ScienceChat: Ecological Seminar and Discussion Series

Introducing Science Chat
Science Chat is a BYRD (Bremen Early Research Development) funded doc-network. It was founded in 2016 by PhD students in the field of ecology at the University of Bremen. We aim to facilitate exchange between the working groups of ecology, as well as to organize subject-specific lectures and workshops. Science Chat meetings are especially aimed at PhD students in the field of ecology. However, all interested students, post-docs and research assistants of University of Bremen are invited to participate. The Science Chat usually takes place during the semester at two-week intervals, Monday at 1 pm. We meet online or in room 1060 of BIOM. Further information on the specific content will be announced.

21. November 2024−31. December 2024

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Previous Events

Previous Events

Date	Name	Title	Concept
28^th October 2024	Science Chat	"Creepy Science Chat" Halloween Special	Mini-presentations
8^th July 2024	Prof. Dr. Juliane Filser _{(University of Bremen)}	Early Career Grant Writing Strategies	Workshop
24^th June 2024	Dr. Greta Reintjes _{(AG Reintjes, University of Bremen) reintjesprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de} BRIDGE - Existenzgründungsberatung _{(Bremen Universität)} Dr. Vienna Kowallik _{(University of Freiburg) vienna.kowallikprotect me ?!forento.uni-freiburgprotect me ?!.de} Dr. Christina C. Roggatz _{(AG Roggatz, Bremen Universität) croggatzprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de} Dr. Kathrin Litza _{(Data Scientist, Prof. Roll & Pastuch)}	Career Perspectives for Graduate and Undergraduate Biologists	Symposium
10^th June 2024	Dongik Chang _{(Max-Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology) dchangprotect me ?!ice.mpgprotect me ?!.de}	Imaging approaches to study a very unusual case of grain beetle-bacteria symbiosis	Talk
8^th April 2024	Science Chat	Women and Girls in Science Special Event	Mini-Presentations, open discussion

Date	Name	Title	Concept
18^th December 2023	Science Chat	Ugly Christmas Poster Session	mini-Poster session
4^th December 2023	Science Chat	Tips&Tricks on Scientific Writing	Open Discussion
20^th November 2023	Dr. Christina C. Roggatz _{(AG Roggatz, University of Bremen) https://christinaroggatz.wordpress.com croggatz@uni-bremen.de}	Constant Change: how environmental impacts mediate the chemical communication of organisms	Talk
6^th November 2023	Felicia Wolters _{(Wageningen University and Research)}	Biosynthetic Pathway Discovery in Plants Based on Omics Data Integration	Talk
23^rdOctober 2023	Science Chat	Halloween-Special	Mini-presentations/Poster session
16^th October 2023	Dr. Moira McKee _{(AG Filser, UFT, University of Bremen)} _{moira.mckeeprotect me ?!uni-bremenprotect me ?!.de}	"Are algae always “green”? – Testing environmental hazards of algae extracts for use as lubricant additives (Project ALBINA)"	Talk
9^th October 2023	Alexandra Mir Davood Bernal _{(AG Rohlfs, University of Bremen) X (Twitter): @AlexandraMirDv Mastodon: @amiradavood}	A case study on animal welfare at a horse farm in Spain	Talk
8^th May 2023	Jonas Nelles, Sven Gladow _{(AG Filser, University of Bremen)}	A general introduction to the field of Ecotoxicology	Talk

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Name

Titel

Konzept

12^th December 2022

Science Chat

Ugly Christmas Poster Session

Poster Session

7^th March 2022

Vienna Kowallik

^{(Freiburg University)}

The hidden power within – the honey bee as model system to study host-microbiome relationships

