Host: Nadja Rüger (BioEcon & iDiv member)

Caroline E Farrior, Associate Professor at the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (USA)

Title: "Forest dynamics and species coexistence: The importance of small-scale disturbances and competition for light in forest structure and diversity." 

Host: Nadja Rüger (BioEcon & iDiv member)

Caroline E Farrior, Associate Professor at the Department of Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (USA)

Title: "Forest dynamics and species coexistence: The importance of small-scale disturbances and competition for light in forest structure and diversity." 

Host: Marcus Lehnert (MLU & iDiv member)

Michael Kessler, Research group leader at the Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich (Switzerland)

Titel: "Fern diversity across space and time: from global patterns to stomata"

Host: Marcus Lehnert (MLU & iDiv member)

Michael Kessler, Research group leader at the Department of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany, University of Zurich (Switzerland)

Titel: "Fern diversity across space and time: from global patterns to stomata"

Host: Anja Widdig (UL, MPI EVA & iDiv member)

Stefanie Heinicke, Postdoctoral Researcher at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam (Germany)

Title: "Climate change impact modelling and the need to include biodiversity – introduction to the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP)"

Host: Anja Widdig (UL, MPI EVA & iDiv member)

Stefanie Heinicke, Postdoctoral Researcher at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Potsdam (Germany)

Title: "Climate change impact modelling and the need to include biodiversity – introduction to the Inter-Sectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP)"

Host: Sreetama Bhadra

John Clarke, currently Postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich (Germany)

"Studying morphological evolution in deep-time and globally using phylogenies, and the importance of scale in evolution"

Rafaella Canessa, iDiv Postdoc at Biodiversity Conservation

"Integrating science and policy: the role of ETC BE in the implementation of EU biodiversity legislations"

Host: Sreetama Bhadra

John Clarke, currently Postdoctoral researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich (Germany)

"Studying morphological evolution in deep-time and globally using phylogenies, and the importance of scale in evolution"

Rafaella Canessa, iDiv Postdoc at Biodiversity Conservation

"Integrating science and policy: the role of ETC BE in the implementation of EU biodiversity legislations"

Hendrik Müller, Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Gunnar Brehm, Phyletic Museum, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

"The Zoological Collections at the Universities of Halle and Jena - Repositories of Biodiversity Data"

Hendrik Müller, Central Natural Science Collections, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Gunnar Brehm, Phyletic Museum, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

"The Zoological Collections at the Universities of Halle and Jena - Repositories of Biodiversity Data"

Host: Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo (iDiv/MLU)

Julia Chacón-Labella, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain

Title: "How to improve scaling from traits to ecosystem processes"

Host: Pablo Castro Sánchez-Bermejo (iDiv/MLU)

Julia Chacón-Labella, Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Spain

Title: "How to improve scaling from traits to ecosystem processes"

Host: Alexandra Müllner-Riehl

Sreetama Bhadra, Postdoctoral Researcher at sDiv and Evolution and Adaptation

Titel: "Unveiling the Influence of Genome Size and Trait Flexibility in Evolutionary Radiation: Insights from Palms."

Abubakar Bello, Flexpool Postdoctoral Researcher, iDiv & Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina (Nigeria)

Titel: "Towards a comprehensive National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) for Nigeria"

Host: Alexandra Müllner-Riehl

Sreetama Bhadra, Postdoctoral Researcher at sDiv and Evolution and Adaptation

Titel: "Unveiling the Influence of Genome Size and Trait Flexibility in Evolutionary Radiation: Insights from Palms."

Abubakar Bello, Flexpool Postdoctoral Researcher, iDiv & Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Katsina (Nigeria)

Titel: "Towards a comprehensive National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan (NBSAP) for Nigeria"

Please not that this talk will start at 2 PM!

Host: Benjamin Dechant

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior at University of Minnesota, St. Paul (USA)

Title: "Integrating plant spectral, functional and phylogenetic data across scales to understand ecological and evolutionary processes"

Please not that this talk will start at 2 PM!

Host: Benjamin Dechant

Jeannine Cavender-Bares, distinguished McKnight University Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior at University of Minnesota, St. Paul (USA)

Title: "Integrating plant spectral, functional and phylogenetic data across scales to understand ecological and evolutionary processes"

Host: Sreetama Bhadra

Sandeep Sharma, Postdoctoral Researcher at Biodiversity Conservation & iDiv member

Title: "War, peace, and potato: A retrospective analysis of 250 years of change in forest, defaunation, and recolonization in a rewilding landscape in Europe"

The talk by the Speaker 2 was unfortunately cancelled.

