Current PhD Projects

Vania V. Beltran Guzman

Supervisors: Pablo Tittonell (ConsEco), Mariela Fuentes Ponte (UAM-X)

Assessing trade-offs and synergies between ecosystem services in highland maize-based landscapes of Central Mexico

Lisa Bruil

Supervisors: Klemens Eriksson (MarBio), Laura Govers (MarBio)

Advancing seagrass restoration in the Wadden Sea, Grevelingen & Veerse Meer

Massimiliano Coscia

Supervisors: Robbert Havekes (NeuBio), Sanne Moorman (NeuBio)

In vivo microscopy to track the neural substrate for auditory-vocal memory in songbirds

Huayu Dong

Supervisors: Joana Falcao Salles (GREEN), Paula Dalcin Martins (GREEN)

The role of phages in regulating bacterial community structure and function in grassland soils under regenerative agriculture

Sen Dong

Supervisors: Jan Komdeur (BPE), Hannah Dugdale (BPE)

The genetic basis of fitness and behaviour - Quantitative genetics and genomics of senescence and personality in Seychelles warblers

Joe R. Earle

Supervisors: Joana Falcao Salles (GREEN), Hans van Veen (GREEN), Kiera Tiedge (GREEN)

Plant growth arrest mechanism for stress tolerance

Luisa Epifani

Supervisors: Peter Meerlo (NeuBio), Robbert Havekes (NeuBio), Niki Gervais (NeuBio)

Synergies between sex and sleep disturbance in neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative diseases

Freya Darling Eriksen

Supervisors: Marjon de Vos (GREEN), Marnix Medema (WUR)

Urinary tract infections revisited - Microbial eco-evolutionary drivers and regulators

Haiyan He

Supervisors: Klemens Eriksson (MarBio), David Thieltges (NIOZ/GREEN), Anieke van Leeuwen (NIOZ)

Disease ecology and predation - unravelling consumptive and non-consumptive effects of predators on parasite-host interactions and population-level consequences

Yichen Liu

Supervisors: David Thieltges (NIOZ/GREEN), Sebastian Lequime (GREEN), Sancia van der Meij (MarBio)

Viral symbiont diversity and ecology using genomics in the marine model species Carcinus maenas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Zhen Qin

Supervisors: Klemens Eriksson (MarBio), Ellie Laetz (MarBio), Sancia van der Meij (MarBio)

The impact of climate change on stability of marine photosymbioses

Mirthe Ronde

Supervisors: Martien Kas (NeuBio), Eddy van der Zee (NeuBio)

EEG analysis and personalized intervention studies in mouse models for brain disorders

Alexander A. Schlatmann

Supervisors: Christiaan Both (ConsEco), Marion Nicolaus (ConsEco)

Animal personality as a driver of reproductive isolation?

Kriti Shrestha

Supervisors: Leo Beukeboom (EGDB), Bregje Wertheim (EGDB)

Genetic improvement of the Black Soldier Fly as insect feed

Yuheng Sun

Supervisors: Hannah Dugdale (BPE), Simon Griffith (Macquarie University)

Trans-generational ageing in house sparrows

Tom A. Veldhuis

Supervisors: Casper van der Kooi (GREEN), Darrell Kemp (Macquarie University), Barbara Gravendeel (Naturalis)

Flower color evolution in sexually deceptive orchids

Maite L. Vogel

Supervisors: Klemens Eriksson (MarBio), Laura Govers (MarBio)

Developing knowledge and tools to upscale European seagrass restoration

Kangqing (Jina) Zhang

Supervisors: Irene Tieleman (BPE), Joana Falcao Salles (GREEN), Maurine Dietz (BPE)

Seasonal adaptations in avian hosts and associated microbiota

Yongjin Zhang

Supervisors: Gertjan van Dijk (NeuBio), Torsten Plosch (UMCG), Lidewij Schipper (Danone)

Perinatal dietary fat and offspring health outcomes - A study in mice

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