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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