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Weekly Schedule

Week 49 (1 - 5 December)

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 1

Location

09:30 OBP Weekly meeting 5171.0340
12:00 Marine Biology
Andrea Groenewoud: Indigenous solutions to marine conservation (colloquium)
5172.0571 & online
12:40 Maartje Schinkel: Assessing the efficiency and ecological performance of two transplanting methods in seagrass restoration (MSc project presentation) 5172.0571 & online
13:20 Jacco Backx: From water droplet to data drop, a review of eDNA application in marine environments (colloquium) 5172.0571 & online

Tuesday 2

Location

09:00 PhD Defence
Junfei Cao (NeuBio): The Pahenu2 phenylketonuria mouse model - Novel insights from behavioral and neurophysiological findings (Promotores Havekes, van der Zee)
Academy Building & online
11:00 PhD Defence
Maarten Hamberg (NeuBio): Frozen rhythms - Timing and thermoregulation of hibernation in the garden dormouse (Promotores Hut, Henning (UMCG), Havekes)
Academy Building & online
12:00 ConsEco Lunch meeting
  • Lina Eriksson: Predation on yellow wagtails and skylarks in the agricultural landscape of Groningen (MSc project presentation)
  • Daan Kroeze: Integrating engineering and ecology - Coastal protection for the benefit of all (colloquium)
  • Joris Millenaar: Drivers of arthropod abundance & diversity in vineyard ecosystems on Vancouver Island (MSc project presentation)
5172.0571 & online
12:45 PhD Defence
Hemant Maheshwari (GREEN): Comparative analysis of Bacillus mycoides strains from contrasting habitats - Implications for plant growth promotion under abiotic stress (Promotor Elzenga; copromotor van Veen)
Academy Building & online

Wednesday 3

Location

11:30 TRÊS Meeting
Arturo Comin: The role of AI in modern evolutionary theory research
5172.0571 & online
12:00 NeuBio – Molecular/Behavioural Neuroscience Lab meeting
Marina Ocaña Prieto: The ‘tip-of-the-tongue’ experience (colloquium)
5171.0415

Thursday 4

Location

12:45 PhD Defence
Nynke Wemer (BPE): Cheetah conservation in a changing landscape - Habitat, conflict and connectivity in Southern Africa (Promotores Komdeur, Leslie (U Stellenbosch; copromotor Naude (U Stellenbosch))
Academy Building & online
15:30 GELIFES Seminar
Guillaume Etter (GELIFES): How to build a brain?
5171.0415

Friday 5

Location

09:00 PhD Defence
Amandine Vidal-Hosteng (TRÊS): Insular biodiversity - Colonization and diversification, legacy of a changing landscape (Promotores Etienne, Thébaud (U Toulouse); copromotor Aguilée (U Toulouse))
Academy Building & online
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