This is an official announcement of: PhD Summer School 2009 "Interactions between ecological and evolutionary processes in aquatic systems" July 5th-18th 2009, Eawag at Kastanienbaum, Switzerland
Invited Lecturers: Prof. James Elser (Arizona State University) Prof. Nelson Hairston (Cornell University) Prof. Eric Triplett (University of Florida) Prof. Andrew Hendry (McGill University) Prof. Elena Litchman (Michigan State University) Prof. Luc De Meester (K. U. Leuven) The course will confront selected PhD students with the challenge of integrating ecosystems ecology and evolutionary biology, arguably the least well-integrated pair of disciplines in ecology. Some have described this challenge as the last missing synthesis in ecology. We will take a multidisciplinary look at lake ecology, ask how nutrient fluxes shape microbial and algal activity and diversity, how these in turn exert ecological and evolutionary pressure on organisms at higher trophic levels, and lastly, how adaptive evolution at higher trophic levels exerts ecological pressures at lower levels that possibly change ecosystem dynamics. The 2009 course will be built around different aspects of ecological stoichiomentry. The Summer School course will be held at Eawag Kastanienbaum, near Lucerne, in Switzerland. Eawag is the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, and the Kastanienbaum Centre for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry (CEEB) is situated at the shores of Lake Lucerne. It offers seminar rooms, laboratories, and on-site housing for students. For further information and online application, please visit our website: http://www.eawag.ch/programs/phd_ss_2009/index_EN For questions, please contact us via email: [email protected] Steering committee Dr. Helmut Bürgmann Dr. Blake Matthews Dr. Hitoshi Araki Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Center for Ecology, Evolution and Biogeochemistry Seestrasse 79, CH-6047 Kastanienbaum, Switzerland Note: Please forward this announcement to anyone who may be interested.