Host: Sreetama Bhadra

Sandeep Sharma, Postdoctoral Researcher at Biodiversity Conservation & iDiv member

Title: "War, peace, and potato: A retrospective analysis of 250 years of change in forest, defaunation, and recolonization in a rewilding landscape in Europe"

The talk by the Speaker 2 was unfortunately cancelled.

Host: GloNAF workshop

Ana Novoa, Scientist at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice (Czech Republic)

Title: "Impacts of invasive annual plants on plant, herbivore and soil microbial communities in Kruger National Park, South Africa"

Nicole Kinlock, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Biology at University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany)

Title: "Remnants of cultivation and landscape history in patterns of plant invasion."

Host: GloNAF workshop

Ana Novoa, Scientist at the Institute of Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Průhonice (Czech Republic)

Title: "Impacts of invasive annual plants on plant, herbivore and soil microbial communities in Kruger National Park, South Africa"

Nicole Kinlock, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Biology at University of Konstanz, Konstanz (Germany)

Title: "Remnants of cultivation and landscape history in patterns of plant invasion."

Host: Alexandra Weyrich

Victoriia Radchuk, Senior Scientist at the Department of Ecological Dynamics at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin (Germany)

Title: " Role of functional traits in mediating effects of climate on animal populations"

Host: Alexandra Weyrich

Victoriia Radchuk, Senior Scientist at the Department of Ecological Dynamics at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin (Germany)

Title: " Role of functional traits in mediating effects of climate on animal populations"

Host: Jon Chase

Flavio Nunes Ramos, Professor at the Institute of Natural Sciences, Federal University of Alfenas, Alfenas (Brazil)

Title: "Unraveling the Biogeography and Ecology of Vascular Epiphytes: Factors Influencing Richness and Conservation"

Host: Jon Chase

Flavio Nunes Ramos, Professor at the Institute of Natural Sciences, Federal University of Alfenas, Alfenas (Brazil)

Title: "Unraveling the Biogeography and Ecology of Vascular Epiphytes: Factors Influencing Richness and Conservation"

Host: Alexandra Weyrich

Lucile Marescot, Data scientist at CIRAD, Centre for Biology and Population Management, Montpellier (France)

Title: "Forecasting the risk of locust outbreak"

Host: Alexandra Weyrich

Lucile Marescot, Data scientist at CIRAD, Centre for Biology and Population Management, Montpellier (France)

Title: "Forecasting the risk of locust outbreak"

Host: Jon Chase

Alexandra Weyrich, Postdoctoral Researcher at sDiv; Daniela Hoss, Postdoctoral Researcher at sDiv; Gabriella Damasceno, sPlot Coordinator; Sreetama Bhadra, Postdoctoral Researcher at sDiv and in the research group "Evolution and Adaptation"

Title: "The rusty pipeline: gender (in)equality in science"

Host: Jon Chase

Alexandra Weyrich, Postdoctoral Researcher at sDiv; Daniela Hoss, Postdoctoral Researcher at sDiv; Gabriella Damasceno, sPlot Coordinator; Sreetama Bhadra, Postdoctoral Researcher at sDiv and in the research group "Evolution and Adaptation"

Title: "The rusty pipeline: gender (in)equality in science"

Host: Michael Gerth

Marie Walde, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department "Adaptation and Diversity in the Marine Environment" at Station Biologique de Roscoff (France)

Title: "Hunting for microbial marine eukaryotes with a microscope and a computer"

Host: Michael Gerth

Marie Walde, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department "Adaptation and Diversity in the Marine Environment" at Station Biologique de Roscoff (France)

Title: "Hunting for microbial marine eukaryotes with a microscope and a computer"

Host: sPectra

Elisa van Cleemput, Assistant professor at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University College, The Hague (The Netherlands)

Title: "Making remote sense of biodiversity"

Shan Kothari, Postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec, Montréal (Canada)

Title: "A spectrum of spectra? Challenges and opportunities of using hyperspectral data in plant functional ecology"

Host: sPectra

Elisa van Cleemput, Assistant professor at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Leiden University College, The Hague (The Netherlands)

