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# Seminar Series CON group @ LMU 24
**SS 2024**

In person (preferably): mostly G 00.021 (Social Room) or G00.039 (Course CIP room)

Zoom (on request only): https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/93672419330?pwd=eXZXSGd3UHNhN3NIYmU0d0tvdWowQT09
Meeting ID: 936 7241 9330
Passcode: 547346

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## Research Seminar
(19425  Current research in Microbiome and Interaction Ecology)
Wednesdays 11:00

**Please put in actual tentative titles, not only "MSc Thesis". Thank you!**

| Date | Room |Name | Topic | 
| -------- | -------- | --------| -------- |
|17-04-24|**G00.039**|Mishelle|Soil microbial communities along a forest recovery gradient in Ecuador (MSc thesis)|
|24-04-24|**G00.039**|-| - |
|01-05-24|---|1. Mai| Public Holiday |
|08-05-24|G00.021|Cancelled|cancelled|
|15-05-24|G00.021|Ugo|REASSEMBLY pollination project in Ecuador|
|22-05-24 y|G00.021|Alex|Climate change effects on honey bee food resources|
|29-05-24 y|G00.021|tbd| canceled |
|05-06-24|G00.021|Fabienne|MA defense: Thermal niches of alpine bumblebee gut symbionts along an elevational gradient|
|12-06-24 y|G00.021|tbd|tbd|
|19-06-24|**G00.039**|Jan|Bachelor Thesis: Understanding the effects of foraging behavior of bees on their respective microbiomes through machine learning approaches|
|26-06-24|**G00.039**|Sarina Keiling | Bachelor Thesis: Microbiome assembly of butterflies |
|03-07-24|**G00.039**|Julia Wonhas | Bachelor Thesis: Characterization of Rahnella using genome sequencing and bioassays |
|10-07-24 y|G00.021|tbd|tbd|
|16-07-24|G00.021|Alexandra Eisenbeil | Bachelor Thesis: Geo-reference guided metabarcoding classification |

x Alex away
y Arne away

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### **More suggested Topics: **

postponed from last semester:

| Date | Room |Name | Topic | 
| -------- | -------- | --------| -------- |
|??-??-??|?? |Susi| Latin Square Design|


other ideas:
- (Ale: NutriB / Synthesis project)
- Markus: deep learning imaging?
- Shao Xiong
- Arne can fill up some gaps with talks
    - Frameworks of host-microbiome assembly
    - Limits of host-microbe manipulations in plants
- Alex fills up the rest e.g.
    - Open Traits
- Annika Freiburg update

students:
- Aris 
- Fabienne


## Methods Seminar (Paper Club)
(19401   Seminar: Methods in Computational and Molecular Ecology)
Thursdays 11:00

| Date | Room |Name | Topic | 
| -------- | -------- | --------| -------- |
|18-04-24|G00.021|Julia| Intro - your interests |
|25-04-24|G00.021|Julia| Trophic niche partitioning in bats|
|02-05-24|G00.021|Julia| Review Oecologia |
|09-05-24|G00.021|tbd|none - public holiday|
|16-05-24|G00.021|tbd|Caterpillars´ gut microbiome & Floral microbiota experiment
|23-05-24 y|G00.021|tbd|planetary health diet|
|30-05-24 y|G00.021|tbd|none - public holiday|
|06-06-24|G00.021|tbd|ant Cataglyphis and dung beetle navigation|
|13-06-24 y|G00.021|tbd|Resilience in social insect infrastructure systems|
|20-06-24|G00.021|tbd|feedback to Julia´s talk|
|27-06-24 x|G00.021|tbd |fungal communities in multipartite ant-plant associations |
|04-07-24|**Zoom**|Julia| monetary value of diversity & ecosystem services |
|11-07-24 y|**Zoom**|Julia|Why we love bees and hate wasps|
|18-07-24|G00.021|Julia |Wrap-up and feedback, potluck lunch?|

x Alex away
y Arne away