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March 2026 - Human Frontiers Science Program research grant awarded (with Adria LeBoeuf and Jenny Stynoski)
March 2026 - Joris hosts first Bring Your Own Fluid (BYOF) online seminar of 2026 from Amsterdam March 2026 - Joris participates in Art-Science Dialogue of the VU Art Science Gallery February 2026 - New paper in press in Invertebrate Biology (Den Duijn, Schilthuizen & Koene 2026) January 2026 - Many exciting internships are starting in 2026 December 2025 - Joris and Bernardo present at ZOOlogy2025 in Amsterdam November 2025 - Bernardo Reyes Tur from Universidad de Oriente (Santiago de Cuba) visits the Koene lab for 6 weeks September 2025 - Joris presents at 2nd Symposium on Invertebrate Neuroscience in Tihany, Hungary August 2025 - New paper out in Functional Ecology (Leiva et al. 2025) August 2025 - Joris promoted to Professor in Integrative Biology July 2025 Joris presents at LUMC in Leiden, NL May 2025 - Joris presents at SHOW in Edinburgh, UK May 2025 - New paper out in Journal of Evolutionary Biology (Jeffries et al. 2025) May 2025 - Joris presents at Gender in Research Network Meeting (WO&MEN) in Amsterdam March 2025 - New paper out in International Immunopharmacology (Rivi et al. 2025) February 2025 - New paper out in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology (Moussaoui et al. 2025) February 2025 - New paper out in Frontiers in Pharmacology (Ilyaskina et al. 2025) January 2025 - New paper out in Proceedings B (Boettner et al. 2025) November 2024 - Lymnaea stagnalis genome paper out in Scientific Reports (Koene et al. 2024) November 2024 - Joris co-organises Lorentz Center workshop in Leiden (NL): "Evolution of Socially Transferred Materials" together with Adria LeBoeuf, Sanja Hakala and Jenny Stynoski October 2024 - Joris receives NWO Take-off grant with Anitomical September 2024 - Joris (keynote) and Takumi present at Euromal2024 on Crete, Greece July 2024 - Joris and Adria LeBoeuf organise Socially Transferred Materials symposium at Evolution2024 in Montreal, Canada June 2024 - New paper out in Journal of Comparative Physiolgy A (Pirger et al. 2024) May 2024 - Joris and Yumi present at the EMBO Workshop "Establishing state-of-the-art mollusc genomics" in Namur/Namen, Belgium May 2024 - Joris hosts Bring Your Own Fluid (BYOF) online seminar of the Social Transfers Network April 2024 - Joris and Takumi present at SHOW2024 in Rennes (Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop) February 2024 - Our digital anatomy project SLABx3D wins 2 awards, the Faculty of Science Innovation Prize and the VU Amsterdam Educational Innoviation Award (see the SLAB Anatomy tutorial that is part of the project) January 2024 - New paper out in Royal Society Open Science (Van Dijk, Zizzari, Koene & Nakadera 2024) January 2024 - New paper out in Molecular Reproduction and Development (Kortsmit, Mari�n, Nakadera & Koene 2024) December 2023 - New paper out in Ecology & Evolution (Ledder, Nakadera, Staikou & Koene 2023) December 2023 - Our Bio-Art project "rec(o)unting" led by pamela varela & ella hebendanz is part of the show "Plotting patterns and portals: Mapping life and landscapes, past and future" at MU Hybrid House (opening 15 Dec.). November 2023 - New book chapter out in Zoological Monographs (Bonel, Nakadera, Piz�, V�zquez, Koene, David, Jarne & Alda 2023) November 2023 - Dan Jackson visits and gives Nature of Life seminar October 2023 - pamela varela & ella hebendanz are artists-in-lab-residence for our Bio-Art project. August 2023 - Joris invited to Behaviour 2023 symposium "Socially Transferred Materials" June 2023 - Joris, pamela varela & ella hebendanz win BAD award 2023 May 2023 - Joris presents at Zoology2023 