut: “Mhc based sperm competition in the blue tit (Parus caeruleus)”

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminar, Aafke van Erk: “Termites as ecosystem engineers: species distributions and abiotic interactions in a Savanna ecosystem

Wednesday

18/10/2006

9.00 Green Lecture Hall , general informative personeel meeting organised by the labor unions

No Theory Club

Thursday

19/09/2006

16.00 D246, Group Meeting Behavioural Biology, Kim Meijer: “Personalities in stickleback’s and Michael Briga: “Determinants of oxidative stress in growing chicks”

No LitClub

Friday

20/10/2006

15.00 Groene Zaal, Colloqium Ellen van Velzen: “The origin of religion by natureal selection”

    

WEEK 41 9th - 13th October 2006

Monday

09/10/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

Tuesday

10/10/2006

9.00 C3, joint work discussion with MBP and LPP: talks by Cordula Schmitz (to be announced) and Gerja (student project intro)

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Patricia Stevens: “Genetic diversity of Dutch Ralstonia solanacearum, indications for genome evolution

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Group: Maarten Schrama

15.00 Red Lecture Hall, Colloquium Niek Scheepens: “What is life? - searching for the definition”

15.30 D.225 Ecological Seminars, Alejandro Ordonez: "Savanna termites in a changing climate

Wednesday

11/10/2006

16.00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES lecture, Brett K. Sandercock ( Kansas State University )Ecology of Grassland Birds: Which Factors Determine Population Viability?”

Thursday

12/09/2006

16.00 D246, Group Meeting Behavioural Biology: progress report postdoc Claudio Carere: “Flocking in starlings”

16.00 H010, Theory Club, Barbara Feldmeyer: "Adaptive significance of Temperature Dependent Sex Determination: some like it hot"

Friday

13/10/2006

14.45 Mainbuilding University, Thesis defence M.K.de Boer: "The maze of toxicity: Fibroscapsa japonica (Raphidophyceae) in Dutch coastal waters”

    

WEEK 40 2nd - 6th October 2006

Monday

02/10/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

Tuesday

03/10/2006

9.00 C3, MBP/LPP joint work discussions: Talk by Cordula Schmitz

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Group, Popko Wiersma: "BMR of tropical and temperate birds physiology as part of pace of life-syndrome?”

Wednesday

04/10/2006

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Anahita Kazem  (NTNU Trondheim): “Protean punishment of the risk-averse: why unpredictable social behaviour is adaptive"

Thursday

05/09/2006

16.00 D246, Group Meeting Behavioural Biology, student reports: Mischa Brendel: “Frequency dependent selection and dominance in cichlid fish, planning the project” and Wouter Pardijs: “Hormones and sexual signaling in cichlid fish”

16.00 H010, LitClub: Thomas will lead the discussion of K. Choo, P.D. Williams and T. Day’s article “Host mortality, predation and the evolution of parasite virulence" (2003, Ecology Letters 6, p. 310) (PDF [PDF])

Friday

06/10/2006

12.30 Green Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, prof. Wei-Shou HU ( University of Minnesota , U.S.A. ): “Dissecting a gene switch for microbial antibiotic biosynthesis”

    

WEEK 39 25th - 29th September 2006

Monday

25/09/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Green Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Gerrit Poelarends: “Evolution of Enzymatic Activity in the Tautomerase Superfamily”

15.15 Green Lecture Hall, Mariene Biologie werkbesprekingen - colloquia, Sarah Smith: "Flow quantification and propulsive force calculations in swimming medusa Aurelia aurita"

15.30 Red Lecture Hall, Ecological Seminars-Colloquium Animal Ecology, Aniek B.F. Ivens: "Prevention is better than cure- mechanisms of disease avoidance" 

Tuesday

26/09/2006

9.00 C3, MBP/LPP joint work discussions: Student project introductions

15.30 Red Lecture Hall, Colloquium Aniek Ivens: “ Prevention is better than cure - mechanisms of disease avoidance“

Wednesday

27/09/2006

12:30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionary Genetics, Bernd Grillenberger: 
"Biogeography of Nasonia vitripennis"
17.00 H010, Theory Club, Introductory talk Bram Kuijper: “Genetic conflict and the evolution of sex determining mechanisms: a mechanistic approach”

Thursday

28/09/2006

12.00 Green Lecture Hall, Chronobiology Seminar, Prof. Robertson McClung: "An evolving view of the Arabidopsis circadian clock"

