Ryan, Kate, and Andrew return from a successful few days at Morro Bay, where they collected birds for parasitology.
“New” Euhaplorchis project funded
We’ve just been notified that the Nowegian Research Council will fund our collaborative project with Oyvind Overli, from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas, to work on the neurobiology and ecology of the famous killifish behavior-modifying, trematode parasite, Euhaplorchis californiensis.
Ryan takes part in biological pump think tank
Ryan was invited to join other researchers and NSF & NASA program officers in New Orleans (just before the Ocean Sciences Meetings) to figure out what sort of research could best increase our understanding of the global biological carbon pump. Ryan’s main goal–in addition to checking out NOLA–was to help get “parasites” included whenever “consumers” were mentioned, and to promote … Read More