GELIFES Christmas Symposium
This year the GELIFES Symposium is merged with our traditional Christmas Lecture, followed by the Christmas Party. Symposium attendance is free of charge for all GELIFES members but for catering purposes all attendees must register before 17 November 2026.
A highlight of the day will be the poster session, where postdocs, PhD students, and master’s students are warmly encouraged to present their work. All poster presenters are expected to give a 1 minute poster pitch. This is a great opportunity to showcase your research, exchange ideas, and spark meaningful discussions, and poster prizes will be awarded! The registration deadline for the poster session is 30 November 2026; posters uploaded after 30 November are excluded from the poster prize election.
Preliminary programme:
| 09:30 | Welcome with coffee/tea |
| 10:00 | Opening |
| 10:05 |
Thomas Lameris
Be prepared! - How flexibility in bird migration depends on preparation before departure |
| 10:30 |
Tom Oosting
Applications of population genomics in wildlife management |
| 11:00 | Coffee/tea break |
| 11:30 |
Wouter Vansteelant
Learned travellers - Untangling how environment and social information shape migratory development of long-lived birds |
| 12:00 |
Lidewij Schipper
Tba |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00 |
Keynote Lecture - Bert Otten (UMCG) Sherlock Holmes could be more successful with human movement sciences |
| 15:00 | Coffee/tea break |
| 15:30 | Poster pitches |
| 16:15 | Poster session & drinks |
| 18:00 | Poster prize ceremony & closure |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
| 20:00 |
Christmas Lecture - Jacqueline Stefels
Tba |
| Christmas Party 21:00-00:00 |