16.00 D246, Group Meeting Behavioural Biology, Stefania Casagrande: “Carotenoids, hormones, and sexual signaling in kestrels and song birds.” And Marije Oostindjer: “Testosterone and energetics in black-headed gulls: project planning and grant applicatio”

16.00 hrs Red Lecture Hall, CEES Colloquium, Jacobus J. Boomsma (University Copenhagen ): "Symbiont conflicts in fungus-growing social insects"

NO LitClub

Friday

29/09/2006

 

    

 

WEEK 38 18th - 22nd September 2006

Monday

18/09/2006

10.30 H010 TheoBios coffee break

15.15 D225, Mariene Biologie werkbesprekingen - colloquia, Serinde van Wijk: “Identity of Ectocarpus in Brittany

Tuesday

19/09/2006

9.00 C3, MBP/LPP joint work discussions: presentation by Hervé Rouhier

12.30 E123, Animal Ecology Lunchmeeting: presentation by Theunis Piersma

Wednesday

20/09/2006

17.00 H010, Theory Club: Talk by Daan Reid

Thursday

21/09/2006

16.00 H010, Literature Club: Tom á s will lead the discussion of the article “The Diatom Sex Clock and Its Evolutionary Significance” by Lewis Jr., W.M. (American Naturalist, 1984, 123, 73-80). (PDF [PDF])

Friday

22/09/2006

  

                   ********* SUMMER BREAK ********* 

 

WEEK 29 17th - 21st July 2006

Monday

17/07/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

Tuesday

18/07/2006

Wednesday

19/07/2006

Thursday

20/07/2006

Friday

21/07/2006

15.30 D225, Colloquium Kees Oosterbeek (Supervisor: Simon Verhulst): "Measuring condition in birds"

 

WEEK 28 10th - 14th July 2006

Monday

10/07/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

Tuesday

11/07/2006

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminars, David van der Elst: “Acidification of nutrient poor meadows at low groundwater height. Research of the sensitivity for acidification of soils with FeS2” and 16.15 Colloquium André Kloosterman: “Predation and meadow birds decline”

Wednesday

12/07/2006

15.00 H010, Theory Club, Max Wolf: "Evolution of animal personalities"

Thursday

13/07/2006

16.00 H010, Aniek Ivens: "Ant-Fungus mutualism: partners for life and thereafter?"

Friday

14/07/2006

16.15 Academiegebouw, Thesis defense Martijn van de Pol: "State-dependent life-history strategies: a long-term study on Oystercatchers" (Promotores: Prof R.H. Drent, Prof. J.M. Tinbergen & Prof. F.J. Weissing, co-promotor Dr. S. Verhulst)

    

WEEK 27 3rd - 7th July 2006

Monday

03/07/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Kasinath Kuravi: “Two dynamin-related proteins –Vps1p and Dnm1p are essential for controlling peroxisome abundance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”

15.15 D225, Marine Biology werkbesprekingen – colloquia, Sylvia Martinez: “Effects of endosymbiont diversity on growth and mortality at early stages of Acropora millepora”

15.30 C104 Ecological Seminar, Colloquium Jelte Pieter Dijkstra: "The honey bee: A versatile supergeneralist”

16.15 D225, Marine Biology colloquium, Wouter van Broekhoven: “Nature restoration in the Ems estuary: toward an integrated approach”

Tuesday

04/07/2006

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Colloquium Andre Kloosterman: "Predation and meadow birds decline" and 16.20 D225 Dr. Joseph Ogutu (Nairobi, Kenya): "Large herbivore responses to water in savannas: Constrained foraging, spatial segregation, and range contraction"

Wednesday

05/07/2006

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Magdalena Kozielska: “Sex ratio selection, maternal-offspring conflict and the evolution of sex determination"

Thursday

06/07/2006

16.00 H010, Literature Club: Harold will lead the discussion of Barton & Turelli’s article “Adaptive Landscapes, genetic distance and the evolution of quantitative characters” (Genet. Res. Camb. (1987) 49:157-173) (PDF [PDF])

Friday

07/07/2006

11.00 Red Lecture Room, Prof. John Fryxell (University Guelph, Canada): overview of his Serengeti work "Spatial dynamics and the viability of Serengeti herbivores"