May 2023 - Joris is invited speaker at NWO Life2023 May 2023 - Yumi presents at NLSEB2023 May 2023 - New paper out in Animal Behaviour (Palmeira, Nakadera & Koene 2023) March 2023 - Yumi and Joris organised the Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organisms Workshop (SHOW) at VU Amsterdam March 2023 - Joris is Visiting Professor at LEEC, Universit� Sorbonne Paris Nord March 2023 - Obituary for Ronald Chase published in The Malacologist February 2023 - Love darts and hermaphroditism covered by CNN and BBC for Valentine's Day February 2023 - A-LIFE seminar "Integrative biology of socially transferred materials" by Jors Koene, Pim Leonards & Bas Teusink December 2022 - New paper out in TREE (Hakala, Fujioka, Gapp, De Gasperin, Genzoni, Kilner, Koene, K�nig, Linksvayer, Meurville, Negroni, Palejowski, Wigby & LeBoeuf. 2023) November 2022 - Yumi and Joris present posters co-authored by Mona Palmeira and Bea Alvarez at NVG2022 June 2022 - Yumi and Joris present at NLSEB2022 May 2022 - Yumi and Joris present at SHOW2022 in Thessaloniki May 2022 - New paper out in Env. Poll. (Baz, Hussein, Vreeker, Solimana, Tadrosc, El-Shenawya & Koene 2022) May 2022 - New papers out in Front. Integr. Neurosci. (�lvarez & Koene 2022) and Animal Cognition (�lvarez et al. 2022) April 2022 - Miao Chen joins research group as post-doc March 2022 - Polymita picta, the Cuban Painted Snail, has been voted as Mollusc of the Year 2022, meaning that its genome will be sequenced February 2022 - Research group participates in BAD Award 2022 call January 2022 - "Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert" was selected for the Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2022 December 2021 - Elferra Swart's PhD defence (10 December 2021, 11:45, Aula, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), see also online thesis. November 2021 - Post-doc position available: "Proteomic investigation of Acps in L. stagnalis" November 2021 - Joris participates in workshop on Socially Exchanged Materials (8-9 Nov. 2021, Fribourg, Switzerland) October 2021 - Jonathan Ho and Joris organise a Bio-Art workshop and participate in the Schemerlicht festival in Nijmegen (22-31 Oct.) October 2021 - Kuang-Yi Ku and Joris are part of Dutch Design Week with their collaborative project "Perverted Norm, Normal Pervert" in Eindhoven (16-23 Oct.) October 2021 - Joris was a guest at the Belgian humorous program about science 'Scheire en de Schepping' (inspired by the British program QI). As 'Vorst der Vorsers' he explained his research into the evolution of love darts in a question-answer game (21 Oct.) August 2021 - Schemerlicht announces that Jonathan Ho and Joris Koene are part of the festival line-up on 22-31 Oct. July 2021 - Joris takes part in Taxon Expedition Diemerscheg (covered by Het Parool) May 2021 - Christopher Liechti starts MSc project April 2021 - Joris becomes director of BSc Biology April 2021 - Yumi organized NLSEB PhD & Postdoc workshop March 2021 - Ahmed Hussein defends thesis February 2021 - Joris and Cynthia Norton lead discussion group at SHOW2021 hosted online by Basel January 2021 - Love dart's on David Suzuki's The Nature of Things episode "Wild Canadian Weather - Rain" (CBC) January 2021 - Vote for the Painted Snail as Mollusc of the Year January 2021 - New paper out in BMC Genomics (Dong, Bandura, Zhang, Wang, Labadie, Noel, Koene, Sun, Coutellec & Feng) December 2020 - New review out in Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Hussein, Bloem, Fodor, Baz, Tadros, Soliman, El-Shenawy & Koene 2021) November 2020 - New paper out in Invertebrate Neuroscience (Hussein, Baz, Mari�n, Tadros, El-Shenawy & Koene 2020) September 2020 - Opening of the exhibition "Sub-zoology: 2020 