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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

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
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