Presentation & Online event

Date	Name	Title	Concept
13^th December 2021	Valentina Migani ^{(Guest speaker)}	Linear Mixed Models in R (2/2)	Online-Workshop
6^th December 2021	Valentina Migani ^{(Guest speaker)}	Linear Mixed Models in R (1/2)	Online-Workshop
6^th September 2021	Kathrin Litza & Leonie Mazalla ^{(AG Diekmann)}	"Drought effects on dry grasslands" & "Hedgerows across Europe: Forest plant species in the context of management and regional climate"	Online-Presentation
28^th June 2021	Meike Schuppenhauer ^{(BHF Kiel)}	Oribatid mites walking over water & Plan B after a Phd	Online-Presentation
17^th May 2021	n/a	Swedish „Fika“ - coffee break	Online-Gathering
10^th May 2021	n/a	Swedish „Fika“ - coffee break	Online-Gathering
3^rd May 2021	Melanie M. Pollierer ^{(Goettingen University)}	Compound-specific amino acid analyses – a novel tool to unravel the trophic structure of soil food webs	Online-Presentation
29^th March 2021	Madlen Ziege ^{(www.madlenziege.com)}	Stress and the city? The modern tale of the city rabbit and the village rabbit	Online-Presentation
22^th March 2021	Stefano Pinto ^{(Bremen University)}	Make fine graphs with ggplot2 (Workshop 3/3)	Workshop
15^th March 2021	Stefano Pinto ^{(Bremen University)}	Make fine graphs with ggplot2 (Workshop 2/3)	Workshop
8^th March 2021	Stefano Pinto ^{(Bremen University)}	Make fine graphs with ggplot2 (Workshop 1/3)	Workshop
22^nd February 2021	Elisabeth Riedel ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Maintaining a microbiome: how reliable are fitness benefits conveyed by microbes within maternal fecal matter to fruit fly larvae?	Online-Presentation
15^th February 2021	Kathrin Faber ^{(perspektive promotion)}	perspektive promotion - a programme for female early career researchers	Online-Presentation and Discussion
8^th February 2021	Leonie Mazalla ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Dry grasslands under drought stress - what are the effects of recent droughts on these biodiversity hotspots?	Online-Presentation
1^st February 2021	Gerrit A. Martens ^{(Hamburg University)}	Diving deep into the brain of seals - a lipidomics approach	Online-Presentation

Date	Name	Title	Concept
7^th December 2020	Antonia Otte ^(NUB)	NUB Project “CampusGoesBiodiverse”	Online-Presentation
23^rd November 2020	Cédric Meuiner ^(AWI)	Impact of global change on coastal planktonic food webs	Online-Presentation
9^th March 2020	Felicia Wolters ^{(AG Rohlfs)}	Influences of the Microbiome Composition on Developmental Success of Drosophila melanogaster	Presentation
2^nd March 2020	Kathrin Litza ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Hedgerows as a habitat for forest plant species in the agricultural landscape of Europe	Presentation
17^th February 2020	Science Chat ^{(Group discussion)}	International Day of Women and Girls in Science	Discussion
10^th February 2020	Arjen Tilstra ^{(AG Wild)}	Denitrification Aligns with N2 Fixation in Red Sea Corals	Presentation
27^th January 2020	Leonie Mazalla ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Re-visiting the vegetation of acid grasslands and wet heaths after 32 years - what has changed and why?	Presentation
20^th January 2020	Laura Schnee ^{(AG Filser)}	Does biochar enhance soil carbon accumulation?	Presentation
13^th January 2020	Nauras Daraghmeh ^{(AG Wild)}	The effects of seasonality on nutrient stoichiometry in the central Red Sea coral Pocillopora verrucosa	Presentation

Date	Name	Title	Concept
16^th December 2019	Rebecca Borges ^{(ZMT, Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenforschung)}	Assessing the spatial management of mangroves and small-scale fisheries in protected areas on the Brazilian Amazon coast	Presentation
2^nd December 2019	Jana Michaelis ^{(Hegemann Umwelttechnik GmbH)}	Modern Alchemy - the art of turning waste into gold!	Presentation
4^th November 2019	Elisabeth Riedel ^{(AG Rohlfs)}	Substrate dependent role of microbes in Drosophila melanogaster fitness experiment	Presentation
7^th October 2019	Kim Ferguson ^{(Wageningen University)}	Ableism in Science	Presentation Invited speaker in cooperation with BYRD
26^th August 2019	Carmen Villacañas de Castro ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Friend or foe? Parasitism by a Braconid wasp shifts the cost/benefit ratio in a nursery pollination system impacting plant fitness in the next generation	Presentation
29^th July 2019	Moira McKee ^{(AG Filser)}	Mixture toxicity of nanomaterials and antibiotics in aquatic ecosystems	Presentation
8^th July 2019	Greta Sondej & Christoph Kulmann ^{(AG Micropalaeontology-Palaeoceanography, MARUM)}	In the course of the student programme REXUS/BEXUS we constructed a life support system for cultivating Foraminifera aboard a sounding rocket	Presentation
1^st July 2019	Kathrin Litza ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Historical or present-day conditions - which variables affect the forest specialist diversity in hedgerows?	Presentation
24^th June 2019	Yvonne Sakka ^{(AG Filser)}	The “ALBINA” project – environmentally friendly additives for lubricants from algae	Presentation
17^th June 2019	Jana Collatz ^{(Agroscope, Zurich)}	Native natural enemies of Drosophila suzukii in Europe	Presentation Invited speaker in cooperation with BYRD
3^rd June 2019	Thomas Riemensperger ^{(University of Cologne)}	Disease triggered modulation of behavior	Presentation Invited speaker in cooperation with BYRD
13^th May 2019	Renate Kienzle ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Responses to heterospecific cues enhance Drosophila suzukii’s oviposition preference for healthy fruits	Presentation
4^th February 2019	Valentina Migani ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Plotting categorical variables using ggplot in R	Workshop
28^th January 2019	Bart Vandenbossche ^(e-nema)	Genetic breeding of an entomopathogenic nematode for better control of the Western Corn Rootworm	Presentation Invited speaker in cooperation with BYRD