Taiwan Biennial" containing the Bio-Art project "Perverted Norm Normal Pervert" made by Kuang-Yi Ku in collaboration with Joris Koene at VT Artsalon (Taipei City, Taiwan) September 2020 - New preprint out in General and Comparative Endocrinology (Fodor, Zrinyi, Horv�th, R, Urb�n, Herczeg, B�ki, Koene, Tsai & Pirger 2020) July 2020 - New preprint out in Journal of Evolutionary Biology (Nakadera, Smith, Daupagne, Coutellec, Koene & Ramm 2020) July 2020 - New paper out in Animal Behaviour (Daupagne & Koene 2020) June 2020 - New paper out in eLife (Fodor, Hussein, Benjamin, Koene & Pirger 2020) June 2020 - New preprint out in Contributions to Zoology (Schilthuizen, Van Oostenbrugge, Visser, Van der Meer, Delval, Dias, K�ster, Maarschall, Peeters, Venema, Zaremba, Beltrami, Rossato, Latella, Nieuwenhuis, De Rop, Njunjic, Perreau & Koene 2020) May 2020 - New paper out in Invertebrate Neuroscience (Fodor, Urban, Kemenes, Koene & Pirger 2020) May 2020 - Our snails are part of the Week van de Biologie 2020 May 2020 - Our snails and Joris appear on national television programme De Buitendienst episode "Wat weet jij over dierenliefde?" (S08 E195) on 22 May 17:55 February 2020 - Joris presents at SHOW2020 in Montpellier February 2020 - 'Sex Shells' covered by VICE January 2020 - New paper out in Biodiversity Data Journal (Van Achterberg, Schilthuizen, Lammers, Van der Meer, Delval, Dias, Hoynck, K�ster, Maarschall, Peeters, Venema, Zaremba, Beltrami, Nieuwenhuis, De Rop, Njunjic & Koene 2020) January 2020 - New paper out in Invertebrate Reproduction (Swart, Starkloff, Ypenburg, Ellers, Van Straalen & Koene 2020) November 2019 - Opening of the exhibition 'Polarities' containing the Bio Art & Design Award installation "Sex Shells" made by Jon Ho and Joris Koene at MU Artspace (Eindhoven) October 2019 - Joris gives invited seminar in Mondsee/Innsbruck (Austria) October 2019 - Joris is guest at Dutch Design Week (#DDW19) talkshow October 2019 - Joris presents poster at 9th Bonn Humboldt Award Winners' Forum September 2019 - Joris presents poster at Royal Society's Pearls of Wisdom in Chicheley (UK) August 2019 - Joris gives plenary lecture at 1st Symposium on Invertebrate Neuroscience in Tihany (Hungary) August 2019 - "Twee nieuwe insectensoorten ontdekt in Vondelpark" in Newspaper Parool (and many more media) August 2019 - "Geen vluggertjes voor slakken: de seks duurt 4 tot 8 uur" on Feit of Fictie, EenVandaag, NPO1 Radio July 2019 - Scientific team member of Taxon Expedition Vondelpark. See also Ad Valvas (2 August 2019) "Op expeditie in het Vondelpark" June 2019 - Joris and artist Jon Ho win BAD Award 2019 May 2019 - Joris completes research visit to Universidad de Oriente (Santiago de Cuba) April 2019 - Joris presents this month's Faculty Colloquium "Sex is Ambiguous" March 2019 - New paper out in Journal of Molluscan Studies (Swart, Davison, Ellers, Filangieri, Jackson, Mari�n, Van der Ouderaa, Roelofs & Koene, 2019) February 2019 - New papers out in Animal Biology's special issue "New perspectives on meeting and mating" (Zizzari & Koene, 2019; Weggelaar, Commandeur & Koene 2019) February 2019 - Valentine's news in Beta-zine January 2019 - BSc and MSc internship students start new research projects December 2018 - Our research group's topic has been selected for the Bio Art & Design Award 2019 (http://www.badaward.nl). If you are an interested artist, check here whether you are eligible November 2018 - Rabia Moussaoui's PhD defence (10 November 2018, Universit� de B�ja�a) November 2018 - Joris presents at symposium Chemical Ecology Amsterdam October 2018 - Jean-Christophe Billeter (Groningen, Netherlands) visits and gives Nature of Life seminar September 2018 - Joris gives invited seminar in Groningen (Netherlands) August 2018 - Joris gives invited seminar in Aarhus (Denmark) July 2018 - New chapter out in Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science (Alvarez & Koene, 2018) June 2018 - Meriem Abdelli's PhD defence (18 June 2018, 11:00, Universit� de B�ja�a) June 2018 - Joris gives invited lecture at annual meeting of Humboldt Club Nederland June 2018 - New paper out in Invertebrate Reproduction & Development (Moussaoui, Verdel, Benbellil-Tafoughalt & Koene, 2018) May 2018 - Joris gives invited seminar in Utrecht (Netherlands) May 2018 - Pleun Aarts launches her "Bold snail project (Brutale slakken project)" March 2018 - Ahmed Hussein starts his PhD March 2018 - Research visit by Coen Adema from University of New Mexico (NWO Visitors Grant) February 2018 - New review out in Journal of Experimental Biology (J�kely, Melzer, Beets, Kadow, Koene, Haddad & Holden-Dye 2018)) February 2018 - Joris presents in Paris (SHOW2018) January 2018 - Research visit by Yumi Nakadera (Bielefeld, Germany) November 2017 - New paper out in Ecology & Evolution (Lodi, Staikou, Janssen & Koene, 2017) October 2017 - New paper out in Zoomorphology (Abdelli, Benbellil-Tafoughalt & Koene, 2018) September 2017 - Joris gives invited lecture at FENS meeting in Pécs, Hungary September 2017 - New paper out in Zoology (Lodi, Meijer & Koene, 2017) August 2017 - New paper out in Current Zoology (Zizzari, Jessen & Koene, 2017) June 2017 - New paper out in eLife (Hoffer, Mariën, Ellers & Koene, 2017) June 2017 - Joris gives keynote at conference in Qingdao (China) May 2017 - Biomphalaria genome in the news (see press coverage) May 2017 - Biomphalaria genome published in Nature Communications (Adema et al. 2017) May 2017 - Lymnaea genome presented at SETAC Brussels April 2017 - Cristina Lorenzi (Paris, France) visits and gives a seminar April 2017 - Monica Lodi's PhD defence (10 April 2017, 15:45, Aula, VU University), see also VU-DARE and YouTube March 2017 - KQED Science's Deep Look covers "Everything you never wanted to know about snail sex" (NPR PBS) March 2017 - Joris presents in Lund (SHOW2017) and Chicheley (Royal Society, invited) February 2017 - Review out in Molecular Reproduction and Development (Koene, 2017) January 2017 - New paper out in Journal of Molluscan Studies (Nakadera, Mariën, Van Straalen & Koene 2017) January 2017 - New paper out in Journal of Experimental Biology (Lodi & Koene 2017) December 2016 - Love dart research featured in the Smallest Mollusk Museum November 2016 - Book chapter published: Koene, J.M. 2016. The physiology of pre- and postcopulatory sexual selection in simultaneously hermaphroditic freshwater snails. In: Physiology of Molluscs (eds. A.S.M. Saleuddin & S.T. Mukai), pp. 271-310, Apple Academic Press, Inc. November 2016 - Elsa No�l and Patrice David (Montpellier, France) visit for a joint research project October 2016 - Love darts on BBC satire news programme No Such Thing As The News October 2016 - Joris gives seminar at Max Planck Institute in Seewiesen September 2016 - Perspective paper out in Current Zoology (Zizzari, Jessen & Koene 2016) August 2016 - Joris gives invited presentation at CECE2016 (Leuven, Belgium) June 2016 - Joris gives plenary at Ecology & Behaviour 2016 (Lyon, France) May 2016 - New paper out in BMC Evolutionary Biology (Lodi & Koene 2016) April 2016 - Joris gives invited seminar at CETI (Albuquerque, Univ. New Mexico) February 2016 - Love dart allohormone discovery in Ad Valvas and FALW Nieuws February 2016 - New paper out in Journal of Biological Chemistry (Stewart, Wang, Koene, Storey & Cummins 2016) January 2016 - Invited review available in Journal of Molluscan Studies (Lodi & Koene 2016) December 2015 - New paper out in Invertebrate Neuroscience (El Filali, De Boer, Pieneman, De Lange, Jansen, Ter Maat, Van der Schors, Li, Van Straalen, & Koene 2015) December 2015 - Monica Lodi presents at annual institute symposium November 2015 - Ruben Janssen (Basel, Switzerland) and Alexandra Staikou (Thessaloniki, Greece) visit for a joint research project on love darts May 2015 - Joris featured in BCF Career Guide '15/'16" May 2015 - Featured article in Journal of Molluscan Studies (Reyes-Tur, Allen, Cuellar-Araujo, Hernández, Lodi, Méndez-Hernández, & Koene 2015) April 2015 - Beatriz Alvarez Diaz (Universidad de Oviedo, Spain) starts three-month PhD research visit March 2015 - Joris asked for expert opinion in National Geographic February 2015 - Love dart research covered in Valentine's issue of Trouw: "Slak is een ware Cupido" February 2015 - Monica, Elferra and Joris organise Simultaneously Hermaphroditic Organism Workshop (SHOW2015, 5-6 Feb.) January 2015 - New paper out in Invertebrate Reproduction & Development (Benbellil-Tafoughalt & Koene, 2015) January 2015 - Joris gives invited lecture in Bielefeld (Germany) December 2014 - Joris, Yumi and Elferra receive open access grant December 2014 - Joris and Yumi receive grants November 2014 - Yumi gives invited seminars in Bielefeld and London October 2014 - New paper out in Behavioral Ecology (Nakadera, Swart, Maas, Montagne-Wajer, Ter Maat & Koene, 2014) September 2014 - New paper out in Journal of Sea Research (Zimmer, Ducrot, Jager, Koene, Lagadic, & Kooijman, 2014) July 2014 - New paper out in Biology Letters (Lewis, Vahed, Koene, Engqvist, Bussiere, Perry, Gwynne & Lehmann, 2014) July 2014 - Yumi's recent publication covered in The Scientist "Semen Says" June 2014 - New paper out in Journal of Visualized Experiments (Van Iersel, Swart, Nakadera, Van Straalen & Koene 2014) June 2014 - Yumi Nakadera's PhD defence (23 June 2014, 11:45, Aula, VU University), see also online thesis May 2014 - Joris becomes Associate Editor of Journal of Molluscan Studies May 2014 - Yumi's recent publication covered in Earth Touch News Network "For great pond snails, sex is a game of sabotage and manipulation" May 2014 - Research covered in Menno Schilthuizen's book "Nature's Nether Regions" April 2014 - New paper out in Frontiers in Zoology (Zizzari, Smolders & Koene 2014) March 2014 - New paper out in Current Biology (Nakadera, Swart, Hoffer, Den Boon, Ellers & Koene 2014) March 2014 - New paper out in Journal of Experimental Biology (Kimura, Chiba & Koene 2014) March 2014 - Joris nominated as Faculty's Lecturer of the Year March 2014 - Joris interviewed on Naked Scientists (26 March) March 2014 - Joris gives keynote at Malacological Society of London meeting (6 March) February 2014 - Joris gives public lecture in Museon "Valentijnsdag in het dierenrijk" January 2014 - New paper out as "Featured Article" in Journal of Molluscan Studies (Nakadera, Blom & Koene 2014) January 2014 - Joris gives Keverlezing "Seks is tweeslachtig" November 2013 - Obtained consortium funding for sequencing of the Lymnaea stagnalis genome from France G�nomique November 2013 - Elferra Swart presents at Annual meeting of the Netherlands Society of Behavioural Biology (NVG) November 2013 - Research covered in Volkskrant column "Schizofrene cupido" November 2013 - Joris asked for Expert opinions in New Scientist and LiveScience November 2013 - Research covered in ScienceNews "Sea slug mating features a stab in the head" October 2013 - Joris presents at symposium "Sexual selection and speciation" (University of Amsterdam) September 2013 - "De Tuinslak" on SchoolTV's Nieuws uit de Natuur September 2013 - Research visit by Alexandra Staikou (Thessaloniki, Greece) September 2013 - Joris presents at Ento'13 (St. Andrews, Scotland) August 