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 |
| 20 Mar 2026 |
Inaugural lecture (16:15 - Academy Building & online) Hugh Marston (NeuBio): Bringing precision to psychiatry - Driving a new era of therapeutic innovation |
| 26 Mar 2026 |
GELIFES Seminar (10:00 - 5173.0157) Ilaria Chiocchio (University of Bologna): Understanding lichen adaptation to dry grasslands based on a metabolomics-based frameworks |
| 26 Mar 2026 |
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415) Melissah Rowe (NIOO-KNAW): From guts to gametes - Insights into wild animal microbiomes from the house sparrow |
| 02 Apr 2026 |
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415 & online) Leo Beukeboom (GELIFES): 50 years of sex determination - A farewell lecture by Leo Beukeboom on the occasion of his retirement |
| 14 Apr 2026 |
PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online) Nele Zickert (EvolGen): Functional and evolutionary aspects of lateralization |
| 16 Apr 2026 |
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415 & online) PhDs & Postdocs: Jana Riederer, Delip Das Bisharga, Marianthi Tangili |
| 23 Apr 2026 |
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415) Mehmet Somel (Middle East Technical University, Turkey): Insights from ancient DNA about social dynamics in early agricultural communities |
| 28 Apr 2026 |
PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online) Wenxia Wang (BPE): The effects of ecological and social factors on life history trade-offs and sex differences in parental care in burying beetles |
| 07 May 2026 |
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415) Lucy Avraamidou (UG Centre for Learning and Teaching): Learning to live with the world - The role of science (education) |
| 11 May 2026 |
PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online) Raphaël Scherrer (TRÊS): On the multiple facets of species diversification - Investigations into micro- and macroevolutionary shenanigans |
| 12 May 2026 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building & online) Merijn Driessen (BPE/TRÊS): Trading off immunity - Disentangling life-history and environmental effects on zebra finch innate immunity |
| 18 May 2026 |
Minisymposium EvolGen: "Ecological and evolutionary perspectives towards understanding landbird migration" (13:00-17:05 - 5171.0415) Program |
| 19 May 2026 |
PhD defence (09:00 - Academy Building & online) Tianhao Zhao (NeuBio/EvolGen): Phenotypic and genetic differences of migratory landbirds in East-Central Asian flyways |
| 19 May 2026 |
PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online) Tianjian Qin (TRÊS): Diversification models and neural inference |
| 19 May 2026 |
PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online) Xenia Moreira Lopes (MarBio): Cetacean population genomics in a changing environment |
| 08 Jun 2026 |
PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online) Camilla Paraciani (NeuBio): 'Lost' to sleep loss - Mechanisms and strategies to reverse sleep deprivation-induced amnesia |
| 09 Jun 2026 |
Minisymposium ConsEco: "African savanna ecology & conservation" (09:00-12:00 - Academy Building, Senate Room) Program |
| 09 Jun 2026 |
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building & online) Rebecca Muller (BPE): Exploring changes in avian breeding phenology in South Africa using historical nest record cards |
| 09 Jun 2026 |
PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online) Michael Kimaro (ConsEco): Managing human-wildlife conflict along hard boundaries of African protected areas through fencing |
| 09 Jun 2026 |
PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online) Yuhong Li (ConsEco): Forage quality and resource partitioning of herbivores across a protected area and rangelands |
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