Organisms in their Environment

The Research Community “Organisms in their Enviroment” links scientists across the Netherlands studying the interactions between organisms and their environment and provides them a common platform. The research community provides sollicited and unsollicited advice to the NWO Table Life sciences and the board of the NWO Science domain on NWO policy. NWO provides administrative services for the research community.

Join the research community by registering at the bottom of this page at the NWO website.

Meetings

Symposium Bringing the World into the Lab - June 13th, 2025

Community meeting 2024

Surveys and documents

Survey on Impact of Kostiç c.s. amendent on NHP research at BPRC

Applicants Survey on IvD-DEC-CCD ethics licensing process (2024-02-27)

Response IvD-platform

Response NVDEC

Response CCD

in response to the survey the CCD has updated and translate the project proposal guidelines. New English language guidelines can be found here: guidelines-to-the-project-licence-application-form

Response NCAD

Strategic paper Organisms in their Environment (2020)

Newsletters

Steering committee

The Organisms in their Environment steering committee has the following members:

Judith Homberg, Radboud University Medical Center, chair, translational neuroscience, serotonin, behaviour, vulnerability, environment

Stefan Geisen, Wageningen University & Research, soil biodiversity, microbiome predators (protists and nematodes)

Sofia Gomes, Leiden University, urban ecology, plant-fungal interactions

Alexander Heimel, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, neurobiology of vision and innate behavior

Marijke van Kuijk, Utrecht University, Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, Sustainable Forest Management, Tropical Forest Ecology, Plant Ecology

Kat Stewart, Leiden University, Biodiversity monitoring and management, Conservation genetics, Dnvironmental change, Environmental dna

Wilco Verberk, Radboud University, water quality, aquatic insects, fish, climate warming, ecophysiology

Past steering committee members

Astrid Groot (UvA), Ton Groothuis (RUG), Rebecca Nordquist (UU), Isabel Smallegange (Newcastle University)