Upcoming activities

Summer break

FSE Opening of the Academic Year 2025 - 2025 (10:00 - main hall, Energy Academy)

GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Gregor Belušič (University of Ljubljana): Colour coding in butterfly retinal mosaics

PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building & online)
Tim Oortwijn (ConsEco): Flyway connections - Isotopic insights in the changing conditions faced by red knots

PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Lars Zandbergen (GREEN): From ecology to evolution - The influence of microbial communities on uropathogen fitness and antibiotic resistance

GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Todd Thiele (University of North Carolina): Ascending norepinephrine neurocircuitry modulates binge-like alcohol intake - The aversive properties of alcohol

PhD defence (09:00 - Academy Building & online)
Misshelle Bustamante Ordonez (TRES/GREEN): Eco-evolutionary interactions and the spread of antimicrobial resistance in pathogenic microbial communities

PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Suzanne Poiesz (ConsEco/NIOZ): Deep dive into the Wadden Sea - A divers approach to better understand spatial and temporal variability in the Wadden Sea fish food web

PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Kasper Meijer (ConsEco): Status quo or status faux - The conservation status of the subtidal Dutch Wadden Sea

GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Suzanne van der Veldt (GELIFES): Neural circuits linking context and anxiety

PhD defence (09:00 - Academy Building & online)
Frigg Speelman (BPE): Socially monogamous partnerships in birds - Causes, consequences, and pair-bond strength

GELIFES Seminar (15:00 - 5171.0415)
James Lewis (Clemson University): Two modes of polygenic trait adaptation in Lepidoptera

PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Maryann Watson (MarBio): Reef riffs - Biological soundscapes & fish communities of reefs in the Wadden Sea

GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Tom Oosting (GELIFES): Integrating genomics into fisheries management

PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building & online)
Donghui Ma (BPE): Behavioural and social plasticity as mechanisms to cope with a changing world - A study on burying beetles

PhD defence (16:15 - Academy Building & online)
Vania Rivera León (MarBio): Molecular ecology of baleen whales - Past to present

PhD defence (14:30 - Academy Building & online)
Juliana Sosa Espinosa (GREEN/BPE): Shedding light on Morpho butterfly wings - Iridescence and directional displays

GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Melissah Rowe (KNAW-NIOO): Tba

PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Euan Young (BPE): Family matters - The role of trade-offs in shaping human life-histories and health

GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Inge Holtman (UMCG): Tba

PhD defence (11:00 - Academy Building & online)
Maarten Hamberg (NeuBio): Frozen rhythms - Timing and thermoregulation of hibernation in the garden dormouse

PhD defence (12:45 - Academy Building & online)
Hemant Maheshwari (GREEN): Comparative analysis of Bacillus mycoides strains from contrasting habitats - Implications for plant growth promotion under abiotic stress

GELIFES Seminar (15:30 - 5171.0415)
Anton Scheurink (GELIFES): Christmas lecture