Title: "Making remote sense of biodiversity"

Shan Kothari, Postdoctoral researcher at Université du Québec, Montréal (Canada)

Title: "A spectrum of spectra? Challenges and opportunities of using hyperspectral data in plant functional ecology"

Host: sMoste

Lucy Van Kleunen, PhD Candidate at the Department for Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder (USA)

Title: "Decision-Making Using Ecological Networks Under Link Uncertainty"

Anshuman Swain, Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows & James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) Fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge (USA)

Title: "Linked Ecologies: Connecting Invisible Pasts, and Actionable Futures"

Host: sMoste

Lucy Van Kleunen, PhD Candidate at the Department for Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder (USA)

Title: "Decision-Making Using Ecological Networks Under Link Uncertainty"

Anshuman Swain, Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows & James S. McDonnell Foundation (JSMF) Fellow at Harvard University, Cambridge (USA)

Title: "Linked Ecologies: Connecting Invisible Pasts, and Actionable Futures"

Host: Tiffany Knight

Ninad Mungi, Postdoctoral researcher at the Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity section at Aarhus University, Aarhus (Denmark)

Title: "The role of climatic changes, biological invasions, and biodiversity, in emergence of novel ecosystem trajectories"

Host: Tiffany Knight

Ninad Mungi, Postdoctoral researcher at the Ecoinformatics & Biodiversity section at Aarhus University, Aarhus (Denmark)

Title: "The role of climatic changes, biological invasions, and biodiversity, in emergence of novel ecosystem trajectories"

Host: tba

Ilkhom Soliev, Professor and Chair for Environmental Sociology at the Institute of Sociology & iDiv member, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Germany)

Title: "Transformative interventions for strengthening biodiversity prioritisation: Insights from institutional and behavioural research"

Host: tba

Ilkhom Soliev, Professor and Chair for Environmental Sociology at the Institute of Sociology & iDiv member, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Germany)

Title: "Transformative interventions for strengthening biodiversity prioritisation: Insights from institutional and behavioural research"

Host: Alexandra Weyrich (former sDiv)

Alexandre Courtiol, Senior researcher and head of WG Modelling life history evolution at Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin (Germany)

Title: "Populations as Complex Ecological Systems: Emergent Patterns in Groups of Humans and Hyenas"

Host: Elisabeth Bönisch (EIE)

Dominik Becher, Coordinator of studium universale, children's university and “Jugend forscht” at Leipzig University, Leipzig (Germany)

Romy Zeiss, co-coordinator of the project “Translating Soil Biodiversity”, which translates the articles of Frontiers for Young Minds into different languages, and doctoral researcher at the research group Experimental Interaction Ecology, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "Science communication for Kids"

Host: Nico Eisenhauer

Ana Bastos, Professor for land-atmosphere interactions at Leipzig University and iDiv member, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "Ecosystem vulnerability to compound extremes and disturbances in a changing climate"

Host: Volker Hahn (M&C)

Dan Charles, communicator in residence at iDiv, contributing correspondent for Science, former agriculture correspondent for National Public Radio (USA)

Title: " Anatomy of a story about pesticides and pollinators - and what it tells us about science journalism today"

Host: tba

Diego Brizuela-Torres, Flexpool Doctoral Researcher at iDiv and the Department of Conservation Biology and Social-Ecological Systems at the UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "DeForESG - Deforestation explained by social-ecological dynamics and governance shifts"

Saneesh Cherapurath Soman, Doctoral Researcher at the iDiv research group Species Interaction Ecology and the Department of Community Ecology at UFZ, Leipzig (Germany)

Title: "Restoring ecological complexity: Collaborative grass removal and fire exclusion in mesic savannas."

Host: Chloé Schmidt

Diogo B. Provete, Assistant Professor, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande (Brazil) and currently Sabbatical researcher, with a Humboldt fellowship for experienced researchers, working with the iDiv research group Biodiversity Synthesis

Title: "The other story told by Urban Ecology in the Global South"

Host: Magali Weissberger, BioCon

Rachel Schwarz, Postdoc at the Department of Life Sciences of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, at the Freie Universität Berlin and the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB)

Title: "Shedding light on biodiversity: reviewing existing knowledge and exploring hypothesised impacts of agrophotovoltaics"

Gavin Stark, Postdoc Research in the iDiv Research Group Biodiversity Conservation.

