News and announcements

EB&T associate Amit Kumar Sinha won the Best Poster Award at the 5th Fish and shellfish larviculture symposium (LARVI 2009 website) as co-author of the poster entitled 'The bacterial storage compound poly- b -hydroxybutyrate (PHB) increases growth performance and intestinal microbial diversity in juvenile European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax)'!

Congratulations to Amit!

The Society for Experimental Biology is Europe’s leading, not-for-profit organisation embracing all disciplines of experimental biology. The SEB is pleased to announce that in 2009 (28th June until 1st July) its Annual Main Meeting will return to the state-of-the-art Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) in the culture-rich city of Glasgow. Open to members and non-members alike, the meeting will give you the opportunity to attend cutting edge scientific and education sessions as well as the chance to network with a diverse range of biologists from all over the world. More info on the meeting can be found here.

On 19th June Frouke Vermeulen will publicly defend her PhD research entitled 'Spatially explicit exposure assessment of persistent pollutants through the food chain of the European hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)'.

Since this is a public defense you are kindly invited to join us at 16h00 in room U.024 (U building, Campus Groenenborger).

Next up is An Jamers defending her 4 year IWT funder research 'Effects of oxidative stress in the chlorophyt Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: an integrated approach’. Day of this event will be Monday, June 29th, at 4pm in the Q-building at Campus Drie Eiken.

More info on how to get there, can be found here and here, respectively.

This summer the international symposium on Genomics in Aquaculture will be hosted at Bodo University College (Bodo, Norway) on the 5th, 6th and 7th of July 2009. The symposium will review the state-of-the-art of genomics research in various aquaculture systems, its industrial applications and future perspectives.