Standing Committee for Life, Earth and Environmental Sciences (LESC)

Life Sciences

LESC is currently supporting 38 Life Sciences activities:

Research Networking Programmes:

Advances in Farm Animal Genomic Resources (GENOMIC-RESOURCES) - 2010-2015

Research and Monitoring for and with Raptors in Europe (EURAPMON) - 2010-2015

The Euroglycosciences Forum (EUROGLYCOFORUM) - 2009-2013

Frontiers of Speciation Research (FroSpects) - 2008-2013

Functional Genomics in Apergillus Fumigatus and New Strategies to Fight Against the First Fungal Pathogen in Europe (Fuminomics) - 2008-2013

Evolution of Social Cognition: Comparisons and integration across wide range of human and non-human animal species (CompCog) - 2008-2013

European Networking Summer School (Plant Genomics and Bioinformatics) (ENSS) - 2007-2012

Body-size and ecosystem dynamics: integrating pure and applied approaches from aquatic and terrestrial ecology to support an ecosystem approach (SIZEMIC) - 2007-2011

Functional Dynamics in Complex Chemical and Biological Systems (FUNCDYN) - 2006-2011

Thermal Adaptation in Ectotherms: Linking life history, physiology, behaviour and genetics - 2006-2011

Frontiers of Functional Genomics (FFG) - 2006-2011

Behavioural Ecology of Insect Parasitoids - from theoretical approaches to field applications (BEPAR) - 2005-2009

Integrating Population Genetics and Conservation Biology: Merging Theoretical, Experimental and Applied Approaches (ConGen) - 2004-2009

European Collaborative Research (EUROCORES) Programmes:

Ecology of Plant Volatiles, from Molecules to the Globe (EuroVOL) - 2011-2014

Molecular Science for a Conceptual Transition from Fossil to Solar Fuels (EuroSolarFuels) - 2011-2014

Ecological and Evolutionary Functional Genomics (EuroEEFG) - 2009-2012

Synthetic Biology: Engineering Complex Biological Systems (EuroSYNBIO) - 2009-2012

Membrane Architecture and Dynamics (EuroMEMBRANE) - 2008-2011

Quality Control of Gene Expression - RNA Surveillance (RNA Quality) - 2007-2010

The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading: from microbes to man (TECT) - 2007-2010

Dynamic Nuclear Architecture and Chromatin Function (EuroDYNA) - 2005-2008

Science of Protein Production for Functional and Structural Analysis (EuroSCOPE) - 2006-2010

Forward Looks:

RNA World: a new frontier in biomedical research - 2007-2009

European Food Systems in a Changing World - 2006-2008

Exploratory Workshops:

"Plant-Microbe-Insect Interactions: from molecular mechanisms to ecological implications" - 17-19 August 2011 - Wageningen, The Netherlands

"Modeling in Ecology; Does Simple Always Equate To General? - 14-17 September 2011 - London, United Kingdom

ESF Research Conferences:

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