Jule Neumann is a Marine Chronobiologist at Aberystwyth University. Jule is fascinated by how organisms keep time, especially how tidal and lunar cycles shape life in the ocean. Growing up in East Germany, far from the sea, she first fell in love with marine life during a thirteen-month federal volunteer service in the Wadden Sea National Park. That experience led her to move coasts and study biology at Kiel University, with the Baltic Sea at her feet.
Jule completed her PhD in Marine Chronobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, where she studied the lunar reproductive rhythms of a marine insect. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher on an independent fellowship by the German Research Foundation at the Department of Life Sciences at Aberystwyth University, investigating how the moon influences moulting rhythms in crabs.
Tidal motion is the greatest synchronized movement of matter on our planet, and life in the ocean is shaped by its relentless rhythm. Along most coastlines, organisms experience two high tides and two low tides each day, shifting rapidly between marine and near-terrestrial worlds. How do they know when to hide, feed, reproduce, or emerge? This talk reveals how ocean life keeps time, not by the sun, but by the tides and the moon, and why these enigmatic biological clocks still hold many secrets.
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