Events

Time
Monday, 25 October 2021
16.00-17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Dr. Ellen van Velzen, University of Potsdam

Time
Monday, 08 November 2021
16.00-17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Prof. Elena Litchman, Michigan State University

Time
18-19 November 2021
Where
PZ 801
Trainer
Dr. Ruth Kamm, Christian-Albrechts-Univesität zu Kiel

Time
Monday, 22 November 2021
16.00-17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Prof. Bodo Philipp, WWU Münster

Time
Monday, 06 December 2021
16.00-17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Dr. Elvire Bestion, Université Paul Sabatier

Time
Monday, 26 April 2021
14.15-15.00

Where
online

Speaker

Kilometer 1, the joint start-up initiative of the University and the HTWG Konstanz, and the Career Service of the University will shortly present their work and you how you can benefit from them as a PhD student.

Time
Monday, 26 April 2021
16.00-17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Prof. Steve Blumenshine, Fresno State University

Time
Monday, 7 June 2021
16.00-17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Dr. Sebastian Tillmann, Equal Opportunity Office University of Konstanz

Time
Monday, 21 June 2021
16.00-17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Dr. Orlane Anneville, INRAE

Time
Monday, 5 July 2021
16.00-17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Helmut Hillebrand, University of Oldenburg

Time
Monday, 19July 2021
16.00-17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Dr. Arnaud Sentis, INRAE

Time
Sunday, 19 September 2021 – Tuesday, 21 September 2021

Where
Kloster Heiligkreuztal, Altheim

Time
Monday, 21st September 2020
16.00 - 17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Piet Spaak is head of the department of aquatic ecology at Eawag and project leader of "SeeWandel"

Time
Monday, 2nd November 2020
15.00 - 16.00

Where
Online

Speaker

Prof. Rey Donne Papa, University of Santo Tomas

Workshop "Scientists need more", Daniel Mertens

Time
17.-20. November 2020
9:00 am to 1:30 pm
 

Where
online

Time
Monday, 15 February 2021
16.00 - 17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Jelena Pantel, Assistant Prof. of Environmental Science, American University of Paris

Time
Monday, 1 March 2021
16.00 - 17.00

Where
online

Speaker
Chloé Goulon, French National Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)

Time
Monday, 21st October 2019
14.00 - 16. 00

Where
Eurofins Konstanz

Workshop "Leading successfully without gender bias" with Angelina Topan

Time
15-16 January 2019
9.00 - 17.00

Where
K7, TR 07

In this seminar you will ...

• gain insight into your role as a leader
• strengthen your abilities to organize yourself as a leader
• learn how to be a leader in a gender and diversity sensitive manner
• learn basics in (gender sensitive) communication and chairmanship
• develop your abilities to recognize employee potential
• learn how to give feedback

Time
Monday, 11th November 2019
15.00 - 16.00

Where
University Konstanz, M627

Speaker
Pieter Boets is a senior researcher in aquatic ecology at the Provincial Centre of Environmental Research of the Province East-Flanders (Belgium)

Time
Monday, 11th November 2019
16.00 - 17.00

Where
University Konstanz, M627

Speaker
Pieter Boets is a senior researcher in aquatic ecology at the Provincial Centre of Environmental Research of the Province East-Flanders (Belgium)

Time
Monday, 25th November 2019
16.00 - 18.00

Where
University Konstanz, M627

Speaker
Anne Kuhlmann is leading the department "quality assurance" at Vetter Pharma-Fertigung GmbH & Co. KG

Time
16th - 17th January 2020

Time
Sunday, 07. April 2019 – Tuesday, 09. April 2019

Where
Haus Maria Lindenberg, Sankt Peter

Long-term monitoring of environmental change using Lake Constance sediments

Time
Monday,  6th May 2019
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Antje Schwalb,  TU Braunschweig

Time
Monday,  20th May 2019
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Dr. Eglė Jakubavičiūtė, Nature Research Centre, Vilnius

Introduction to urban water management by the example

of Konstanz

Time
Monday,  17th June 2019
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Sören Knoll, HTWG Konstanz

A review of in-lake interventions to manage eutrophication and cyanobacteria blooms

Time
Monday,  1st July 2019
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Prof. Dr. David Hamilton, Griffith University, Brisbane

Ecological and evolutionary contributions to metacommunity structure

Time
Monday,  15 July 2019
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Dr. Jelena Pantel, American University of Paris

Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis + Statistics Laboratory

Lecturer: Dr. Jelena Pantel, University of Paris

Contents
Course Overview: The course is divided into two sections. Section 1 is a short course giving an Introduction to Bayesian Statistics. This course is a combination of lecture and hands-on computational analysis using the statistical programming language R. The course will be given in two sessions, each 4 hours long. Section 2 is a weekly meeting for 2 hours, where students gather with the instructor to analyze their own data. Students can discuss potential analyses with the instructor, get help trouble-shooting analysis problems, and benefit from data analysis in a more collaborative setting.

Course Description:
Part 1 – Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis (Tuesday July 23 and Tuesday July 30, 1-5pm)
What is Bayesian statistics and why is it an increasingly popular choice for statistical data analysis? What can we do with Bayesian statistics that we can’t do with traditional ‘frequentist’ statistical tests? How can I follow a Bayesian analysis published in a scientific paper? How can I implement my own Bayesian analysis in the statistical programming language R?
This course presents an opportunity to answer these questions. Bayesian statistics is an alternate statistical framework – instead of choosing among a menu of existing statistical tests (e.g. t-test, ANOVA, regression) then using cut-offs (p-values) to assess whether or not predictors have an effect, in Bayesian statistics we specify models for processes we expect generated observed data and estimate distributions of likely values for model parameters given observed data. Students will gain familiarity with what it means to use Bayesian statistics, how model parameters are estimated, and will also learn to implement Bayesian alternatives to common statistical tests (e.g. estimating differences in means between two groups, a Bayesian alternative to a t-test, and
Bayesian estimation of parameters in linear models).