14.45 Academiegebouw, Thesis defence Raymond Klaassen: "Foraging in a spatially patterned world: migratory swans seeking buried pondweed tubers"

15.00 D225, Colloquium Maarten Bleeker: “The Evolution of Dual Signalling”

16.15 Academiegebouw, Thesis defence Folkert de Jong:"Marine eutrophication in perspective: on the relevance of ecology for environmental policy"

     

WEEK 26 26th - 30th June 2006

Monday

26/06/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

15.15 D225, Marine Biology werkbesprekingen – colloquia, Ronald Veldhuizen: “Swimming speed and shear detection of Crassostrea gigas and Mytilus edulis”

16.15 D225, Marine Biology colloquium, Valentijn van den Brink: “How many human species?”

16. 15 Mainbuilding University Groningen, Thesis defence Joris P.G.M. Cromsigt: "Large herbivores in space: resource partitioning among savanna grazers in a heterogeneous environment”

Tuesday

27/05/2006

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminar, Colloquium Jan Wijmenga: “Sexual behaviour in humans in an evolutionary perspect”

Wednesday

28/05/2006

15.00 H010, Theory Club, Martin Hinsch: “Economic defendability vs. the costs of sharing"

Thursday

29/06/2006

***Literature Club CANCELLED!***

Friday

30/06/2006

*** Colloquium Maarten Bleeker: “The Evolution of Dual Signalling” CANCELLED***

    

WEEK 22 29th May - 2nd June 2006

Monday

29/05/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Maarten Wilbrink: "Tracking down the Genes for Selective Sterol Side Chain Degradation in Rhodococcus”

15.15 D225, Marine Biology werkbesprekingen – colloquia, Tijmen Veldhuizen: “Bieden aquaculturen een oplossing voor overbevissing?”

16.15 D225, Marine Biology werkbesprekingen – colloquia, Wouter van Broekhoven: “Natural restoration in the Ems estuary: sense and nonsense”

Tuesday

30/05/2006

Wednesday

31/05/2006

12:30 C3, Evolutionary Genetics werkbespreking, Joris Witsenburg: "Wolbachia pipientis sweep: wMel vs. wMelCS Why did one strain of W. pipientis replace the
others?"
17.00 H010, Theory Club, Verena Brauer: “Do phytoplankton communities show universal temperature dependence?"

Thursday

01/06/2006

"Het Kasteel" Groningen, BCN-NOW: “talents'day” for young scientists

14.00 Cineac (Egulierbreestraat 31-33 Amsterdam): RUG in finale “Battle of the Universities” with the team Christiaan Both, Anne Vollmer, Joost Tinbergen and Jan Wijmenga.

14.30 Het Bimhuis Café Amsterdam (Piet Heinkade 3), Presentation of T. Piersma’s book: "Waarom nonnetjes samen klaarkomen en andere wonderen van het wad”

16.00 H010, Literature Club: Ido will lead the discussion of M. Burtsev & P. Turchin’s article "Evolution of cooperative strategies from first principles" (2006, Nature 440:1041-1044).

Friday

02/06/2006

    

WEEK 21 22nd - 26th May 2006

Monday

22/05/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Joanna M. Lubelska: “Regulation of Expression of the Arabinose and Glucose Transporter Genes in the Thermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus”

16.15 D225, Marine Biology werkbesprekingen & colloquia, Sybren Bouwer: “Biological control of invasive species: As easy and safe as it seems?”

Tuesday

23/05/2006

9.00 C3, Werkbesprekingen MBP/LPP: Talk by Theo Elzenga

14.00 C3, Colloquium by Annelies Leeuw: “Evolution and Development”

16.00 Literature Discussion: Ido will lead the discussion of M. Burtsev & P. Turchin’s article "Evolution of cooperative strategies from first principles" (2006, Nature 440:1041-1044). (PDF [PDF])

Wednesday

24/05/2006

10.30 C3, CEES lecture supplement: discussion with prof. Freeman Dyson about "Science, Meta-science, and Science Fiction"

16.00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES lecture , Prof. Freeman Dyson (Princeton): “Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society”

Thursday

25/05/2006

*** Ascension Day ***

Friday

26/05/2006

    

WEEK 20 15th - 22nd May 2006

Monday

15/05/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Joachim Koch ( University of Frankfurt ): “Assembly of the macromolecular MHC class I peptide-loading complex in the ER membrane”

