Current PhD Projects

Mareike G. Bach

Supervisors: Theo Elzenga (GREEN), Jaqueline Stefels (GREEN)

Predicting DMS(P) production in a high-CO₂ world - Does algal carbon-utilization provide the answer?

Flavia Berlinghieri

Supervisors: Ton Groothuis (EGDB), Culum Brown (Macquarie University)

Hormone-mediated maternal effects and the link between lateralization and personality

Wender Bil

Supervisors: Christiaan Both (ConsEco), Raymond Klaassen (ConsEco), Janne Ouwehand (ConsEco)

Ecology of Pied flycatchers on the wintering grounds in relation to migration

Mirjam J. Borger

Supervisors: Jan Komdeur (BPE), Franjo Weissing (TRÊS), David Richardson (University of East Anglia)

A first realistic quantitative test of sex ratio modification theory in a wild population

Henrique M. Bravo Gouveia

Supervisors: Per Palsboll (GREEN), Sancia van der Meij (GREEN)

Diversification on coral reefs

Ines M. Daras

Supervisors: Franjo Weissing (TRÊS), Sander van Doorn (TRÊS)

Eco-evolutionary causes and consequences of plasmid-mediated horizontal gene transfer

Nicolas P. Doubovetzky

Supervisors: Jean-Christoph Billeter (NeuBio), Bregje Wertheim (EGDB)

Neurogenetic dissection of a sexual conflict in Drosophila melanogaster

Jean-Yves Duriaux Chavarria

Supervisors: Pablo Tittonell (ConsEco), Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez (Cornell University), Ruth Howison (ConsEco)

People-Nature trade-offs and synergies in agricultural landscapes - Guiding conservation and regeneration from local people’s perspectives

Fabricio R. Garcia Furni

Supervisors: Per Palsbøll (GREEN), Camilla Speller (University of British Columbia, Canada), Eduardo Secchi (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil

Impacts of industrial whaling - Scale, ecological and evolutionary legacies

Aude A. Giraud

Supervisors: Martine Maan (EGDB), Han Adriaenssen (Philosophy)

Epigenetics and inheritance of acquired characters - Lamarck's legacy and its relationship to modern advances in evolutionary biology

Jakob R.L. Gismann

Supervisors: Franjo Weissing (TRÊS), Ton Groothuis (EGDB), Marion Nicolaus (ConsEco)

The eco-evo-devo of social personalities

Max L.E. Gräfnings

Supervisors: Tjisse van der Heide (ConsEco), Laura Govers (ConsEco)

Tinkering with seagrass restoration

Yustina A. Kiwango

Supervisors: Han Olff (ConsEco), Michiel Veldhuis (Leiden University), Grant Hopcraft (University of Glasgow)

Restoration of the ecological integrity of two new extensions to the Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Dehuang Kong

Supervisors: Gertjan van Dijk (NeuBio), Sahar El Aidy (GBB)

Role of dietary fibers in energy balance regulation of mice: a dual focus on health and growth

Joshua W. Lambert

Supervisors: Rampal Etienne (TRÊS), Luis Lima Valente (Naturalis)

Between island and mainland - New theory for non-oceanic islands and an empirical test in the ‘Galápagos of Africa’

Carlijn Lammers

Supervisors: Tjisse van der Heide (ConsEco), Valérie Reijers (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Restoring coastal landscapes with spatially organizing plants

Simona Laukaityte

Supervisors: Klemens Eriksson (GREEN), Melanie Bishop (Macquairie University)

The importance of infauna in maintaining seagrass ecosystems

Fangfei Lin

Supervisors: Leo Beukeboom (EGDB), Louis van de Zande (EGDB)

Characterization of female determining factors in the housefly

Xipeng Liu

Supervisors: Joana Falcao Salles (GREEN), Stefanie Vink (GREEN)

Can microbial teamwork boost the successful invasions?

Xu Liu

Supervisors: Theo Elzenga (GREEN), Luit de Kok (GREEN)

The physiological, biochemical and proteomic contribution of alfalfa under salt stress

Tim Oortwijn

Supervisors: Theunis Piersma (ConsEco), Jan van Gils (NIOZ)

Carry-over effects of body shrinkage in red knots

Tianjian Qin

Supervisors: Rampal Etienne (TRÊS), Luis Lima Valente (Naturalis)

Effects of phylogenetic relatedness and species interactions on macroevolutionary patterns

Lisa Sanchez Aguilar

Supervisors: Chris Smit (ConsEco), Dries Kuijper (Ghent University)

Rewilding and trophic cascades - A scientifically based visual program for long-term and landscape scale ecological processes

Stefano Tiso

Supervisors: Franjo Weissing (TRÊS), Sander van Doorn (TRÊS)

Architectural determinants of evolutionary innovations

Clea N. van de Ven

Supervisors: Tjisse van der Heide (ConsEco), Valérie Reijers (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Small steps, giant leaps - How coastal landscapes are formed by spatially organizing plants

Timo J.B. van Eldijk

Supervisors: Franjo Weissing (TRÊS), Sander van Doorn (TRÊS)

A mechanistic understanding of the evolution of antibiotic resistance

Tom S.L. Versluijs

Supervisors: Theunis Piersma (ConsEco), Jeroen Reneerkens (ConsEco), Jan van Gils (NIOZ)

Coping with phenological mismatch - How an insectivorous migrant shorebird may mitigate the negative effects of a warming Arctic by prey and patch selection

Weihong Wang

Supervisors: Leo Beukeboom (EGDB), Louis van de Zande (EGDB)

Polyploid variation and mechanisms in Nasonia vitripennis

Wenxia Wang

Supervisors: Jan Komdeur (BPE), Hua Wu (Central China Normal University)

Evolution of parental care and communal breeding

Yifan Wang

Supervisors: Roelof Hut (NeuBio), Leo Beukeboom (EGDB)

Circadian light entrainment in Nasonia

Tao Xu

Supervisors: Klemens Eriksson (GREEN), Sancia van der Meij (GREEN)

Evolutionary diversification on coral reefs

Fuyu Ye

Supervisors: Leo Beukeboom (EGDB), Louis van de Zande (EGDB)

Molecular genetic regulation of endosymbiont-induced female development and sex determination in the parasitoid wasps Leptopilina clavipes and Encarsia hispida

Tianci Zhao

Supervisors: Theo Elzenga (GREEN), Joana Falcao Salles (GREEN)

Breeding new forage species based on plant-microbial interaction

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