7th AQUAdeb meeting 2010/04/27-28, Ifremer, Nantes

S.A.L.M. Kooijman
Dept Theoretical Biology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 
bas@bio.vu.nl; http://www.bio.vu.nl/thb/

Upcomming events in DEB research
I will discuss the following topics

- New updates in DEBlab:
  = DEB3: comments, concept-summary, notation, errata, micro-lectures, excer
  = DEBtool (see "what is new" in the manual)
  = add_my_pet: now 49 entries
  = life cycles (APG III, 2009)

- Dessimination/publications:
  = progress of the PTRS them issue on DEB: 1 month behind schedule
  = plans for DEB-issue of JSR in 2011; Ecology for 2012?
  = Jaap vd Meer and Tjalling Jager plan to work on DEB books this year
  = Tania Sousa's DEB course in Lisbon
  = Fred Jean/ Eric Rannou/ Jonathan Flye's DEB course in Brest
  = Roger Nisbet's DEB-video-lectures 2010/03/30-2010/04/26: >60 participants
  = Laure Pecquerie works on Salmon parameter estimates; 
    her Nature-paper with Ronan Fablet on otoliths gets shape

- Completed/started projects:
  = Jan Baas graduated at 2010/01/18 on mixture tox; 
      the symposium in the morning was successfull (some 40 visitors)
    Daniel Bontje graduates at 2010/06/29 on ecosystem-tox 
    Vania Freitas graduates at 2010/??/??
  = ITN-CREAM project on DEBtox (Virgini + Tjalling) in April 1
      PhD's: Elke Zimmer & Svenia Mehren

- Proposals:
  = Jan Baas applied for Long Range Research Initiative (LRI) 
    CEFIC - The European Chemical Industry Council: passed first selection
  = Tjalling Jager applied for NSF-Vidi at VUA: 2010/02; passed first selection
  = I applied for ERC-AdG (with Lisbon & Marseille): 2010/03
  = 2011/01-ITN-call for DEB-training
  = future funding for AQUAdeb?

- Contacts/network:
  = Interest from Japan (Yokohama) in DEB-tuna's; 
    Marko Jusup visited A'dam 2010/02/07-13
  = Interest from New Zealand (Liggins Inst, Auckland) in human obesity;
    Anne-Thea McGill will visit A'dam 2010/07/08-09
  = Interest from Finland (Helsinki) in DEB-stochasticity; 
    I visited Ido Filin 2010/03/22-25
  = Interest from Australia (St Lucia) in bryozoan-physiology; 
    Craig White (working with Mike Kearney, Melbourne)
  = Interest from Germany (Aachen) in starvation of Notonectus
    Andreas Gergs will visit A'dam 2010/06/01-31 (working with Tjalling)
 

- DEB symposium in Lisbon at 2011/04/13-15 in auditorium IST
    with 2 weeks of course before and 1 day of discussions after
    We can recruit speakers from the PTRS/JRS-pool 
    23 "expressions of interest" at 2010/04/24, never has been that high
  Plans:
  = Steering committee: 
      selection of keynote speakers + scientific and organising committees:
    Tiago Domingos, Tania Sousa, Bas Kooijman
  = Scientific committee (chaired by Tiago): 
      selection of speakers on the basis of submitted abstracts:
    Tiago Domingos, Tania Sousa, Goncalo Marques, Bas Kooijman, 
    Marianne Alunno-Bruscia, Jaap vd Meer, Henk vd Veer, Tjalling Jager, 
    Jean-Christophe Poggiale, Roger Nisbet, Stephane Pouvreau
  = Organising committee (chaired by Tania): 
      logistics
    Tiago Domingos, Tania Sousa, Goncalo Marques, Nuno Sarmento, Sonia Barbosa
  = Keynote speakers:
    Michel Loreau (opening)
    Mike Kearney, Jaap vd Meer, Marianne Alunno-Bruscia, Tom Anderson
  = Welcome: Tiago Domingos & Tania Sousa; Closure: Bas Kooijman

- DEB symposium at NIOZ (Texel) at 2013/04/13-27 (if Lisbon successful)
  Possibility: Computational Science workshop at the Lorentz Center on DEB
  Leiden 2010/04/01-13
  1-2 week meetings, 30-60 junior and senior researchers.
  Dr. Henriette Jensenius (jensenius@lorentzcenter.nl, 071-5275580)
  http://lorentzcenter.nl/infoorg.php
  41 potential candidates (in computational sector):
  Morten Alver N
  Tom Anderson GB
  Pierre Auger F
  Starrlight Augustine F
  Cedric Bacher F
  Melika Baklouti F
  Hugo vd Berg GB
  Martin Boer NL
  Sandrine Charles F
  Odo Diekmann NL
  Tiago Domingos P
  Yoan Eynaud F
  Ulrike Feudel D
  Ido Filin Fin
  Matz Gyllenberg Fin
  Tjalling Jager NL
  Marco Jusup Jap
  Tin Klancjek Kro
  Bob Kooi NL
  Bas Kooijman NL
  Ingeborg van Leeuwen S
  Dina Lika G
  Goncalo Marques P
  Irene Martins P
  Jaap vd Meer NL
  Hans Metz NL
  Erik Muller USA
  Roger Nisbet USA
  Erik Noonberg USA
  Laure Pecquerie USA
  Jean-Christophe Poggiale F
  Eric Rannou F
  Joao Rodrigues P
  Andre de Roos NL
  Pedro Santos P
  Sofia Saraiva P/NL
  Tania Sousa P
  Tineke Troost NL
  Susana Vinga P
  Jeroen Wijsman NL
  Elke Zimmer NL