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Weekly Schedule

Week 27 (29 June – 3 July)

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 29

Location
11:30 OBP Coffee meeting 5171.0415
12:00 Marine Biology
Andrea Groenewoud: Stickleback parasites in Iceland (MSc project presentation)		 5172.0571 & online
12:40 Elise Thijssens: Assessing the coral reef’s status after cyclone Ditwah in Kayankerni Marine Sanctuary, Sri Lanka (MSc project presentation) 5172.0571 & online
13:20 Ivanka Heikens: A comparison of small fish communities in different landscapes of the northern Pantanal (MSc project presentation) 5172.0571 & online
13:50 Rosa Korte: The effectiveness of nest relocation in sea turtle conservation (colloquium) 5172.0571 & online
14:00 OBP Weekly meeting 5171.0340

Tuesday 30

Location
10:30 GREEN - Microbial Ecology
  • Andre Athayde Gimenez: Where is our dengue vaccine? (colloquium)
  • Valentijn Grit: The immune system response of viral free Ae. albopictus during ISF infection
  • Iva Smigovec: Genomic annotation of fungi
 5171.0415 & online
12:00 ConsEco Lunch meeting
  • Manuela Fernandez & Veronica El Mujtar: The GIAASP - A collaborative network for co-creation knowledge
  • Bob Evenhuis: Alley cropping systems with grapevines, evidence from strip- and alley cropping (colloquium)
  • Maaike van den Bemt: Surviving in a contaminated landscape - PFAS and meadow birds (colloquium)
 5172.0571 & online
13:30 EvolGen Meeting
  • Vasilis Kapantaidakis: Wired for company - Decoding how social cues override environmental signals in Drosophila melanogaster (MSc project presentation)
  • Fiete Schritt: Genetic variance of social modulation of egg-laying in Drosophila melanogaster (MSc project presentation)
 5171.0415
15:00-18:00 FSE Staff Summer Event Lawn between LB and BB

Wednesday 1

Location
11:30 TRÊS Meeting
  • Femke Noorman: Son preference in the Dutch nobility (MSc project presentation)
  • Erik Tetteroo: Evolution of codon bias and codon pairs (MSc project presentation)
 5172.0571 & online
12:00 GREEN - Plant Biology
Yvette Hofstra: The impact of salt tolerance on pollinator behavior		 5173.0347
12:00 NeuBio – Molecular/Behavioural Neuroscience Lab meeting
  • Julia Burgos-Flores: Patterns of decline - Sex and genotype differences in cognitive deficits in TgF344 rat model of Alzheimer’s disease (MSc project presentation)
  • Rianne van Dekken: Consequences of artificial light at night on hippocampal memory in 3xTg-AD male and female mice (MSc project presentation)
  • Amber Kal: Dissociating gonadal and chromosomal sex effects on touchscreen-based hippocampal pattern separation under circadian disturbance (MSc project presentation)
 5171.0415
14:00 NeuBio – Seminar
  • 14:00 Nikolá Batová: Linking representational drift to plasticity in biologically inspired continual learning (minor thesis presentation)
  • 14:30 Paula Gómez Méndez: A reward prediction error code in hippocampal place cells (minor thesis presentation)
  • 15:00 Sara Juganaru: Predicting Alzheimer's disease from EEG using an explainable deep learning approach (minor thesis presentation)
  • 15:30 Livia Stein: Role of theta oscillations in memory retrieval (minor thesis presentation)
  • 16:00 Guillaume Etter: Lifelong learning in biological and artificial neural networks (10min ERC Consolidator pitch)

5171.0415

Thursday 2

Location
11:00 PhD Defence
Joe Badji-Churchill (BPE): Fledging in a changing climate - The delayed effects of climate on embryonic and nestling development in the thorn-tailed rayadito in Patagonia (Promotores Komdeur, Vásquez Salfate (University of Chile))		 Academy Building & online

Friday 3

Location
09:00 NeuBio – Seminar
  • 09:00 Saga Lehtimaki: Sex-specific patterns in memory - Discriminating gonadal hormone and sex chromosome influences on pattern separation (MSc project presentation)
  • 09:45 Hidde Huisjes: Memory in motion - In vivo calcium imaging to investigate the neural dynamics of tutor song memory in adult zebra finches (MSc project presentation)
  • 10:30 Jacek Menzynski-Biskup: Longitudinal structural brain changes at midlife resulting from menopause-like ovarian hormone loss in an Alzheimer’s disease mouse model (MSc project presentation)
  • 11:15 Li-Yan Sijbolts: Effect of sex and chronic sleep restriction on a touchscreen-based pattern separation task in rats (MSc project presentation)
  • 13:00 Babet Rozendal: Mechanism underlying effects of stress on sleep (colloquium)
  • 13:45 Alieke Jonkman: Exploring the therapeutic efficacy of a novel TNFR2 agonist in an aging MS model (MSc project presentation)
  • 15:15 Esmee van der Peer: Circadian effects of working for food (MSc project presentation)

5171.0415
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