Title: " Towards Climate-Smart Rewilding: An integrated framework for biodiversity, climate change, and society"

Host: Jes Hines, EIE

Jim Elser, Bierman Professor of Ecology at the University of Montana (UM) and Director of the UM’s Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, MT (USA)

Title: “Biological stoichiometry of nutrient limitation in ecology, evolution, and sustainability”

Host: sGUBIK working group

Myla F.H. Aronson, Assistant Professor at Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (USA)

Title: " Urbanisation generates multiple trait syndromes for terrestrial animal taxa worldwide"

Benjamin Baiser, Assistant Professor at the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida (USA)

Title: “Uncovering the roles of time, biogeography, resources, and food web composition on microbial primary succession”

Host: Stephanie Jurburg, UFZ

Leonardo Oña Bubach, Postdoc Researcher at the Department of Ecology, Osnabrück University (Germany)

Host: TiBS research group

Emilio Berti, Postdoc Researcher at the Research Group Theory in Biodiversity (TiBS), iDiv, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena

Title:" Moving forward with energy landscape research "

Host: Michael Gerth, Head of iDiv Junior Research Group Symbiont Evolution

Georgia Drew, Research Fellow at Collegium Helveticum, The joint Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) of the ETH Zurich, The University of Zurich, & The Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich (Switzerland)

Title: "The effect of eco-evolutionary context on a protective symbiosis"

Host: Lina Estupinan Suarez (BioCon)

Swanni T. Alvarado, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, National University of Colombia, Bogotá (Colombia)

Title: "Fire dynamics in savannas: implications for conservation and restoration"

Dr. Marten Winter, Leiter von sDiv, dem Synthesezentrum von iDiv

Vortragstitel: "Vom Sojaschnitzel bis zur Torferde auf dem Balkon: Klima- und Biodiversitätskrise. Aber was haben wir damit zu tun?"

Abstract: In diesem Vortrag werden die Zusammenhänge und Ursachen zwischen den eng miteinander verzahnten Biodiversitäts- und Klimakrisen erklärt. Es werden Beispiele aus dem Alltag aufgegriffen, um zu zeigen, wo jeder Einzelne und die Gesellschaft ansetzen kann (und muss) um diesen Krisen, die die Zukunft aller Menschen betrifft, erfolgreich entgegen zu treten. Der Austausch mit dem Publikum und eine rege Diskussion sind erwünscht.

Julia von Gönner, Koordinatorin des FLOW-Projektes, Deutsches Zentrum für integrative Biodiversitätsforschung (iDiv) und Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)

Vortragstitel: "Wie können Bürger:innen zum Gewässermonitoring beitragen? Einblicke in das Citizen Science-Projekt FLOW"

Abstract: Citizen Science („Bürgerforschung“) hat großes Potenzial, Bürger:innen aktiv an der Biodiversitätsforschung zu beteiligen, um gemeinsam neue wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse, Netzwerke und Handlungskapazitäten zu schaffen.

FLOW ist ein bundesweites Citizen Science-Projekt zum ökologischen Monitoring von Fließgewässern (www.flow-projekt.de). Im Projekt untersuchen Bürgerforschende aus Schulen, Umwelt- und Angelverbänden und weiteren Gruppen den Zustand kleiner Bäche, die vom offiziellen Monitoring nicht oder nur unzureichend erfasst werden. Damit möchten wir die Gewässerforschung unterstützen und gleichzeitig das gesellschaftliche Bewusstsein für die Bedeutung und Gefährdung unserer Fließgewässer stärken. Von 2021 bis 2023 engagierten sich über im Projekt 90 Gruppen mit insgesamt mehr als 900 Teilnehmenden im FLOW-Projekt. Der Vortrag gibt Einblicke in die FLOW-Monitoringmethoden und Ergebnisse.

Host: Marten Winter (sDiv)

Christopher Monk, Scientist and Group Leader of the Marine Behavioural Ecology Group at GEOMAR Helmholtz Institute for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel (Germany)

Title: "Insights into fisheries-induced evolution and selection processes from high-resolution tracking studies in the wild"

Host: Pratyaksh Singh (Symbiont Evolution)

N G Prasad, Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Mohali (India)

Title: "Parental effects of pathogenic infection in Drosophila melanogaster"