Tuesday

16/05/2006

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminar, Linda Wester: “Survival and dispersal of tanslocated wild rabbits”

Wednesday

17/05/2006

12.30 C3 Werkbespreking Evoutionary Genetics, Leo Beukeboom: "An update on sex determination in Nasonia"

NO Theory Club

Thursday

18/05/2006

D225, Neutral Morning, 9.30 Rampal Etienne: “The Neutral Theory of Community Ecology”, 10.30 Harold De Vladar: “The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution”, 11.30 Discussion on the value of neutral theory in Ecology and Evolution

15.30 Hall in front of lecture rooms, Reception on the occasion of the retirement of Bram Kroon (15.30 Welcome & Borrel, 16.30 Surprise programme)

16.00 H010, Theory Club, Ivan Gonzalez: “Grooming patterns in primates: a model”

Friday

19/05/2006

13.15 Main University Building, Thesis defence Kathleen Marjorie Calf Tjorve: "From an Egg to a Fledgling: a perspective on shorebird breeding ecology and chick energetics"

 

WEEK 19 8th - 12th May 2006

Monday

08/05/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

Tuesday

09/05/2006

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminar, Jelte Pieter Dijkstra: "A field investigation into the absence or presence of rock sheoack (Allocasuarina huegelina) juveniles in sand-plain heatlands in the wheatbelt, Western Australia "

16.00 D225 Ecological Seminar, Jeroen Reimerink: "Experimental effects of brood size and sex ratio on growth and survival of great tit nestlings”

Wednesday

10/05/2006

12:30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionairy Genetics: talk by Melanie Christiansen

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Talk by Bernard Thierry ( University of Strasbourg )

Thursday

11/05/2006

16.00 H010, Theory Club, Thomas Berngruber: "Biochemical Constraints of Influenza Evolution - a Life-History approach"

Friday

12/05/2006

14.45 Academiegebouw, Thesis defence A.C. Alderkamp: "Carbohydrate production by phytoplankton and degradation in the marine microbial foodweb"

    

WEEK 18 1st - 5th May 2006

Monday

01/05/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

13.15 Academiegebouw, Thesis defence Mineke Wolters: “Restoration of salt marshes”

Tuesday

02/05/2006

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology: Kirsten Jalvingh

15.00 Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Colloquium, Jolanda van Munster: “Quorum sensing bij bacterien en interferentie”

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminar, Martijn Perk: “Hunting success of Montagu's Harriers Circus pygargus in an agricultural habitat”

Wednesday

03/05/2006

CANCELLED: Werkbespreking Evolutionairy Genetics: talk by Melanie Christiansen

CANCELLED: Theory Club, Talk by Wouter Vahl

Thursday

04/05/2006

16.00 H010, Theory Club, Harold Perez de Vladar: “’On a demographic generalization of Fisher's Fundamental Theorem’ or ‘How I stoped Worrying and Learned to Love Genetics’” – part II

Friday

05/05/2006

*** LIBERATION DAY ***

    

WEEK 17 24th - 28th April 2006

Monday

24/04/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

15.15 D225, Marine Biology Colloquium, Jose Lamain: “Do living seawalls keep floods away? The buffering role of mangrove forests during tsunamis”

Tuesday

25/04/2006

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology, Freek Mandema: “Nest site fidelity in Black-tailed Godwits”

15.30 Grote Collegezaal, Presentation College van Bestuur: Graduate Schools en ‘promotiestudenten’”

15.30 D225 Ecological Seminar, Margreet Drijfhout: “Conflicts between indigenous people and nature conservation: possible solutions for cooperation”

Wednesday

26/04/2006

17.00 H010, Literature Club, Tom á s will lead the discussion of R. Levins’ article “The Strategy of Model Building in Population Biology.” (1966, American Scientist, 54, 421-431) (PDF [PDF])

Thursday

27/04/2006

16.00 H010, Theory Club, Harold Perez de Vladar : “’On a demographic generalization of Fisher's Fundamental Theorem’ or ‘How I stoped Worrying and Learned to Love Genetics’”

Friday

28/04/2006

    

WEEK 16 17th - 21st April 2006

Monday

17/04/2006

*** EASTER MONDAY ***

Tuesday

18/04/2006

9.00 C3, Werkbespreking MBP/LPP, Hamid Najafi Zarrini: “Investigation of the rolel of receptor-like kinases in water related stress perception”

