Travels with my grant - Florian Luskow

Travels with my grant - Florian Luskow

Florian Luskow at Loch Ness

Grant recipient: Florian Luskow  (University of Southern Denmark, Denmark)

Travelled to: Fifth International Jellyfish Bloom Symposium, Barcelona, Spain

Ever since my first semester at university I have been very interested in working with gelatinous zooplankton. It was therefore of great importance to me that I attended this significant conference. Over the past five years I have been in contact with a number of scientists working in this field, but only had the opportunity to meet a few of them, in order to discuss my own results and interpretations. By attending this conference, I have now been able to come into contact with many colleagues sharing similar interests. Due to the fact that the JBS was my first meeting on an international level, I decided to present a poster instead of giving a talk, in order to get a greater picture of the proceedings for the future. I met and talked to people from South Korea, Norway, Sweden, China, Denmark, Germany and France and had fruitful scientific exchanges with them and with people whom I would normally only know from the author lists of articles. Senior scientists from Germany and I are planning a project in the context of an invasive species in northern Europe and its interactions with commercially valuable fish. Because my current working place does not allow a regular contact with them, we are normally restricted to e-mails, phone and skype calls.

Taking into account all the great experiences and connections I have gained and established, I can really encourage everybody, especially master students and new graduates, to join the SEB and apply for a travel grant from the Company of Biologists.

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