2013 - Yumi presents at ESEB2013 (Portugal) and 15th Society of Evolutionary Studies meeting (Japan) July 2013 - "Snail's 'love dart' works like a syringe � a first, study says" on NBC News July 2013 - New paper out in PLoS ONE (Koene, Liew, Montagne-Wajer & Schilthuizen 2013) June 2013 - Elke Zimmer's PhD defence (18 June 2013, 13:45, Aula, VU University), see also online thesis June 2013 - New review paper out in Canadian Journal of Zoology (Nakadera & Koene 2013) May 2013 - "Snails in love" on BBC's Springwatch, with dart pictures included in Springwatch Unsprung April 2013 - 2012 chapter now also available via Oxford Handbooks Online April 2013 - New paper out in Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (Liu et al. 2013) March 2013 - Visit from Keisuke Shimizu (Tokyo, Japan/Exeter, UK) March 2013 - Joris in promotional movie for Biology at VU University March 2013 - Love dart shooting included in latest edition of Lee A. Dugatkin's text book Principles of Animal Behaviour Febry 2013 - Joris gives invited lecture at University of Amsterdam February 2013 - Monica Lodi appointed as PhD January 2013 - Joris presents in symposium "Sexual selection & sex allocation" in Groningen (18 Jan.) December 2012 - NWO post-doc project of Valentina Zizzari granted October 2012 - New editorial out in Animal Biology (Koene 2012) August 2012 - New paper out in Animal Behaviour (Hoffer et al. 2012) July 2012 - New paper out in Journal of Molluscan Studies (Koene & Cosijn 2012) July 2012 - NWO funded PhD position available (Download ad; application deadline: 15 August 2012) May 2012 - New paper out in Journal of Molluscan Studies (Ter Maat, Pieneman & Koene 2012) April 2012 - Mentored 8th grader (Esmeralda Velasquez) wins gold at science fair 2012 April 2012 - Joris Koene interviewed live on AmsterdamFM (8 April 2012) April 2012 - Jeroen Hoffer on ScienceFlash (6 April 2012) March 2012 - Jeroen Hoffer's PhD defence (30 March 2012, 13:45, Aula, VU University), see also online thesis February 2012 - New NWO project "Promiscuous snails with complex weaponry: Physiology and evolution of love dart shooting" granted February 2012 - Joris Koene interviewed live on Radio FunX January 2012 - Book chapter published: Koene, J.M. 2012. Sexual conflict in nonhuman animals. In: The Oxford Handbook of Sexual Conflict in Humans (eds. A.T. Goetz & T. Schackelford), pp. 15-30, Oxford University Press December 2011 - Several new MSc/BSc students start their internships in the coming weeks December 2011 - Joris gives two invited lectures in Leiden November 2011 - New BSc and MSc internships are now available November 2011 - Symposium "Sexual conflict and behavioural traits: steps towards a mechanistic integration", organised by Bram Kuijper (Cambridge/Groningen) and Joris Koene during 18th Benelux Congress of Zoology, sponsored by the NVG, in Utrecht from 2-4 Nov. 2011 October 2011 - Visits from Charlotte Nys (Ghent University, Belgium) and Martha Villegas (University of Roehampton, London, UK) October 2011 - Joris moves to new office (H147) September 2011 - 1 Oct. deadline approaching for symposium "Sexual conflict and behavioural traits: steps towards a mechanistic integration", organised by Bram Kuijper (Cambridge/Groningen) and Joris Koene during 18th Benelux Congress of Zoology, sponsored by the NVG, in Utrecht from 2-4 Nov. 2011 July 2011 - Joris becomes new Editor-in-Chief of Animal Biology June 2011 - Joris gives Masterclass and WEES lecture in Wageningen June 2011 - Visit from Dr. Sandra Kupfernagel from Basel (Switzerland) June 2011 - Carool Popelier & Joris Koene give teaching session in the snail breeding facility (Molluscarium) May 2011 - Esmeralda Velasquez (7th grader) placed 4th at California