Dates: 7-8 April 2025
Day 1
9:30-10:00 - Coffee and light breakfast
10:00-12:00 – Workshop: Funding Landscape in Denmark.
Moderator: Line Holm Andersen
Theme:
Currently we are experiencing large changes in biological systems due to anthropogenic activities, however, there is also a realization that management can mitigate some of these degradations. For this reason, there is an increased focus on basic and applied research on management and changes in ecosystems.
The big question is how do we secure that current as well as the next generation of researchers successfully can secure funding for tackling these challenges?
Presentations:
- Researcher: Professor Mads Albertsen, Aalborg University.
- Private foundation: Novo Nordic Foundation.
- National Research Council: former member of the National Research Council, Professor Michael Møller Hansen, Aarhus University.
The workshop:
During the workshop we will hear from a research development manager, a researcher, a member from a private foundation, and a former panel member from a public research foundation. We will get their perspective on how to secure that current as well as the next generation of researchers successfully can secure funding for tackling challenges within ecological end evolutionary research. Secondly, we will have a discussion together with the panel on challenges and opportunities for addressing and mitigating the effect of anthropogenic activities on biological systems.
Oikos-DK will prepare questions and moderate the discussion. We encourage participants to prepare questions ahead of the session and there will also be time for participants to discuss and prepare questions for the discussion.
3x20 min presentations on the funding landscape of Denmark.
- 10.00-10.05: Welcome by Line Holm Andersen and Simon Bahrndorff
- 10.05-10.25: Professor, Mads Albertsen, Aalborg University: Examples on large scale project related to microbial biodiversity.
- 10.25-10.45: Novo Nordic Foundation: Perspective from a private foundation on funding and future challenges related to human activities and biological systems.
- 10.45-11.05: Former member of the National Research Council, Professor Michael Møller Hansen, Aarhus University: Experience on writing successful applications and as member of the National Research Council.
11.05-11.20: Break and reflection – time to prepare questions for the panel discussion
11.20-12.00: Discussion: Questions from audience. Pre-prepared questions.
12:00-12:30 – Lunch
12:30-12:45 – Welcome
12:45-13:30 – Toke Thomas Høye: Automated species monitoring from the Arctic to the tropics
13:30-14:15 – Speed Talks: Session 1 (Moderator: Owen Jones)
- 13:30-13:35 – Skjold Alsted Søndergaard: Shifting baselines and the forgotten giants: Megafauna and plant ecology
- 13:35-13:40 – Charlotte Møller: Evolutionary and temporal patterns of intra-individual variation and trait means in Hypericum perforatum.
- 13:40-13:45 – Andreas Krogh Norrild: How can we assess the value of area-based conservation efforts? – A framework for a Universal Nature Indicator
- 13:45-13:50 – Katja Gram: Intraspecific variation in seed germination strategies of blackgrass along a climatic gradient.
- 13:50-13:55 – Magnus Gundersen Lihn: How are alpine communities responding to rapid warming in the Arctic?
- 13:55-14:00 – Sigrid Hyldegaard Djernæs: Plant communities, diversity and soil properties in a Danish salt meadow: the impacts of cattle grazing and elevation
- 14:00-14:05 – Tora Finderup Nielsen: A Changing Landscape: Lessons from Four Years of Rewilding at Skovsgaard Estate
- 14.15-15 - Break with coffee and cake
15:00-16:30 - Presentations (Moderator: Bodil Ehlers)
- 15:00-15:15 – Ida Hartvig: Conservation hologenomics – integrating host genomics and microbiot community data. A case study in Danish Platanthera populations
- 15:15-15:30 – Mayra Evangelina Darre: No ‘au doigt mouillé’: Prioritization of barriers in Vallée de la Semois National Park
- 15:30-15:45 – Claudia Charlott Lassen: Phytoplankton responses to anthropogenic environmental changes
- 15:45-16:00 – Louise Winther: Plant reproduction in a changing climate
- 16:00-16:15 – Kaare Sloth Christophersen: Unveiling the hidden species interactions in a mutualistic seed-dispersal network through the use of machine learning classifiers
- 16:15-16:30 – NSO: Åsa Langefors
16:30-17:30 – Poster Session
17:30-18:00 – General Assembly – Bodil
18:30 – Dinner at AAU Innovation
Day 2
08:00-09:00 – Coffee and light breakfast
09:00-09:45 – Antton Alberdi: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration of Ecological and Evolutionary Dynamics Between Vertebrates and Their Gut Microbiomes
09:45-10:45 – 15-Minute Talks (Moderator: Nikolai Vitt Meyling)
- Simeon Quirinus Smeele – Using Neural Networks for Continuous Monitoring of Bat Populations in Mønsted Kalkgruber
- Sørine Gerlich – Species' traits modulate rapid changes in flight time in high-Arctic muscid flies under climate change
- Nadieh de Jonge – Enhanced monitoring of land-living and semi-aquatic predators using synergistic conventional and next-generation approaches
- Andreas Havbro Faber – Assessment of additive thermal damage accumulation in plants using the TDT model
10:45-11:15 – Break
11:15-12:15 – 15-Minute Talks (Moderator: Lars Båstrup-Spohr)
- Michael Ørsted – Acclimation to heat stress under field and microcosm conditions in terrestrial Arctic arthropods
- Leon Bedekovic Arnaut – Exploring field-scale variation in weed communities: implications for the design of long-term agroecological experiments
- Christoffer Bugge Harder – The formation and breakup of the magic circle: 15 years of life of a fairy ring in Abisko
12.15-13.00: Dorte Krause Jensen: Nordic ecosystems, blue carbon, and holistic management
13.00-13.30: Sandwich to go
