Upcoming events

An interdisciplinary 5 weeks course, comparing adaptive wildlife management in northern and southern hemisphere systems, including a 16-day field trip to South Africa (no course fee, application deadline 1 September 2018). The course will have three mandatory parts; Part I will be at SLU in Umeå (December 2018), Part II in South Africa (5 - 20 January 2019), and Part III again at SLU in Umeå (31 January - 1 February 2019).

R-Ladies of Wageningen! Come have coffee and talk about R, what new things you have discovered and the future plans for the group.

The general theme of the ZOOLOGY 2018 meeting is “ZOOLOGY IN ANTHROPOCENE” with two special sessions: 1. Crossing borders: why and how biologists and climatologists must speak together, 2. How animals face global change: plasticity, resilience, adaptation”.

This symposium is organised on the occasion of the Phd defence of Pablo Modernel. Speakers are: Santiago Dogliotti – Universidad de la República (Uruguay), Bertrand Dumont and Gianni Bellocchi – INRA (France), and Pablo himself (Farming Systems Ecology).

In this workshop examples from different perspectives will be presented on issues related to monitoring and assessing forest dynamics using time series analysis, both using detailed tree measurements as well as satellite data. Focus will be on effects due to climate change.

In this month’s WEES (Wageningen Evolution & Ecology Seminar), Dominic Wright (IFM Biology, Linköping University (Sweden) will give a lecture, called 'The DNA Methylation Landscape in the Chicken and its Role in Domestication'. The workshop is scheduled for Tuesday 18 December 2018 (16:00h) in Orion (room C3030).

On Tuesday January 8th, the next B-Wise meeting will take place at 12:30h in room C0221 in the Forum building. Lunch will be available from 12:00h onwards. Speakers will be Rik van Rosmalen (WU Systems & Synthetic Biology) and Sevgin Demirci (WU Bioinformatics).

Learning to reflect on a PhD research project from an integral perspective is crucial for becoming able to identify and exploit synergies between complementary disciplines, their theories, methods and working styles. Furthermore, it facilitates a convincing communication about research concepts, approaches and results with colleagues and other target audiences outside one’s core discipline(s). In total there will be four meetings of 4 hours. PhD candidates will be asked to do (interdisciplinary) group work to prepare for the next meeting.

The Netherlands Annual Ecology Meeting (NAEM) is a two-day event organised by NERN and NecoV (Dutch - Flemish Ecological Society) and is supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). There will be 2 plenary sessions, 20 parallel sessions, and 2 poster sessions. You are cordially invited to register!!

The aim of the meeting is to bring together the latest insights on current topics in landscape management for functional biodiversity, including the management for multiple ecosystem services, the identification of promising crop and non-crop management options to support biodiversity-based pest management, and initiatives to meet the challenge to halt the ongoing decline of important farmland species. Promising areas for future research will be identified.

The granulation conference will provide an excellent opportunity to gain a complete overview of how the field of granulation stands at present with the presentation of a range of papers from both academia and industry. Next year the 9th International Granulation Conference will be hosted by Nestle in Lausanne, Switzerland. This will be the place to showcase the latest in agglomeration, granulation and particle technology.