State Science Fair 2011 with mentored snail project April 2011 - New MSc paper: Anne-Marie Svoboda publishes in Coral Reefs March 2011 - New BSc (1) and MSc (4) students started internships March 2011 - Suzanne Boon and Jarno Cosijn are safely back from Sendai (see also Ad Valvas; Algemeen Dagblad; Spits; Hart van Nederland) March 2011 - Joris asked for Expert opinions in Kijk and Grasduinen February 2011 - Jeroen Hoffer was interviewed live on Vroege Vogels Radio February 2011 - Love darts on national television programme De Wereld Draait Door February 2011 - This website is now also available via www.joriskoene.com January 2011 - New grants: Schure-Beijerinck-Popping research grant from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and Open Access grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) January 2011 - New paper out in Evolution (Escobar, Auld, Correa, Alonso, Bony, Coutellec, Koene, Pointier, Jarne, & David 2011) December 2010 - New paper out in BMC Evolutionary Biology (Hoffer, Ellers & Koene 2010) December 2010 - Joris now editorial board member of ISRN Zoology (Open Access Journal) as well as Invertebrate Reproduction & Development November 2010 - New MSc internships are now available November 2010 - New BSc students started this week October 2010 - New review out in Frontiers of Behavioral Neuroscience (Koene 2010) September 2010 - Yumi Nakadera publishes MSc work in Journal of Evolutionary Biology (Nakadera et al. 2010) August 2010 - Joris becomes vice-president of the International Society of Invertebrate Reproduction & Development (www.isird.nl) August 2010 - Joris gives keynote in Prague at International Conference on Invertebrate Reproduction and Development (ICIRD2010). July 2010 - Joris interviewed live on national television in the programme "On Air", recorded at Schiphol. July 2010 - New paper out in American Naturalist (Anthes, David, Auld, Hoffer, Jarne, Koene, Kokko, Lorenzi, P�lissi�, Sprenger, Staikou & Sch�rer 2010) July 2010 - Book chapter entitled Basommatophoran Gastropods by Jarne, Pointier, David & Koene published in The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters in Animals (eds. A. C�rdoba-Aguilar & J.L. Leonard), Oxford University Press June 2010 - Grant obtained from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences' Dr. J.L. Dobberke Foundation for research in Japan May 2010 - Interview with Joris in Kijk magazine April 2010 - New paper out in PLoS ONE (Koene, Sloot, Montagne-Wajer, Cummins, Degnan, Smith, Nagle & Ter Maat 2010) March 2010 - New York Times columnist wonders about hermaphrodites (read Olivia Judson's "Evolving sexual tensions") March 2010 - New paper out in Zoology (Benke, Montagne-Wajer, Reise & Koene 2010) March 2010 - Three new MSc students started their projects February 2010 - Yumi Nakadera appointed as PhD February 2010 - Jeroen and Joris organise Simultaneous Hermaphroditic Animals Meeting (SHAM2010, 11-12 Feb.) January 2010 - Elferra Swart appointed as PhD January 2010 - New MSc papers: Bas Bruning publishes in Biology Letters and Anne-Marie Svoboda publishes in Evolutionary Ecology Research. December 2009 - New paper out in Journal of Experimental Biology (De Boer, Jansen, Ter Maat, Van Straalen & Koene 2010) December 2009 - Jeroen and Joris give invited lectures in Amsterdam, Leiden, Heteren & Tübingen November 2009 - Special issue "Sexual Conflict", a guest-edited special issue of Animal Biology, published (including Koene 2009 & Koene, Brouwer & Hoffer 2009) November 2009 - New BSc students started this week + visit from PhD student Kazutaka Kimura from Sendai (Japan) October 2009 - NWO funded PhD position available (application deadline: 30 Oct. 2009) September 2009 - New paper out in