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A new issue of the EES Newsletter is available at the beginning of each semester.
Newsletter Archive (PDFs)
- Issue 05: December 2009
- Issue 04: April 2009
- Issue 03: September 2008
- Issue 02: March 2008
- Issue 01: September 2007
Issue 05: December 2009
What’s new with the EESLMU?
There are many new faces in the EESLMU community! Elena Berg started her job as the new coordinator in September and in October, 10 new Master’s students from all over the world, including Colombia, Germany, India, Taiwan, Turkey and the US have started their first year. Welcome Elena and the new cohort!
Our new cohort of Master's students
EES Agenda: Winter Semester 2009
Oct 26th Seminar: Anthony Herrel
Nov 2nd Seminar: Walter Salzburger
Nov 9th Seminar: Angus Buckling
Nov 16th Seminar: Sergey Nuzhdin
Nov 23rd Seminar: Sven Bacher
Dec 7th Seminar: Artyom Kopp
Dec 14th Seminar: Hideki Innan
Jan 18th Seminar: Evelyne Heyer
Jan 25th Seminar: Oscar Gaggiotti
Feb 1st Seminar: Christoph Scheidegger
Mar 3rd IRT3 conference
Mar 5th IRT1 conference
EESLMU Summer School 2009
This year’s summer school covered theoretical aspects of host-parasite evolution and discussed empirical approaches for studying coevolution. Specific topics included the evolution of virulence and resistance, local adaptation and spatial structuring in host-parasite systems, and the molecular signature of coevolution. Mike Boots (Sheffield), Jukka Jokela (ETH Zurich), David Nash (Copenhagen) and Peter Tiffin (Minnesota) were the instructors, who taught 24 participants: 6 from the LMU, 2 from other German universities and 16 students coming from 11 different countries. Everybody enjoyed the great work atmosphere and the quality of the scientific discussion!
The Fraueninsel at Chiemsee: Location of the Summer School
Third annual EES conference
At the 2009 conference, there where two interesting talks by Manyuan Long, Chicago, and Joachim Kurtz, Münster. Additionally, the second cohort presented posters on their IRT2 project and all the students of the first cohort and several PhD students gave talks on their project. The best were awarded with an EES prize. Congratulations to Winfried Hense & Elisabeth Bolund (best PhD theses) and Rebecca Meredith & Pablo Duchen (best Master’s theses). A great event was also the graduation of the first cohort of the EES program! All the best to Pablo, Rob, Rebecca, Delsy, Ricardo and Jennifer!
Our recent graduates
Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Evolutionary Biology (MEME)
MEME is a brand new two-year research-oriented Master's program for talented and motivated students who are interested in understanding evolution in all its facets. Five European universities are involved in this program, including the LMU; the University of Groningen, Netherlands; Uppsala University, Sweden; University of Montpellier II, France; and Harvard University, USA. Students will spend their first semester at either Groningen or Uppsala, and their second semester at the LMU or Montpellier. After that, students may choose where they want to complete their Master's research. They might select a third university, including Harvard, stay at their second university, or return to their first university. Students who decide to come to Munich will take coursework and do research in partnership with the EES Program.
Flyer for the MEME program - for more info, see the MEME website
EES Courses Winter Semester 2009/2010
Professor Susanne Renner chosen as member of German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
The Leopoldina is the German national academy of sciences. The total number of members is limited to 1,000 outstanding academics. The election to membership of the Leopoldina is the highest academic honour awarded by an institution in Germany.
LMU is hiring new professor in Aquatic Ecology
As Prof. Diehl left for a new position in Sweden this year, the LMU is now looking for a new professor in aquatic ecology. The application deadline was Nov 20th and now 8 candidates have been invited to give presentations. These will be public and take place at the end of January and beginning of February. Everybody is very welcome to attend.