Date	Name	Title	Concept
10^th December 2018	Sophie Chattington ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	The Lepidoptera-parasitoid complex present in organic German cabbage field with a focus on Trichogramma	Presentation
3^rd December 2018	Julia Birkholz ^{(AG Elster)}	Societal Engagement – Knowledge Transfer and Communication	Presentation
26^th November 2018	Nolan Rappa ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Evaluating the use of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana against the Andromeda Lacebug on Rhododendron	Presentation
19^th November 2018	María Cuenca Cambronero ^{(University of Birmingham, UK)}	Bringing back 100 years of evolution in one afternoon (from a Resurrection Ecology perspective)	Presentation Invited speaker in cooperation with BYRD
5^th November 2018	Susana Simancas Giraldo & Ameris Contreras Silva ^{(AG Wild)}	Evaluation of octocoral ecophysiological response under ocean warming scenarios & Spatio-temporal changes in the Mexican Caribbean coral reef communities over the last four decades	Presentation and conference preparation
22^nd October 2018	Kim Ferguson ^{(Wageningen University & Research, Laboratory of Genetics)}	Applications of genomes in advancing biological control research	Presentation Invited speaker in cooperation with BYRD
24^th September 2018	Marko Rohlfs ^{(AG Population and Evolutionary Ecology)}	The Drosophila story – from individual fly behaviour to complex multi-microbial interactions and back	Presentation
10^th September 2018	João Manuel Cordeiro Vale Pereira ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Bird diversity in the Andean countries: an overview	Presentation
3^rd September 2018	Anastasia Roberts ^{(Salzburg University, Austria)}	Land-use effects on decomposer metacommunities in tree holes	Presentation Invited speaker in cooperation with BYRD
25^th June 2018	Alejandra Centurión Carrera ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Linking genetics with life history traits: Proof of principle in a Braconid wasp	Presentation
18^th June 2018	Sophie Chattington ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Trichogramma populations in organic German cabbage fields – a genetic, ecological, and behavioural overview	Presentation
4^th June 2018	Lara Groß ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Native birds but not invasive rodents are the main predators of the Fan-tailed Gerygone (Gerygone flavolateralis) in New Caledonia	Presentation
28^th May 2018	Rumpa Pal ^{(AG Grabowsky)}	A visit to the Australian Center of Neutron Scattering: Critical for localization of hydrogen atoms	Presentation
14^th May 2018	Cátia Monteiro ^{(AG Bischof)}	Is local adaptation driving the transcriptomic responses to multiple stressors in the kelp S. latissima?	Presentation
7^th May 2018	Arjen Tilstra ^{(AG Wild)}	Six month of coral reef related fieldwork in Saudi Arabia: An overview	Presentation
16^th April 2018	Andrea Campos Candela ^{(IMEDEA-CSIC and University of Alicante, Spain)}	Bridging the gap between individual behavioral variation and life histories using mass/energy fluxes	Presentation Invited speaker in cooperation with BYRD
19^th March 2018	Valentina Migani ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Looking at predation and competition in an ant-fruit fly system	Presentation
12^th March 2018	Kathrin Litza ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Only a matter of time: Comparing recent with ancient hedgerows	Presentation
5^th March 2018	Lara Groß ^{(Master of Ecology)}	Conducting scientific research in tropical paradise	Presentation
26^th February 2018	Julie Stearns	Make an Impact! Networking and Communication Skills for Scientists	Workshop in cooperation with BYRD/ImpulsPlus
12^th February 2018	Carmen Villacañas de Castro ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Unconscious Gender Bias in Science and Academia: How to recognise it and overcome it	Discussion
22^nd January 2018	Stefanos Banos ^{(AG Reich)}	Marine Fungi: Spotlights on an overseen organism group	Presentation
15^th January 2018	Valentina Migani ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	"Too deep or not too deep? That's the question': fruit fly egg distribution and its effects on their parasitoids	Presentation and Experimental design

