Our PhD-student Noémie Buratto has returned from a successful field trip in Florida! She was there from July 16 till August 6, 2025 to study the upside-down jellyfish (Cassiopea sp.). Specifically, she located and collected about 30 jellyfish specimens and then performed 72-hour (!) behavioural tests under controlled conditions to better understand how these animals […]
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Wow, Nichole and Lomarie, slow down! Huge congratulations again to both, for winning the first and third prize, respectively, for Best Full PhD Presentations at the Unit for Environmental Science Postgraduate Conference 2025 in Potchefstroom, South Africa. Bravo!
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Very big congratulations to our PhD-students Nichole and Lomarie, who won the first and second prize, respectively, for best student oral presentations at the 2025 SASAqS conference in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. Nichole presented her work on parasite profiles in Nothobranchius killifish, while Lomarie talked about predator-driven community structure of temporary pond ecosystems. Fantastic achievements!
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Our PhD-student Nicole Goede delivered her first-ever oral presentation on an international conference. She talked about the challenges of being an embryo in warming and polluted waters at the 2025 Nothobranchius Symposium in Jena, Germany. Splendid work, Nicole!
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Our PhD-student Nicole Goede is visiting the labs of Tomas Brodin and Michael Bertram at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Umeå. She will be working with Daniel Cerveny and other friends to expand her horizons, specifically by looking into damselfly larvae and how they behave when the world around them changes. Super exciting
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We our very happy to welcome Amélie Pujol, coming from Université de Toulon in France, for an internship during the coming months! She will be working with our PhD-student Noémie Buratto, looking into the growth of the endosymbiotic dinoflagellates of the upside-down jellyfish. We’re wishing her a very rewarding time ahead!
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Fantastic work by Noémie Buratto, who presented her work on upside-down jellyfish during the Women and Girls in Science conference in Namur (Belgium). She was awarded the jury award for best poster by the Fonds Adrien Bauchau. Big congratulations to Noémie!
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Our team is very happy to welcome Manon Verneuil, coming from Le Mans University in France, for an internship during the coming months. She will focus on the behavioural responses of small freshwater crustaceans, like Dapnia magna, to environmental pollution. We’re wishing Manon a fruitful time ahead!
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