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Research Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences

Upcoming activities

Date
Activity
Jul - Aug 2026
Summer break
25 Aug 2026
PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Victoria Rostovtseva (TRÊS): Understanding human cooperativeness
25 Aug 2026
PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Lauren de Wit (NeuBio): Circadian timing and genome integrity in mammalian hibernation
08 Sep 2026
PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Mingxuan Wu (ConsEco): Spatial self-organized patterns as living infrastructure - Building adaptive capacity across scales in patterned landscape
10 Sep 2026
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Gerard Jagers op Akkerhuis: Tba
22 Sep 2026
PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
David Ekkers (TRÊS): Life is a trade-off - The interplay between selection and constraints in Lactococcus cremoris
24 Sep 2026
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Rob Raguso (Cornell University): Tba
13 Oct 2026
PhD defence (09:00 - Academy Building & online)
William Cardona (ConsEco/GREEN): Grounds for peace - A social-ecological assessment of soil health, diversification, and associated ecosystem services in Arabica coffee crops in post-conflict
13 Oct 2026
PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Ornela Dehayem Nanwou (TRÊS): Diversification in isolation - Traits, sampling, and inference in island biogeography
13 Oct 2026
PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Ryan Brewer (TRÊS): Trait-dependent diversification and biogeography of Canary Islands angiosperms
27 Oct 2026
PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Macarena Blanco Pimentel (MarBio): Science-based interventions for resilient coral reef restoration in tourism-dependent Caribbean coastal systems
02 Nov 2026
PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Ilaria Manfredonia (EGDB/GREEN): Hidden in the fold - Structural complexity and functional versatility in the genomes of RNA viruses
09 Nov 2026
PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building & online)
Solveig Hofer (ConsEco): From shifting sands to stable dunes - Disturbance responses at the individual-plant and community levels across coastal dune landscapes
09 Nov 2026
PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Caterina Coral (ConsEco): A walk on the wild side - Ecological importance of temperate reefs: lessons learnt from wild reefs in the North Sea
01 Dec 2026
PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Mayerli Prado Rivera (NeuBio): Where her story becomes their foundation - Impact of shared maternal-offspring adversity on rat behavior
01 Dec 2026
PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Gabriel Charvalakis (NeuBio): More than a moth to a flame - Spatiotemporal responses of insects to light at night
17 Dec 2026
GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Christmas lecture
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