Giovanni Vimercati, Natasha Kruger join Jean Secondi in Angers this April. Natasha is starting her PhD project jointly at Stellenbosch and Lyon 1, and Giovanni is finishing up his post-doc in Stellenbosch and settling into his new post-doc working on invasive Xenopus laevis in France.
And it turns out that the French Embassy also featured the same selfie on their blogspot! Do you think they got it from here...?
Fantastic pictures by Krystal Tolley.
Read the paper that inspired this here:
Young Science Communication Winner 2017 - Marike Louw (2nd place)!
Many congratulations to Marike on winning 2nd place in the Young Science Communication Competition run by SAASTA through the NRF.
You can see some of the prize winning story here. Or you can download the entire piece here.
Bristol University hears about aSCR
I visited the new School of Biological Sciences at the University of Bristol to meet Marc Holderied and his team members. I learned about their fascinating approach to acoustic camoflauge in relation to bat predation. His team have some fantastic questions and a really exciting approach.
I used the occasion to give a seminar on our aSCR work. It was great to see a few familiar faces from my time there back in the 1990s.
A big thanks to Marc and his team for their invitation to visit and I'm hoping that we'll see him in the MeaseyLab before the end of the year.
Talking at the School of Environmental Sciences, University of Hull
It was great to see Dr Katharina Wollenberg Valero agian and catch up with her in her new post at the University of Hull. We teamed up with Prof Lori Lawson Handley to conduct an eDNA investigation.
I gave a talk to the joint lab meeting on our work on invasive frogs in South Africa.
