Events

Flying Seminar (hybrid): Only Rhythmic Plants Are Living Plants 

Date: 25.04.2023
Time: 15:30 – 17:30
Location: B4050 in Orion, Wageningen University
Registration: here

Internal rhythms are an ubiquitous characteristic of life forms on earth. Plants, fungi and animals all have biological clock systems that not only serve internal organization, but also help to prepare for the external world, as is the case in circadian and circannual rhythms. We will discuss mechanisms how organisms perceive time, also at the cellular and organ level. And how many clocks do you have? Still one watch on your wrist? What about your internal clocks? Do they still have relevance for the way we live our daily lives and our relationship with time in modern 24 h society? Are we experiencing a disconnection between social and biological time?  

Menno Gerkema is emeritus professor of Chronobiology at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on the evolution of timing, on neurobiology of biological clocks and on functional aspects of biological rhythms. In line with his second chair in Science, Business and Policy he is a founding member and shareholder of Ltd Chrono@work, applying chronobiology to problems of the 24-hour society.