special issue of Biology Letters (Bedhomme, Bernasconi, Koene, Lankinen, Arathi, Michiels & Anthes 2009) August 2009 - Joris Koene becomes member of the editorial board of Invertebrate Reproduction & Development July 2009 - Radio interview about hermaphroditism: Monday 13th at 21h on Radio 5 (listen online: Hoe?Zo! Radio) June 2009 - Hermaphrodites on Dutch television: Watch the episode online: Teleac's ScienceFlash June 2009 - Joris receives prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation June 2009 - New paper out in Evolutionary Ecology (Koene, Montagne-Wajer, Roelofs & Ter Maat 2009) June 2009 - Joris becomes research associate at National Museum of Natural History "Naturalis" in Leiden (The Netherlands) May 2009 - Finalizing "Sexual Conflict", guest edited special issue of Animal Biology April 2009 - Snail eggs in Easter exhibition "Galerei" of the WWF Amsterdam at the Bosmuseum March 2009 - Joris starts Senior Visiting Fellowship with Kurt Jordaens within the Evolutionary Ecology group of the University of Antwerp (Belgium) February 2009 - BSc student Suzanne Boon wins poster prize awarded by the Faculty of Earth & Life Sciences during annual BSc poster session February 2009 - Hermaphroditic snail evolution covered in Darwin issue of Intermediair magazine January 2009 - Love dart photos included in Jan A. Pechenik's text book Biology of the Invertebrates December 2008 - "Proceedings of the 14th Benelux Congress of Zoology", guest edited special issue of Animal Biology out November 2008 - Editing "Sexual Conflict", guest edited special issue of Animal Biology (Contact me for more information) November 2008 - Joris received FWO Visiting Fellowship November 2008 - Joris organizes NVG meeting in Dalfsen October 2008 - 5 BSc students started this week + Joris moves to new office (M152) October 2008 - New paper out in Journal of Molluscan Studies (Koene, Loose & Wolters 2008) September 2008 - Research covered in popular science book "Het penisduel" by Willy van Strien, published (in Dutch) by KNNV, book available via their online book store September 2008 - Joris gave a public IVN lecture (Vereniging voor natuur- en milieueducatie/Instituut Voor Natuurbeschermingseducatie) August 2008 - New paper out in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety (De Schamphelaere, Koene, Heijerick & Janssen 2008) July 2008 - 10.000th website visitor (since Feb. 2000) June 2008 - Joris Koene permanently appointed as lecturer (half-time) May 2008 - Joris Koene received Dutch Zoology Prize 2008 during "Sexual Conflict" symposium in Amsterdam May 2008 - "Slow sex" on Vroege Vogels TV April 2008 - New paper out in Invertebrate Biology (Loose & Koene 2008) November 2007 - Organized 14th Benelux Congress of Zoology in Amsterdam November 2007 - Organized Annual meeting of the Netherlands Society of Behavioural Biology in Dalfsen September 2007 - New paper out in BMC Evolutionary Biology (Koene & Ter Maat 2007) August 2007 - Organized "Sexual Selection" session at the World Congress of Malacology in Antwerp August 2007 - "Slakkenliefde" on Vroege Vogels Radio March 2007 - "Animal Behaviour", guest edited special issue of Animal Biology out November 2006 - Jeroen Hoffer appointed as PhD November 2006 - New paper out in American Naturalist (Koene & Chiba 2006) June 2005 - New paper out in BMC Evolutionary Biology (Koene & Schulenburg 2005) May 2005 - New paper out in Animal Behaviour (Koene & Ter Maat 2005) April 2005 - "Bij Jack aan tafel: Een sexleven als een slak" on Kopspijkers March 2005 - Love dart photos included in G�ran Arnqvist & Locke Rowe's book Sexual Conflict January 2005 - Joris Koene received Buschbaum Prize for Excellence in Microphotography 2005 (American Microscopial Society) |