Latest News from our SEB Prague delegates
The SEB provides a press release service to its members and the following researchers, who presented at the recent SEB Annual Meeting in Prague, received media coverage as a result of their work this year:
Martin Gross (Lauflabor Locomotion Laboratory)
(A8.32 - General Biomechanics session - Prague)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10465231.stm
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=what-can-a-three-legged-dog-teach-r-2010-06-30
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2010/07/quotes_of_the_day_93.html
Kasper Hansen (Aarhus University Denmark), Henrik Lauridsen (Aarhus University Hospital Skejby Denmark), Tobias Wang (Aarhus University Denmark), and Michael Pedersen (Aarhus University Hospital Skejby Denmark)
(A10.77 - General Animal Biology session - Prague)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10487548.stm
Frank Seebacher (University of Sydney), Craig E Franklin (University of Queensland)
(A11.2 - Conservation Physiology session - Prague)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7866673/Toxic-toads-to-flourish-in-Australia.html
http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2010/07/02/study-cane-toads-will-thrive-in-warmer-world/
Jason Tallis (Coventry University), Rob S James (Coventry University), Val M Cox (Coventry University)
(A8.21 - General Biomechanics session - Prague)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7861170/Caffeine-can-boost-endurance-racing.html
http://www.independent.ie/health/diet-fitness/caffeine-can-boost-endurance-racing-2239947.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1290721/How-plenty-coffee-marathon-runners-beans.html
Nina U Schaller (Senckenberg Research Institute University of Heidelberg), Peter Aerts (University of Antwerp University of Ghent), Rikk Villa (Senckenberg Research Institute), Bernd Herkner (Senckenberg Research Institute)
(A10.33 - General Animal Biology session - Prague)
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/07/scienceshot-can-ostriches-tell.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=ostriches-offer-clues-to-dinosaur-m-10-07-02
Stanislaw Karpinski (Department of Genetics Breeding and Plant Biotechnology Warsaw University of Life Sciences), Magdalena Szechy-Hebda (Institute of Plant Physiology Polish Academy of Sciences), Jerzy Kruk (Department of Plant Physiology Biochemistry Jagiellonian University), Magdalena Górecka (Department of Genetics Breeding and Plant Biotechnology Warsaw University of Life Sciences), Barbara Karpiska (Department of Genetics Breeding and Plant Biotechnology Warsaw University of Life Sciences)
(A2.18 - Redox regulation and associated signalling in photosynthesis and respiration session - Prague)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10598926