EES Conference 2008
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Program Wednesday
On Wednesday October 1st, we welcome the new students. The courses of the first semester will be presented by the people teaching those course and there will be opportunity for the new students to meet the teachers, their mentors, the older students and, of course, each other. The invited speakers will be present already on this day and will interact with the students. In the afternoon there will be a meeting for all EES staff. In the evening all EES staff and students are invited to join for dinner.
9:30 coffee in front of lecture hall first floor
10:00 - 11:00h presentation of courses first semester (Pennings for
IRT1, Rose for writing, Baines for S&D, Wolinska for presentations,
Parsch for Evol. Genetics, Diehl for Evol. Ecology, Schuster for
Systematics Data&Evidence, Metzler for Mathematics, Parsch for human evolution week.
11:00h - 11:30 coffee break with cookies
11:30h for staff: presentation master&mentoring program Groningen by
Franjo Weissing / for students: tour of Biozentrum
12:30h all to Freshmaker for lunch
13:00h - 13:45h lunch at Freshmaker
14:00h EES staff meeting update EES program (till 16:00h) / for
students: poster contest
18:00h tour of Munich
19:30h dinner at Ignaz (Georgenstraße 67 U2 Josephplatz)
Program Thursday
On Thursday October 2nd, there will be a day full of exciting talks by our invited speakers and EES people. Everybody who is interested in evolution, ecology and systematics is very welcome to join. The EES master students who are then starting their 3rd semester will present posters of their IRT2 projects. EES provides lunch.
All day: EES students poster session
9:30 coffee in front of lecture hall first floor
9:45 Welcome by Professor Susanne Foitzik
10:00 "Evolution of bacterial genomes" by Prof Siv Andersson
11:00 Break
11:20 Talk by student prize winner Dr Stephan Hutter "Gene expression variation in African and European populations of Drosophila
melanogaster"
11:40 Talk by student prize winner Silke Steiger "Avian olfactory receptor gene repertoires: evidence for a well-developed sense of smell in birds?"
12:00 EES photo slide show by EES master students
12:15 lunch at Biozentrum
13:30 talk by student prize winner Robert Piskol "Evolution of RNA
Structures in Introns"
13:50 talk by student prize winner Ariane Mutzel "Individual variation
in exploration by house sparrows: Is there a hormonal basis to
personality differences?"
14:10 break
14:45 presentation of DNA-bank at ZSM by Dr Thomas Knebelsberger
15:00 "The evolution of animal personalities" by Prof Franjo Weissing
16:00 snacks & drinks
Invited speakers
The invited speakers for the EES conference this year are:
Siv Andersson
from University of Upsala in Sweden
Professor in Molecular Evolution
Head of the Department of Evolution, Genomics and Systematics
and
Franjo Weissing
from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Professor of Theoretical Biology
Center for Ecological and Evolutionary Studies
Organizers
Kerstin Schuster (see Systematic Botany)
Rebecca Meredith (see Rebecca Meredith)
Pleuni Pennings (see Pleuni Pennings)