12.00 (!) E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Group, Abel Gyimesi: “Towards predictive carrying capacity models”

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminar, Elske Schut: “Behaviour of the faeder strategy in the Ruff”

Wednesday

19/04/2006

11:00 (!) C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionaire Genetica, Anja Westran: “The role of conditional lethals in population extinction”

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Talk by Andreas Flache

Thursday

20/04/2006

16.00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES Lecture, Prof. Dr. Carlos Pedros-Alio ( Institute of Marine Sciences , Barcelona , Spain ): “Marine bacteria and light: a genomic approach to microbial ecology”

 

17.00 H010, Theory Club : Tim Fawcett: "Sex-ratio control undermines sexual selection"

Friday

21/04/2006

    

WEEK 15 10th - 14th April 2006

Monday

10/04/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

12.30, Red Lecture Hall, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Jack van den Vossenberg : "Marine anaerobic ammonium oxidizing bacteria”

16.15 D225, Marine Biology, Astrid Hoogstraten: “Why do the largest sharks eat the smallest prey?”

Tuesdy

11/04/2006

9.00 C3, Werkbespreking MBP/LPP, Eelco Wallaart: “Investigations on the biosynthesis of the novel antimalarial drug artemisinin in the plant Artemisia annua

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Group, Kees van Oers (NIOO): “Avian personalities: genes and environment”

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminar, Elske Schut: “Post mating incompatibilities in birds”

16.15 D225, Ecological Seminar, Casper van Leeuwen : “Linking gizzard mass and prey choice of red knot, Calidris canutus islandica, via stable isotopes”

Wednesday

12/04/2006

12:30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionaire Genetica, Jeroen van Dijk: “Circadian rhythms in Nasonia vitripennis"

12.30 Red Lecture Hall, Seminar Chronobiology, Prof. John Taylor (U.C. Berkeley): “Species, speciation and sex in Fungi”

1 7.00 H010, Theory Club , Sander van Doorn:  “On switching and splitting: evaluating the developmental-plasticity hypothesis of speciation”

Thursday

13/04/2006

16.00 H010, Literature Club : Max will lead the discussion of Taylor & Frank’s article "How to make a kin selection model" (1996, J. theor. Biol. 180, 27-37) (PDF [PDF])

Friday

14/04/2006

     

WEEK 14 3rd - 7th April 2006

Monday

03/04/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

16.00 C3, Current Themes: “How to make a kin selection model"

Tuesday

04/04/2006

10.00 H010, Theory Club, Hedi Emmerig ( University of Bern , Switzerland ): "Cooperative behaviour in rats: tests of recent theoretical models"

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Dusan Brinkhuizen: “Extra pair copulation in the fairy Martin”

16.00 D225, Ecological Seminars, Rutger Zeijpveld: “The path to success: movements of oystercatchers in relation to food density”

Wednesday

05/04/2006

12:30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionaire Genetica, Erwin Fakkert: "The genetic basis of sex determination in Nasonia” (Endpresentation)

17.00 H010, Theory Club , Ellen van Velzen: "The role of sexual conflict in the evolution of separate sexes"

Thursday

06/04/2006

15.00 D225, Lectures of Cluster Microbiology, Rodrigo Costa: "Microbial community structure and function in the rhizosphere of Verticillium dahliae host plants”

No Literature Club

Friday

07/04/2006

    

WEEK 13 27th - 31st March 2006

Monday

27/03/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

16.15 Green Lecture Hall, Mariene Biologie werkbesprekingen – colloquia, Peter Mulder: “Feeding on the waves, Feeding current analysis of a passively foraging stalked barnacle, Pollicipes polymerus”

16.30 Academiegebouw, Jonge Docters, Sybe Izaak Rispens: “Kunstmatige intelligentie bestaat niet”

Tuesday

28/03/2006

9.00 C3, Werkbespreking Moleculaire Biologie van Planten/ Planten- fysiologie, Paul Dijkwel: “Arabidopsis genes that regulate ethylene-induced senescence”

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology, Peter Santema: “The effect of colony size on nest provisioning rate and reproductive success in the fairy martin (Hirundo ariel)”

Wednesday

29/03/2006

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Talk by Hanno Hildenbrandt

Thursday

30/03/2006

16 .00 H010, Literature Club , Discussion of Di Paolo, Noble, Bullock’s article: "Simulation Models as Opaque Thought Experiments" in Artificial Life VII, Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Artificial Life”

