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Upcoming activities

Date Activity
05 Jan 2026 PhD defence (09:00 - Academy Building & online)
Jyotsna Nepal (GREEN)): Insights into the diversity of the endophytic community in potatoes and factors affecting this diversity
05 Jan 2026 PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Siyu Mei (GREEN): A missing link in microbial ecology? - Unpacking the soil mobilome over a century-long soil chronosequence
05 Jan 2026 FSE New Year reception (16:00 - Feringa Building main hall)
15 Jan 2026 GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Thomas Lameris: Flexible waterbird migrations
22 Jan 2026 PhD defence (11:00 - De Beurs, Leeuwarden & online)
Taylor Craft (ConsEco): Bird’s-eye views - Tracking landscape change through remote sensing imagery and movements of Black-tailed Godwits
27 Jan 2026 PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Jon Dickson (ConsEco/MarBio): Sunken driftwood - A lost ecosystem
29 Jan 2026 GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Eelco Tromer (GBB): Stranger cells - Evolutionary cell biology lessons from a far corner of the eukaryotic tree of life
03 Feb 2026 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Qingqing Wang (ConsEco): Carbon emissions and climate change impacts on food production in China and beyond
12 Feb 2026 GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Annebelle Kok (Leiden ​University): Acoustic signatures of marine ecosystems
24 Feb 2026 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Luis Barba Escoto (ConsEco): Complex interactions in meadow bird conservation - Field and landscape dynamics, shaped by people
27 Feb 2026 Farewell symposium Theunis Piersma: "Synthetic and other realities - The necessity of persistent observations in the field" (09:45-18:00 - NIOZ, Texel)
Program
05 Mar 2026 GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Sabine Gollner (NIOZ): Resilience of deep-sea hydrothermal vent communities
10 Mar 2026 PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Isabelle Buyens (ConsEco): From patches to processes - Linking grazing, facilitation, and trait variation in a grazed salt marsh
12 Mar 2026 GELIFES Seminar (16:00 - 5171.0415)
Ivana Jaric (University of Zurich): Ovarian hormone status - From unwanted noise to necessity in neuroscience research on sex differences
26 Mar 2026 GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Melissah Rowe (NIOO-KNAW): Tba
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