Host: Ulrich Brose (TiBS)

Daniel Reuman, Professor at the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence (USA)

“Three new dimensions of spatial synchrony and applications to stability“

Host: Stefan Knauß (MLU)

Elisa Levy-Ortíz, Enviromental activist and Research Coordinator at Los Cedros Research Station, Ecuador

"Scientific contributions for the realization of the Rights of Nature: the emblematic case of Los Cedros, Ecuador."

Host: Nicole Sachmerda-Schulz & Daniel Vedder (yDiv)

Bret Devereaux, an ancient and military historian and visiting Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (USA)

"Reaching the Public: Public Scholarship in the Digital Age"

Host: Henriette Uthe (MIE)

Cristina Queiroz, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centro Experimental Central (CEIB), Biological Institute, São Paulo (Brazil)

Title: "Molecular markers and analysis of volatile compounds in the development of biological control programs for phytophagous mites"

Host: Ulrich Brose (TiBS)

Lucie Kuczynski, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for Chemistry and Biology of the Marine Environment at the University of Oldenburg, Wilhelmshaven (Germany)

Title: "The complexity of the relationship between environment and diversity"

Christopher Barratt, Postdoc at E&A and sDiv

Title: "Life on the edge: assessing intraspecific vulnerability to global change by integrating ecological, environmental and evolutionary data"

Benjamin Dechant, Postdoc at sDiv

Title: „Intercomparison of global foliar trait maps: upscaling approaches, spatial patterns and evaluation with sPlot data“

Julian Schrader, Research Fellow at the Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia)

Title: "The future of island ecosystems: temporal and spatial vegetation dynamics in a fragmented world"

Raimund Nagel, Group leader in the Department of Plant Physiology, Institute for Biology at Leipzig University, Leipzig

Title: "A tale of two terpenes."

Anna Kuzemko, Leading researcher at the M.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (Ukraine)

Title: "Biodiversity plots methodology for monitoring of grassland habitats in Ukraine"

Roxibell C. Pelayo, Associated Professor at the Institute of Environmental and Ecological Sciences (ICAE) at the University of the Andes, Mérida (Venezuela)

"Plan-Pollinators systems from Neotropical high ecosystems"

Rafael Pinheiro, Scientific guest at iDiv and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Campinas, Campinas (Brazil)

"Simple and compound topologies in species interaction networks"