Adaptive Life

Projects

Projects per year 2016 2017 2025

• 1 Curtailed
• 1 Active
• 52 Finished

Projects per year

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  AL-Xtra: Climate and environmental impacts on embryonic and nestling development regarding post fledgling survival

  Komdeur, J. (PI), Vásquez Salfate, R. (PI) & Churchill, J. (PhD student)

  01/10/2022 → 01/10/2025

  Project: Research

  • Nestling 100%
  • Fledglings 63%
  • Hatching 56%
  • Fledgling Survival 50%
  • Nestling Development 50%
• Finished

  AL-Xtra: Evolutionary interactions between flaviviruses

  Lequime, S. (PI), Falcao Salles, J. (PI) & Brait, N. (PhD student)

  01/11/2020 → 01/11/2024

  Project: Research

  • Virus 100%
  • Transcriptomics 99%
  • Virus Discovery 81%
  • Endogenous Viral Elements 81%
  • Human Cytomegalovirus 54%

• AL-III: The cool brain: How hibernators maintain neuronal integrity

  Hut, R. (PI), Havekes, R. (PI), Henning, R. (PI) & Hamberg, M. (PhD student)

  01/09/2020 → 01/09/2024

  Project: Research

  • Hibernation 100%
  • Torpor 87%
  • Arousal 74%
  • K-Complex 74%
  • Temperature Effect 66%

• AL-III: The role of eco-evolutionary interactions on the spread of antimicrobial resistance in pathogenic microbial communities

  de Vos, M. (PI), van Doorn, S. (PI), Kuipers, O. (PI) & Bustamante Ordonez, M. (PhD student)

  01/09/2020 → 01/09/2024

  Project: Research

  • Antimicrobial Resistance 100%
  • Horizontal Gene Transfer 75%
  • Eco-evolutionary Interactions 66%
  • Microbial Community 66%
  • Evolution 66%

• AL-III: Combating Parkinson’s disease by modulating the activity of the kinase LRKK2 by way of passive exercise and an evolutionary approach

  van der Zee, E. (PI), Kortholt, A. (PI) & Ahuja-Wilming, G. (PhD student)

  01/09/2020 → 01/09/2024

  Project: Research

  • Parkinson's Disease 100%
  • Whole Body Vibration 92%
  • Whole-body Vibration 87%
  • Meta-analysis 50%
  • Systematic Meta-analysis 50%

• AL-III: Ecosystem iron retention and recycling in the pelagic phase via top predators

  Palsboll, P. (PI), Eriksson, B. K. (PI), Etienne, R. (PI) & Suarez Menendez, M. (PhD student)

  01/09/2020 → 01/09/2024

  Project: Research

  • Cetacea 100%
  • Mutation Rate 75%
  • Baleen Whales 75%
  • Baleen Whale 75%
  • Whale 70%

• AL-III: Social determinants of evolvability

  Weissing, F. (PI), Komdeur, J. (PI) & Riederer, J. (PhD student)

  01/09/2020 → 01/09/2024

  Project: Research

  • Evolvability 100%
  • Evolution 57%
  • Lipogenesis 50%
  • Parental Behavior 50%
  • Sexual Selection 50%

• AL-III: An evolutionarily conserved pathway that links sociability, sleep and memory

  Havekes, R. (PI), Billeter, J.-C. (PI) & Sarma, A. (PhD student)

  01/08/2020 → 01/08/2024

  Project: Research

  • Social Interaction 100%
  • Evolutionarily Conserved 66%
  • Conserved Pathways 66%
  • Sleep Rebound 66%
  • Sociability 66%

• AL-III: DNA-methylation as an epigenetic clock of biological age: A new tool to study ageing and ecology & evolution of life histories?

  Verhulst, S. (PI), Dugdale, H. (PI), Palsboll, P. (PI) & Tangili, M. (PhD student)

  01/08/2020 → 01/08/2024

  Project: Research

  • Epigenetics 100%
  • DNA Methylation 100%
  • DNA Methylation (DNAm) 83%
  • Epigenetic Clock 66%
  • Life History 66%

• AL-III: Towards an eco-evo-devo theory for the evolution of eusociality: Integrating theory, field experiments and molecular genetics

  Pen, I. (PI), Beukeboom, L. (PI), Komdeur, J. (PI) & Kreider, J. (PhD student)

  01/07/2020 → 01/07/2024

  Project: Research

  • Evolution 100%
  • Lifespan 100%
  • Evolution of Eusociality 90%
  • Body Size 90%
  • Reproductives 86%

• AL-Xtra: Chronotype of wild birds: Causes and consequences

  Helm, B. (PI), Visser, M. (PI) & Strauss, A. (PhD student)

  01/02/2020 → 01/03/2024

  Project: Research

  • Chronotype 100%
  • Parus Major 66%
  • Great Tit 44%
  • Diel Timing 33%
  • Circadian Clock 23%

• AL-Xtra: Fitness consequences of laterality and personality

  Groothuis, T. (PI), Brown, C. (PI) & Panizzon, P. (PhD student)

  01/10/2019 → 01/06/2023

  Project: Research

  • Laterality 100%
  • Hemispheric Dominance 75%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 41%
  • Predation 37%
  • Protocerebrum 31%

• AL-Xtra: The importance of infauna in maintaining seagrass ecosystems

  Eriksson, B. K. (PI), Bishop, M. J. (PI) & Laukaityte, S. (PhD student)

