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Research GELIFES

Upcoming activities

Date Activity
11 Jan 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & livestream)
Edisa Garcia-Hernandez (GREEN/ConsEco): Dynamics of the salt marsh biomes in response to inundation
13 Jan 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - online)
Leonida Fusani (University of Vienna): The quest for the integrated values of courtship displays
18 Jan 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & livestream)
Qian Chen (GREEN): Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Rhizophagus irregularis and soil bacteriome interactions affecting maize (Zea mays L.) under saline conditions
25 Jan 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & livestream)
Anouk Willems (NeuBio): The effect of lifestyle on prevention of non-communicable diseases
1 Feb 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & livestream)
Lucas Porto (TRÊS: Patterns of diversification and geographic distribution of Canidae over time
3 Feb 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - online)
Jocelien Olivier (GELIFES-NeuBio): Mom's gut feeling - Antidepressant treatment and offspring brain development and behavior
10 Feb 2022 GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - online)
Vaughn Cooper (University of Pittsburgh): The evolutionary biology of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections lasting days or years
15 Feb 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Astrid Kruitwagen (EGDB): Native parasitoids and a novel invasive host - Linking evolutionary ecology and biological pest control
24 Feb 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - online)
Alon Chen (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israël): Stress-induced psychiatric disorders - A symphony of molecular and cellular mechanisms
10 Mar 2022 GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - online)
Emmie de Wit (NIH, USA): A rapid response to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 - Making past experiences count
17 Mar 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - on site & online)
Roel van Klink (iDiv, Germany): Global changes in insect biodiversity
29 Mar 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Xuan Li (EGDB): Sex chromosome evolution in the house fly - Genomic distribution and structure of polymorphic male determining loci
31 Mar 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - on site & online)
Yossi Yovel (Tel Aviv University): The ontogeny of cognitive maps in the real world
7 Apr 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - on site & online)
Coen Elemans (University of Southern Denmark): All singing, all-dancing - The embodied motor control of the animal voice
14 Apr 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - online)
Liesbeth Bakker (NIOO-KNAW/WUR): Rewilding human-dominated landscapes
21 Apr 2022 GELIFES Seminar (16:30 - online)
Arjen Boender (Emory University): Understanding the causes and consequences of individual variation in striatal Oxtr expression in prairie voles - A molecular phenotype relevant to

