Angela Peace, Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University (USA)

"Population Dynamics Subject to Stoichiometric Constraints"

Hosts: M&C, BioCon

13:00: Seminar Talk: “Issue advocate or honest broker? The roles of researchers in communicating science”

Researchers face choices in how they communicate their work in the context of policy and politics. This talk will discuss different approaches to such engagement, along the opportunities, perils and pitfalls that often arise.

13:50: Coffee Break

14:00: Panel discussion: How do we handle advocacy at iDiv? How might advocacy affect our narrative of biodiversity decline? [on the panel: Roger Pielke, Jr.; Aletta Bonn; Henrique Pereira; Christian Wirth; Volker Hahn (host)]

14:45: Program ends

sPRIORITY

Tadashi Fukami, Professor at the Department of Biology at the University of Stanford (USA)

"Priority effects: insights from nectar microbes and ongoing efforts with sPriority"

Host: MIE

Raimund Nagel, Group leader in plant physiology at the Institute for Biology, University of Leipzig

"A tale of two terpenes."

Alexandra Weyrich, Postdoc at sDiv

"Epigenetic changes to environmental factors and identification of inter-species epigenetic patterns"

Matthias Grenié, Postdoc at sDiv

"A barrier to global plant invasion ecology: gaps in trait availability for alien species"

Laura López-Hoffman, Professor in the School of Natural Resources and the Environment & Associate Research Professor at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, University of Arizona (USA)

"Testing & Enhancing the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act: An Ecologist’s Role in Developing NEPAccess" (changed title)

Host: sDiv - Sreetama Bhadra

Pamela S. Soltis, Curator at the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida (USA)

"Repurposing Herbarium Specimens to Explore the Plant Branch of the Tree of Life"

Host: BioSyn

Rose O’Dea , Postdoctoral Researcher and co-founder of the the Society for Open, Reliable, and Transparent Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (SORTEE), College for Life Sciences, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Germany)

"Should ecologists trust evidence syntheses?"

Wubing Xu, Postdoc by BioSyn

Title: "Winners and losers in biodiversity time series: geographic range size and position matter"

Rachel Oh, Postdoc by ESS

Title: "Could nature experiences benefit our health and support environmental conservation?"

Host: MIE

Tristan Charles-Dominique, Researcher at the Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Paris (France)

Title: "Woody plant structural and chemical defenses against mammals and insects in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi (South Africa)"

For all questions regarding the GMA, do not hesitate to contact our Member Relations Officer Jan Schnitzler (jan.schnitzler@idiv.de).

Michał Filipiak, Researcher at the Institute of Environmental Sciences at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków (Poland)

Title: “Why and how to measure nutrient demand and supply for organisms: the extreme feeding strategies of xylophages and pollen eaters"

Talk by Alexandra Marques has to be cancelled

NEW speaker and topic:

Aafke Schipper, Associate Professor for Environmental Science at the Radboud University, Nijmegen (Netherlands)

Talk about the GLOBIO project

Meghan Avolio, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (USA)

Kimberly Komatsu, Associate Professor at University of North Carolina, Greensboro (USA)

Title: "Insight to plant species and community responses to global change drivers using phylogenies and traits"