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A new issue of the EES Newsletter is available at the beginning of each semester.

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• Issue 06: March 2010
• Issue 05: December 2009
• Issue 04: April 2009
• Issue 03: September 2008
• Issue 02: March 2008
• Issue 01: September 2007

Issue 06: March 2010

What’s new with the EESLMU?

EES welcomes three new members: Dr. Christian Wild and Dr. Martin Hutzenthaler both joined the program in the fall and are already very involved: Christian Wild is a member of the IRT3 Committee, and Martin Hutzenthaler teaches an introduction to R course that many master and PhD students joined. Both of them helped to teach the scientific writing course. Additionally, we are happy to welcome our new secretary, Beate Meyer-Schmidt! She can be found every morning in the EES coordinator’s office. Prof. Jörg Overmann recently became the scientific director of the Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen of Leibniz Society in Braunschweig. We regret that he is leaving EES and thank him for his contributions to our program.

____Dr. Martin Hutzenthaler____________Dr. Christian Wild__________Beate Meyer-Schmidt

IRT 1 & 3 Conferences

During the IRT 1 Conference, the first-year students will present the results of their first Individual Research Training (IRT) projects. At the IRT 3 Conference, the 2nd cohort of the EES master students will present their future master projects and, at the same time, defend their research proposals in front of the IRT3 Committee.

EES and Forschergruppe Seminar Series: Summer Semester 2010

The upcoming semester’s seminar series is being organized by the 2nd year EES Master’s students in collaboration with the Forschergruppe.

April 19 Lars Jermmin
April 26 Jean Clobert
May 3 Sarah Hodge
May 17 Sam Cotton
May 31 Arndt Telschow (Forschergruppe)
June 7 Tad Kawecki
June 14 Lino Ometto (Forschergruppe)
June 21 Claudie Doums (Forschergruppe)
June 28 Richard Nichols (Forschergruppe)
July 12 Simone Sommer

VolkswagenStiftung Status Symposium in Evolutionary Biology

The EES Program is honored to be organizing this year’s annual VW Status Symposium in Evolutionary Biology. The meeting will take place on the island of Frauenchiemsee from May 9-12. EES and VW-funded PhD students and postdocs will give talks and posters. In addition, five world-renowned evolutionary biologists have agreed to give keynote talks: Profs. Nick Barton, Scott Edwards, Laurent Keller, Allen Orr, and Marcy Uyenoyama. For more information, please see the link in the sidebar of this webpage.

Erasmus Mundus Master's Program in Evolutionary Biology (MEME)

EES has been actively involved in the prestigious new MEME program. The first cohort will begin in August of 2010, and together with the partner universities of Groningen, Uppsala, and Montpellier, EES has been assessing and interviewing prospective students. In January, the EES coordinator Elena Berg spent three days in Montpellier, France, to interview the non-EU applicants. EU students still have the opportunity to apply: their deadline is March 31. The new students will spend their first semester at either Groningen or Uppsala, and their second semester at the LMU or Montpellier. Students who come to Munich will be fully integrated into the EES Program. After their second semester the students may choose where they want to finish their Master’s: Munich, Groningen, Montpellier, Uppsala or even Harvard! After completing their studies, the students will be awarded double (or even triple) degrees from two or three partner universities.

For more info, see the MEME website

EES PhD Program - Second Cohort

The EES PhD program continues: 12 PhD students from the fields of Evolution, Ecology and Systematics have joined the second cohort of the EES PhD program. On the 15th and 16th of February, the students spent two days together to get to know each other and to learn about EES, the LMU Graduate Center and the zoological collections. They also made plans for future activities, since the EES PhD program is largely self-organized. The first PhD cohort, which started last year, also has a lot of plans for 2010: in March, they will organize a course on scientific writing. Every six weeks, they will meet to discuss their projects, new papers, and other topics. They also plan to invite an external researcher to each of their meetings, not only get information on new topics in their fields, but also to learn about careers within and outside of academia.

EES Alumni Network

Rob Morrison, who received his EES Master’s degree in October, volunteered to be the Alumni coordinator of the EES Program! In the future, he will inform us about the whereabouts and activities of former students. Two recent graduates, Pablo and Ricardo, are still in Munich, and they are now members of the new cohort of EES PhD students. For more information, see our new "Alumni" link on the sidebar.

EES Courses Summer Semester 2010

© 2010 EES Newsletter by Anne-Kathrin Graber & Elena Berg