Upcoming events

Learn how to gain a solid foundation in the Phylogenetic Comparative methods and develop the skills you need to interpret patterns in the tree of life.

On Tuesday October 3rd, the next B-Wise meeting will take place at 12:30h, in room C0226 in the Forum building. Lunch will be available from 12:00h onwards.

Mauricio Penuela, postdoc at Wageningen University Bioinformatics, will talk about predicting chromosomal recombination in plants. Hannah Augustijn, PhD student at the Institute of Biology at Leiden University and WU Bioinformatics, will talk about using regulatory networks for function prediction of biosynthetic gene clusters

Graduate school WIMEK is organising a Lunch meeting to discuss the challenges that researchers may have to connect their fundamental research into a larger context, especially finding the societal relevance and creating the impact in the society with their research.

Autumn is coming, so after last year's success, it is time to channel our inner mycologists once more. Wednesday, October 4th all PE&RC members are welcome to join us on a guided mushroom expedition through the forests near Wageningen with fungal experts and WUR professors Duur Aanen and Thom Kuijper.

In this course, we will cover genome analysis, variant analysis, and pangenomics. Core concepts, applications, and future trends will be discussed, with a focus on the algorithms and data structures underlying state-of-the-art methods. The course offers an engaging mix of lectures, paper discussions, hands-on tutorials, and a do-it-yourself project.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee of the ECE 2023 and the Hellenic Entomological Society, we are delighted to invite entomologists from around the globe to the XII European Congress of Entomology (ECE 2023), which will be held in Heraklion, Crete, on 16-20 October 2023. Deadline for abstract submission is Monday 27 February 2023

After finishing the course, participants will be able to: have an overview of the available image and video analysis techniques, make well-informed choices on image and video analysis techniques, manage the pitfalls originating from the images, annotation process or analysis technique.

On this day, we will explore the latest research and insights into disease ecology, including the ecological and genetic factors driving the emergence and spread of new pathogens, the impact of climate change and human activities on disease transmission, and the development of innovative approaches for controlling and preventing infectious diseases.

This course focuses on ethical issues that are encountered when doing research in plant and environmental sciences. It includes hands-on dealings with ethical, philosophical, and societal issues surrounding science.

This retreat focusses on the postdoc career ambitions and how the postdoc position can contribute to fulfilling these ambitions.

At AIWW 2023, we aim to inspire participants to get into action and to improve the impact of solutions. We are inspired by the Water Action Agenda of the UN 2023 Water Conference, which states[1] that ‘the emphasis should be on accelerated implementation and improved impact towards achieving SDG6 and other water-related goals and targets, looking at content, process and structure.

This mini-symposium will feature presentations highlighting four perspectives on agroecology and ecological intensification: agroecology and its relation to alternative future concepts from a Latin American perspective; agroecology and its role for Europe; ‘doing’ agroecology as a researcher; and capacity building for ecological intensification. The mini-symposium is organized on the occasion of Mariana Scarlato’s PhD thesis defence on 7 November 2023.

The Centre for Soil Ecology (CSE) was established in 2010 by the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) and Wageningen University and Research (WUR) to bring together soil ecologists in Wageningen. However, as soil ecology is happening all across the Netherlands, there is need to transform the CSE into the National Centre for Soil Ecology (NCSE) to connect soil ecologists across the Netherlands.

In the frame of ongoing cooperation between the Germany and The Netherlands, AWI and the Dutch Research Council are planning an Arctic workshop with scientists from both sides. The aim is to identify and discuss ongoing and potential scientific cooperation in the Arctic region

Given, among others, the many climate-change related extreme weather events of this summer, the pressing PFAS issue, and many other urgent matters. The responsibility of science to contribute to the analyses of and solutions for these issues, is felt by many within academia. But how to be societally involved and at the same time keep to scientific standards and values? These and other issues can be discussed during the SENSE symposium.

NWO Insight Out is career and networking event for women in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines. On three consecutive Thursdays in November, guided by various topical themes, a platform will be provided for women to connect with each other. This event provides an opportunity for women to meet others, learn and inspire each other across organizational boundaries and career stages. By offering a variety of live and online plenary presentations, panel discussions, workshops and networking activities, the event strives to provide a perspective for women aspiring a career in STEM

This edition addresses the hot topic of the "biodiversity crisis" and broaches the issue of optimizing ecological structure in agricultural landscapes to enhance, and revitalise biodiversity and genetic vitality.

The students will be provided with a theoretical basis, a variety of methods, and a computational hands-on experience to set-up systems biology models and handle numerical optimization.

The purpose of the workshop is to introduce young theoretical investigators to biological issues pertaining to microbial symbiosis, including holobionts, that need new conceptualization and/or mathematical formulation. The product of the workshop is the formulation of new models that are known in advance to address issues that biologists regard as important. The new models might then be incorporated in the postdoc or student’s own research agenda for later analysis and publication after returning home

Join us to discuss developments towards equitable, sustainable and resilient food systems at the 5th Global Food Security Conference. Building on the momentum from the UN Food System Summit and recognizing that the 2030 target year of the Sustainable Development Goals is on the horizon, this 5th Global Food Security Conference will bring together science, business and policy to address this need.Abstracts are invited by 30 June 2023 for talks and posters on the following themes:

“Transformative Research for Sustainability Challenges” provides PhD candidates with exciting concepts and methods to enhance the potential of their research to beneficially contribute to society and the environment. Participants are guided through a process designed to surface and examine fundamental assumptions that underpin their research approaches to inspire future trajectories both within and beyond their PhD.

The Institute for Health in the Human Ecosystem hosts the annual Biology of Vector-borne Diseases six-day course. This course provides accessible, condensed training and "knowledge networking" for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, faculty and professionals to ensure competency in basic biology,