  01/09/2019 → 01/06/2023

  Project: Research

  • Sea Grasses 100%
  • Megafauna 50%
  • Literature Review 50%
  • Seaweed 50%
  • Seagrass Meadow 50%

• AL-Xtra: Diversification on coral reefs

  van der Meij, S. (PI) & Bravo Gouveia, H. (PhD student)

  01/08/2019 → 01/08/2023

  Project: Research

  • Coral Reef 100%
  • Decapoda 80%
  • Cladistics 71%
  • Symbiont 71%
  • Acanthophora 53%

• AL-Xtra: Struggles ashore: Migration ecology of threatened shorebirds in the East Asian–Australasian Flyway

  Piersma, T. (PI), Both, C. (PI) & Chan, G. (PhD student)

  01/03/2019 → 01/09/2021

  Project: Research

  • Flyway 100%
  • Migration Ecology 60%
  • Shorebirds 60%
  • Satellite Tracking 60%
  • Port 60%

• AL-Xtra: Hormone-mediated maternal effects and the link between lateralization and personality

  Groothuis, T. (PI), Brown, C. (PI) & Berlinghieri, F. (PhD student)

  01/03/2019 → 01/06/2023

  Project: Research

  • Hemispheric Dominance 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 50%
  • Gasterosteus aculeatus 42%
  • Personality Traits 38%
  • Predation 31%

• AL-Xtra: Ecology and evolution of microbial infectious ecosystems

  de Vos, M. (PI), Falcao Salles, J. (PI) & Zandbergen, L. (PhD student)

  01/12/2018 → 01/11/2024

  Project: Research

  • Urinary Tract 100%
  • Antimicrobial Resistance 71%
  • Microorganism 42%
  • Microflora 35%
  • Microbiome 35%

• AL-Xtra: Evolutionary function and epigenetic profile of fetal-maternal microchimeric cells during mouse pregnancy

  Elliot, M. (PI), Kas, M. (PI), Laman, J. D. (PI) & Smit, J. R. R. (PhD student)

  01/11/2018 → 01/11/2023

  Project: Research

• AL-Xtra: Effects of cascading effect on biogeomorphology on tidal flat resilience to sea level rise

  Govers, L. (PI), Olff, H. (PI), Bouma, T. (PI), van der Wal, D. (PI) & Nauta, J. (PhD student)

  01/09/2018 → 01/05/2023

  Project: Research

  • Tidal Flat 100%
  • Foundation Species 71%
  • Artificial Reef 71%
  • Wadden Sea 53%
  • Restoration Success 35%

• AL-II: Eco-evolutionary dynamics in the winter moth, Operophtera brumata: The mechanism of adaptation to changing ecological conditions due to climate change

  Wertheim, B. (PI), Hut, R. (PI), Visser, M. (PI) & van Dis, N. E. (PhD student)

  01/09/2018 → 01/12/2023

  Project: Research

  • Climate Change 100%
  • Winter Moth 44%
  • Oogenesis 42%
  • Hatching 40%
  • Operophtera brumata 34%

• AL-Xtra: Animal movement strategies

  Weissing, F. (PI), Groothuis, T. (PI), Nathan, R. (PI) & Gupte, P. (PhD student)

  01/05/2018 → 01/10/2022

  Project: Research

  • Movement of Animals 100%
  • Evolution 85%
  • Animal Movement 44%
  • Movement Strategy 44%
  • Social Network 44%

• AL-Xtra: Exploration in red knots: the role of personality in the expression of individual behaviour across contexts

  Piersma, T. (PI), Groothuis, T. (PI) & S. Ersoy, S. (PhD student)

  01/03/2018 → 01/12/2022

  Project: Research

  • Red Knot 100%
  • Individual Behaviour 100%
  • Personality Traits 100%
  • Calidris canutus 100%
  • Arrival Time 100%

• AL-II: Dissociating between quality and quantity of fatty acids and their effect on nutritional programming: A study in mice

  van Dijk, G. (PI), Scheurink, A. (PI), Olivier, J. (PI), Schipper, L. (Researcher) & Heijningen ,van, S. (PhD student)

  01/12/2017 → 01/09/2022

  Project: Research

  • Metabolic Programming 100%
  • Metabolic Profiling 75%
  • Environmental Factors 75%
  • First 1000 Days of Life 75%
  • Physical Inactivity 50%

• AL-Xtra: Large carnivores in anthropogenic landscapes: How landscapes of fear created by humans and large carnivores affect deer behaviour and structure ecosystems

  Smit, C. (PI), Kuijper, D. P. J. (PI), Cromsigt, J. P. G. M. (PI) & Mols, B. (PhD student)

  01/12/2017 → 01/06/2023

  Project: Research

  • Cervidae 100%
  • Vegetation 75%
  • Recreational Activity 75%
  • Carbon Sink 66%
  • Tick Density 57%

• AL-II: Adaptive diversity and eco-evolutionary dynamics

  Etienne, R. (PI), van Doorn, S. (PI), Fontaine, M. (PI) & Scherrer, R. (PhD student)

  01/11/2017 → 01/02/2024

  Project: Research

  • Speciation 100%
  • Evolutionary Dynamics 50%
  • Adaptive Diversity 50%
  • DAISIE 50%
  • Dynamics 50%