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Weekly Schedule

Week 46 ((9 – 13 November)

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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 9

Location

11:00 PhD Defence
Solveig Höfer (ConsEco): From shifting sands to stable dunes - Disturbance responses at the individual-plant and community levels across coastal dune landscapes (Promotores van der Heide, Wassen (UU); copromotor Reijers (UU))
Academy Building & online
12:00 Marine Biology
Thomas Cupido: Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton communities along a transect in the Northeast Atlantic - From the Canary Basin to the Icelandic Basin (MSc project presentation)
5172.0571 & online
12:45 PhD Defence
Caterina Coral (ConsEco): A walk on the wild side - Ecological importance of temperate reefs: lessons learnt from wild reefs in the North Sea (Promotores van der Heide, Bouma (UU), Christianen (WUR); copromotor Coolen (WUR))
Academy Building & online
14:00 OBP Weekly meeting 5171.0340

Tuesday 10

Location

10:30 GREEN - Microbial Ecology
Nanyang Li: What makes uropathogenic E. coli associated with bloodstream infection?
5171.0415 & online
11:00 PhD Defence
Alexandra Abromeit (NeuBio): From synapse to sensory signatures in autism - Sensory phenotypes and underlying molecular mechanisms in genetic mouse models (Promotor Kas; copromotor Drion)
Academy Building & online
12:00 ConsEco Lunch meeting
Janna Kamp: Breeding behaviour of resident and migrant threespine sticklebacks across two generations in a common garden experiment (MSc project presentation)
5172.0571 & online
13:00 TRÊS/BPE Seminar
Jana Riederer: Evolvability and sexual selection
Energy Academy, 5159.0291
15:00 BPE Seminar
Ines Trindade: Is the clock ticking faster? - How epigenetic age acceleration can inform wildlife conservation
5172.0571 & online
16:15 PhD Defence
Jana Riederer (TRÊS/BPE): Evolvability and sexual selection (Promotores Weissing, Komdeur)
Academy Building & online

Wednesday 11

Location

12:00 GREEN - Plant Biology
Zeena D'Costa Rodriguez: Elucidating extreme flood tolerance - The art of doing nothing (PhD project intro)
5173.0347

Thursday 12

Location

10:00 TRÊS Meeting
Bram van Dijk: Rapid loss of pathogenicity genes evolves under multiscale selection
5172.0571 & online
15:30 GELIFES PhD&Postdoc Seminar
  • Freya Darling Eriksen: What’s the bladder with you? - Exploring urinary tract infections in the context of the urobiome
  • Joe Earle: The end justifies the means - Leveraging morphological efficiency to maintain developmental rate under limited resources in Arabidopsis thaliana and beyond
  • Mayerli Prado Rivera: Where her story becomes their foundation - Impact of shared maternal-offspring adversity on rat behaviour
5171.0415 & online

Friday 13

Location

No announcements
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