Joost Raeymaekers

Too often we forget that not everyone has access to education, which is one of the UN sustainable development goals. Back in 2018, at an age that many people in Europe think about retirement, our collaborator Mulimbwa N’Sibula from the Centre for Research in Hydrobiology (CRH) at Uvira (DR Congo) finally saw a chance to complete […]

Two PhD fellowships and one postdoctoral fellowship linked to “CHIPOLATA – Climate change and harvesting impacts on the pelagic fish community of Lake Tanganyika”  Two PhD fellowships and one postdoctoral fellowship are available in the Landscape Genomics Group, Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Bodø, Norway. The positions are funded by the Ministry of

/ teaching, Ukategorisert / By Joost Raeymaekers *** Sorry, registration for the 2024 course is now closed. The next edition of the course is in spring 2026 *** The 2024 PhD course in Population Genomics at Nord University (course code : BIO9001) is held in Bodø from 18th to 22th of March 2024. The course, sponsored by NORBIS, consists of

5-6 October 2023, Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University (Bodø, Norway) Human population growth, high demands for resources, globalisation, and shifting climatic conditions are causing ecosystems to change more rapidly now than ever in the Anthropocene. Freshwater ecosystems, especially those in northern- and arctic regions are particularly affected, as many freshwater species have confined

Dear colleagues, We are looking for colleagues who are interested in applying for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (https://marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/calls/msca-postdoctoral-fellowships-2023) to join the Landscape Genomics Group at the Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord University, Bodø (Norway). At 68 degrees north, Bodø is a vibrant city lying within an area of magnificent nature. Bodø is the perfect

By Marijn Kuizenga A new summer means a new season for field work! This season we are embarking on a project which aims to characterize mercury contamination in freshwater lakes across Northern Norway and study its effects on three-spined stickleback populations. During the summer of 2022 we are studying sticklebacks from 21 lakes scattered throughout

The extraordinary ability of animals to rapidly evolve in response to predators has been demonstrated via genetic sequencing of a waterflea population across nearly two decades. In a new study published in Nature Communications, together with scientists at the Universities of Birmingham in the UK, the KU Leuven in Belgium, and the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and

Happy to share some new policy-relevant findings, just published in Biodiversity and Conservation (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10531-021-02154-2)!  People working with aquatic biodiversity and habitat quality in Europe are probably familiar with the EU Water Framework Directive. The WFD proposes biological, hydromorphological, and physico-chemical habitat quality criteria that need to be achieved to reach or maintain a “good” or