Part 2 – Statistics Laboratory (Wednesdays 2-4pm) – 4 weeks (July 24, July 31, August 7, August 14)
Students will work on analyzing their own data in a collaborative setting. Students who have collected data will work on analysis during lab (from formulating and learning appropriate statistical tests, to running analyses and communicating analysis results in text or as visualizations). Students planning to collect data will work on experimental design or generating and analyzing simulated data to better inform experimental design. Students who are not planning to collect data will work on a statistics project of their choice – this can be re-creating analysis from published manuscripts or learning R tools such as R Markdown (to generate documents with embedded R code) or Shiny R (to generate HTML-based interfaces for data analysis). Students will declare their Statistics Lab goals at the beginning of the course, and those will be re-visited each week.

Please write an email to tina.romer@uni-konstanz.de, if registration via Zeus is not working.

Application of DNA-tools for investigating planktonic diversity: Recent applications in limnology and paleolimnology

Time
Friday, 12. October 2018
13.00 - 14.00

Where
M 628

Speaker
Dr. Isabelle Domaizon, INRA

Warming effects on predator-prey interactions – a resource-based approach and a theoretical synthesis

Time
Friday, 19th October 2018
14.00 - 15.00

Where
Limnological Institute, U206

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Diehl, Umea University

Freshwater microbiology along environmental gradients in the Polar Regions: implications for climatic-driven environmental change

Time
Monday, 22 October 2018
16.00-17.00

Where
M 627

Speaker
Dr. Anne Jungblut, Natural History Museum, UK

Response of Danish lakes to reduced nutrient loading - gradual or abrupt changes?

Time
Monday, 29 October 2018
16.00-17.00

Where
M 627

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Erik Jeppesen, Aarhus University

Metabolic versatility, complete ammonia oxidizers, and more: A new perspective on the nitrifying microorganisms

Time
Monday, 05 November 2018
16.00-17.00

Where
M 627

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Holger Daims, University of Vienna

Metabolic versatility, complete ammonia oxidizers, and more: A new perspective on the nitrifying microorganisms 

The ecology and ecophysiology of diatom biofilms

Time
Monday, 12 November 2018
16.00-17.00

Where
M 627

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Graham Underwood, University of Essex

Workshop “Body Language and Self-Presentation“ with Claudia Dalchow

Please note that the course is offered for female doctoral researchers only

In this seminar you will learn ...
• how your body language shapes your perception and reality,
• how to operate your “two brains“ to conquer nervousness and stage fright for good,
• how to recognize and interpret body language in others – from head to toe,
• how the first handshake shapes any further conversation,
• how to appear highly qualified and congenial at the same time,
• how to see at first glance if a person is open to discuss a certain topic,
• how to read and shift the state of a group of people,
•

effective methods and tools for appearing extremely secure and fully

present during conversations and presentations – independent of your own

mood or state,
• how even conversations with “difficult“ employees / co-workers can be handled in a relaxed manner,
• how clothing and styling influences one‘s body language and external perception.

Eco-Evolutionary

Dynamics meets Hydrodynamics: Linking internal waves and internal P-loading to

rapid Daphnia evolution via cyanobacterial blooms

Time
Monday, 03 December 2018
16.00-17.00

Where
M 627

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Nelson Hairston, Cornell University

Workshop "Presentation & Communication skills"  with Julie Stearns

Please note that the course is offered for female doctoral researchers only

In this seminar you will learn...

• public speaking skills
• engaging the audience in one’s talk
• effectively communicate the importance and relevance of the work and the core message  in your talk
• focusing techniques to empower the speaker
• develop language & structuring tactics for effective communication
• affirming the strengths and individual style of the speaker
• gender specific training to deal with specific challenges

Apple RAC ’n’ Roll – Are multiple low dose pesticide

exposures harmless for aquatic communities?

Time
Monday, 17 December 2018
16.00-17.00

Where
M 627

Speaker
Dr. René Gergs, Umweltbundesamt Berlin

Salting our lakes: the impact of increasing chloride on freshwater zooplankton

Time
Monday, 07 January 2019
16.00-17.00

Where
M 627

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Shelley Arnott, Queens University Kingston

The exometabolome of marine model bacteria - Implications for chemical cross talk with other planktonic microbes

Time
Monday, 21 January 2019
16.00-17.00

Where
M 627

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Meinhard Simon, University of Oldenburg

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Time
Sunday, 08. April 2018 – Tuesday, 10. April 2018

Where
Kloster Heiligkreuztal, Altheim

Phenotypic plasticity in Daphnia: Molecular mechanisms and changing environments

Time
Monday, 23. April 2018
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Dr. Linda Weiss, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Does host-parasite coevolution generate genetic diversity?

Time
Monday, 07. May 2018
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Dieter Ebert, University of Basel

Coupling remote sensing , in-situ and modelling data for lake processes understanding

Time
Monday, 04. June 2018
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Dr. Damien Bouffard, Eawag

The Bone Wars: A Tale of Scientific Rivalry

Time
Monday, 18. June 2018
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Dipl.- Biol. Martina Kroth, Leitung Bodensee Naturmuseum

Causes and Consequences of Hybridization - From Behaviour to Evolution

Time
Monday, 02. July 2018
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Tobias Uller, Lund University

False negatives, false positives and detecting rare species

Time
Monday, 09. July 2018
16.00 - 17.00

Where
Limnological Institute

Speaker
Prof. Dr. Hugh McIsaac, University of Windsor