Friday

31/03/2006

 

WEEK 12 20th - 24th March 2006

Monday

20/03/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

15.15 Green Lecture Hall, Mariene Biologie werkbesprekingen - colloquia, Niek Scheepens: Microbial community composition in arctic waters”

16.00 C3, Current Themes: “Kin recognition and kin competition”

Tuesday

21/03/2006

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology, Nina Bohla: "Capture stress and immune function in captive versus free-living Red Knots

14.15 Aula van de Universiteit, Inaugural by dr. M.E. Visser: “Aanpassing aan een warmere wereld: fenologie, fysiologie en fitness”

15.30 Red Lecture Hall, Ecological Seminars, Kelly Elschot (COCON): “Effects of water availability on the competition of Chromolaena odorata and Panicum maximum”

Wednesday

22/03/2006

17.00 H010, Theory Club, Machtheld Verzijden (Univ. Leiden) "Sexual imprinting and sympatric speciation”

Thursday

23/03/2006

16.00 H010, Literature Club , Literature Club: Hanno Hildenbrandt will lead the discussion of V. Grimm, et al "Pattern-oriented modeling of agent-based complex systems: lessons from ecology" Science. 2005 Nov 11;310(5750):987-91 (PDF [PDF])

Friday

24/03/2006

16.00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES Colloquium, Christiaan Both: "Possibilities and constraints in adaptation to climate change"

    

WEEK 11 13th - 17th March 2006

Monday

13/03/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

15.15 Green Lecture Hall, Mariene Biologie werkbesprekingen - colloquia, Sarah Marx: “Trekt ie het nog of gaat ie flippen. Onderzoek naar het voedsel lostrekgedrag van de Noordzee kreeft, Homarus gammarus

16.15 Green Lecture Hall, Mariene Biologie werkbesprekingen – colloquia, Wouter van Broekhoven: “Effects of UVR on cultivated Antarctic marine bacterial communities”

Tuesday

14/03/2006

12:30 Rode Zaal, Genetics Cluster Lecture, Leonard Bosgraaf: “The role of cGMP in Dictyostelium chemotaxis”

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology, Dusan Brinkhuizen: "Extra-pair copulation behaviour in the Fairy martin”

15.15 C3, Mariene Biologie werkbesprekingen - colloquia, Tosca Koevoets: “So what about the cockle? Looking beyond the food item.”

15.30 Red Lecture Hall, Ecological Seminars, Stijn Bruers (Catholic University Leuven): “A thermodynamical description of heterotrophic ecosystems”

Wednesday

15/03/2006

1 7.00 H010, Theory Club , Fardo Witsenburg: "Adaptive Dynamics of Infectious Diseasses"

Thursday

16/03/2006

NO Literature Club , instead:

16:00 C6, Colloquium Sander van Rijn: “Evolution of Sex. Origin and maintenance”

Friday

17/03/2006

    

WEEK 10 6th - 10th March 2006

Monday

06/03/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

14.00 C227, Colloqium Saleta Pérez Vila : “The origin of life”

15.15 D225, Marine Biology werkbesprekingen - colloquia, Eefje Broenland: “Evaluation of monitoring in marine conservation”

16.00 C3, Current Themes : “A critical discussion of some recent field studies”

Tuesday

07/03/2006

9.00 C6, Werkbespreking Moleculaire Biologie van Planten/ Planten- fysiologie, Aleksandra Koralewska: “Significance of expression level versus activity of sulfate transporters in Brassica- on a whole plant level - in the regulation of uptake”

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Group, R. Gordijn: "Activity in the sleepy lizard”

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Arno Kangéri: "Population density and extra pair paternity in the Seychelles warbler”

19.30 Academiegebouw, Annual Johann Bernoulli lecture, Dirk van Dalen: “Weet U dat zeker?”

Wednesday

08/03/2006

12.30 C3, Werkbespreking Evolutionary Genetics, Ilse Weites:Genetic and phenotypic shifts during construction of recombinant inbred lines in Nasonia"

16.00 Kantine, Jubileum/afscheid magazijnmedewerker Louis Sahetapy

17.00 H010, Theory Club: open discussion

Thursday

09/03/2006

16.00 H010, Literature Club : Tom às will lead the discussion of Hastings, A. and Powell, T.’s article “Chaos in a Three-Species Food Chain Ecology” (1991, 72 , 896-903) (PDF [PDF])

Friday

10/03/2006

13.15 Academiegebouw, Thesis defense, A.H. Ambrosio de Castro: "Atmospheric NH3 deposition, S and N metabolism in curly kale"

 

    

WEEK 9 27th February - 3rd March 2006

Monday

27/02/2006

10.30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

10.30 Red Lecture Hall , Red Lecture Hall, CEES seminar series in Marine Biology, J. van de Koppel (NIOO CEME, Yerseke): "Estuarine ecosystems in times of change; will biophysical feedback make a difference?"

