idiv Summer School: Synthesising and Modelling Biodiversity Data September 3-15, 2017 Leipzig, Germany SUNDAY 3 September 2017 Around 14:00 SchlafGut Apartments (Johannis-platz) SchlafGut Pension Arrival to Leipzig Leave your luggage to the SchlafGut Apartment Hotel (Johannisplatz) / SchlafGut Pension (Brühl) (Brühl) 16:00 Veterinary campus Get-together and Summer School opening barbecue at the veterinary medicine campus BBQ area (food and drinks provided by summer school) How to get there: Take the tram 16, stop Tierklinik Time Location MONDAY 4 September 2017 08:30-09:00 09:00-09:20 idiv (Deutscher Platz 5e) Meeting room Red Queen 09:20-09:45 Red Queen Registration to all summer school participants Welcome & Introduction by Nico Eisenhauer Presentations by summer school project tutors 09:45-09:50 Red Queen Practical issues for participants (by the organising team) 09:50-10:00 Coffee Break 10:00-12:30 Red Queen/ Kick-off Meta-analysis & SEM courses (Julia Koricheva and Masha van der Sande) 12:30-13:15 Bio City Bistro Lunch Break 13:15-15:00 Red Queen/ 15:15 18:00 Red Queen/
TUESDAY 5 September 2017 09:00-10:30 Red Queen Meta-analysis/SEM Courses day 2 / 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break 10:45-12:30 Red Queen / 13:15-15:00 Red Queen/ 15:15-18:00 Red Queen/ WEDNESDAY 6 September 2017 Nicole van Dam: What must go up, must go down? Molecular and chemical ecology of aboveground-belowground interactions 12:30-13:15 Bio City Bistro Lunch Break THURSDAY 7 September 2017 Guy Pe er (Title TBA) 18:00 Evening Program (Leipzig City Tour)
FRIDAY 8 September 2017 Ulrich Brose: Body-masses, food-web structure, animal diversity and ecosystem functioning SATURDAY 9 September 2017 Free Programme we recommend getting to know the city of Leipzig! SUNDAY 10 September 2017 10:00-16:00 tba Excursion (Detailed programme TBA) MONDAY 11 September 2017 Marten Winter: The macroecology of alien species: A global perspective of the McDonaldization of the world
TUESDAY 12 September 2017 09:00-12:30 Field Excursion: Bad Lauchstädt biodiversity platforms (with bus transport from idiv and back) WEDNESDAY 13 September 2017 09:00-10:00 Red Queen Plenary talk Henrique Pereira (Title TBA) 18:00 Biergarten/Kleingarten within Leipzig Evening Programme, get-together THURSDAY 14 September 2017 09:00-10:00 Red Queen Plenary talk Meredith Schuman: Chemistry and diversity: seeing biodiversity through 'information eyes' 12:30-13:15 BioCity Bistro Lunch
FRIDAY 15 September 2017 09:00-10:00 BBZ-Room 1.3 Plenary talk Ivo Grosse: Transcriptomic and phylotranscriptomic diversity in animal and plant development preparation of final symposium 12:30-13:15 BioCity Bistro Lunch 13:15-15:00 BBZ-Room 1.3 Final symposium with project presentations 15:15-17:00 BBZ-Room 1.3 Final Symposium continues 17:00 Veterinary Campus Farewell Party & BBQ Meeting Room Red Queen Extinction Invasion Niche BBZ-Seminar Room 1.3 (Maps and advise will be available to participants!) Address Biotechnologisch-Biomedizinisches Zentrum, Deutscher Platz 5 idiv, Deutscher Platz 5a ( Interim II ) Time to interact with idiv network scientists in shared lunches, parties, and field excursions Methodological training (Meta-analysis/ Structural Equation Modelling see contents) Plenary talks introducing idiv research areas Project work in small working groups At the first phase, project tutors are present 100% of time, and at the second phase, tutor presence will be reduced to one hour per day and participants will concentrate on publication writing