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Weekly Schedule

Week 5 (26 – 30 January)

Weekly schedule by email: Every Friday afternoon the weekly schedule for the coming week is distributed by email. If you also want to receive our weekly schedules, please send an email to your expertise group secretary or to weeklyschedule rug.nl and you will be added to the mailing list.

Announcements for the weekly schedule: If you have anything to announce that is of interest to all institute members, including literature / book discussions, please send an email to weeklyschedule rug.nl before 12:00 hr on Thursday.

Monday 26

Location

11:30 OBP Coffee meeting 5171.0415
12:00 Marine Biology
Alice Cairns: Diving deep into plastic pollution - What do whales reveal about plastic pollution? (colloquium)
5172.0571 & online
12:40 Elise Thijssens: The naming of life - Challenges with the scientific naming of species (colloquium) 5172.0571 & online
13:20 Karein van Bijssum: The impact of fisheries on seabirds in the North Sea (colloquium) 5172.0571 & online
13:00 TRÊS Meeting
Pranjal Tiwari: Darwinian demons in a host-parasite context (colloquium)
5172.0571 & online
14:00 OBP Weekly meeting 5171.0340

Tuesday 27

Location

10:30 GREEN - Microbial Ecology
  • Tomas Vogels: How to create synthetic endophytic fungal communities, for beginners (PhD project intro)
  • Erik Tetteroo: Untangling the fungal tree of life - The current state of fungal systematics (colloquium)
5171.0415 & online
12:00 ConsEco Lunch meeting
Bram van Rhee: Recreation gone wild - How human leisure activities disturb animal behaviour (colloquium)
5172.0571 & online
12:45 PhD Defence
Jon Dickson (ConsEco/MarBio): Sunken driftwood - A lost ecosystem (Promotores van der Heide, Eriksson, Govers; copromotor Franken)
Academy Building & online

Wednesday 28

Location

11:30 TRÊS Meeting
Kyra Liefers: Integrating common-pool resource theory with ecosystem services to increase collective action for ecological sustainability - A theoretical exploration (MSc project presentation)
5172.0571 & online
12:00 GREEN - Plant Biology
Genesiska: Drought or microbial diversity - What shapes the rhizosphere metabolic profile more? (PhD project update)
5173.0347
12:00 NeuBio – Molecular/Behavioural Neuroscience Lab meeting
Andrés Vinas Martinez: What are we? - Diving into how pair bonding shapes female zebra finch perception
5171.0415

Thursday 29

Location

15:30 GELIFES Seminar
Eelco Tromer (GBB): Stranger cells - Evolutionary cell biology lessons from a far corner of the eukaryotic tree of life
5171.0415

Friday 30

Location

No announcements
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