In this Capita Selecta series students, staff, and strangers can become acquainted with cutting-edge ecology. We visit the hot areas in present-day ecological research where new questions are being asked and new approaches are sought, often with the use of technologically highly advanced techniques. We invite you to think and debate with us where ecology is heading, what is needed, how it should be done.
We invite students to interact with our researchers, visit our labs, and do a PGO by writing a project proposal for future research in one of the areas: beyond cutting-edge ecology!
PROGRAMME
Friday 4/3 Ecology: the necessity, the challenge, the cutting edges
1. Louise Vet: Ecology: the necessity, the challenge, the cutting edges, the Netherlands Institute of Ecology
2. Louise Vet: Cutting-edge research on multitrophic interactions
Friday 11/3 Nasty nature: evolutionary warfare
3. Nicole van Dam: Plants and chemical warfare: mustard-oil bombs and more
4. Kate Lessells: Evolutionary conflict in the family
Friday 18/3 Biodiversity: worry or work at it?
5. Wim vd Putten: Recovering biodiversity by changing land use
6. Felix Waeckers: Functional biodiversity: let’s change conventional agriculture
Thursday 24/3 Ecology meets physics and geochemistry
9. Luca van Duren: Ecology meets physics: going with the flow or turning the tide?
10. Filip Meysman: Ecology meets geochemistry: ecosystem engineering on the beach
Friday 1/4 What genomics can mean for ecology
7. George Kowalchuk: Genomics of the living soil
8. Bas Ibelings: Evolution caught in the act: genomics in evolutionary biology
Friday 8/4 People and planet: man makes the mess
11. Marcel Visser: Climate change and the effects on biological systems
12. Jeff Harvey: Responsibilities of ecologists: the ethical debate, the public awareness
Friday 22/4 Presentations by students (instead of examination)
From 9.00 am to 12.00 am
@
Lecture room C19
Building 511
Binnenhaven 7
Wageningen