Upcoming activities
| Date | Activity |
|---|---|
| 7 Jan 2019 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building) Jessy Rouhana (EGDB): Toxic love - Evolutionary genomics of the enigmatic sex peptide |
| 7 Jan 2019 | FSE New Year reception (16:00 - Energy Academy) |
| 8 Jan 2019 |
Mini Symposium EGDB: "Sexual selection and sexual conflict" (9:15-12:15, 5173.0151) Speakers: Jessy Rouhana, Tracey Chapman (U East Anglia), Claudia Fricke (U Münster), Philip Kohlmeijer, David Richardson (U East Anglia) |
| 10 Jan 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Joost Raeymaekers (Nord University, Bodø): Local adaptation in a common landscape - A tale of two sticklebacks species |
| 11 Jan 2019 |
Mini Symposium ConsEco: "Beds of grass at Banc d'Arguin, Mauritania" (9:30-12:00, 5172.0571) Speakers: Theunis Piersma (RUG/NIOZ), Thomas Oudman (U St Andrews), Hacen El-Hacen (RUG/PNBA) |
| 11 Jan 2019 |
PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building) Hacen El-Hacen (Conservation Ecology): Beds of grass at Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania - Ecosystem infrastructures underlying avian richness along the East Atlantic Flyway |
| 17 Jan 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Mark Johnson (Imperial College London): Cancelled |
| 24 Jan 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Rosemary Gillespie (Berkeley, USA): Origins of diversity in islands - The nexus of ecology and evolution in community assembly |
| 31 Jan 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Michiel Vellema (University of Southern Denmark): The neural basis of vocal seasonality |
| 7 Feb 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Sander Tans (AMOLF): Coexistence in bacterial populations driven by spontaneous spatial exclusion |
| 11 Feb 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (Monday, 16:00 - 5171.0415) Sonia Sultan (Wesleyan University): Eco-devo insights to adaptive diversity - Plasticity in Polygonum |
| 14 Feb 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Armand Marie Leroi (Imperial College London): The evolution of modern culture |
| 22 Feb 2019 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building) Jeltje Jouta (Conservation Ecology): The tell-tale isotopes - Towards indicators of the health of the Wadden Sea |
| 28 Feb 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Boris Nikolai Konrad (Radboud University): The minds and methods of memory champions |
| 4 Mar 2019 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building) Portia Chifamba (Conservation Ecology): The biology and impacts of Oreochromis niloticus and Limnothrissa miodon introduced in Lake Kariba |
| 14 Mar 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Roman Fischer (Drexel University, Philadelphia): TNFR2 – A novel switch to promote tissue regeneration |
| 21 Mar 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Rutger Hermsen (Utrecht University): Quantifying natural selection at all spatial scales |
| 28 Mar 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Ole Seehausen (EAWAG/University of Bern): Genomic insights into the explosive species radiation of cichlid fish in the Lake Victoria region |
| 29 Mar 2019 |
Mini Symposium EGDB: "Sexual selection and ecological speciation" (9:00-11:30, Academy Building, room A12) Speakers: Mike Ritchie (U St. Andrews), Ole Seehausen (U Bern/EAWAG), Sander van Doorn (UG), Astrid Groot (UvA), Shane Wright (UG) |
| 29 Mar 2019 |
PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building) Shane Wright (EGDB): The role of visual adaptation in cichlid fish speciation |
| 11 Apr 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Sijmen Schoustra (Wageningen University): Experimental evolution in the context of ecosystems |
| 18 Apr 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Mario Vallejo-Marin (Stirling University, UK): Vibrating bees: Function and evolution of buzz pollination |
| 25 Apr 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Pablo Tittonell (UG): tba |
| 9 May 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Luke Rendell (University of St Andrews, UK): The cultural lives of cetaceans and the reach of gene-culture co-evolution outside humans |
| 23 May 2019 |
GELIFES Sociability Meeting (11:00-15:00, Bernoulliborg 5161.0165) Speakers: Jean-Christophe Billeter, Martien Kas, Simon Verhulst, Franjo Weissing, Charlotte Hemelrijk, Sietse de Boer |
| 24 May 2019 |
PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building) Simone Ota (Neurobiology): Chronic social stress and the circadian system - Effects on the central clock and peripheral liver oscillator |
| 6 Jun 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Sara Leonhardt (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg): Making use of cues - New insights into the chemistry of plant-bee interactions |
| 13 Jun 2019 |
Mini Symposium BPE: "Tropical environments" (9:30-17:30, 5171.0415) Speakers: Irene Tieleman (UG), Barbara Helm (UG), Jan-Åke Nilsson (Lund U), Arne Hegemann (Lund U), Martijn van der Pol (NIOO-KNAW), Martijn Hammers (UG), Elizabeth Yohannes (MPIO, U Konstanz), Muchai Muchane (National Museums of Kenya), Will Cresswell (U St Andrews), Jan Komdeur (UG), Henry Ndithia (UG), Joseph Mwangi (UG), Chima Nwaogu (UG) |
| 13 Jun 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5172.0571) Alexander Suh (Uppsala University): Genome evolution in birds - A tale of two rather odd chromosomes |
| 14 Jun 2019 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Doopsgezinde Kerk) Henry Ndithia (BPE): Reproduction, growth and immune function - Novel insights in equatorial tropical birds |
| 14 Jun 2019 |
PhD defence (12:45 - Doopsgezinde Kerk) Joseph Mwangi (BPE): Coping with uncertainty - Adapting to stochasticity in an unpredictable tropical environment |
| 14 Jun 2019 |
PhD defence (14:30 - Doopsgezinde Kerk) Chima Nwaogu (BPE): Avian life in a seasonally arid tropical environment - Adaptations and mechanisms in breeding, molt and immune function |
| 14 Jun 2019 |
PhD defence (16:15 - Doopsgezinde Kerk) Alberto Nakauma Gonzalez (TRÊS): The evolution of the bacterial chemotaxis network |
| 27 Jun 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Tobias Bollenbach (University of Cologne): Perturbing the evolvability of antibiotic resistance |
| 4 Jul 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Silvie Huijben (Arizona State University): Are we in need for novel approaches for the current resistance crisis in global health? |
| 4 Jul 2019 | GELIFES BBQ (16:30 - Linnaeusborg, canteen terrace |
| 11 Jul 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415) Verónica Di Stilio (University of Washington, Seattle): Reconstructing the ancestral role of flowering pathway genes |
| 11 Jul 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:30 - 5171.0415) Horacio de la Iglesia (University of Washington, Seattle): Entrainment of the circadian system - A duel between light and fear |
| 15 Jul - Aug 2019 | Summer break |
| 5 Sep 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Herbert Jaeger (Bernoulli Institute): An introduction to Reservoir Computing - A bridge between neuroscience and machine learning |
| 12 Sep 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 -
5172.0571 ) Sammy de Grave (University of Oxford): cancelled |
| 13 Sep 2019 |
PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building) Marelle Heesterbeek (Neurobiology): Passive exercise, an effective therapy? - Exploring whole body vibration, therapeutic motion simulation and a combination of both |
| 20 Sep 2019 |
PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building) Diana Esquivel Franco (Neurobiology): In search of animal models for male sexual dysfunction - Pharmacological studies in normal and serotonin transporter knockout rats |
| 3 Oct 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Max Scott (North Carolina State University): Development of genetic systems for control of insect pests |
| 11 Oct 2019 |
PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building) Almut Schlaich (Conservation Ecology): Migrants in double jeopardy - Ecology of Montagu's Harriers on breeding and wintering grounds |
| 17 Oct 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Eva Knop (university of Bern): Impact of artificial light at night on plant-pollinator interactions |
| 24 Oct 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) André de Roos (University of Amsterdam): Back to May 1972: Juvenile-adult asymmetry results in large, complex and stable ecological communities |
| 31 Oct 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Ron Stoop (Lausanne): Active coping with fear - A pathway in the amygdala sensitive to oxytocin |
| 5 Nov 2019 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building) Leonel Herrera Alsina (TRÊS): Species selection and the spatial distribution of diversity |
| 7 Nov 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Beatriz Vicoso (IST Austria): Gene expression evolution in sexual and asexual species of Artemia brine shrimp |
| 14 Nov 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Barbara Gravendeel (University of Leiden): Darwin comes to town - How urbanisation can trigger plant evolution |
| 21 Nov 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) David Wheatcroft (University of Stockholm): Connecting population-level divergence in sexual trait preferences with species recognition |
| 22 Nov 2019 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building) Theresa Floessner (Neurobiology): Latitudinal differences in the circadian system of Nasonia vitripennis |
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26 Nov 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5172.0571) Jolle Jolles (MPI and University of Konstanz, Germany): Consistency and plasticity in the individual and social behaviour of sticklebacks |
| 2 Dec 2019 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building) Neeraj Kumar (EGDB): Neglected aspects of hormone mediated maternal effects - Studies on early embryonic modulation of maternal hormonal signals in avian eggs and related methodological aspects |
| 6 Dec 2019 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building) Sara Raj Pant (BPE): Understanding the evolution of infidelity using the Seychelles warbler system |
| 12 Dec 2019 |
GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415) Marion Koopmans (Erasmus MC): Going viral - Changing disease dynamics in the Anthropocene |
| 18 Dec 2019 | GELIFES Christmas Party with live music! (16:00 - Coffee table 5th floor, 5173 & Blue room, 5172.0571) |
| 19 Dec 2019 |
Origins Center Guest lecture (15:00 - 5172.0571) Aditya Chopra (Australian National University, Canberra): The cosmic evolution of biochemistry |
| Last modified: | 01 July 2022 1.24 p.m. |