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Katie Tomlinson
Travels with my grant - Katie Tomlinson
Spring 2017
29 April 2017

During my three-month visit I took part in many activities which have provided me with invaluable insights into CBSD, control methods and impacts on farmers. I went on field trips to collect data for the 5CP project, which involves scoring different cassava varieties for CBSD symptoms across different agro-ecological zones.

Exomalopsis nest excavation
Travels with my grant - Jonathan Pattrick
Spring 2017
29 April 2017

I had a very useful discussion with Terry Griswold, an expert in the bee family Megachilidae, on potential directions for my current work with the morphology of this group, giving me some new ideas as well as setting up the potential for future collaborations. Students on the course were from all over the world and from a range of backgrounds (undergraduates to PIs) meaning that this was also an excellent chance to talk more generally about a wide range of current bee research and create academic contacts in many different countries.

Cheng-Yu Li
Travels with my grant - Cheng-Yu Li
Spring 2017
29 April 2017

n the poster session, I received a lot of valuable comments and suggestions on my current studies. I was lucky to get the opportunity to discuss my poster with the new president of SBN, Dr Rae Silver. Though her work mainly focuses on homeostasis and circadian rhythms in mammals, she gave me many valuable opinions on my research.

GOBLET Down Under
GOBLET down under
Spring 2017
29 April 2017

If the penguins in Cape Town last year were hard to beat, the megabats (flying foxes) in Brisbane were spectacularly ‘other worldly’! With its beautiful botanical gardens – once the domain of food crops, planted by convicts to feed the prison colony, now home to a breath-taking assortment of ancient trees, rare botanic species and exotic creatures – Brisbane provided a stunning backdrop for GOBLET’s 2016 AGM.

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