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Friday 17 February 2023 at 15.45 uur, Professor Dirk Maes will give his inaugural lecture: 'Insectenbescherming van landschappen tot genen (en terug)' (in Dutch). His professorship is facilitated by the Uyttenboogaart-Eliasen Stichting. Please register for the event as soon as possible through https://www.ru.nl/maes

The Faculty of Science of the Radboud University has awarded its senior lecturer award to Juriaan Metz for his long-standing effort in developing and teaching excellent courses in animal physiology.

Tens of thousands of animals around the world are monitored using GPS trackers to protect wildlife and study animal behaviour. The collected data are also useful for biodiversity research, but are seldom available on platforms used for this purpose. Researchers have developed a workflow to make GPS tracking data available in biodiversity data portals, and applied it to publicly archive GPS tracking data for hundreds of birds across northwest Europe.

On Monday 19 December 2022, starting 16:30, Naomi Thunnissen will defend her dissertation "Quantifying Ecological Risks of Environmental Stressors. The Development, Application, and Evaluation of methodologies" in the Aula in Nijmegen.

On Thursday 15 December 2022, starting 10:30, Felix P. Leiva will defend his dissertation "Thermal Biology and Cell Size. An Oxygen Limitation Perspective in Ectotherms" in the Aula in Nijmegen.

Professor Rob Leuven who holds the chair of Invasion Biology, shall give his farewell address during an academic ceremony on Friday, October 28, 2022 at 3.00 pm entitled: Booms and busts: alien species surprise! The lecture will be able to be viewed via live stream: www.ru.nl/aula/livestream It would be greatly appreciated if you could attend the lecture online.

On Wednesday 14 September 2022, starting 10:30, Magali Frauendorf will defend her dissertation "Causes for Spatiotemporal Variation in Reproductive Performance of Eurasian Oystercatchers in a Human-Dominated Landscape" in the Aula in Nijmegen.

Monday 20 June 2022, at 14:30, Maryam Semsarkazerouni will defend her dissertation "Time-Dependent Effects of Heat Stress and Physiological Responses of Ectotherms: Implications of Global Warming" in the Aula in Nijmegen.

The numbers of hoverflies and hoverfly species have decreased drastically in recent decades. Compared to forty years ago, in 2021 on average 80% fewer hoverflies were counted and 44% fewer different species were found in a forest in the Dutch Veluwe region. This is the first time that the numbers of hoverflies have been quantified in the Netherlands. Researchers publish about it in Insect Conservation and Diversity on April 12.

At the Huygens building, researchers of the department of Animal Ecology and Physiology together with collaborators from the Radboudumc have been working with zebrafish since more than one decade. This has resulted in the solid embedding of this model in several research themes at the Radboud University and Radboudumc. These research lines provide answers to fundamental questions that are relevant for the development of the Agri-food, Climate, Life Sciences and Health sectors. With the new website, the Radboud Zebrafish Facility can increase its outreach even further and expand its collaborations in line with its mission to make societal impact.