This week, I'm visiting the lab of Prof. Felipe Toledo: LaHNAB at the University of Campinas, UNICAMP.
I was invited to give a talk in their Bioforum series
Thanks to Raquel Salla for this image.
I even got certificated!
It's been great fun to meet all of his students and postdocs who've really looked after me well in true Brazilian fashion.
It was a pleasure to address an enthusiastic group of zoologists in their weekly seminar slot. My host, Prof Marcio Borges-Martins, was a post doc at PUCRS when I worked there in 2001. Now he runs a herpetology group at the university with lots of exciting projects. I think my presentation may have just tipped over the hour long allocated slot, but thanks to you all for sticking with it!
Talking to a bunch of Brazilians about South African amphibian diversity is tough, but I hope I convinced them that there's lots of interesting stuff going on at the CIB in Stellenbosch University.
Title: "South African frogs: invaders and invaded."
The honours students present their proposals in a compressed 5 minute format to members of the Cape Herp Club. Meeting since 2004, the Cape Herp Club comprises all academics and students who work on herps in the Cape Town area.
Marike Louw spent her prize winning money (from the CIB ARM 2016) on attending the BES meeting in Ghent, Belgium.
The meeting gave Marike a chance to display a poster on her MSc reseasrch, and meet people who were interested in the technique.
It was great to see the level of interest in aSCR is high, and the enthusiasm with which Marike explained the technique to the masses.
It was great to meet up with physicists Ninan Sajeeth Philip (St. Thomas College) and Ashish Mahabal (CalTech). Although our 'big data' is not nearly as big as theirs, it'll be great to explore how our areas of research overlap.
Looking forward to getting your great minds working on our little frog problems!