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Weekly Schedule

Week 28 (7 - 11 July)

Weekly schedule by email: Every Friday afternoon the weekly schedule for the coming week is distributed by email. If you also want to receive our weekly schedules, please send an email to your expertise group secretary or to weeklyschedule rug.nl and you will be added to the mailing list.

Announcements for the weekly schedule: If you have anything to announce that is of interest to all institute members, including literature / book discussions, please send an email to weeklyschedule rug.nl before 12:00 hr on Thursday.

Monday 7

Location

09:30 OBP Weekly meeting 5171.0340
12:00 Marine Biology
Giorgos Papagerorgiou: Is it time to phase out direct feeding in shark and ray tourism - or just time to do it smarter? (colloquium)
5172.0571 & online
12:40 Elisa Coccores: The cost of science for the protection of the high seas - Understanding financing needs for monitoring future high seas MPAs under the BBNJ Treaty (MSc project presentation) 5172.0571 & online
13:20 Nasserallah Manai: Sea ice decline and its cascading effects on cetacean ecology and genetics (colloquium) 5172.0571 & online

Tuesday 8

Location

12:00 ConsEco Lunch meeting
  • Lisanne van der Vijgh: Migration preparation in Ruddy Turnstones - How intake rates and foraging behavior change over time
  • Sanny Brenninkmeijer: Seasonal shifts in jaguar (Panthera onca) presence and prey availability in Tortuguero, Costa Rica
  • Carlijn van der Weerd: Consequences of overwintering strategies of Ruddy Turnstones
5172.0571 & online
12:45 PhD Defence
Nadja Brait (GREEN): Endogenous viral elements and their influence on the complexity of genomic and transcriptomic data analysis (Promotor Falcao Salles; copromotor Lequime)
Academy Building & online
13:30 EGDB Meeting
  • Lucie Munoz: Why so many males? - Exploring the reproductive system of the parasitoid Trichomalopsis sarcophagae
  • Rafaela Gamboa von Groll: Social sleep and fly vision (MSc project presentation)
5171.0415 & online
15:00 BPE Seminar
Sen Dong: GxA of body condition in the Seychelles warbler
5172.0571 & online

Wednesday 92

Location

11:30 TRÊS Meeting
Corné Hoff: Taxonomy, biogeography and diversification of Commelinaceae
5172.0571 & online
12:00 GREEN - Plant Biology
Anouk Teelken: Tba
5173.0347
12:00 NeuBio – Molecular/Behavioural Neuroscience Lab meeting
  • Hami Nasri: Tba (PhD project update)
  • Irem Bayraktaroglu: Tba (PhD project update)
  • Teije Bonsema: Tba (MSc project presentation)
5171.0415

Thursday 10

Location

15:30 GELIFES Seminar
Maggie Pui Man Hoi (University of Macau): Discovery of anti-inflammatory agents from natural products for neurological disorders
5171.0415 & online

Friday 11

Location

09:00 - 15:00 NeuBio - Seminar day
  • 09:00 Jente Kuiper: Exploring a potential role of the DMN in AD-related social deficits using a 3Txg mouse model (MSc project presentation)
  • 09:30 Dionne Russchen: Exploring potential sex differences in the neurocircuitry underlying social dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease (MSc project presentation)
  • 10:00 Hazal Dolu: Targeting sensory phenotypes in a mouse model of ASD (MSc project presentation)
  • 11:00 Francesca Bertolini: Investigating the effects of an online empathy-compassion dyad intervention on teacher mental health and resilience (MSc project presentation)
  • 13:00 Ilse Zwiers: Investigating the effect of a TNFR2 agonist as treatment strategy for Alzheimer's disease (MSc project presentation)
  • 13:30 Kylan Van Vliet: Evaluating selective TNFR1 antagonism as therapy for Alzheimer's disease (MSc project presentation)
  • 14:00 Eshani Chandnani: A pre-clinical study - Testing the therapeutic efficiency of a tumour necrosis factor receptor 2 agonist in a multiple sclerosis mouse model as a potential new treatment (MSc project presentation)
  • 14:30 Elang Poort: Boosting TNFR2 for neuroprotection - A novel therapeutic strategy in MS (MSc project presentation)
5171.0415
14:30 PhD Defence
Sterre Witte (ConsEco/MarBio): Solid foundations - The interactive role of hard substrate and predation in shellfish reef restoration across tidal gradients (Promotores van der Heide, Govers; copromotor Franken)
Academy Building & online
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