Wageningen Ecology & Evolution Seminars

Posted by: Content Editor on October 13, 2009 10:15:12 AM +02:00

PhD students and postdocs from Wageningen University took the initiative to organize a continuing series of stimulating seminars on contemporary topics in evolution and ecology. This initiative has resulted in the Wageningen Ecology & Evolution Seminars (WEES). WEES aims to bring together different groups at Wageningen University using a variety of systems, but with a common interest in evolutionary and ecological questions.

For this series researchers from all over the world are invited. All of them have leading roles in their field. After the talk there will be drinks for an informal discussion and a dinner in town with the speaker.

Preceding each talk a Master Class can be attended. The Master Class is organized for interested PhD and MSc students. In the Master Class the attendants have the possibility to meet the speaker of the seminar and have a discussion based on recent papers suggested by the speaker. The Master classes are a good possibility to get acquainted with hot topics in ecology and evolutionary biology and to learn to discuss these topics with leading scientists in the field. MSc students can get credits for the Master Class.

The seminars will be held every 3rd Thursday of the month from 16:00 to 17:00. More details and the location of each seminar can be found on the website of WEES.

The first seminar and master class will take place on Thursday 22 October 2009. The invited speaker is Dr. Tal Dagan from the institut für Botanik III of the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf. She will speak about 'Modular networks and cumulative impact of lateral gene transfer in prokaryote genome evolution'. Both events take place in lecture hall C7 (Chemistry building, Dreijenlaan 4-10.

Organizing committee
The WEES series is being organized by these PhD students and postdocs of Wageningen University: