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Talk at NATURAMA (in Danish)Naturfotografens “bøffer”Naturfotograf Henrik Egede-LassenThursday November 24, 19-21.30Price: 125 kr (incl. coffee and cake)Tickets to be bought by phone 6221 0650, by mail: [email protected] or at Naturamaticket counter.
Information meeting with an unemployment insurance fund (A-kasse)Especially for international researchers: November 21 2016 at 15.00-17.00 in room O95. Please note that attending the meeting requires signing up. no later than Monday November 14th 2016 by sending an e-mail to Laura Wang Haas at [email protected].
Information meeting with SKAT (the tax office)Especially for international researchers:INovember 30, 2016 at 17.00-19.00 in room O77. SKAT will inform about the Danish tax system, preliminary in-come assessment 2017, the special tax scheme for researchers and rules relevant for PhD students going abroad. Please note that attending the meeting requires signing up. Please sign up no later than Monday November 14th 2016 by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
MinutesAcademic Council (October 26)
BIOLOGY NEWSLETTER
November 14, 2016 Vol. 6, No. 36Editor: Mette Andersen ([email protected])
SDU Book store - 35th anniversaryOn November 15, ”Studenterboghandlen” will turn 35 years old. In the whole week 46 you can buy with discount and par-ticipate in different funny games. You are also welcome to ta-ste Merry X-mas tea.
D-IAS Talk Mads Toudal Frandsen, CP3-OriginsThe Naturalness of NatureWednesday November 16D-IAS Conference Room Ø18-509-1Read more on the D-IAS homepage.
Ph.D. stipends at the European University Institute, FirenzeFour stipends starting September 2017 are available for Da-nish candidates. Application deadline: January 31 2017. Read about EUI’s research profile on their homepage. The invitation letter is attached to the mail.
Elevator out of service
NEWS
CHRISTMAS TREE PARTY
This event for employees’ children, grand-children - and for employees at the department has been a traditi-on for long. This year the people nor-mally taking care of the event, simply do not have the time. So if nobody volunteers to do so, we will have to cancel it. Contact Lone, Mary or Mette if you want to know more.
SHALL WE CANCEL?
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X indicates Elevator V11-500
The elevator V11-500 will be out of service on Wednesday November 23 2016 due to repairs. Any questions please contact Finn Rasmussen at phone number 60112005 or by mail [email protected].
NEWS FROM THE HOMEPAGEMice sing like a jet engineEven though mice have been so intensely studied, they still have some cool tricks up their sleeves.Wild mice, rats and also many other rodents produce ultrasonic songs that they use for courting and territo-rial defense.These love songs are often studied in mice to find cures for stuttering and autism. However, until now it was not established how mice can make such ultrasonic sounds, which is important if you want to explain why drug treatments or gene mutations change songs.According to senior author Coen Elemans, Biology, re-searchers have now found that mice make ultrasound in a way never found before in any animal.Read more here.
Emilie samler på huskattes byttedyrBiologistuderende Emilie Marie Hansen har hen over et år undersøgt, hvad de fynske katte fanger. Hun har fulgt 188 katte, og katten Loppen fra Ringe har vist sig at være en af de bedste jægere.Projektet er nu færdigt og afleveret som speciale. - Danske katte er generelt ikke særligt velstuderede. Vi ved, at vores kat går ud og fanger noget, men hvad den fanger, er der ikke nogen, der ved noget om, siger Emi-lie Marie Hansen i et interview med TV2 Fyn.
Emilie Marie Hansen’s Master project: “Hunting behav-iour of domestic cats, their prey types and influencing elements”. For more than a year Emilie Marie Hansen have fol-lowed 188 cats, their hunting habits and prey types. To know more (in Danish) click on the link above.
OUTREACHStudent internships at the department of biologyAs part of our regular outreach activities, the department of biology has once again hosted biology- and science-minded interns from high schools and primary schools. The intern-ships took place for three days in September (high-school-ers) and three days in November (primary schools). Due to the dimensioning of the biology education, the fo-cus of our outreach activities has shifted towards ensuring certainty in our new students, rather than just attracting as many as possible. It is more important than ever that we hold on to the students who start the education. During the three days that the interns are here, they get to expe-rience life as a biology student. This includes long lectures, presentations by researchers, group work in examinatory classes and laboratory work in the “oasis”. The two events have received a lot of positive feedback, and several of the participants were now more certain than ever, that biology at SDU was the right choice for them.A complete evaluation report is available upon request. Please contact Rikke and Johannes at [email protected]
Picture: Students measure their heartrate above and be-low water. This exercise is part of BioTeams popular “Diving reflex” presentation
Lucie Gerberwill be defending her Ph.D. thesis with the lecture:
”The role of nitric oxide in coping with environmental stress in fish”
Thursday, December 8 2016 at 13.00, in the BMB Seminar Room
Principal supervisors: Frank Bo JensenSteffen S. Madsen
Bo ThamdrupChairman and moderator
Angela FagoAarhus University
Committee:Gert FlikRadboud University NijmegenThe Netherlands
Fenjuan Huwill be defending her Ph.D. thesis with the lecture:
”Concepts of dynamical modelling of lakes. Steps in constructing, calibrating and validating hydrodynamic and ecological models to investigate the effects of multiple stressors in lakes”
Wednesday, November 30 2016 at 12.30, in the BMB Seminar Room
PH.D. DEFENSES
Henning S. JensenChairman and moderator
Eleanor JenningsDundalk Institute of Technology
Ireland
Committee:Erik Kock RasmussenDHI Danmark
Principal supervisor: Mogens FlindtDennis Trolle, AU Erik Jeppesen, AU
Co-supervisors:
MASTER EXAMSSonja WinterFriday, November 18, at 13.00, BI Seminar Room“Sand capping of organic-rich sediment in estuaries, a poten-tial ecosystem restoration technique” Supervisors: Erik Kristensen & Mogens Flindt
DATES TO REMEMBER
Department Council Meeting12.15-13.30
November 2016
Thursday Bread presentation
Carolin LöscherPostdoc
NordCEE, Don C.
Alyssa MaxwellPh.D. fellowSound Comm.,Coen E..
Oona Snoeyenbos-WestPostdocNordCEE, Amelia R.
M A S T E R E X A MSøren L. H. ChristensenNovember 25, at 13.00, BI Seminar Room
N o r d C E E S e m i n a r
COMING EVENT
BIRTHDAYS - CONGRATULATIONS!
Ole Næsbye LarsenNovember 9
Ronnie N. GludNovember 10
Frank Bo JensenNovember 14
Don CanfieldNovember 14
RESIGNATIONS
Thomas ValdemarsenAssoc. Prof., Eco-groupNovember 30 2016Thomas will from December 1 be employed as a marine biologist at ”Styrelsen for Vand- og Naturforvaltning” (SVANA).
We thank them both for their dedicated work at the department and wish them GOOD LUCK in the future.
Susanne MøllerLab technician, NordCEE/Eco-groupNovember 30 2016Susanne will start her new job at Cremo Ingredi-ents/Kerry, Glamsbjerg from December 1.
Søren ChristensenResearch Ass., Eco Group
December 1 2016 - April 30 2017
NEW EMPLOYMENTS
Alyssa MaxwellPh.D. fellow, Sound Comm.
November 1 2016-October 31 2019Now with picture
NEWS FROM THE RESEARCH GROUPS
Ecological drivers of jellyfish bloomsby Josephine Goldstein
Jellyfish blooms have raised worldwide concern due to a hypothesized increase in their intensity and frequen-cy over recent decades. Despites significant ecological and socio-economic impact of jellyfish outbreaks, pre-dictions in context with environmental change have re-mained challenging.Using an integral, quantitative approach that includes the demographic rates of all stages involved in the com-plex life of the common jellyfish Aurelia aurita (Scy-phozoa, Cnidaria) within a matrix population model, we illustrate how different environments influence the booms and busts of jellyfish blooms.Increased food availability, for instance, can dramatical-ly shift demographic structure from the asexually repro-ducing polyp stage towards more medusae, resulting in
rapid population growth rates in contrast to a constrained development of jellyfish blooms under low food levels. We also show that a predicted winter warming trend causes comparatively weak increases in the density of Aurelia aurita medusae. We conclude that especially a combina-tion of ecological drivers such as habi-tat eutrophication, overfishing, artificial settlement substrates and climate change can promote jellyfish mass occurrence severely. Our findings em-phasize the fundamental importance of a more detailed (demographic) view on jellyfish life histories, with species-, life stage-, age- and size-specific knowledge as an inevitable prerequisite in providing perspective for our future management of jellyfish blooms.
Pictures: J. Goldstein