Date	Name	Title	Concept
4^th December 2017	Carmen Villacañas de Castro ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Between antagonism and mutualism: can a natural enemy shift the balance in a nursery pollination system?	Poster presentation
27^th November 2017	Sophie Chattington ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Trichogramma life-history traits: a meta-analysis	Presentation and poster presentation
20^th November 2017	Sophie Chattington ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Gender-biased perceptions of important ecological articels	Journal Club
13^th November 2017	Anneke Immoor ^{(AG Nehls)}	Impact of symbiosis repressed poplar genes upon ectomycorrhizal function and development	Presentation
6^th November 2017	Kathrin Litza ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Introduction to data management using Microsoft Access	Method
23^rd October 2017	Stefan Christ ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	The occurrence of Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) in communities of native Drosophilidae in South-Hessia	Presentation
9^th October 2017	Ameris Contreras Silva ^{(AG Wild)}	Spatio-temporal benthic community shifts in Mexican Mesoamerican reefs over the last 25 years	Analysis discussion
25^th September 2017	Naomi Taylor ^{(AG Wild)}	Planning a conference	Presentation
26^th June 2017	Sophie Chattington ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Distribution of Trichogramma parasitoids	Experimental design discussion
19^th June 2017	Anna Koester ^{(AG Wild)}	From Seychelles to Bremen (and hopefully back)	Presentation
12^th June 2017	Kathrin Litza& Jana Michaelis ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Well-hedged by hedgerows? How traits determine the forest herb community in hedgerows & Demands deviate, or perhaps not? - Soil pH niche shifts in herbaceous forest species across north-western Europe	Conference presentation practice
29^th May 2017	Yusuf El-Khalid ^{(AG Wild)}	A valuation basis for bats in windfarm planning in Northwestern Germany	Presentation
22^nd May 2017	Moira McKee ^{(AG Filser)}	Unraveling the effects of soil components on the toxicity of silver nanoparticles to Collembola - an acute toxicity test in aqueous medium	Presentation
15^th May 2017	Alejandra Centurión Carrera ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Control of the Western Corn Rootworm in maize with Heterorhabditis bacteriophora: Influence of field persistence and infectivity	Presentation
8^th May 2017	Shelby Caughman & Lara Groß ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Intraspecific competition in the invasive fruit fly Drosophila suzukii	Presentation
24^th April 2017	Valentina Migani ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Exploitation of hetero- and conspecific oviposition punctures as an oviposition strategy in mango fruit flies	Presentation
10^th April 2017	Carmen Villacañas de Castro ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Between antagonism and mutualism: how a natural enemy can shift the balance in a nursery pollination system	Conference presentation practice
3^rd April 2017	Nikola Misevic ^{(AG Dicke)}	Visual object processing in amphibians: Projections from the thalamus and optic nerve	Presentation
27^th March 2017	Ameris Contreras Silva ^{(AG Wild)}	Coral reef monitoring in the Mexican Caribbean	Presentation
20^th March 2017	Nolan Rappa ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	The Collection, Preservation, and Preparation of Insects	Presentation
13^th March 2017	Jörn Profe ^{(AG Zolitschka)}	Geochemical record of the loess-paleosol sequence Süttö (Hungary) derived from X-ray fluorescence scanning of discrete samples	Conference presentation practice
6^th March 2017	Stefan Christ & Sophie Chattington ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Oh brother, where art thou? Kin recognition in a parasitic wasp & Comparative intra-guild competition in Trichogramma	Conference presentation practice
27^th February 2017	Kathrin Litza ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Making maps with R	Method
20^th February 2017	Arjen Tilstra ^{(AG Wild)}	Disentangling nitrogen cycling in benthic coral reef organisms under seasonal and environmental change	Presentation
13^th February 2017	Andra Thiel ^{(AG Hoffmeister)}	Can inbreeding depression actually be beneficial?	Journal Club
6^th February 2017	Jana Michaelis ^{(AG Diekmann)}	Visualizing data - Introduction to the R package ggplot2	Method introduction

