Biology Centre CAS is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate with a background in bioinformatics to join the research team investigating the global drivers of phytochemical diversity. This project aims to uncover how the remarkable diversity of plant metabolites relates to biotic and abiotic stress across the globe. As a model system, we focus on the Salicaceae family, […]
PhD – Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence – Netherlands
The Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences offers a 4-year NWO M1-funded PhD position for a project on “Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock”, with the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis) as a model system. The project is supervised by Prof. Hannah Dugdale (University of Groningen), Prof. David S. Richardson (University […]
House prices and rents continue to rise in early 2025
In the first quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU rose by 5.7%, while rents increased by 3.2% compared with the same quarter of 2024. Compared with the fourth quarter of 2024, house prices increased by 1.4% and rents by 0.9%. Between 2010 and the first quarter of 2025, house prices in the EU increased by […]
European Commission welcomes preservation of competition on Amsterdam-US routes
The European Commission welcomes the positive developments at Amsterdam airport enabling new entrant JetBlue Airways Corporation (‘JetBlue’) to continue operating at the airport over the IATA Summer 2024 Season. The Commission has actively and closely monitored the evolution of the market conditions at Amsterdam airport. Specifically, this concerned the degree of congestion of the airport and the […]
COVID-19 evolution in Africa: May-July 2020
This document collects and analyzes data on the evolution of COVID-19, collected by Johns Hopkins University and published daily by the European Documentation Center in Almeria during the months of May, June and July 2020. COVID-19. Total data Africa Evolution of confirmed cases in Africa At the end of May, the African continent registered a […]
COVID-19 Evolution in America: May-July 2020
This document collects and analyzes data on the evolution of COVID-19, collected by Johns Hopkins University and published daily by the European Documentation Center of Almería during the months of May, June and July 2020. COVID-19: America Overview Evolution of confirmed cases in America America recorded a total number of confirmed cases of 2.259.925 at […]
COVID-19 Evolution in Europe: May-July 2020
This document collects and analyzes data on the evolution of COVID-19, collected by Johns Hopkins University and published daily by the European Documentation Center of Almería during the months of May, June and July 2020. COVID-19: Europe Overview Evolution of confirmed cases Europe At the end of May, the European continent registered a total of […]