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* Program of the PhD-day of friday 14 dec in Utrecht, NL
* Symposium Dynamic Energy Budget Theory, 24 jan VU Amsterdam NL
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The large amount of conferences, workshops, masters, courses and job
opportunities on the NVTB email list sometimes swamps the announcements
of the NVTB itself. Therefore there will now be an NVTB Activities
newsletter as well, which keeps people up to date on NVTB-related things
as well as symposia taking place in the netherlands.

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Program Phd day 14-12-2007

Friday 14-12-2007
Biannual Phd-day of the NVTB
location: room W105, Kruyt gebouw, Padualaan 8, Utrecht

Program
10.00 Like Fokkens, UU
Evolution of functional modules in eukaryotes.
10.45 Milan van Hoek, UU
Evolutionary modeling of the metabolic network of yeast
after its whole genome duplication
11.30 Tea/Coffee
12.00 Marieke Jesse, UU
Persistence of infectious agents in a metapopulation of hosts
12.45 Lunch
14.00 Anton Crombach, UU
Evolution of evolvability in gene regulation networks
14.30 Tim Schellekens, EMG Umea, IBED UvA
Life-history strategies on two resources
15.15 End


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Symposium 24 Jan 2008, Vrije Universiteit, room 06A04 main building

Title:
New developments in Dynamic Energy Budget theory and applications

Progam:
09:30 Coffee
09:50 Welcome by Bas Kooijman
10:00 Jean-Christophe Poggiale:
Marine bacteria-virus dynamics in a chemostat
10:45 Olivier Maury:
A DEB-based size-spectrum model of ecosystems including
life history diversity
11:30 Marianne Alunno-Bruscia:
What does the DEB model enlighten on the physiology of
a marine bivalve, Crassostrea gigas?
12:15 Lunch at VU restaurant (ground floor Science Building)
13:15 Jaap vd Meer:
Seasonal timing of reproduction in the bivalve Macoma balthica:
a model study of fitness consequences
14:00 Cedric Bacher:
The carrying capacity of oyster cultures as predicted by the
coupling
between a DEB model for oysters and a classical primary
production model
14:45 Thea
15:00 Alain Franc:
Plant communities between permanence and diversity
15:45 Tiago Domingos:
DEB theory as a paradigm for the integration of thermodynamics with
the biological and the social sciences
16:30 General discussion
17:00 Reception in the "tegenstelling", Science Building

Further information:
http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/research/project/anchovy/symposium.html



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