autism spectrum disorders

12 May 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - 5173.0157 & online)
Darcy Visscher (King's University, Canada): Fear as an organizing principle in ecology
13 May 2022 Inaugural lecture (16:15 - Academy Building & livestream)
Joana Falcao Salles (GREEN): Understanding the role of soil and host-associated microbiome in natural environments
17 May 2022 Mini Symposium BPE/TRÊS: "The evolution of parental sex roles" (9:30-11:30, 5172.0571 & online)
Speakers: Sasha Dall (University of Exeter), Jonathan Henshaw (University of Freiburg), Xiaoyan Long (University of Groningen)
17 May 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Xiaoyan Long (BPE/TRÊS): The evolution of parental sex roles
19 May 2022 GELIFES Seminar (16:30 - online)
Fernando Baptista (National Geographic): Telling stories with infographics - National Geographic's Fernando Baptista
24 May 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Ties Ausma (GREEN): Regulation of sulfate metabolism in C4 plants - A whole plant perspective
03 June 2022 GELIFES Seminar (14:00 - 5171.0415)
Kate Lambertsen (University of Southern Denmark): TNF-mediated neuroinflammation
07 June 2022 PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Raj Jagesar (NeuBio): Digital phenotyping - Operation & execution
09 June 2022 GELIFES Seminar (14:00 - 5171.0415 & online)
Bert Huizing (UB/PURE): Make your research output visible with PURE
16 June 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - 5172.0571 & online)
Brian Trevelline (Cornell Lab of Ornithology): Exploring host-microbe nutritional interactions in wild vertebrates
28 June 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Beatriz Marin Diaz (ConsEco): Unravelling foreshore ecosystem dynamics - Applications for ecosystem-based coastal defence
30 June 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - online)
Riccardo Marioni (University of Edinburgh): Epigenetic patterns of ageing and disease
05 July 2022 PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Steffen van Heijningen (NeuBio): The driving forces of metabolic programming - A fundamental study in mice
8 Jul 2022 GELIFES BBQ (17:15 - Linnaeusborg, canteen terrace (or inside if the weather turns bad)
11 Jul - 19 Aug 2022 Summer break
22 Aug 2022 PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Yanfang Wang (GREEN): Functioning of a synthetic lignocellulolytic microbial consortium - The effect of conditions on dynamics of interactions and functioning
22 Aug 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Sean Tok Shui Liang (NeuBio): Understanding the neurophysiological consequences of Alzheimer's disease pathology - A characterization of pathology, encephalographic changes and neuronal network hyperexcitability in transgenic mouse models of Alzheimer’s disease
23 Aug 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Silu Lin (TRÊS): Social modulation of ageing in termites
26 & 27 Aug 2022 Official opening & Open day 'De Herdershut' (Heereweg 10, Schiermonnikoog)
26th: Official opening (on invitation)
27th, 11:00-15:00: Open day for the general public
29 Aug 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Tiphaine Bailly (EGDB/TRÊS): Life with others - Function and mechanisms of social modulation of behaviour and physiology in Drosophila melanogaster
30 Aug 2022 PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building & online)
Apu Ramesh (TRÊS/EGDB): Animal personalities on the move
16 Sep 2022 GELIFES Seminar (10:00 - 5173.0055)
Steve Emslie (UNC Wilmington, USA): Antarctic penguins and climate change - Past, present and future
27 Sep 2022 PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Pratik Gupte (TRÊS): Animal movement strategies
04 Oct 2022 PhD defence (09:00 - Academy Building & online)
Panji Mawarda (GREEN): The soil microbiome dynamics following microbial invasions
04 Oct 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Kevin Ike (NeuBio): Measuring social withdrawal - Using semi-natural social environments to identify translational measures in mice
06 Oct 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - 5172.0571)
Kellie Tamashiro (Johns Hopkins Medicine, USA): Perinatal diet and its impact on developmental programming of offspring physiology and behavior
11 Oct 2022 PhD defence (09:00 - Academy Building & online)
Pina Brinker (EGDB/GREEN): Complex interactions in a host-symbiont-microbiome triangle - The wasp Asobara japonica, the endosymbiont Wolbachia and the remainder microbiome
11 Oct 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Kiran Gurung (EGDB/GREEN): A microbial perspective of Drosophila suzukii - Insights into the pest microbe interactions
18 Oct 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Greg Fivash (ConsEco): Restoration of biogeomorphic landscapes by creating ‘windows of opportunity’
27 Oct 2022 PhD defence (09:00 - Academy Building & online)
Liping Wang (GREEN): Salinity tolerance traits in three grass species
27 Oct 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - 5171.0415)
Cato Drion (Neurobiology): The mTOR pathway in epilepsy and autism spectrum disorder
01 Nov 2022 PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building & online)
Elodie Wilwert (EGDB/TRÊS): Plastic fish in troubled waters - Behavioural, developmental and eco-evolutionary aspects of visual system diversity in East African cichlids
01 Nov 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Youri Bolsius (NeuBio): Hidden memories in the sleep-deprived brain - The consequences of sleep loss for hippocampal plasticity and memory
03 Nov 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - 5172.0571 & online)
Emily Burdfield-Steel (University of Amsterdam): Chemicals and colours - Uncovering the chemical signals maintaining aposematic warning signal variation
15 Nov 2022 PhD defence (09:00 - Academy Building & online)
Xiaocui Wang (NeuBio): Dissecting yeast-dependent population differentiation and spatial segregation in Drosophila melanogaster
21 Nov 2022 Mini Symposium ConsEco/NIOZ: "Personality across contexts" (13:00-17:30, Oceaanzaal, NIOZ Texel & online)
Program
21 Nov 2022 Mini Symposium BPE/TRÊS: "Evolutionary ecology of social breeding" (10:30-12:00, 5172.0571 & online)
Speakers: Ben Hatchwell (University of Sheffield), Andrea Pilastro (University of Padova), Jia Zheng (University of Groningen)
21 Nov 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Jia Zheng (BPE/TRÊS): Evolutionary ecology of the variable breeding system of Chinese penduline tits
22 Nov 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Selin Ersoy (ConsEco/EGDB): Exploration in red knots - The role of personality in the expression of individual behaviour across contexts
24 Nov 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - 5172.0571 & online)
David Richardson (University of East Anglia): Telomeres and the cost of living - Evidence from the Seychelles warbler
28 Nov 2022 PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Marina Papadopoulou (TRÊS): Self-organized collective escape in bird flocks
28 Nov 2022 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Renate Kat (NeuBio): The neurophysiological potential - Translatability and reproducibility of preclinical outcome measures in psychiatric research
28 Nov 2022 Mini Symposium TRÊS: "Collective behaviour in bird flocks" (15:00-17:00, Doopsgezinde Kerk, Oude Boteringestraat 33, Groningen)
Speakers: Andrea Flack (Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour), Claudio Carere (Tuscia University), Marina Papadopoulou (University of Groningen)
01 Dec 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - 5171.0415 & online)
Alexander Kotrschal (WUR): The evolution of brains and cognitive abilities
08 Dec 2022 PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building & online)
Melanie Lindner (NeuBio): Avian seasonal reproduction in times of global warming - Insights from evolution, ecology and (epi-)genomics
08 Dec 2022 GELIFES Seminar (13:00 - 5171.0415 & online)
Liesbeth Borer (University of Minnesota): tba
08 Dec 2022 Mini Symposium NeuBio: "Genomics going wild" (14:00-16:30, 5171.0415 )
Craig Primmer (University of Helsinki), Marianthi Tangili & Simon Verhulst (University of Groningen), Melanie Lindner (University of Groningen/NIOO)
15 Dec 2022 GELIFES Christmas Party (16:00 - 18:00, Linnaeusborg Takeaway)
20 Dec 2022 PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Betty Hornix (NeuBio): Corticothalamic processing across the neuropsychiatric spectrum - The role of protocadherin 9 expression in different densory modalities
23 Dec 2022 - 8 Jan 2023 Christmas break
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