Meetings, Seminars & Workshops

Explore your future and join the Career Day. The Career Day Light is open to all students, graduates and PhD candidates. Around 48 employers will be present together with career support activities: e.g. a free LinkedIn photoshoot. Entrance is free but registration is required.

Everywhere we go, people are talking about sustainability. But as the use of this term spreads its meaning has become increasingly misused. True sustainability is achieved when the exploitation of resources, the direction of investments, the orientation of technological development and institutional change are all in harmony and guarantee a development which can support itself and meet future needs indefinitely. Environment, economy and society are the three main pillars of sustainability but unfortunately societal and economical welfare are often prioritized over the environment. During the PE&RC Day 2019, we aim to put the environment in the spotlight and discuss its pivotal role in supporting societal and economic demands.

The Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) will celebrate the 10th world conference anniversary in Germany: 10 years advancing ecosystem services science, policy and practice for a sustainable future. The ESP10 conference locations are the Leibniz University for the opening day on Monday, and the Hannover Congress Centre for the rest of the conference.

This conference is addressing the question: how do we proceed from here. How do we stop biodiversity loss? How can we speed up our research? How can we predict how climate change will affect global biodiversity? What new science do we need? What new techniques? What new policies?

Plant phenotyping is becoming the central field of research and application in academia and industry providing a fertile ground for the development of new phenotyping technologies, platforms and methods required to address future grand challenges.

On Thursday the 24th of October 2019, from 10:00 to 10:45 hrs, Dr Gerben Messelink will give a public lecture in which he will present his vision on the Special Chair "Biological pest control in greenhouse production systems". He has been nominated as candidate for this special chiar position, which is to be hosted by the Laboratory of Entomology of Wageningen University & Research, and funded by Koppert Biological Systems B.V. Everyone interested in the topic is warmly invited to join.

This event is being curated by the Wageningen PhD Council, with an audience of about 150 PhD students and faculty members in Wageningen. Goal is to bring together early career researchers from across all disciplines to give idea-focused talks that foster learning, inspiration, and wonder – and eventually, provoke conversations that matter.

During the Opening of the Academic year it was announced that Dr. Charudutt Mishra is the winner of the Outstanding Alumnus Award 2019. On 30 October he will be in the Netherlands and will give a guest lecture entitled "Snow leopards of High Asia: my journeys in science and conservation". After the lecture we will present him with the trophy and certificate belonging to the award. Would you like to attend special lecture?

In this workshop we aim to discuss the opportunities and challenges in determining desirable plant traits, including traits that relate to collaboration with soil microbes, and the hurdles in developing breeding programmes for plant mixtures. Ultimately the goal will be to define a research agenda for the coming years paving the way for successful breeding for diversity.

This academically intensive course is targeted at students, postgraduates and researchers with a strong interest in a career in marine mammal and marine top-predator research.

Based on the recently published IPBES global assessment report on biodiversity and ecosystem services, this Current Themes in Ecology aims to focus on the global trends in biodiversity loss, and the causes and consequences of this decline at different spatial and temporal scales.

The Photosynthesis and Symbiosis Day is an one-day event which gives the possibility to young researchers to share knowledge and expertise in the field of photosynthetic and symbiotic organisms. The conference is especially addressed to master students, PhD students, and Post-docs. It will give participants the opportunity to learn top-notch research from experienced professors in the same field, present their current work on posters, and discuss their most recent results with each other.

Post-graduate students and professional doing field research on plant breeding using trials across sites and over years or cropping seasons, particularly those working on the analysis of controlling the inheritance of complex traits

This symposium is a must for everyone who wants to gain more ecological knowledge useful in the assessment of soil eco(toxico) logical effects of chemical and non-chemical stressors, as well as to learn which ecological databases are available as reference for (large-scale) ecological assessments of effects, and to understand which novel experimental and modelling tools are currently available for an effective environmental risk assessment.

We invite you to join us and over 1200 international ecologists in Belfast for Europe’s largest and most influential annual event dedicated to ecology.

This 2-day workshop is aimed at young scientists who have limited or no background in metabolomics. We shall introduce the concept of how to apply metabolomics approaches to plant-based research including: experimental design, the technologies for data generation (LC/GC MS and NMR); data management and (pre)processing; data mining approaches and statistically-sound data interpretation. The workshop is followed by a free symposium on 12 December 2019 on Advances in Plant and Food Metabolomics is an integral part of this workshop and attendance for all three days is obligatory.

Following on from our very successful earlier -omics and genomics symposia, we shall organize on 12 December 2019 a third meeting dedicated to the latest advances and opportunities in plant & food metabolomics research. In a full program of 7 international experts in their respective fields (each 45 mins) interposed by flash presentations by local scientists (10 mins) you will be exposed to the very latest developments in the field. The full program will be published in September but expect presentations on e.g. Metabolomics and plant breeding; Metabolomics and food quality; New technologies and approaches; Metabolomics data mining; Metabolomics and plant ecology; Metabolomics and health etc. This Symposium is open to everyone but is specifically targeted to young scientists in both industry and academia who have an interest or are active in the field of exploiting metabolomics to advance our molecular knowledge of plants and plant-based materials. If you are interested in joining this free symposium, please mark this date already in your calendar!

The International Forum on Coral Reefs is an international academic conference on coral reefs under the sponsor of Hainan South China Sea Institute of Tropical Oceanography (HITO). It aims to provide a professional, free and open platform for the exchange of global research institutions and experts on coral reefs.

This conference is particularly geared towards people working in the field of ecology and/or evolution. It aims to strengthen the network of ecologists in the Netherlands, Belgium, and surrounding countries and provides an overview of the work carried out by the people in the network.

The inaugural World Bio­di­ver­si­ty Fo­rum will bring to­geth­er lead­ing re­searchers, ear­ly ca­reer re­searchers, prac­ti­tion­ers, rep­re­sen­ta­tives from dif­fer­ent sec­tors, de­ci­sion-mak­ers and so­ci­etal ac­tors to have a con­ver­sa­tion on the kind of fu­ture we want (and/or do not want) for bio­di­ver­si­ty.

The 4th International Conference on Global Food Security addresses the topic of food security at all spatial levels from local to global, and from an interdisciplinary and systemic food systems perspective. It aims to better understand environmental, nutritional, agricultural, demographic, socio-economic, political, technological and institutional drivers, costs and outcomes of current and future food security. Interactions with contextual factors including climate change, urbanisation, greening the economy and data-driven technologies will be central.