Date	Name	Title	Concept
17^th November 2016	Peter Biedermann ^{(Universität Jena)}	Ambrosia (bark) beetles and their associated fungal/bacterial communities	Presentation
26^th October 2016	Arjen Tilstra ^{(AG Wild)}	Light modulates thermal stress responses of Stylophora pistillata	Manuscript discussion

Date

Name

Title

Concept

17^th November 2016

Peter Biedermann

^{(Universität Jena)}

Ambrosia (bark) beetles and their associated fungal/bacterial communities

Presentation

26^th October 2016

Arjen Tilstra

^{(AG Wild)}

Light modulates thermal stress responses of Stylophora pistillata

Manuscript discussion

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Alexander Krüger
Insect and Chemical Ecology (AG Rohlfs)

Anna Evlanova
Insect and Chemical Ecology (AG Rohlfs)

Alexandra Mir Davood Bernal
Insect and Chemical Ecology (AG Rohlfs)

Elisabeth Riedel
Population and Evolutionary Ecology (AG Rohlfs/Hoffmeister)

Borbála Szabó
General and Theoretical Ecology (AG Filser)

Jolina Paulssen
Vegetation Ecology and Conservation Biology (AG Diekmann)

Arjen Tilstra
Marine Ecology (AG Wild)

Claudia Hill
Marine Ecology (AG Wild)

Kathrin Litza
Vegetation Ecology and Conservation Biology (AG Diekmann)

Leonie Mazalla
Vegetation Ecology und Conservation Biology (AG Diekmann)

Moira McKee
General and Theoretical Ecology (AG Filser)

Sophie Chattington
Population and Evolutionary Ecology (AG Hoffmeister)

Stefan Christ
Population and Evolutionary Ecology (AG Hoffmeister)

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ScienceChat: Ecological Seminar and Discussion Series

Introducing Science Chat

Future events

21. November 2024−31. December 2024

Previous Events

Date

Name

Title

Concept

28th October 2024

"Creepy Science Chat" Halloween Special

8th July 2024

Early Career Grant Writing Strategies

24th June 2024

Career Perspectives for Graduate and Undergraduate Biologists

10th June 2024

Imaging approaches to study a very unusual case of grain beetle-bacteria symbiosis

8th April 2024

Women and Girls in Science Special Event

Date

Name

Title

Concept

18th December 2023

Ugly Christmas Poster Session

4th December 2023

Tips&Tricks on Scientific Writing

20th November 2023

Constant Change: how environmental impacts mediate the chemical communication of organisms

6th November 2023

Biosynthetic Pathway Discovery in Plants Based on Omics Data Integration

23rd October 2023

Halloween-Special

16th October 2023

"Are algae always “green”? – Testing environmental hazards of algae extracts for use as lubricant additives (Project ALBINA)"

9th October 2023

A case study on animal welfare at a horse farm in Spain

8th May 2023

A general introduction to the field of Ecotoxicology

Datum

Name

Titel

Konzept

12th December 2022

Ugly Christmas Poster Session

7th March 2022

The hidden power within – the honey bee as model system to study host-microbiome relationships

Date

Name

Title

Concept

13th December 2021

Linear Mixed Models in R (2/2)

6th December 2021

Linear Mixed Models in R (1/2)

6th September 2021

"Drought effects on dry grasslands" & "Hedgerows across Europe: Forest plant species in the context of management and regional climate"

28th June 2021

Oribatid mites walking over water & Plan B after a Phd

17th May 2021

Swedish „Fika“ - coffee break

10th May 2021

Swedish „Fika“ - coffee break

3rd May 2021

Compound-specific amino acid analyses – a novel tool to unravel the trophic structure of soil food webs

29th March 2021

Stress and the city? The modern tale of the city rabbit and the village rabbit

22th March 2021

Make fine graphs with ggplot2 (Workshop 3/3)

15th March 2021

Make fine graphs with ggplot2 (Workshop 2/3)

8th March 2021

Make fine graphs with ggplot2 (Workshop 1/3)

22nd February 2021

Maintaining a microbiome: how reliable are fitness benefits conveyed by microbes within maternal fecal matter to fruit fly larvae?

15th February 2021

perspektive promotion - a programme for female early career researchers

8th February 2021

Dry grasslands under drought stress - what are the effects of recent droughts on these biodiversity hotspots?

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