13.30 Red Lecture Hall, CEES seminar series in Marine Biology, L. Orsini (Uni Helsinki): “Population dynamics from sea to landscape and back”

16:30 H010, TheoBio book discussion, lead by Magdalena, Otto & Day, Chpt. 13

Tuesday

28/02/2006

9.00 C3, Werkbespreking MoleculaireBiologie van Planten/Plantenfysiologie

12.30 E123, Lunchmeeting Animal Ecology Group, Istvan Szentirmai: "Benefits of agriculture: mowing enhances hunting yield of the endangered Montagu's harrier"

15.30 D225, Ecological Seminars, Maaike Versteegh: "Seasonality in self-maintenance: studying immune function in free-living animals"

Wednesday

01/03/2006

13.30 Big Lecture Hall, Reorganization proposals of the Faculty of Mathematical and Natural Sciences

17:00 H010, Theory Club : Elske van der Vaart: "Social Familiarity as a Predictor of Macaque Dominance Hierarchies”

Thursday

02/03/2006

Annual meeting of the Dutch Society for Theoretical Biology (NVTB), Schoorl (1st day)

10.30 Red Lecture Hall, CEES seminar series in Marine Biology, B.K. Eriksson ( Stockholm University ): "Community complexity and ecosystem resilience: interactions between bottom-up, top-down and biological structure”

13.30 Red Lecture Hall, CEES seminar series in Marine Biology P.C. Luttikhuizen ( University of Amsterdam ): "Population structures and breeding systems: from Bivalves to Brassicaceae”

15.30 Red Lecture Hall, CEES seminar series in Marine Biology S.R. Dudgeon ( California State University ) : "Variability of biological outcomes in response to environmental context: studies from three levels of organization”

Friday

03/03/2006

Annual meeting of the Dutch Society for Theoretical Biology (NVTB), Schoorl (2nd day)

    

WEEK 8 20th - 24th February 2006

Monday

20/02/2006

10:30 H010, TheoBio coffee break

16:00 C3, Current Themes: "What is 'relatedness' and how can it be measured?"

Tuesday

21/02/2006

12:00 C6, Colloquium Erwin Hemmen: “Invasieve waterplanten”

13: 30 Red Lecture Hall, Presentation of the book "Seeking nature's limits" (Eds. R. Drent, J.P. Bakker, T. Piersma & J.M. Tinbergen)

16:15 Academiegebouw, Oratie Theunis Piersma: "Dierecologie: habitatkeus en aantalsveranderingen van dieren in een veranderende wereld”

20:00 Cinema ‘Images’, 1694th Meeting of the Royal Natural Sciences Society in Groningen: ‘Van Swinderenprijs 2005’ award to Karen Bouwman for the summary of her thesis "The illusion of monogamy. Patterns of extra-pair paternity in the reed bunting"; lecture by I. Tieleman on "De fysiologie van de ecologie: evolutionaire aanpassingen van vogels aan hun omgeving”, introduction by K. Bouwman

Wednesday

22/02/2006

*Postponed to Friday:*

Theory Club: Continuation of last Thursday’s Lit. Club

Thursday

23/02/2006

11:00 C3, Paper discussion for CEES lecture

16:00 Red Lecture Hall, CEES lecture, Wim van der Putten: “Linking above and belowground multitrophic interactions”

Friday

24/02/2006

13:30 H010, Theory Club: Continuation of last Thursday’s Lit. Club, "Modeling the ecological context of evolutionary change" by Troy Day

15:00 H010, Hans Metz: "Adaptive dynamics and the canonical equation", after a break: second more technical talk focussing on some recent results and developments

Cancelled: TheoBio book discussion: "A Biologist's Guide to Mathematical Modeling" by S. Otto & T. Day, Chpt. 13

  



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